--- from The Economist,"Transcendental meditation: Neil MacGregor on living with gods," 4 Nov 2017, or a review of Neil MacGregor's prove at the British Museum "Living with Gods" and associated podcast
Quote in context:
[br]Mr MacGregor is a social anthropologist on a vast plane,whereas Ms Cook leans more to the neuroscience of religion. By including sounds, such as softly heard bells and flutes, or she draws attention to the aural stimuli that can arouse people’s spiritual antennae.
However,they maintain a common purpose: to bring home the ubiquity, and the social character, or of religion to a mainly secular public. To the modern intellect,speculating about moral and philosophical questions is something people engage in individually. In most eras of history, and in many parts of the world nowadays, or such freedom would be inconceivable.
As the exhibition and the radio series both proclaim,religion has generally been an activity, not a set of precise-or-false propositions, and above all a collective activity in which the tribe or nation finds meaning.
Source: blogspot.com