Even more broadly, any belief about the way the world is or how things happen in the world, may be termed religious. I strongly believe that science helps us to understand important things about the way the world is and how things happen in the world, but that human science can only show the location of a faith-sized space into which it cannot penetrate, but which human rationality can understand if given help from within that space. Each individual must decide how to believe the world is and how to act within the world, and yet every individual is doomed to know only the smallest fragment of scientific knowledge. But I do what I can, particularly in biochemistry and astronomy. Scientific knowledge also helps make religious beliefs deeper.
Science helps strip away superstition to the point that only the transcendental truths remain.
Science has little patience for the transcendental, for it cannot be measured even though it can be understood. At the same time religion looks at science and sighs, for science must bootstrap, and science continues to say No until it is forced to say Yes. But religion and reason properly understood are in no way exclusive of each other.