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    As current news demonstrate daily, understanding the world of religion is as relevant as ever: from ISIS to the values of the United States Republican Party; from Haredi political parties and religious Zionism to the Japanese PM taking the heads of the G7 states to visit the Grand Shrine at Ise, in face of grand protest from the Chinese government; from Mecca to Jerusalem and to the Ganges river that flows through the holy Indian city Varanasi: Religions, the feelings they evoke and the thought structures they produce continue to motivate the world. In spite of progress and the pronouncement that God is dead, most human beings still believe in one religion or another and religions are fundamental to culture all over the globe. In a very real sense, religions are a window into the inner workings of the human psyche.