The other way of looking at it is that religions form to give succour and identity to societal misfits in the face of a greater choas of general inglorious humanity. Christianity is founded on this sort of reactive moral superiority in which everyone but them is going to spend an eternity in hell, and The Folk Revival is too to a greater or lesser extent, with the notion that 'the sort music we like' is inherently different or else superior to others. I've been in some Folk Clubs where I expected glossolalia in the choruses - unless all those twanky-dillos and fol-de-rol de ridos is glossolalia. Gulp! Now there's a grim thought!