A religion is a set of tenets and practices, often centered upon specific supernatural and moral claims about reality, the cosmos, and human nature, and often codified as prayer, ritual, or religious law. Religion also encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to communal faith and to group rituals and communication stemming from shared conviction.
The following outline is provided as an overview of, and introduction to, religion and religious beliefs. For a more comprehensive list, see List of religious topics.
Major religious concepts
Religion-specific topics
African traditional and diasporic topics
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Ayyavazhi topics
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Bahá'í Faith topics
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Main article: Bahá'í Faith
Buddhism topics
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Tenrikyo topics
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Cao Dai topics
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Christianity topics
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Main article: Christianity
Falun Gong topics
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Hinduism topics
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Ayyavazhi topics
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Islam topics
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Jainism topics
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Juche topics
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Judaism topics
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Neopaganism topics
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Main article: Neopaganism
Primal indigenous topics
Rasta topics
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Secular/irreligious/agnostic/atheist/antitheistic/antireligious topics
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Shintō topics
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Sikhism topics
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Spiritism topics
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Unitarian Universalism topics
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Zoroastrianism topics
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Main article: Zoroastrianism
External links
- The Islamic Bulletin - A One Stop For All Your Islamic Needs! The Islamic Bulletin offers many valuable and free services such as a complete list of Islamic resources, a one-page Hajj guide, e-books, Islamic Last Will and Testament, prayer schedule, mosque list, Quran studies, Islamic articles, and more.
- Studying Religion - Introduction to the methods and scholars of the academic study of religion
- Full-text search engine - Searchable sacred texts of the major World Religions
- Guide to World Religions
- A Contribution to the Critique of Hegel’s Philosophy of Right - Marx's original reference to religion as the opium of the people.
- Religious tolerance
- The Complexity of Religion and the Definition of “Religion” in International Law Harvard Human Rights Journal article from the President and Fellows of Harvard College(2003)
- Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents by Adherents.com (August 28, 2005) Retrieved December 22, 2005
- Philosophy and religion - an overview
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