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 obscurantism (n.)

• a policy of opposition to enlightenment, the spread of knowledge or political reform
• a deliberate act intended to make something obscure, vague, misleading or undecipherable

Obscurantism in the form of vagueness of language is one of the quintessential characteristics of religious discourse.

 ONFRAY, Michel

Book:

Atheist Manifesto

 The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
JAYNES, Julian
Keywords: history religion science
Mariner Books, Houghton Mifflin
1976
ISBN: 0-618-05707-2

Related links

• The Julian Jaynes Society
• Julian Jaynes's Software Archeology (PDF), Daniel C. Dennett, Canadian Psychological Association Symposium on Consciousness (1985, Halifax, Canada). Canadian Psychology (April 1986), 27(2):149-154.

 The Origin of Species
by Means of Natural Selection, or The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
DARWIN, Charles
Keywords: evolution
1859

On-line Editions

• The Complete Works of Charles Darwin Online
• The Origin of Species (1872) on The Secular Web