Anthropologists have considered various criteria for defining religion – such as a belief in the supernatural or the reliance on ritual – but few claim that these criteria are universally valid.
人類學家們曾考慮採用各種不同標準來定義宗教，例如一種超自然信仰，或是對於儀式的依賴；但很少有人主張這些標準是普遍有效的。