What about humans or religions make religions necessary for humanity to rise from agricultural to technological societies? While it's not 'high-tech', and came long before the scientific revolution, what makes an agricultural society not also a technological one, insofar as agriculture might be considered closer to a technological society than to one which is purely run by hunter-gatherers?

By "technological society", do you mean "industrial society"? If not, what's the line between a technological society and an agricultural one in your mind? How have you determined the agricultural society is closer to one of hunter-gatherers than a technological one? Do you have a reason for expecting religion is necessary to raise humans from agriculture to more technological societies, but not from a state of tribal hunter-gatherers to agricultural city-states?