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Religion
Religion:
The belief in and worship of a superhuman
controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.
Ritual
Ritual
• an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.
Worship
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
Disciple
• a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another; follower: a disciple of Freud.
Monotheism
Monotheism
•the doctrine or belief that there is but one God
Polytheism
Polytheism
•belief in or worship of more than one god
Secular
Secular
• of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.
Fundamentalist
Fundamentalist
• a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles <Islamic fundamentalism> <Christian fundamentalism>
Atheist
Atheist
•a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.
Agnostic
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
Animist
• The attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.
Pantheism
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.