ABSTRACT
Religion involves feeling, thinking, acting, and relating, and there are tremendous individual
differences in their relative importance. Religion has been institutionalised in the form of
churches, denominations, sects, and cults, though some religious people prefer to practise
their religion in solitude. Nowadays many seek ‘spirituality’, a connectedness with a
transcendent force, taking such elements as suit their needs from several religious institutions
(Pargament, 1997). But most, perhaps all, religion involves belief in some form of
transcendence or in beings or entities which are outside normal experience.
