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Christian cross

The Cross of Jesus, main symbol is the Catholics

A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate the various sentient species to an order of existence. Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred histories that aim to explain the meaning of life, the origin of life, or the Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and sentient nature, people may derive morality, ethics, religious laws or a preferred lifestyle.

Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places, and scriptures. The practice of a religion may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of a deity, gods, or goddesses), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of sentient cultures. Religions may also contain mythology.

Etymology[]

Theories[]

Origins and development[]

Social Constructionism[]

Comparative religion[]

List of Religions[]

Main religions[]

  • Judaism
  • Christianity
  • Islam
  • Baháʼí Faith
  • Hinduism
  • Taoism
  • Buddhism
  • Sikhism
  • Slavic neopaganism
  • Celtic polytheism
  • Heathenism (Germanic paganism)
  • Semitic neopaganism
  • Wicca
  • Kemetism (Egyptian paganism)
  • Hellenism (Greek paganism)
  • Italo-Roman neopaganism.

Issues[]

IQ and atheism in society[]

Economics[]

Health[]

Violence[]

Law[]

Science[]

Animal Sacrifice[]

Related forms of thought[]

Superstition[]

Myth[]

Secularism and irreligion[]

Criticism of religion[]

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