ROLE OF RELIGION IN SOCIETY
Keywords:
Religion, Society, homo credens, enlightment, WittgensteinAbstract
That we are social beings and that we live, move, and have our being in a community are truisms that need to be reaffirmedtoday as we live in a highly individualised techno-commercialworld. We are not just individuals who are complete in themselves and separate from others and who later for various reasons engage in a variety of relations with other humanbeings. That we belong to a community is fundamental to our being human so much so that we are products and projects of nurture as much as we are products and projects of nature. Society is constitutive of being and becoming a human person.
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