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Definition of religion, the Glossary

The definition of religion is a controversial and complicated subject in religious studies with scholars failing to agree on any one definition.^[1]

68 relations: Age of Enlightenment, Antoine Vergote, Augustine of Hippo, Émile Durkheim, Belief, Buddhism in Japan, Charismatic authority, Christianity, Classificatory disputes about art, Clifford Geertz, Cornelis Tiele, Deism, Dogma, Edward Burnett Tylor, Four Noble Truths, Frederick Ferré, Freedom of religion, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Gale (publisher), Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, George Lindbeck, God, Heresy, Human science, Idolatry, India, Japan, Jason Josephson Storm, Judeo-Christian, Lexico, Lutheranism, Max Müller, Max Stackhouse, Metamodernism, Michael Stausberg, Modern era, Moojan Momen, Natural law, Outline of religion, Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion, Paul James (academic), Paul Tillich, Peace of Westphalia, Personal god, Peter Mandaville, Philosophy, Philosophy of biology, Philosophy of religion, Postliberal theology, Reformation, ... Expand index (18 more) »
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Age of Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment (also the Age of Reason and the Enlightenment) was the intellectual and philosophical movement that occurred in Europe in the 17th and the 18th centuries.

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Antoine Vergote

Antoine Vergote (8 December 1921 – 10 October 2013), also known as Antoon Vergote, was a Belgian Roman Catholic priest, theologian, philosopher, psychologist and psychoanalyst.

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Augustine of Hippo (Aurelius Augustinus Hipponensis; 13 November 354 – 28 August 430), also known as Saint Augustine, was a theologian and philosopher of Berber origin and the bishop of Hippo Regius in Numidia, Roman North Africa.

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Émile Durkheim

David Émile Durkheim (or; 15 April 1858 – 15 November 1917), professionally known simply as Émile Durkheim, was a French sociologist.

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Belief

A belief is a subjective attitude that a proposition is true or a state of affairs is the case.

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Buddhism in Japan

Buddhism was first established in Japan in the 6th century CE.

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In the field of sociology, charismatic authority is a concept of organizational leadership wherein the authority of the leader derives from the personal charisma of the leader.

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Christianity

Christianity is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ.

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Classificatory disputes about art

Art historians and philosophers of art have long had classificatory disputes about art regarding whether a particular cultural form or piece of work should be classified as art.

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Clifford Geertz

Clifford James Geertz (August 23, 1926 – October 30, 2006) was an American anthropologist who is remembered mostly for his strong support for and influence on the practice of symbolic anthropology and who was considered "for three decades...

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Cornelis Tiele

Cornelis Petrus Tiele (16 December 183011 January 1902) was a Dutch theologian and scholar of religions.

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Deism

Deism (or; derived from the Latin term deus, meaning "god") is the philosophical position and rationalistic theology that generally rejects revelation as a source of divine knowledge and asserts that empirical reason and observation of the natural world are exclusively logical, reliable, and sufficient to determine the existence of a Supreme Being as the creator of the universe.

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Dogma

Dogma, in its broadest sense, is any belief held definitively and without the possibility of reform.

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Edward Burnett Tylor

Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (2 October 18322 January 1917) was an English anthropologist, and professor of anthropology.

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Four Noble Truths

In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths (caturāriyasaccāni; "The Four Arya Satya") are "the truths of the Noble Ones", the truths or realities for the "spiritually worthy ones".

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Frederick Ferré

Frederick Pond Ferré (March 23, 1933 – March 22, 2013) was Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at The University of Georgia.

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Freedom of religion

Freedom of religion or religious liberty is a principle that supports the freedom of an individual or community, in public or private, to manifest religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship, and observance.

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Friedrich Schleiermacher

Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (21 November 1768 – 12 February 1834) was a German Reformed theologian, philosopher, and biblical scholar known for his attempt to reconcile the criticisms of the Enlightenment with traditional Protestant Christianity.

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Gale (publisher)

Gale is a global provider of research and digital learning resources.

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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (27 August 1770 – 14 November 1831) was a German philosopher and one of the most influential figures of German idealism and 19th-century philosophy.

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George Lindbeck

George Arthur Lindbeck (March 10, 1923 – January 8, 2018) was an American Lutheran theologian.

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God

In monotheistic belief systems, God is usually viewed as the supreme being, creator, and principal object of faith.

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Heresy

Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs, particularly the accepted beliefs or religious law of a religious organization.

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Human science

Human science (or human sciences in the plural) studies the philosophical, biological, social, justice, and cultural aspects of human life.

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Idolatry

Idolatry is the worship of a cult image or "idol" as though it were a deity.

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India

India, officially the Republic of India (ISO), is a country in South Asia.

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Japan

Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.

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Jason Josephson Storm

Jason Ānanda Josephson Storm (né Josephson) is an American academic, philosopher, social scientist, and author.

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Judeo-Christian

The term Judeo-Christian is used to group Christianity and Judaism together, either in reference to Christianity's derivation from Judaism, Christianity's recognition of Jewish scripture to constitute the Old Testament of the Christian Bible, or values supposed to be shared by the two religions.

