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...e. It permeates the whole of life, including economic activities, arts, crafts and ways of living. When religion and life blends, it ceases to be anything distinctive, objective, something external, a mere practice. Religion is found in a variety of major forms. These major forms are called Religions. Each has a name, for example, “Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Judaism, etc. Smith suggests that for you to reify religious traditions with these names will only create a category mistake. For Smith, what we have been taught to call ‘the religions’ are not opposed systems of divine understanding, but human awareness of a global ‘divine’ presence. He goes on to say that, what we call religions are entities that can be traced historically and mapped geographically- he says they are human phenomenon, a distinctively western invention which has been exported to the rest of the world. As a result a powerful but distorting conceptuality has helped to create phenomena answering to it, namely the religions of the world seeing themselves and each other as rivals. It is known that religious people do not think of themselves as religious, because they cannot imagine themselves as other than religious. Smith thinks of religious people as growing a kind of skin which covers the whole body, gives them their appearance, holds them together, contains the pores through which they breathe; when breathing stops, they are burie...