The Creative Role of Religion in the Emergence of a Sustainable World-Order

“The world stands in need of liberation.” So goes a popular song. In this article, I want to show that our contemporary society is basically violent (far more than needed and can be tolerated). Violence on this scale, left to itself, threatens to destroy all life on the precious planet. Thus the present world-order is not sustainable.. I argue that religious impulses can prevent a catastrophic annihilation of human race and lead to a “re-birthing of creation” or a new world-order. Though religions have failed many a times, I shall argue that religions have that enabling potential