List of basic topics of religion
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- For a more comprehensive list, see List of religious topics
Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that (generally) involve a faith in a spiritual nature and a study of inherited ancestral traditions, knowledge and wisdom related to understanding human life. The term "religion" refers to both personal practices related to faith as well as to the larger shared systems of belief.
The following list of topics is provided as an overview of and introduction to religion and religious beliefs:
[edit] Major religious concepts
- Angels
- Approaches to the beliefs of others
- Cosmology
- Doctrine
- Deity
- Demon
- Eschatology
- Faith
- Free will
- God
- Goodness and evil
- Holy Land
- Life after death
- Creation myth
- Nonviolence
- Pilgrimage
- Places of worship
- Prayer and Meditation
- Prophet
- Reincarnation
- Ritual
- Sin
- Soul
- Supernaturalism
- Theism
- Theology
- Theosophy
[edit] Religion-specific topics
[edit] African traditional and diasporic topics
[edit] Ayyavazhi topics
[edit] Bahá'í Faith topics
[edit] Buddhism topics
[edit] Tenrikyo topics
[edit] Cao Dai topics
[edit] Christianity topics
- Christian denominations
- Jesus-related articles
- Roman Catholicism
- Mormonism
- Protestantism
- Oriental Orthodoxy, Assyrians, Mormons and other Christians
- Popes
- Saints
- Christianity by country
- Protestantism by country
- Roman Catholicism by country
- Timeline of Christian missions
[edit] Falun Gong topics
[edit] Hinduism topics
[edit] Ayyavazhi topics
[edit] Islam topics
[edit] Jainism topics
[edit] Juche topics
[edit] Judaism topics
[edit] Neopaganism topics
[edit] Primal indigenous topics
[edit] Rasta topics
[edit] Secular/irreligious/agnostic/atheist/antitheistic/antireligious topics
[edit] Shintō topics
[edit] Sikhism topics
[edit] Spiritism topics
[edit] Unitarian Universalism topics
[edit] Zoroastrianism topics
[edit] External links
- 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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