In the Roman Catholic Church according to the norms of the Code of Canon Law 1983 a Benedictine abbey is a " religious institute ", and its professed members are therefore members of the " Consecrated Life ", commonly referred to as " Religious ".

* Dom Columba Marmion OSB, Christ the Ideal of the Monk – Spiritual Conferences on the Monastic and Religious Life ( Engl.

Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages ( 3rd Edition ).

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

The sociologist Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a " unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things ".

In the fieldwork that led to his famous Elementary Forms of Religious Life, Durkheim, a secular Frenchman, looked at anthropological data of Indigenous Australians.

The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and featuring a sample size of over 35, 000, puts the proportion of American adults identifying as Unitarian Universalist at 0. 3 %.

The Elementary Forms of Religious Life ( 1912 ), presented a theory of religion, comparing the social and cultural lives of aboriginal and modern societies.

In 1912, he published his last major work, The Elementary Forms of The Religious Life.

In The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, Durkheim ’ s first purpose was to identify the social origin and function of religion as he felt that religion was a source of camaraderie and solidarity.

* The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life ( 1912 )

Perfectæ Caritatis, the Decree on the Adaptation and Renewal of Religious Life, is the document issued by the Second Vatican Council which deals specifically with institutes of consecrated life in the Roman Catholic Church.

* Durkheim, Emile, 1915, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, New York: Free Press

Edwards is well known for his many books, The End For Which God Created the World, The Life of David Brainerd, which served to inspire thousands of missionaries throughout the 19th century, and Religious Affections, which many Reformed Evangelicals still read today.

Building on his early work with Mauss, Durkheim's definitive statement concerning the sociology of knowledge comes in his magnum opus The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

One of the most important elements of Durkheim's theory knowledge is his concept of représentations collectives ( collective representations ), which is outlined in The Elementary Forms of Religious Life.

* Medieval Monasticism: Forms of Religious Life in Western Europe in the Middle Ages ( 3rd Edition ) by C. H.

De La Torre, " Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black Goddess Became White ," in Aesthetics within Black Religion: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora, Anthony Pinn, ed., Cambridge University Press, pages: 113-134.

( 1912 ) The Elementary Forms Of The Religious Life.

The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life.

* One Mind, One Heart-Augustine's Spirituality of Religious Life

* Veitch, Kenneth, " Replanting Paradise: Alexander I and the Reform of Religious Life in Scotland ", in The Innes Review, 52, ( Autumn, 2001 ), pp. 136 – 166

Religious Life: Greensboro College is affiliated with the United Methodist Church and offers an academic and social community that unites the liberal arts and Judeo-Christian values in an atmosphere of diversity and mutual respect.

The JCPA is also actively involved in environmentalism and climate change issues though its program the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life ( COEJL ), an affiliate of the National Religious Partnership on the Environment.

Religious organizations include the groups described below.

Student religious organizations are co-ordinated under the Religious Activities Committee, a standing committee of the Carleton Student Association.

Category: Religious organizations established in 1867

Category: Religious organizations based in Israel

Category: Religious organizations based in the United States

Category: Religious organizations established in 1830

Category: Religious organizations established in 1879

Category: Religious organizations based in Boston, Massachusetts

Category: Religious organizations established in the 1240s

Category: Religious organizations established in the 1850s

Category: Religious organizations based in Canada

Category: Religious organizations established in 1961

Category: Religious organizations established in 1869

Category: Religious organizations established in 1785

Category: Religious organizations established in 1995

Category: Religious organizations established in 1882

Category: Religious organizations established in the 1550s

Category: Religious organizations established in 1960

Category: Religious organizations established in 1983

Category: Religious organizations established in 1863

Religious Humanism, in the tradition of the earliest Humanist organizations in the UK and US, attempts to fulfill the traditional social role of religion.

Category: Religious organizations established in the 5th century

Category: Religious organizations established in 1975

Category: Religious organizations based in the United States

Category: Religious organizations based in Boston, Massachusetts