Conor D. Columb’s Reviews > Wonderstruck: How Wonder and Awe Shape the Way We Think > Status Update

“[W]e can see how religious awe-and wonder-technology can be liberating. It can free us from seeing the world in certain set ways, allowing us to meet the wondrousness of the world we are part of on its own terms” (123).

“Art, philosophy, and religion lay serious claims to being true human universals. We find them in societies with widely diverging technologies, social organization, and means of subsistence. If humans across times and cultures have found these pursuits worthwhile, we should ask why this is so” (8).