Symbols of various religionsAbraham is the common patriarch of theAbrahamic religions (primarilyChristianity,Islam andJudaism), whose collective adherents account for approximately 56% of the world's population.
Most books on the philosophy ofreligion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of.[…] I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name.
1936, Rollo Ahmed,The Black Art, London: Long, page160:
Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of allreligion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.
1981,William Irwin Thompson,The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page103:
Religion is not identical with spirituality; rather,religion is the form spirituality takes in a civilization; it is not so much the opiate of the masses as it is the antidote for the poisons of civilization.
1722, William Wollaston, “Sect. V. Truths relating to the Deity. Of his exiſtence, perfection, providence, &c.”, inThe Religion of Nature Delineated[1], page81:
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions ofletterd andphiloſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country: and people of differingreligions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents; whenboth of them cannot be in the right, and it is well ifeither of them are.
“It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret—according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one’sreligion the less one believes—no one living knows more of mine than I.”
Priest: I wasn't being rude. Father: Just bear in mind that there are plenty of otherreligions you know. Some of them, I may say, offering much greater range and value.
Some prefer a definition of religion that includes only theistic groups, viewing non-theistic religions as merelyphilosophical systems.
Some use the word as a catch-all term for all systems of belief pertaining to morality, life after death (or lack thereof), the existence of a greater power, etc. Thus, nominally "non-religious" belief systems such asatheism,agnosticism, orspiritualism are sometimes included within the concept of "religion" despite not meeting the criteria for a religion in the traditional sense. This usage is opposed by some atheists who claim it is inaccurate to describe their beliefs as "religious beliefs."
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On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms ofreligioning.
2013, Monica R. Miller,Religion and Hip Hop,→ISBN, page74:
A similar caution is made by Nye when he calls for a re-evaluation of the category of religion in relationship to theory and method, suggesting that this category: be reconstructed in terms of practice theory as religious practice orreligioning.
2015, Alexander Horstmann, Jin-Heon Jung,Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities,→ISBN, page13:
Religious practice and action (“religioning”) can be liberating, and can connect displaced people with the spirits of home.
1994, Timothy Morton,Shelley and the Revolution in Taste,→ISBN, page238:
The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporaryreligioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.
2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116
The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered,religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
2013, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Stephen Hunt,The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality,→ISBN:
If queer Jews, Muslims and Christians are engaged in queering their religions, they are also engaged in what might becalled 'religioning' the queer.
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