Religion at its best is out in front, ever beckoning and leading on, and, as Lippman put it, `` mobilizing all man's scattered energies in one triumphant sense of his own infinite importance ''.

Religion is vitally necessary in both societal maintenance and regulation.

The justification for attributing life to objects was stated by David Hume in his Natural History of Religion ( Section III ): " There is a universal tendency among mankind to conceive all beings like themselves, and to transfer to every object those qualities with which they are familiarly acquainted, and of which they are intimately conscious.

According to estimates of the Word Religion Database 2005 the share of Muslims is 1. 2 %.

Religion is thus seen as orderly, unified, and progressive from age to age.

Uncharacteristically, Jefferson's first two recordings from this session were gospel songs (" I Want to be like Jesus in my Heart " and " All I Want is that Pure Religion "), released under the name Deacon L. J. Bates.

Religion that makes the words of its leader, be he Pope or other, equal with the Word of God is false.

In Thailand's constitutional monarchy, the monarch is recognized as the Head of State, Head of the Armed Forces, Upholder of the Buddhist Religion, and Defender of the Faith.

The rabbinical school of the Academy for Jewish Religion in California is led by Conservative rabbi Mel Gottlieb.

He is not perfectly trustworthy in details, and his agenda is always to inculcate culturally " correct " Stoic opinions, perhaps so that his readers will not feel guilty, but Jane Ellen Harrison found survivals of archaic rites mentioned by Aelian very illuminating in her Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion ( 1903, 1922 ).

: This subject is discussed in more detail in Religion and capital punishment.

), Kant's Philosophy of Religion Re-examined ( Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1991 ); an argument against Kant as deist is Stephen Palmquist's " Kant's Theistic Solution ".

Anglicans adhere to a range of views although the teaching on the matter in the Articles of Religion holds that the presence is real only in a heavenly and spiritual sense.

Although details are unclear, there is evidence that in 1577 Oxford attempted to leave England to see service in the French Wars of Religion on the side of King Henry III.

Often referred to as Gaianism, or the Gaian Religion, this spiritual aspect of the philosophy is very broad and inclusive, making it adaptable to other religions: Taoism, Neo-Paganism, Pantheism, Judeo-Christian Religions, and many others.

Religion is an integral part of the history of this concept.

Ian Barbour in his book Issues in Science and Religion ( 1966 ), p. 133, cites Arthur Eddington's The Nature of the Physical World ( 1928 ) for a text that argues The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principles provides a scientific basis for " the defense of the idea of human freedom " and his Science and the Unseen World ( 1929 ) for support of philosophical idealism " the thesis that reality is basically mental ".

Calvin developed his theology in his biblical commentaries as well as his sermons and treatises, but the most concise expression of his views is found in his magnum opus, the Institutes of the Christian Religion.

* Independent Religion – From the Encyclopædia Britannica Article on Jainism: "... Along with Hinduism and Buddhism, it is one of the three most ancient Indian religious traditions still in existence.

In Twelver Shi ' a Islam, however, Jihad is one of the 10 Practices of the Religion.

Karl Marx asserted that " Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions.

* In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, there are two Steam achievements: " Nobody expects ..." with the description " As Spain, use an Inquisitor to remove another Religion ", and the more explicit " Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition " whose description is " Beat the game on any difficultly setting as Isabella ".

The story is often told that in 1755, Nathaniel Gilbert, while convalescing, read a treatise of John Wesley, " An Appeal to men of Reason and Religion " sent to him by his brother Francis.

Thus, Wicca in particular is sometimes referred to by its proponents as " The Old Religion ", a term popularised by Margaret Murray in the 1920s, while Germanic neopaganism is referred to in some of its varieties as Forn Sed (" Old Custom ").

The riotous onrush of industrialism after the War for Southern Independence and the general secular drift to the Religion of Humanity, however, prepared the way for a reception of the French Revolution's socialistic offspring of one sort of another.

Religion can support science by making suggestions for research and by offering a cultural " legitimation " for a theory or for science in general.

* Über Religion und Theologie ( 1815 ); a work of great importance as showing its author's general theological position

In his book If Football's a Religion, Why Don't We Have a Prayer ?, Jereé Longman described the 700 Level as having a reputation for " hostile taunting, fighting, public urination and general strangeness.

