REM's Losing my Religion: An Analsysis Religion an essential guide to peace and happiness for us as individuals or is it simply an easy way to control people who choose to follow it? That is a question I have asked myself for the last five years and to this day I do not have an answer. However, to shed a little light on the subject I have chosen to look into the R.E.M. song ‘Losing my Religion", because I feel that is what I have been doing for the last few years. The main concept being looked at in this essay is the concept of religion and its effect on society through the