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Wikipedia Tour: Major World Religions
Welcome to our Wikipedia Tour: Major World Religions. Each day we’ll send you a link to a new article about a major religion on Wikipedia. The introduction to each day’s article is included in the installment so you can choose to read just the introduction or the full article.
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Religion
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A religion is a set of conducts resulted from tenets (or a belief system) about the ultimate power. It is generally expressed as prayers, rituals, or other practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality (the cosmos, and human nature) which may yield a set of religious laws. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience.
The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system,"[1] but it is more socially defined than personal convictions, and it entails specific behaviors, respectively.
The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. It considers psychological and social roots, along with origins and historical development.
In the frame of western religious thought,[2] religions present a common quality, the "hallmark of patriarchal religious thought": the division of the world in two comprehensive domains, one sacred, the other profane.[3] Religion is often described as a communal system for the coherence of belief focusing on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, tradition, rituals, and scriptures are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion is also often described as a "way of life" or a life stance.
Contents
- 1 Etymology
- 2 Definitions of religion
- 3 Religion and superstition
- 4 History
- 5 Classification
- 6 Religious belief
- 7 Related forms of thought
- 8 Criticism
- 9 See also
- 10 Notes
- 11 References
- 12 External links
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