Religion has not being separated from any other areas of life, and in particular, what's crucial to understand about this world is that it's a world in which the job that science does for us is done by what Rattray is going to call religion, because if they want an explanation of something, if they want to know why the crop just failed, if they want to know why it's raining or not raining, if they need rain, if they want to know why their grandfather has died, they are going to appeal to the very same entities, the very same language, talk to the very same gods about that.
Agama belumlah terpisahkan dari aspek-aspek kehidupan, dan terlebih lagi, hal penting yang harus dimengerti tentang dunia itu adalah peran sains di sini diambil alih oleh apa yang disebut Rattray sebagai agama. Karena jika mereka mencari penjelasan sesuatu seperti kegagalan panen, datangnya hujan, ataupun kemarau, jika mereka butuh hujan, jika mereka ingin tahu mengapa kakek mereka meninggal, mereka akan bertanya ke entitas yang sama, dengan bahasa yang sama, dan berbincang ke para dewa yang sama mengenai itu.