Agamo adolah suatu sistem nan mangatur tata kaimanan (kapicayoan) dan paribadatan kapado Tuhan Nan Mahakuaso sarato tata kaidah nan bahubuangan jo pagaulan manusia dan manusia sarato lingkuangannyo.
Kato "agamo" baasa daribahaso Sanskerta,āgama nan baarati "tradisi".[1]. Sadangkan kato lain untuak manyatokan konsep iko adolahreligi nan barasa daribahaso Latinreligio dan baraka padokato karajore-ligare nan baarati "mangikek baliak". Makasuiknyo jo bareligi, sasaurang mangikek dirinyo kapadoTuhan.
Émile Durkheim mangatokan baso agamo adolah suatu sistem nan tapadu nan tadiri ateh kapicayoan dan praktik nan bahubuangan jo hal nan suci. Kito sabagai umaik baragamo samaksimal mungkin bausaho untuak taruih maningkekan kaimanan kito malalui rutinitas baibadah, mancapai rohani nan samparono kasuciannyo
Definisi tantang agamo dipiliah nan sadarano tapi manyaluruah. Aratinyo definisi iko diharokan indak talampau sampik atau talampau lungga tatapi dapek dipakai kapado agamo-agamo nan salamo ko dikatahui malalui panyabuikan namo-namo agamo nantun. Agamo marupoan suatu limbago atau institusi pantiang nan maatua iduik rohani manusia. Untuak itu taradok apo nan dikana sabagai agamo-agamo itu paralu dicari titiak pasamoannyo dan titiak pabensoannyo.
Manusia punyo kamampuan tabateh, kasadaran dan pangakuan akan katabatehannyo manjadikan kayakinan baso ado sasuatu nan lua biaso di lua dirinyo. Sasuatu nan lua biaso itu tantu baasa dari sumber nan lua biaso juo. Dan sumber nan lua biaso itu ado bamacam-macam sasuai jo bahaso manusianyo surang. MisalTuhan,Dewa,God,Syang-ti,Kami-Sama dan lain-lain atau hanyo manyabuik sipaik-Nyo sajo sarupo Nan Maha Kuaso, Ingkang Murbeng Dumadi, De Weldadige, jo lain-lain.
Kayakinan iko mambaok manusia untuak mancari kadakekan diri kapado Tuhan jo caro mangambokan diri, yaitu:
manarimo sagalo kapastian nan manimpo diri dan sakaliliagnyo sarato yakin baasa dari Tuhan
manaati saganok katatapan, aturan, hukum dll nan diyakini baasa dari Tuhan
Jo damikian didapek katarangan nan jaleh, basoagamo itu pangamboan manusia kapado Tuhannyo.Dalam arati agamo ado 3 unsua, iolah manusia, pangamboan, joTuhan. Mako suatu paham atau ajaran nan manganduang katigo unsua pokok arati tadi dapek disabuik agamo.
Labiah lawehnyo lai, Agamo juo dapek diaratikan sabagaijalan iduik. Yakni baso saluruah aktivitas lahia jo batin pamaluaknyo itu diatua dek agamo nan dianuiknyo. Bagaimano awak makan, bagaimano awak bagaul, bagaimano awak baibadah, dan sabagainyo ditantukan jo aturan/tata caro agamo.
Anam agamo nan paliang banyak dianuik di Indonesia marupoan agamoIslam,KristenProtestan,Katolik,Hindu,Buddha, joKonghucu. Sabalunnya, pamarentah Indonesia pernah malarang panganuik Konghucu malaksanoan agamanyo sacaro umum. Namun, malalui Keppress No. 6/2000, PresidenAbdurrahman Wahid mancabuik larangan tu.
Agamo jo kapacayoan nan bacantuman di bawah iko marupoan agamo jo kapacayoan jo jumlah pamaluk nan signifikan di saluruah dunia. Babarapo komunitas di babagai balahan dunia juo mamaluak babagai aliran kapacayoan nan dianggap sabagai golongan minoritas dan alun dikamukokan. Babarapo agamo jo kapacayoan jo jumlah pamaluak nan gadang antaro lain:
↑abThe number of people who consider themselves party to a "folk tradition" is impossible to determine.
↑Figures for the population of Jains differ from just over six million to twelve million due to difficulties of Jain identity, with Jains in some areas counted as a Hindu sect. Many Jains do not return Jainism as their religion on census forms for various reasons such as certain Jain castes considering themselves both Hindu and Jain. Following a major advertising campaign urging Jains to register as such, the 1981 Census of India returned 3.19 million Jains. This was estimated at the time to still be half the true number. The 2001 Census of India had 8.4 million Jains.
↑Menurut kamus Sanskerta-Inggirih Monier-Williams (cetakan pertama tahun 1899) pada entriāgama: ...a traditional doctrine or precept, collection of such doctrines, sacred work [...]; anything handed down and fixed by tradition (as the reading of a text or a record, title deed, &c.)
