from several traditions, but seems particularly fond of Taoism, claiming that ‘the Tao Te Ching is a book which expresses genuine religion more comprehensively than any of the scriptures produced by the Semites’ (127), although is not taken as ‘a religious icon’. Arguments over the proper definition of religion are widespread and difficult to resolve. The task of finding the necessary and sufficient conditions for religion or of finding some ‘family resemblance’ between all religions—that eschews