Self-help ✦ Penny’s Take
Instinct and Revelation
Alondra Yvette Oubré · 1997
65/100
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Oubré's interdisciplinary attempt to trace the evolutionary roots of religious experience is conceptually ambitious and received genuine peer praise for its scope, but this is a dense 1997 academic text aimed squarely at researchers, not general readers. Its age and specialized audience limit its practical reach, and anyone outside anthropology or cognitive science will find the reading experience steep. Specialists may value it; general audiences will not.
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Verdict receipt0–100
safety75
substance72
craft60
originality70
accuracy65
hype68
age-fit50
human-eye55
Penny’s verdict65
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