Original sentence: Catholic Encyclopaedia article on fetishism - quite extensive, well researched, and NPOV.Fetishism describes models of causal explanations of natural events which differ from those proposed by modern science.The concept of “fetishism” allowed historians of religion to shift attention from the relationship between people and God to the relationship between people and material objects.The establishment of fetishism as a field of study allowed this to  become a central problem for historians and social theorists
Edited sentence: The concept of “fetishism” allowed historians of religion to shift attention from the relationship between people and God to the relationship between people and material objects; moreover, it established false models of causal explanations of natural events as a central problem for historians and social theorists