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Religion

Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, ethics, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a…

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Etymology and history of the concept of "religion"

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Academic study

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Religion

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Triples472
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related to New religious movements · 59
Religion → Academics, Aetherius Society, Ananda Marga, Ayyavazhi, British, Cao, Christian Reformist, Dudeism, Eckankar, Epicureanism, Gerald Gardner, God, Goddess, Heathenry, Hellenism, Hellenistic, Hindu, Indian, Iron Age, It
related to Traditional African · 37
Religion → Africa, African, Akamba, Akan, Americas, Bantu, Berber, Bushongo, Candomble, Dahomey, Dinka, Efik, Egyptian, Fon, In, In West Africa, Lotuko, Lozi, Lucumi, Lugbara
related to history · 34
Religion → According, Age, Arabic, Bible, CE, Christendom, Christian, Christian Church, Christianity, Encyclopaedia, English, European, Even, Exploration, For, Greek, Hebrew, Herodotus, In, Jewish
related to External links · 33
Religion → Adherents, Annotated, August, Critique, Definition, Edward, EnglishA Contribution, Fellows, Harvard College, Harvard Human Rights Journal, Hegel's Philosophy, In Zalta, International Law, Introduction, ISSN, January, Kevin Schilbrack, Marx's, Number, OCLC
related to Etymology · 19
Religion → According, Anglo-Norman, Augustine, Avys, CE, Cicero, Contrarily, Divinae, Golden Fleece, It, IV, Joseph Campbell, Lactantius, Latin, Old French, Roman, St, The, Tom Harpur
related to Interfaith cooperation · 18
Religion → Because, Buddhism, C1 World Dialogue, Chicago World's Fair, Christian, Common Ground, Common Word, Islam, Jewish, Jews, Muslim, Parliament, Recent, The, United Nations, Western, World Interfaith Harmony Week, World's Religions
related to Agnosticism and atheism · 13
Religion → Ajñana, Buddhism, Christian, For, India, Irreligion, Jewish, Muslim, Nirīśvaravāda, Taoism, The, There, Vedas
related to Economics · 13
Religion → According, Christians, Hindus, In, Irreligion, Jews, Many, Max Weber, Muslims, One, Protestant, Protestant Christian, Sociologist
related to Law · 13
Religion → Christianity, Common, Exponents, French, In, Muslim Middle East, Outside, Rome, Scholars, Specialists, Studies, The, Western
see also · 13
Religion → Adoption, Alphabetical, Cosmogony, Form, Lifelong, Overview, Person, Person's, Religious, Social, Sociological, Theory, Treating

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religious religions also world many including christianity beliefs belief cultures practices one islam faith buddhism judaism century include religiō study

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Religionis arange of social-cultural systems0.90text
Religionis amodern concept and not a universal concept across history0.90text
Religionis aorganization of life around the depth dimensions of experience0.90text
Religionis asubstance0.90text
Religionis amodern concept that suggests all spiritual practice and worship follows a model similar to the Abrahamic religions as an orientation system that helps to interpret reality and d…0.90text
Religionis amodern concept that developed from Christianity and was then applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures.Cognitive scienceCognitive science of religion is the study of relig…0.90text
Religionis abranch of the study of religions concerned with the systematic comparison of the doctrines and practices of the world's religions0.90text
Religionis amodern concept that developed from Christianity and was then applied inappropriately to non-Western cultures0.90text
Religionis astudy of religious thought and behavior from the perspective of the cognitive and evolutionary sciences0.90text
Religionis arelatively new field0.90text
Religionis asubstance of culture0.90text
Tom Harpurinstance ofsome modern scholars0.80text

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