ReligionWhat do we talk about when we talk about religion? Is it an array of empirical facts about historical human civilizations? Or is religion what is in essence unpredictableperhaps the very emergence of the new? In what ways are the legacies of religionits powers, words, things, and gesturesreconfiguring themselves as the elementary forms of life in the twenty first century? Given the Latin roots of the word religion and its historical Christian uses,