This article enquires into the question of whether humanity is religious by nature, a question which s stepped into the spotlight with the renewed impetus resulting from the emergence of post-secularism. The author prefers to approach the issue from the perspective of cultural politics as proposed by the neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty, rather than from the epistemological and ontological elaborations by Alister Mc Grath, Paul Tillich, or Mircea Eliade