How did Alfred North Whitehead describe religion in Religion in the Making?

In his 1926 work Religion in the Making, Alfred North Whitehead interpreted religion as reaching its deepest level in human solitude. He characterized religion primarily as an individual's attitude toward the universe, rather than as a social phenomenon.1

This perspective reflects Whitehead's emphasis on the "solitariness" of religious experience, which he used to challenge the view—held by thinkers such as Émile Durkheim—that religion is essentially a social fact. By focusing on the individual's internal apprehension of the divine, Whitehead sought to distinguish the personal nature of religious insight from the external structures of religious communities.2