Discuss briefly some of the salient features of Religion.

 Salient Features of Religion

1. Claims to provide answers to some of the fundamental questions

To begin with, most world religions claim to be the sole repository of the answers to some of the fundamental questions that concern us. Such fundamental questions, amongst others, may include ‘what the ultimate reality is’, ‘why anything exists at all’, ‘what our place in such a reality is’, ‘what our true nature is’ etc. These questions, arguably, suggest that religion claims to offer the architecture of our reality. Most religions, if not all, provide answers to these questions and often they project a reality that transcends our common experience but at the same time is intimately connected to our lives and wellbeing.

Such answers are considered absolute truths within the fold of respective religions. Further, such claims, owing to the immutable status accorded to them, are opaque to any challenges, meaning their authority is considered final and their legitimacy is unquestionable in most religions. However, the foregoing doesn’t imply that the prevalent beliefs in a religion are always accepted by all the adherents alike. Internal disagreements often occur on account of mostly varying interpretations of the same religious tenets, but the rigid character of such tenets and their different interpretations often push religion towards schism. Various subsects of all the major religions are a testimony to this propensity.

2. Gives a higher purpose that ought to guide our life

Another salient feature of most of the world religions is the concerted effort to address the concern of meaning of life, i.e., addressing the questions like- ‘is there some inherent meaning to life’ or ‘is there a higher purpose that ought to ___ __________ _________ _____ ________ ___ ________.
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