Religious people believe in the existence of a supreme being.
It has many attributes but two of the most striking are that it seems to both encompass and to pervade everything. Put more formally, we can say that we are both part of a Whole and permeated by it. Even where epiphenomena occur - it is inconceivable to deal with them without resorting to some discussion of the parts in their relationships with the Whole. But the parts are also defined by their context, by the Whole. There are no parts without a Whole.