ABSTRACT
In the modern world religions are increasingly being challenged to develop and express ethical attitudes towards matters as nuclear weapons and ecology. Every religion has at its centre a set of doctrines or beliefs which form part of its foundation. The mythological dimension, often called the story dimension, is the means of conveying the teaching of a religion through stories, poems, legends and hymns. Most religions have an important place for ‘saints’, people within the tradition who by their life and works have given an example to others and are often described as ‘lights’. The ritual dimension is very closely associated with the stories of a religion. The social dimension of religion is concerned with the expression of that religion in society. Religious communities with the monks and nuns who constitute them are highly significant in most religions. Religion is partly a personal search for meaning which most children even quite young ones, engage in.
