India's Agony with Religion Revisited

The volume is a sequel to "India's Agony Over Religion" (State University of New York Press, 1995, and Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997) in the sense that it develops a theory of religion first set forth in the original volume but expands the horizon of the first volume to encompass the general history of religions [inclusive of the Indic traditions: Hindu, Buddhist, Jain; the Abrahamic traditions: Hebrew/Jewish, Christian, Islamic; and the East Asian traditions: Confucian, Daoist, Shinto].
The central argument in the book is the assertion that the term "religion" is not primarily significant by its use as a noun, but is better understood in its adjectival sense, namely, "religious," in such expressions as "the religious referent," "the religious issue," or simply, "the religious question."

Volumul este o continuare a „India's Agony Over Religion” (State University of New York Press, 1995 si Oxford University Press, Delhi, 1997) in sensul ca dezvolta o teorie a religiei prezentata pentru prima data in volumul original, dar se extinde orizontul primului volum care cuprinde istoria generala a religiilor [incluzand traditiile indic: hindus, budist, Jain; traditiile abrahamice: ebraica / evreiasca, crestina, islamica; si traditiile din Asia de Est: Confucian, Daoist, Shinto]. Argumentul central din carte este afirmatia ca termenul „religie” nu este in primul rand semnificativ prin utilizarea sa ca substantiv, ci este mai bine inteles in sensul sau adjectival, si anume, „religios”, in expresii precum „referentul religios”, „problema religioasa” sau pur si simplu „problema religioasa”.