While in a way it tends to be very individualistic, it also allows for group participation. However, even within that group, the bond that keeps them together seems endemic. Calling this a religion then would evoke great objections from Emile Durkheim. Since, according to Durkheim, a religion would have to be widespread and a massively shared cultural fact in all of society (I.E.: people would have to gather together in central points of worship,) this would not be counted as a religion in Durkheimian terms. It is very much a religion to the practitioners.