ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on the key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book describes the type of multidisciplinary inquiry pursued and combines insights from as many stakeholder disciplines as are relevant and requires synthetic interpretation governed by a dual commitment. It presents the analogy with landscapes, whereby constraints describes structured possibilities corresponding to universal features of our species that cultures and individual human beings then explores in their uniquely creative ways. The book discusses the distinction between the impressive consensus around a modern secular interpretation of humanity (the MSIH) and theological elaborations of this consensus that address questions about the ultimate meaning and value of human life. It explores about the role of religion in legitimating the social construction of reality, exercising powerful mechanisms of social control, the approach to religious anthropology. The book formally ends the inquiry by presenting a synthetic portrayal of the human being as homo religiosus.
