RELIGIOUS LITERACY AND SECULARISM

Abstract

Religion is a structured expression of the human quest to establish and maintain relationship with the divine along with the human and the cosmic without losing the perceived distinctive identity of any but at the same time enabling continued transformation of all in an integral manner. The foundational experience(s) around which a religion evolves
becomes the spirit that would overwhelmingly pervade and permeate the lives of those who ultimately accept it/them as their point of view as well as way of life. A particular view of life and the way of life that emerge from the foundational  experience in its pure form give shape to a spirituality, which would be characteristic of the life of all those who come under the banner of a particular religion.