religion

Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief.

Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.

A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it.

Holonyms: cosmology, ontology, epistemology, philosophy

Near-synonyms: credo, creed

The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.

The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.

Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them.

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.

Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted.

At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.

'Religion can't exist without mystery, especially science, the newest religion.'

Engage in religious practice.

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.

Indoctrinate into a specific religion.

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?”

To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify.

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.