3. In offering a religious interpretation of religion I do not claim that the naturalistic, or reductionist, accounts advocated by such thinkers as Feuerbach, Freud, Durkheim and their successors can be shown to be mistaken. It is evident that each of these is more
convincing in some areas than in others; but altbough severally limited they are in principle capable of being combined into comprehensive theories of religion as a self-regulating response of the human animal to the pressures generated by its particular niche within the biological system. The impossibility of refuting such interpretations is an aspect of the pervasive ambiguity of the universe. So also is tbe equal impossibility of refuting the interpretation of religion as our varied human response to a transcendent reality or realities - the gods, or God, or Brabman, or the Dharmakaya, or the Tao, and so on.
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