Religion. Religion: The belief in and worship of a superhuman controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.

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Religion

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

Convertnvert

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

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.