Religiology
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Religiology is a noun meaning Synonym of religious studies.
Meaning
Synonym of religious studies.
Example Sentences
Nor should it be assumed that theology and religiology are fundamentally incompatible kinds of discipline.
Religiology has to manage its own evaluation. If not, a serious shortcoming is created. On the other hand this leads to a theologising of ethnology and religiology. And neither ethnology nor religiology is theology!
Religiology is a branch of science and its aim is the scientific study of religion. It seeks to acquire a basic knowledge of religion as a phase of culture, without the bias of a specific belief-system. Only the scientific study of religion can achieve this aim.
Since beauty and ugliness, rightness and wrongness, wisdom and folly, income and expenditures all involve goodness and badness, then understanding the general, specific, and particular problems in aesthetics, ethics, religiology, and economics, etc., involve understanding goodness and badness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include theology, religiologist, hierology, logology, theolinguistics, divinity.
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