ABSTRACT
The reason for the emergence of religion is obvious: Life everywhere is uncertain, there is much suffering and death, and people do not know how they came to inhabit the earth or what happens to them after death. This uncertainty not only has stimulated curiosity, but also attempts to gain an understanding of human circumstances, a desire to know whether human life has a purpose, and the resignation to accept conditions and events that seem unjust. People everywhere have attempted to transcend reality by devising rites and rituals to act as ways of communicating with forces outside everyday experience.
