Ben Clements in the Cornell Law Review, defining ‘religion’ as ‘a comprehensive belief system that addresses the fundamental questions of human existence, such as the meaning of life and death, man’s role in the universe, and the nature of good and evil, and that gives rise to duties of conscience’. If a non-supernatural belief system such as Confucianism can be considered a religion, advancing as it does a humanistic philosophy that perceives ‘the secular as sacred’, then why not social justice? Recent books such as John McWhorter’s Woke Racism (2021) and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Woke, Inc. (2021)
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