Chapter 105: Religion and the Sacred

Religion is the social infrastructure through which communities construct shared access to the commitment register. This chapter develops the categorical account: the sacred-profane distinction as boundary invariant, ritual as social gluing protocol, collective ℝeg_C-access as the structural function of religious life, and different religious traditions as different readout functors of shared invariants. The Ritual as Social Gluing definition (VII.D81) formalizes how synchronized action binds individuals into communities, and VII.R40 interprets religious pluralism through the readout functor.