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Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, or public service. Religions have sacred histories and narratives, which may be preserved in sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that primarily aim to give life meaning. Religions may contain symbolic tales that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena; some followers believe these to be true stories; others regard them as myth. Traditionally, both faith and reason have been considered sources of religious beliefs.There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions—Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism—account for over 77% of the world's population, and 92% of the world either follows one of those four religions or identifies as nonreligious, meaning that the remaining 9,000+ faiths account for only 8% of the population combined. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists, and agnostics, although many in the demographic still have various religious beliefs.Many world religions are also organized religions, most definitively including the Abrahamic religions Christianity, Islam, and Judaism, while others are arguably less so, in particular folk religions, indigenous religions, and some Eastern religions. A portion of the world's population are members of new religious movements. Scholars have indicated that global religiosity may be increasing due to religious countries having generally higher birth rates.The study of religion comprises a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, philosophy of religion, comparative religion, and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for its origins and workings, including the ontological foundations of religious being and belief. Source: Wikipedia (en)
Works in the genre religion 27
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La convenienza umana della fede
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Sects and Social Disorder : Muslim Identities and Conflict in Northern Nigeria
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The New Heart of Wisdom
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Contemplative Practices in Action
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Jesus, Interrupted
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The Chosen One
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The God Delusion
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The Righteous Men
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The Missing Gospels
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The Testament of Gideon Mack
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Misquoting Jesus
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The New Meditation Handbook
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Universal Compassion
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Multidimensional Measurement of Religiousness/Spirituality for Use in Health Research
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The True Furqan
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The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice
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The Making of a Teacher
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Letters to Malcolm
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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War of Anti-Christ with the Church and Christian Civilization
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Malleus Maleficarum
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The Geological Concept of Mountains in the Qur'an
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Metaphysics of War
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Alta Vendita
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Denkoroku
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Зерцало от Божественного писания
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Akanbē Ikkyū
Works in the genre religion 255
- Crisis of Conscience
- Why I Am Not a Christian
- Dune
- Buddenbrooks
- God Emperor of Dune
- Die Jüdin von Toledo
- Moralia
- Ars magna
- The Future of an Illusion
- The Way
- Small Gods
- God and the State
- Religion in the Making
- Ce que je crois
- Ashes to Gold
- Einstein and Religion
- Foundations of Christianity
- In Search of Our Origins
- The Bible Unearthed
- La Bible amusante
- The End of Faith
- Oscar and the Lady in Pink
- Letter to a Christian Nation
- The Dawkins Delusion?
- Waiting for God
- Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
- Religion Explained
- Heaven Is for Real
- Religion and Science
- All'origine della pretesa cristiana
- Bernadette non ci ha ingannati
- Dall'utopia alla presenza
- Dicono che è risorto
- God: A Biography
- Dio esiste, io l'ho incontrato
- Emporio cattolico
- Gli occhi di Maria
- Il diavolo
- Il mistero di Torino
- The Risk of Education
- Il senso della nascita
- Il senso religioso
- Il senso religioso
- Imparare ad amare
- Inchiesta sul cristianesimo
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