This volume , consisting of four articles of previously published in different media, focusing on the human dimension of religion.

The first text speaks of the conversion to which religions are called , they do not have a monopoly on the religious dimension of man, despite resurgent cultural sclerosis and the same religions . The second refers to the study of religions, a study must not separate from the world, as often happens . The third deals with the human body, today unfortunately I punished for who makes an idol or depreciates. Without the body , the religious dimension is evaporated or transformed into violence. Finally, the author talks about medicine and religion. Health and salvation not to be confused , but only if there remains a harmonious interdependence between them .

According to Panikkar , the tendency to create a strictly "religious" field , separated from the world and the body , benefits totalitarian ideologies in science and politics. The author is a radical critic of the abuse of the earth and man in which we are immersed , but exerts this review from a vision of peace possible, experienced , inescapable.