In its early years, it was known as Comparative Religion or the Science of Religion and, in the USA, there are those who today also know the field as the History of religion ( associated with methodological traditions traced to the University of Chicago in general, and in particular Mircea Eliade, from the late 1950s through to the late 1980s ).

; Leo Tolstoy: Leo Tolstoy ( 1828 – 1910 ) wrote extensively on his anarchist principles, which he arrived at via his Christian faith, in his books The Kingdom of God is Within You, What I Believe ( aka My Religion ), The Law of Love and the Law of Violence, and Christianity and Patriotism which criticised government and the Church in general.

His condemnation ... was the result of a quarrel between two men of law, of some particular resentments which directed the first judges, and of the skill with which, to influence the second, was emphasized the general alarm inspired in partisans of Religion by the redoubled attacks which he saw carried against it, by the sort of plot formed to destroy it ; but one cannot say that he was entirely innocent, and I so warned M. de Voltaire himself by a special letter.

Aqaid also discusses religion in general and topics such as the Need for Religion, Pluralism, etc.

From 1975 until 2004, he was a faculty member in general education and religious studies at Hong Kong Baptist University ; from 1978 to 1979, its exchange professor to Malone College, U. S. A ; and, from 1995 to 2000, head of its Department of Religion and Philosophy.

He is the Director of the International Consultancy on Religion, Education and Culture ( ICOREC ) and secretary general of the Alliance of Religions and Conservation ( ARC ).

The Augsburg Interim (" Declaration of His Roman Imperial Majesty on the Observance of Religion Within the Holy Empire Until the Decision of the General Council ") is the general term given to an imperial decree ordered on May 15, 1548, at the 1548 Diet of Augsburg, after Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, had defeated the forces of the Schmalkaldic League in the Schmalkaldic War of 1546 / 47.

The phrase " the Old Religion ," used by Wiccans and Neopagans to describe an ancestral pagan religion, derives from Murrayite theory.

In the book From Religion to Philosophy, Francis Cornford suggests that the Orphics used the word " theory " to mean ' passionate sympathetic contemplation '.

* In the Hainish Cycle, while interaction with cultures is rather free, the Planet of Exile mentions the Law of Cultural Embargo, which states: No Religion or Congruence shall be disseminated, no technique or theory shall be taught, no cultural set or pattern shall be exported, nor shall para-verbal speech be used with any non-Communicant high-intelligence lifeform, or any Colonial Planet, until it be judged by the Area Council with the consent or the Plenum that such a planet be ready for Control or for Membership

This explanation is consistent with the bulk of Marxist theory in which Politics and Religion are seen as mere outgrowths ( superstructures ) of the basic underlying economic reality of a people.

Nancy Frankenberry, Professor of Religion at Dartmouth College, has described Polkinghorne as the finest British theologian / scientist of our time, citing his work on the possible relationship between chaos theory and natural theology.

Religion is visible as an organising principle particularly for Islamic states, whereas secularism sits at the other end of the spectrum, with the separation of state and religion being responsible for the Liberal international relations theory.

Philosopher Daniel Dennett responded to criticism of his book Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon by saying that " when someone puts forward a scientific theory that critics really don't like, they just try to discredit it as ' scientism '".

During the French Wars of Religion, the Monarchomachs began to contest the divine right of kings, setting up the bases for the theory of popular sovereignty and theorizing the right of tyrannicides.

Harvard Divinity School Professor Frank Moore Cross refers to this theory as the " Jebusite Hypothesis ," criticizes it extensively, but terms it the dominant view among contemporary scholars, in Canaanite Myth and Hebrew Epic: Essays in the History of the Religion of Israel.

*“ Prophetic Religion, Violence, and Black Freedom: Reading Makandal ’ s Project of Black Liberation through A Fanonian postcolonial lens of decolonization and theory of revolutionary humanism ” by Celucien L. Joseph, Black Theology: An International Journal ( 2012 ): 9: 3

In 1935, the " Religion and Science Association " was formed by a small group of creationists, led by a Wheaton College professor, to form a " a unified front against the theory of evolution.

Helminiak's two-volume technical study, The Human Core of Spirituality and Religion and the Human Sciences, provides the most detailed elaboration of this theory.

Ikurō Teshima, founder of the New Religion Makuya, and author of several books on the Hata, is another proponent of the theory.