ABSTRACT
Chapter 5 takes up the need for a clear discussion about religion offering three structurally different answers to the question as to what it means to be religious. The first conception sees being religious as a matter of having beliefs and asserting that these beliefs are true. The second conception sees being religious as a matter of practice; that is, as conducting one’s life according to certain rules or traditions. Here being religious is not a matter of having certain beliefs, but as conducting one’s life in a certain way – and in its ‘pure’ form this happens without ascribing to any beliefs. The third conception sees being religious in terms of existence; that is, as a particular way of being aware of and leading one’s life.
