Beyond Seeing and Believing: Religious Ethos as Cultural Territory of Social Inclusion For Exclusion

Abstract

I position that religion, in spite their psycho-social functions do serve/act as cultural power centers and in so doing they tend to transmit forms of cultural reproductions of the traditional into the modern and ahead, by which the dominant old tradition/culture is institutionally perpetuated in continuum beyond any sense of truth/epistemic conditions; at their depth grammar it operates on a logic of inclusion for exclusion of the ‘people’ the subjects who are subjectivised into a subordinated enslaved culture. Hence the question of emancipation is seriously at stake however the role and function of religious acts are socially functional in an utilitarian sense and psychologically satisfactory at the emotional plane.