The film is set in a tribal village in Kerala where religious superstition and ignorance maintain stasis.

"Science" was counterposed to "religious superstition" in the media and in academic writing.

The story spread widely and the phrase remains in use today to indicate the triumph of reason and logic over "religious superstition".

That was twenty-five years ago, and times have changed, but it is easy to forget how far from won is the battle against religious superstition.

He also tried to do away with Hindu religious superstitions and introduce Periyar's schemes.

He saw them as high-minded, cultivated men (a bit like himself perhaps) whose moral and political philosophy was bound by reason, not religious superstition.

The curiosities and absurdities of religious superstitions never failed to furnish him with themes more or less amusing.

He has stated that modern scientific findings should take precedence where appropriate over disproven religious superstition.

Circumcision is a barbaric custom rooted in religious superstition.

To dispel religious superstition by means of science was an urgent necessity, because human beings must free their minds before they can free themselves socially.