Religious alienation is a term some use to describe how religion creates an impediment to human self-understanding.
Read more about Religious Alienation: Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Bruno Bauer, Ludwig Feuerbach
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“Yet the New Testament treats of man and man’s so-called spiritual affairs too exclusively, and is too constantly moral and personal, to alone content me, who am not interested solely in man’s religious or moral nature, or in man even.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Anthropology has always struggled with an intense, fascinated repulsion towards its subject.... [The anthropologist] submits himself to the exotic to confirm his own inner alienation as an urban intellectual.”
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