Let us then provisionally define religion as the totality of an individual's sincere attitudes and predispositions toward that which serves as the final expression of that individual's particular primary interest or goal — which in fact is very much the same as saying, with Whitehead: «Religion is what the individual does with his [or her] own solitariness» (TIM 16). (religion-online.org)
People experience solitariness when the chilling, scary, desolating truth bursts upon them that they are not like anybody else. (religion-online.org)
To mark the end of solitariness as a theological posture, of obsessive senses of sin, of crying out to God, absent or present, is to mark the end, in Protestant circles at least, of the existentialist mood. (religion-online.org)