"Yes indeed. Religion always beckons you to feel crushingly grateful for your awakening, it's never to do with sheer hedonism...which at our very hearts, is always good for us."

Holy hedonism is an old idea, and accepted by most religions, even to some extent the big patriarchal ones. Feasts, festivals, dances, holidays (and in a rougher form, tent revivals, often attributed as the catalyst for many a conception).

The devotional aspect is always present, so I guess this is what you mean by it not being purely hedonistic- but there is a place for pleasure in most religions. Within bounds, of course, but pleasure itself isn't outlawed, unless you're talking about the most extreme forms, which distrust all pleasure as being seductively destroying.