In his book Moral, Believing Animals, sociologist of religion Christian Smith expounds a sociology of culture in which he conceives of human beings as "moral, believing, story-telling animals". In your essay, first explain what it means to describe human beings in this way, and then secondly explain why Smith thinks that this way of understanding human beings can account for human religiousness.
When Christian Smith described human beings as “moral, believing animals” he meant that all throughout history and across many cultures, there is overwhelming evidence that systems of morality and religious belief are part of human nature and biology. ...
