Is Religion Make-Believe? (Neil Van Leeuwen)

What might religion have in common with make-believe play? How could those points of commonality help us to understand how the imagination works in general? Neil Van Leeuwen, PhD, Professor of Philosophy at Florida State University, explores these topics and outlines the features that make imagination different from belief. Dr. Van Leeuwen’s book, Religion as Make-Believe, is available here: https://www.amazon.com/Religion-Make-... Follow Dr. Van Leeuwen on Instagram @neilyvanneily or on Facebook at www.facebook.com/neilyneil New research on how people talk about belief (in collaboration with Dr. Tania Lombrozo) available here: https://philpapers.org/rec/VESEFM or here: https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2026...