You seem to be using the term religion as applying to the formalistic religion that westerners associate with the catholic church.Cant it be used in a more general sense to refer to EXoteric religion of this sort as well as to ESoteric religion, which would apply to KC, as well as to a reliigious movement like Sufism? To some extent one could say that Christianity has an esoteric dimenion in the Eastern Orthodox church as well as in the monasteries, but since the monastic tradition has largely died out this aspect of Christianity has been lost.