« Rationalization and secularization appear to us not as processes in trompe l'oeil, but as fundamental changes releasing, because of their very weight, a formidable return of religiosity, with reconstruction of normative transcendences and accelerated reinvention of vernacular traditions. »

« A hope: if 'interpretation' is the neurosis specific to the exegete, it is not incurable. We have seen people with severe illness who have been caught diving in the villages of 'Mother India'. A visit to "the mother of all religions" is to be advised to the prudish 'addicts' of the Logos. Nothing like re-synthesising our analyzers, than the festival of lights at the end of the monsoon, or the procession of the vishnouist chariot, with the luxury of colors and smells specific to mela and yatra, flowers and foods, jewelry and dances, Eros and Thanatos joyfully embraced. Seeing the maids of the god Shiva bow before the linga-yoni of the threshold and the nymphs with the bouncing breasts of the stone Kama-sutra reminds our minds of eternal schoolchildren that there are avenues to the divine less steep and more flowery than the gray parades of the signifier. »

« Denominational affiliation cements a human group as science does not, and separates it from its neighbour better than a conflict of interest. Each canton sticks together, face to face with its rival. Solidarity between us, animosity towards them, are the pile and the face of an endless work of collective immunization. It is impossible to make mine feel "the sweetness of being included" without inflicting on others the pain of being excluded. This warm-cold, black-white identity that is both invigorating and deadly, our humanistic professions of faith reject them, but no culture escapes it over time, whether it has a God, many or none. »