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Lexico

Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Max Müller

Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900) was a comparative philologist and Orientalist of German origin.

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Max Stackhouse

Max Lynn Stackhouse (July 29, 1935 – January 30, 2016) was the Rimmer and Ruth de Vries Professor of Reformed Theology and Public Life Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary.

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Metamodernism refers to a variety of related discourses that aim to describe contemporary phenomena beyond the constraints of postmodernism.

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Michael Stausberg

Michael Stausberg (born 28 April 1966) is a German scholar on religion.

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Modern era

The modern era or the modern period is considered the current historical period of human history.

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Moojan Momen

Moojan Momen is a retired physician and historian specializing in Baháʼí studies who has published numerous books and articles about the Baháʼí Faith and Islam, especially Shia Islam, including for Encyclopædia Iranica*.

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Natural law

Natural law (ius naturale, lex naturalis) is a system of law based on a close observation of natural order and human nature, from which values, thought by natural law's proponents to be intrinsic to human nature, can be deduced and applied independently of positive law (the express enacted laws of a state or society).

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Outline of religion

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to religion: Religion – organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate humanity to an order of existence.

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Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion

The Oxford Handbook of the Study of Religion is a scholarly book about the academic study of religion.

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Paul James (academic)

Paul James (born 1958, Melbourne) is Professor of Globalization and Cultural Diversity at Western Sydney University, and Director of the Institute for Culture and Society where he has been since 2014.

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Paul Tillich

Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American Christian existentialist philosopher, Christian socialist, and Lutheran theologian who was one of the most influential theologians of the twentieth century.

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Peace of Westphalia

The Peace of Westphalia (Westfälischer Friede) is the collective name for two peace treaties signed in October 1648 in the Westphalian cities of Osnabrück and Münster.

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Personal god

A personal god, or personal goddess, is a deity who can be related to as a person, instead of as an impersonal force, such as the Absolute.

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Peter Mandaville

Peter Mandaville is an American academic and former government official.

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Philosophy

Philosophy ('love of wisdom' in Ancient Greek) is a systematic study of general and fundamental questions concerning topics like existence, reason, knowledge, value, mind, and language.

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Philosophy of biology

The philosophy of biology is a subfield of philosophy of science, which deals with epistemological, metaphysical, and ethical issues in the biological and biomedical sciences.

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Philosophy of religion

Philosophy of religion is "the philosophical examination of the central themes and concepts involved in religious traditions". Definition of religion and philosophy of religion are religious studies.

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Postliberal theology

Postliberal theology (often called narrative theology) is a Christian theological movement that focuses on a narrative presentation of the Christian faith as regulative for the development of a coherent systematic theology.

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Reformation

The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement in Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.

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Religion

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

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Religious studies

Religious studies, also known as the study of religion, is the scientific study of religion.

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Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941) is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author.

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S. N. Balagangadhara

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Social constructionism is a term used in sociology, social ontology, and communication theory.

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Sociology of religion

Sociology of religion is the study of the beliefs, practices and organizational forms of religion using the tools and methods of the discipline of sociology. Definition of religion and sociology of religion are religious studies.

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Sovereignty

Sovereignty can generally be defined as supreme authority.

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State religion

A state religion (also called official religion) is a religion or creed officially endorsed by a sovereign state.

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Steven Engler

Steven Joseph Engler (born 1962) is a Canadian scholar of religion, Professor at Mount Royal University, Professor Colaborador in the Graduate Program in Ciêncas da Religião at the Pontifical Catholic University of São Paulo (Brazil), and affiliate Professor in the Department of Religion at Concordia University.

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Talal Asad

Talal Asad (born 1932) is a Saudi-born cultural anthropologist who is currently Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.

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The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life (Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse), published by the French sociologist Émile Durkheim in 1912, is a book that analyzes religion as a social phenomenon.

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The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature is a book by Harvard University psychologist and philosopher William James.

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Tomoko Masuzawa

Tomoko Masuzawa is professor emerita of Comparative Literature and History at the University of Michigan.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 169430 May 1778), known by his nom de plume M. de Voltaire (also), was a French Enlightenment writer, philosopher (philosophe), satirist, and historian.

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Walter Burkert

Walter Burkert (2 February 1931 – 11 March 2015) was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.

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Western culture

Western culture, also known as Western civilization, European civilization, Occidental culture, or Western society, includes the diverse heritages of social norms, ethical values, traditional customs, belief systems, political systems, artifacts and technologies of the Western world.

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Wilfred Cantwell Smith

Wilfred Cantwell Smith (July 21, 1916 – February 7, 2000) was a Canadian Islamicist, comparative religion scholar, and Presbyterian minister.

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William James

William James (January 11, 1842 – August 26, 1910) was an American philosopher and psychologist, and the first educator to offer a psychology course in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Definition_of_religion

, Religion, Religious studies, Richard Dawkins, S. N. Balagangadhara, Social constructionism, Sociology of religion, Sovereignty, State religion, Steven Engler, Talal Asad, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, The Varieties of Religious Experience, Tomoko Masuzawa, Voltaire, Walter Burkert, Western culture, Wilfred Cantwell Smith, William James.

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