Religion has not being separated from any other areas of life, and in particular, what's crucial to understand about this world is that it's a world in which the job that science does for us is done by what Rattray is going to call religion, because if they want an explanation of something, if they want to know why the crop just failed, if they want to know why it's raining or not raining, if they need rain, if they want to know why their grandfather has died, they are going to appeal to the very same entities, the very same language, talk to the very same gods about that.
Uskontoa ei ole erotettu mistään muusta ja ennen kaikkea on ratkaisevaa ymmärtää, että se on maailma, jossa se, minkä tieteemme tekee, kuuluukin siellä asialle, jota  Rattray kutsuu uskonnoksi, koska jos he haluavat selityksiä kuten miksi vilja meni pilalle, tai kuten miksi sataa tai ei sada, jos he tarvitsevat sadetta, jos he haluavat tietää miksi heidän isoisänsä kuoli, he vetoavat näihin  nimenomaisiin olentoihin, samaan kieleen ja samoihin jumaliin.