You're misunderstanding mindfulness as a tool or symptom of religiosity. Mindfulness, put another way by John Yates the neuroscientist-cum-Buddhist-teacher, is

You're misunderstanding mindfulness as a tool or symptom of religiosity. Mindfulness, put another way by John Yates the neuroscientist-cum-Buddhist-teacher, is a poor word for peripheral awareness. That's it. No rosaries or unlimited abstractions to cloud it.