Concept information
Preferred term
religion
Definition
- Religion has played a central role in the cultural and community traditions of humankind since the beginning of civilization. Wherever ancient and modern peoples have settled and flourished, there has been a corresponding development of religious traditions that shapes the communities' perceptions of what is sacred and what is profane. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; Religion]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- African Americans and religion
- African diaspora religions
- African religions
- Amana
- Amish
- angels
- animism
- anthroposophy
- apocalypse
- Arcosanti
- Armageddon
- atheism
- atheism and death
- Auroville
- Ausar Auset Society
- Bahá'í
- baptism for the dead
- Beguine communities
- black American Jewry
- Bruderhof
- Buddhism
- Buddhist beliefs and traditions
- Catholicism
- Chinese traditional religions
- Christian beliefs and traditions
- Christianity
- Christianity-related movements
- church and state
- churches
- civil religion
- cooperative parish ministries
- cults
- damanhur
- daoist beliefs and traditions
- deities of life and death
- devil
- Eastern Orthodoxy
- Emissaries of Divine Light
- eschatology
- eschatology in major religious traditions
- faith-based crime prevention
- faith-based inmate programs
- faith communities
- faith involvement (juvenile delinquency prevention)
- Father Divine Peace Mission Movement
- fundamentalism
- funerals and funeralization in major religious traditions
- genocide
- Ghost Dance
- Hare Krishnas
- Harmony Society
- heaven
- hell
- Hindu beliefs and traditions
- Hinduism
- Hutterites
- initiation rites
- intentional communities and new religious movements
- Islam
- Islamic fundamentalist movements
- Islamism
- Islamophobia
- Japanese ancestor veneration
- Jewish Americans
- Jewish beliefs and traditions
- jihad
- John Calvin
- Judaism
- Last Judgment
- lucumi tradition
- marie laveau
- marriage: religious sacrament versus civil contract
- martyrs and martyrdom
- mennonites
- millenarianism
- minority religion
- monastic communities
- Moorish Science Temple of America
- moravians
- Mormonism
- Muslim Americans
- Muslim beliefs and traditions
- Muslims in Canada
- Muslims in Europe
- mythology
- Nation of Islam
- Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990
- Native American sacred sites
- natural law
- necromancy
- new religions
- new religious movements
- obeah
- Oneida
- peyote
- pilgrimages
- popular traditional african religion everywhere
- primitive religion
- Protestantism
- Puritans
- Quakers
- race and Mormons
- reincarnation
- religion and civil society
- religion and medicine
- religion and science
- religion and sex
- religion: finding or losing
- religiosity
- religious congregations
- Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993
- religious fundamentalism
- religious institutions
- religious movements
- religious online communities
- religious philosophies
- religious sect
- resurrection
- rituals
- Roman Catholicism
- root doctor
- sacred loss
- sacred places
- sacred text
- sacred versus secular
- Santería
- schmeideleut
- Scientology
- secularism
- shakers
- Shinto
- Shinto beliefs and traditions
- shtetls
- Sikhism
- soul
- Southern Christian Leadership Council
- spiritualist movement
- spirituality
- symbolic religiosity
- theocracy
- transcending death
- valhalla
- veils
- vodu
- Yoruba tradition
- Zionism
- Zoar
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/religion
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