What is it about?
n this article we take a fresh look, in the context of implicit religion (characterized by commitment, integrating foci and intensive concerns with extensive effects), at some contemporary explicit religious phenomena, and suggest that there is little significant difference between them and certain phenomena in natural science that have a welfare motive. Examples have been drawn from India to depict how different versions of explicit religion have been commoditized by their advocates, acting almost as entrepreneurs, and how the success or failure of such organizations depends, at least in part, on their relative compliance with, or deviation from, their welfare motive, suggesting that it is the motivation (best understood as implicit religion) lying behind the entrepreneurialism, that can unite both gurus and scientists.
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Why is it important?
It is important so that the innocent followers do not get cheated and some unscrupulous and so called 'religious leaders' do not get chance and scope to exploit any more innocent followers.
Perspectives
Faith and Trust is an important Value of the human being. However, considering some of the unfortunate incidents and events in the past, where some so called 'religious leaders' have exploited the innocent followers; it is in the interest of the innocent followers that they also use 'Rationale'; have Faith but do not have a 'Blind Faith'; have Open mind to check and re-check their belief-system; and they stay Alert if they observe any suscipious activities and behaviour of the so called 'religious leaders'.
Dr Shubhasheesh Bhattacharya
Symbiosis Institute of International Business
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This page is a summary of: Religious and Scientific Forces of Commoditization of Implicit Religion with Their Custodians as “Entrepreneurs”, Implicit Religion, December 2014, Equinox Publishing,
DOI: 10.1558/imre.v17i3.275.
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