The National Post: religion and civilization
““There is a view that religion is an ancient superstition that’s going to fall away,” said Edward Slingerland, a professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the lead of a massive Canadian project billed as world’s largest academic study of religion.
“If our theory is right it’s actually been the cornerstone to civilizations.””
“Research team looking to prove controversial theory that religion was the ‘cornerstone to civilizations’,” The National Post, December 21st 2012.