religion
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Italic *wre-
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-
Proto-Indo-European *-eti
Proto-Indo-European *léǵeti
Proto-Italic *legō
Latin legō
Latin relegōder.?
▲
Latin re-
Proto-Indo-European *leyǵ-der.
Latin ligō
Latin religōder.?
Proto-Indo-European *-ōder.
Proto-Indo-European *-Hōder.?
Latin -ō
Latin -iō
Latin religiōbor.
Old French religionbor.
Middle English religioun
English religion
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: religions
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: religions
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: religioning
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: religioned
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: religioned
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
Most books on the philosophy of religion try to begin with a precise definition of what its essence consists of. […] I shall not be pedantic enough to enumerate any of them to you now. Meanwhile the very fact that they are so many and so different from one another is enough to prove that the word “religion” cannot stand for any single principle or essence, but is rather a collective name.
Phallicism was, therefore, at the root of all religion, and was definitely the opponent of evil and darkness.
Religion is not identical with spirituality; rather, religion is the form spirituality takes in a civilization; it is not so much the opiate of the masses as it is the antidote for the poisons of civilization.
gloss: A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy
Near-synonyms: credo, creed
Islam is a major religion, particularly in North Africa and Southwest Asia.
Mormonism is a new religion, while Zoroastrianism is an old one.
Ignorant and ſuperſtitious wretches meaſure the actions of letterd and philoſophical men by the tattle of their nurſes or illiterate parents and companions, or by the faſhion of the country: and people of differing religions judge and condemn each other by their own tenents; when both of them cannot be in the right, and it is well if either of them are.
“It is the duty of a high priestess to instruct, to interpret—according to the creed that others, wiser than herself, have laid down; but there is nothing in the creed which says that she must believe. The more one knows of one’s religion the less one believes—no one living knows more of mine than I.”
Priest: I wasn't being rude.
Father: Just bear in mind that there are plenty of other religions you know. Some of them, I may say, offering much greater range and value.
gloss: The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
gloss: Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.
pos: noun
tags: informal
uncountable
examples: I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they weren't so stuck in religion.
Jack's spiritual, but he's not really into religion.
gloss: Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.
pos: noun
tags: countable
examples: At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.
'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'
gloss: Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
pos: noun
tags: obsolete
uncountable
examples: Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!
gloss: Engage in religious practice.
pos: verb
examples: 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.
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.
Religious practice and action (“religioning”) can be liberating, and can connect displaced people with the spirits of home.
gloss: Indoctrinate into a specific religion.
pos: verb
examples: To men whose minds are thus religioned, tied back to gods that never advance, there can never be any such word as progress
“What do you do, Donnigan? Spend all yer time religioning yer young?”
gloss: To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.
pos: verb
examples: 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'.
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.
If queer Jews, Muslims and Christians are engaged in queering their religions, they are also engaged in what might becalled 'religioning' the queer.
Synonyms: faith
religion
Related words: antireligious
organized religion
religiophobia
religiopolitical
religiosity
afterlife
animism
atheism
belief
church
crusade
cult
druid
faith
holy
holy man
jihad
monk
monotheism
mystic
nun
order
polytheism
priest
reincarnation
sacred
sage
sect
seer
shaman
shrine
spirituality
spiritual leader
superstition
temple
wizard
Derived words: American civil religion
antireligion
conreligion
counterreligion
find religion
freedom of religion
get religion
irreligious
lip religion
misreligion
natural religion
neo-religion
nonreligion
overreligion
parareligion
protoreligion
pseudoreligion
religicide
religiofascist
religofascist
religionary
religionism
religionist
religionistic
religionization
religionize
religionless
religionlike
religion of peace
religion of piss
religionwise
religiose
religious
religism
religist
religitard
religtard
secular religion
self religion
self-religion
subreligion
unreligion
urreligion
war of religion
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