This third review, the author said, was the kind that his graduate-school mentor had in warning called an “FLR”: “a funny-looking review … that makes little sense and not only reflects the bias of the reviewer, but how uncomfortable they are with the findings.”29 Some scholarly papers contain findings that challenge the orthodoxies of sociology’s sacred project. In this case, it was the finding that religion is not an unmitigated bad that would best be swept away by the forces of rational, universal, enlightened secularism. And, no matter how potentially methodologically solid such findings
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