Betsey,

Read Michel Foucault's Madness and Civilization to get a good grasp of how society determines and misues the diagnosis of "mental illness."

You said They can't all be correct ,--I ask "why not?" If they (in particular, the non-industrial autochthonous religions) address the needs of a given people and function in a local way, they might be correct, for each given group. That isn't to say they are--we can all see social and political inequities in places around the world, practices that are frankly inhumane, but this should be addressed in a secular manner, not pitting one religion against another. Each religion typically has stuff that has gone disused for a while, that can be revived to address new issues; give those other teachings a chance. Religion can respond to society and change, despite some of the big religions that would like society to be static and let them have the upper-hand socially. This "they can't all be correct" presumes a judeo-christian view that one over-arching god and religion is all that is needed, and others should be stamped out via converting the world.

SRS