Steps towards a more holistic, dynamic and integrative approach to the evolution of religious systems

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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).Notes1 and along with Candace Alcorta and various other colleagues in previous publications.2 See Fuentes, Citation2019 chapters 3 and 4 and Kissel and Fuentes (Citation2018).3 http://www.pewforum.org/2012/12/18/global-religious-landscape-exec/4 Here ‘‘imagination’’ reflects the ability to cognitively derive meaning and construct scenarios, ideas, and perceptions that can involve representations or manipulations of material items, social experiences, sensory experiences, and information passed on to an individual by others, but in these cognitive constructions neither spatial nor temporal nor experiential contact with the aforementioned facets of the items used needs to happen (or to have happened).