religion
Also known as religious tradition, spirituality, spiritual tradition
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 religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.
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Religion is a system of beliefs, practices, and values that helps people make sense of the world and their place in it, typically by connecting them to spiritual or supernatural elements through shared behaviors, ethics, texts, and communities. It matters because these systems shape how people understand meaning, morality, and their relationship to the transcendent, though what exactly counts as "religion" is debated among scholars.
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Research
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64 sectionsContents
- Etymology and history of the concept of "religion"
- Etymology
- {{lang|la|Religiō}}
- {{transliteration|grc|Threskeia}}
- History of the concept of "religion"
- History of "nonreligion" and "secular"
- Definition
- Modern Western
- Classical
- Aspects
- Beliefs
- Mythology
- Practices
- Social organisation
- Academic study
- Theories
- Origins and development
- Cultural system
- Social constructionism
- Cognitive science
- Comparativism
- Classification
- Morphological classification
- Demographic classification
- Specific religions
- Abrahamic
- Judaism
- Christianity
- Islam
- Other
- East Asian
- Taoism and Confucianism
- Folk religions
- Indian religions
- Hinduism
- Jainism
- Buddhism
- Sikhism
- Indigenous and folk
- Traditional African
- Iranian
- New religious movements
- Related aspects
- Law
- Science
- Morality
- Politics
- Impact
- Secularism
- Economics
- Health
- Violence
- Animal sacrifice
- Superstition
- Agnosticism and atheism
- Interfaith cooperation
- Culture
- Criticism
- See also
- Notes
- References
- Sources
- Further reading
- External links
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 religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.
The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena. Religious practice may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, or public service.