Anthropologist Paul Gosselin provides a nutshell view of his book Flight From the Absolute, volume 1, asking questions such as: Does "religious belief" only concern those who believe in some form of the supernatural or is everyone religious? What if religion was simply a set of beliefs enabling us to make sense of our lives? Might even our secular Western elites be religious? How would this affect our views of the history of Western civilisation? Can science play a role in religion?