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28 mar 2022 · The concept religion understood as a social genus was increasingly put to use by to European Christians as they sought to categorize the variety of cultures they encountered as their empires moved into the Americas, South Asia, East Asia, Africa, and Oceania.
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30 paź 2019 · The term "religion" can be defined as a system of beliefs and practices that relate to supernatural beings and are intended to organize and define the environment in which the...
1 sty 1998 · Religion may be interpreted as a socio-cultural organization underpinned by collective practices of worship, faith, sacred ceremonies, and a belief in a supreme, supernatural being...
21 lip 2021 · The aim of this entry is to orient readers to an ongoing debate about the definition of the concept “religion” that cuts across disciplinary lines, among them: anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, religious studies, sociology, and most recently, cognitive science.
21 paź 2021 · Rather more poetic in form than a typical (or more recent) scholarly definition of religion, Marx’s understanding of religion (driven by his interest in political and economic analysis) serves two key purposes.
19 wrz 2018 · Having defined what religion is, Smith then turns to outline why people are religious, which is a long list. Humans are religious because religion provides community, identity, meaning, ecstasy, aesthetic enjoyment, social control, and emotional energy from worship and collective action.
Religions become religions (or "religious traditions") when they create or collect an authoritative body of truth supposedly based on these three transcendent principles (superhuman in origin or "authorship," and
