ABSTRACT
Although concerned ultimately with the “spiritual” or “supernatural” realm, religion must and does find its expressions and effects here in the mundane material and especially social world. Even more, humans cannot relate to entirely disembodied or abstract beings or forces, and even if we could, as long as we live in the physical world, those beings or forces will be expressed or made manifest in and through specific objects and specific persons. However “transcendental” it may be, religious reality must be made immanent for humans to know it and to interact with it-to communicate with it and about it. It must take concrete forms, both nonhuman and human.
