Each culture has a set of beliefs and a bunch of assumptions about the nature of reality. Supernatural beings of varying importance. Similarities and differences between religious ritual and theater In all religions, for the believer, ritual makes it happen. The things that happen in ritual are as real as those that happen in the empirical world.
All religions have practitioners or clerics.
In every case, there are people who are specialized in doing the actions of religion. All religions contain portals. Each religion provides at least some of its followers with what those people accept as authentic religious experience. All religions accept particular methods of passing through these portals and reject others. There are no truly universal beliefs and people who are members of different religions really do believe very different things.