The science of religion, on the other hand, of religion considered as an individual and social psychic phenomenon irrespective of the transcendental objective validity of religious affirmations, is a science which, in explaining the origin of the belief that the soul is something that can live disjoined from the body, has destroyed the rationality of this belief.
Erlijioaren zientzia, bestalde, erlijio-baieztapenen balio objektibo eta transzendentean sartu barik, erlijioa banakoaren fenomeno psikiko eta sozial gisa harturik, arima gorputzetik kanpoan bizi daitekeen zerbait delako fedearen etorkia azaltzean, sineskera honen arrazionaltasuna suntsitu duen zientzia da.