Religion

Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.

Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. […] I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name.

Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.

Religion is not identical with spirituality; rather, religion is the form spirituality takes in a civilization; it is not so much the opiate of the masses as it is the antidote for the poisons of civilization.

Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

Near-synonyms: credo, creed

Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.

Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.

Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country: and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.

“It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret—according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one’s religion the less one believes—no one living knows more of mine than I.”

Priest: I wasn't being rude. Father: Just bear in mind that there are plenty of other religions you know. Some of them, I may say, offering much greater range and value.

The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.

I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.

Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.

At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.

'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'

Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!

On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.

A similar caution is made by Nye when he calls for a re-evaluation of the category of religion in relationship to theory and method, suggesting that this category: be reconstructed in terms of practice theory as religious practice or religioning.

Religious practice and action (“religioning”) can be liberating, and can connect displaced people with the spirits of home.

To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress

“What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?”

The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.

The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.

If queer Jews, Muslims and Christians are engaged in queering their religions, they are also engaged in what might becalled 'religioning' the queer.