[Air-L] Religious Dimension of Sustainable Development

[Christian Nelson]

>   I use "religion" in the general sense of a personal relationship  
> with God by anyone who believes (as I do) that there is a God.

This is a sociologically and historiographically narrow understanding  
of religion, even for the Christian tradition, which you seem to be  
narrowing in on. Within the Christian tradition, the notion of a  
personal relationship with God didn't really arise until quite  
recently (last couple centuries at most), and is mainly limited to  
the charasmatic and fundamentalist traditions, though it seems to  
have become more widespread in the past couple of decades.
--Christian Nelson