India’s Agony with Religion Revisited

The volume is a sequel to India’s Agony Over Religion (State University of New York Press, 1995, and Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997) in the sense that it develops a theory of religion first set forth in the original volume but expands the horizon of the first volume to encompass the general history of religions [inclusive of the Indic traditions: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain; the Abrahamic traditions: Hebrew/Jewish, Christian, Islamic; and the East Asian traditions: Confucian, Daoist, Shinto]. The central argument in the book is the assertion that the term religion is not primarily significant by its use as a noun, but is better understood in its adjectival sense, namely, religious, in such expressions as the religious referent,
the religious issue, or simply, the religious question.