Religion | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-01

This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion


00:02:31 1 Concept and etymology
00:11:12 2 Definition
00:11:35 2.1 Modern western
00:16:06 2.2 Classical
00:19:35 3 Aspects
00:19:45 3.1 Beliefs
00:20:12 3.1.1 Mythology
00:22:21 3.1.2 Worldview
00:22:45 3.2 Practices
00:23:21 3.3 Social organisation
00:23:45 4 Academic study
00:24:48 4.1 Theories
00:25:13 4.1.1 Origins and development
00:27:38 4.1.2 Cultural system
00:28:25 4.1.3 Social constructionism
00:29:15 4.1.4 Cognitive science
00:30:53 4.2 Comparativism
00:32:00 5 Classification
00:33:23 5.1 Morphological classification
00:34:00 5.2 Demographical classification
00:35:25 6 Specific religions
00:35:35 6.1 Abrahamic
00:35:51 6.1.1 Judaism
00:37:17 6.1.2 Christianity
00:39:29 6.1.3 Islam
00:41:23 6.1.4 Other
00:42:11 6.2 East Asian
00:42:37 6.2.1 Taoism and Confucianism
00:42:56 6.2.2 Chinese folk religion
00:43:50 6.3 Dharmic (Indian)
00:44:16 6.3.1 Hinduism
00:45:14 6.3.2 Jainism
00:46:35 6.3.3 Buddhism
00:48:07 6.3.4 Sikhism
00:49:06 6.4 Indigenous and folk
00:50:10 6.5 Traditional African
00:51:25 6.6 Iranian
00:52:29 6.7 New religious movements
00:55:46 7 Related aspects
00:55:56 7.1 Law
00:57:21 7.2 Science
01:01:02 7.3 Morality
01:02:02 7.4 Politics
01:02:11 7.4.1 Impact
01:04:34 7.4.2 Secularism
01:05:06 7.5 Economics
01:06:16 7.6 Health
01:08:02 7.7 Violence
01:08:53 7.7.1 Animal sacrifice
01:09:15 7.8 Superstition
01:11:38 7.9 Agnosticism and atheism
01:12:31 7.10 Interfaith cooperation
01:13:49 7.11 Culture
01:15:38 8 Criticism
01:15:58 9 See also



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Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have sacred histories and narratives, which may be preserved in sacred scriptures, and symbols and holy places, that aim mostly to give a meaning to life. Religions may contain symbolic stories, which are sometimes said by followers to be true, that have the side purpose of explaining the origin of life, the universe, and other things. Traditionally, faith, in addition to reason, has been considered a source of religious beliefs.There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, but about 84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the five largest religion groups, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religion. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists and agnostics. While the religiously unaffiliated have grown globally, many of the religiously unaffiliated still have various religious beliefs.The study of religion encompasses a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, comparative religion and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for the origins and workings of religion, including the ontological foundations of religious being and belief.