RELIGION

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Definitions

1. derivation: from Latin religio (-onis), (religion), (piety), (conscientiousness), (scrupulousness), from religare, (to bind back), re-, and ligare, (to bind), (to bind together). (a) any specific system of belief, worship, conduct, etc., often involving a code of ethics and a philosophy: as the Christian (religion), the Buddhist (religion), etc. (b) loosely any system of beliefs, practices, ethical values, etc., resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system, as, humanism is his (religion). (BPL 6 Mar 69)

2. a religion is perforce a method of worship and a civilizing influence having to do with the human spirit. (551OC27)

3. the ritual of worship or regard about spiritual matters. (4 LACC-18, 5510C13)

4. a study of wisdom. (HCO PL 6 Mar 69)

5. the word religion itself can embrace sacred lore, wisdom, knowingness of gods and souls and spirits, and could be called, with very broad use of the word, a philosophy. We could say there is religious philosophy and there is religious practice. (PXL, p. 13)