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/ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒ.ən/ · noun
(uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief..
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.
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.
Use religion when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Religion means (uncountable) Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief..
Common synonyms include faith, religion, theism, belief.
Possible antonyms include nonreligion, nonreligiousness, nonbelief, unbelief.
Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
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