religion
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ɹɪˈlɪd͡ʒən/
rhymes: -ɪdʒən
Forms: form: religions
form: religioning
form: religioned
form: religioned
form: Religion
Etymology: From Middle English religioun, from Old French religion, from Latin religiō (“scrupulousness, pious misgivings, superstition, conscientiousness, sanctity, an object of veneration, cult-observance, reverence”). Most likely from the Proto-Indo-European *h₂leg- with the meanings preserved in Latin dīligere and legere (“to read repeatedly”, “to have something solely in mind”). Displaced Old English ǣfæstnes (“religion, lawfulness”).
Senses: examples: text: On the scales below, circle the one ( + ) or (-) number which best represents your situation on both the belief and practice dimensions for each of the traditional and nontraditional forms of religioning.
ref: 1978, Military Chaplains' Review, page 70:
text: A similar caution is made by Nye when he calls for a re-evaluation of the category of religion in relationship to theory and method, suggesting that this category: be reconstructed in terms of practice theory as religious practice or religioning.
ref: 2013, Monica R. Miller, Religion and Hip Hop, →ISBN, page 74:
text: Religious practice and action (“religioning”) can be liberating, and can connect displaced people with the spirits of home.
ref: 2015, Alexander Horstmann, Jin-Heon Jung, Building Noah’s Ark for Migrants, Refugees, and Religious Communities, →ISBN, page 13:
glosses: Engage in religious practice.
examples: text: To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
ref: 1890, John R. Kelso, Deity analyzed: In six lectures - Page 37
text: “What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?”
ref: 2007, Janette Oke, A Bride for Donnigan, →ISBN, page 225:
glosses: Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
examples: text: The discussion of diet and health raises the question of the importance of discussing vegetarianism in relation to the contemporary religioning of health; as Ross remarks, 'health has replaced sexuality as the new privileged discourse of bodily truth and inner essence'.
ref: 1994, Timothy Morton, Shelley and the Revolution in Taste, →ISBN, page 238:
text: The ideas expressed above challenge us to continuously rupture and interrupt racialized, classed, gendered, religioned and sexualized norms that inhere between and within institutions, understandings of bodies and our Selves.
ref: 2011, Andrew O'Shea, Pedagogy, Oppression and Transformation in a 'Post-Critical' Climate, p 116
text: If queer Jews, Muslims and Christians are engaged in queering their religions, they are also engaged in what might becalled 'religioning' the queer.
ref: 2013, Andrew Kam-Tuck Yip, Stephen Hunt, The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality, →ISBN:
glosses: To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
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