Dharma is a seminal concept not only in Hinduism but in all religions. Indeed, the term Dharma is often taken as a synonym for religion. Dharma is that which holds things together and it is a concept that applies to all the multifarious fields of human thought and activity. This book presents nineteen articles by eminent scholars and savants that explore that various facets of Dharma.
I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it.
-Swami Vivekananda