All and Nothing: Reflections on Experience and Transcendence in the Eurasian Axial Age, c. 800-200 BCE
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Salt Lake City , the place where my wife and I and our cats live, is roughly equidistant from the three states of Nevada , Idaho , and Wyoming . Ignoring the admonitions of local church authorities, every weekend thousands of Salt Lakers travel by car, bus, or plane to these neighboring states to gamble in casinos, buy lottery tickets, or (during the summer) bet on horse races. For better or worse, even some of my University of Utah colleagues cannot refrain from practicing a little mundane magic, by visiting their favorite slot machines or betting windows. Secularism has arrived in Zion .
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