Fine, Don. You don't have to call them "religions" if you don't want to. Your choice. I call them religions. The Buddists have priests, rituals, and temples. They have a sense of the sacred. As far as I'm concerned, that's a religion.

All religions put forward a "philosophy or way of life". Some include a deity (or deities). Some do not.

Yes, "the impersonal divine order of which you speak is within themselves"....and it's also everywhere else, which includes all the stuff that is external to themselves. It is experienced both within and outside of the one having the experience. Within, as consciousness. Outside of, through interaction with the rest of the Cosmos.

I don't regard "other religions" as inferior, because I'm not exclusively attached in any way when it comes to religion...so there ARE no "other" religions from my perspective...there are simply many religions, all of which are at their heart a search for meaning, purpose, and truth. I look for whatever good can be found in each one of them.