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Religion. Religion: . The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods. . Ritual. Ritual. an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite. . Worship. Worship.
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Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
Ritual • an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
Worship • reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also: an act of expressing such reverence
Convert • A person who has been persuaded to change their religious faith or other beliefs.
Disciple • a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another; follower: a disciple of Freud.
Monotheism • the doctrine or belief that there is but one God
Polytheism • belief in or worship of more than one god
Secular • of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
Fundamentalist • a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles <Islamic fundamentalism> <Christian fundamentalism>
Atheist • a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
Agnostic • a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.
Animist • The attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
Pantheism • the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.