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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religion 00:02:31 1 Concept and etymology 00:11:12 2 Definition 00:11:35 2.1 Modern western 00:16:06 2.2 Classical 00:19:35 3 Aspects 00:19:45 3.1 Beliefs 00:20:12 3.1.1 Mythology 00:22:21 3.1.2 Worldview 00:22:45 3.2 Practices 00:23:21 3.3 Social organisation 00:23:45 4 Academic study 00:24:48 4.1 Theories 00:25:13 4.1.1 Origins and development 00:27:38 4.1.2 Cultural system 00:28:25 4.1.3 Social constructionism 00:29:15 4.1.4 Cognitive science 00:30:53 4.2 Comparativism 00:32:00 5 Classification 00:33:23 5.1 Morphological classification 00:34:00 5.2 Demographical classification 00:35:25 6 Specific religions 00:35:35 6.1 Abrahamic 00:35:51 6.1.1 Judaism 00:37:17 6.1.2 Christianity 00:39:29 6.1.3 Islam 00:41:23 6.1.4 Other 00:42:11 6.2 East Asian 00:42:37 6.2.1 Taoism and Confucianism 00:42:56 6.2.2 Chinese folk religion 00:43:50 6.3 Dharmic (Indian) 00:44:16 6.3.1 Hinduism 00:45:14 6.3.2 Jainism 00:46:35 6.3.3 Buddhism 00:48:07 6.3.4 Sikhism 00:49:06 6.4 Indigenous and folk 00:50:10 6.5 Traditional African 00:51:25 6.6 Iranian 00:52:29 6.7 New religious movements 00:55:46 7 Related aspects 00:55:56 7.1 Law 00:57:21 7.2 Science 01:01:02 7.3 Morality 01:02:02 7.4 Politics 01:02:11 7.4.1 Impact 01:04:34 7.4.2 Secularism 01:05:06 7.5 Economics 01:06:16 7.6 Health 01:08:02 7.7 Violence 01:08:53 7.7.1 Animal sacrifice 01:09:15 7.8 Superstition 01:11:38 7.9 Agnosticism and atheism 01:12:31 7.10 Interfaith cooperation 01:13:49 7.11 Culture 01:15:38 8 Criticism 01:15:58 9 See also Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago. Learning by listening is a great way to: - increases imagination and understanding - improves your listening skills - improves your own spoken accent - learn while on the move - reduce eye strain Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone. Listen on Google Assistant through Extra Audio: https://assistant.google.com/services/invoke/uid/0000001a130b3f91 Other Wikipedia audio articles at: https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=wikipedia+tts Upload your own Wikipedia articles through: https://github.com/nodef/wikipedia-tts Speaking Rate: 0.805512151976002 Voice name: en-GB-Wavenet-A "I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think." - Socrates SUMMARY ======= Religion may be defined as a cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, or spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, public service, or other aspects of human culture. Religions have sacred histories and narratives, which may be preserved in sacred scriptures, and symbols and holy places, that aim mostly to give a meaning to life. Religions may contain symbolic stories, which are sometimes said by followers to be true, that have the side purpose of explaining the origin of life, the universe, and other things. Traditionally, faith, in addition to reason, has been considered a source of religious beliefs.There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, but about 84% of the world's population is affiliated with one of the five largest religion groups, namely Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism or forms of folk religion. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists and agnostics. While the religiously unaffiliated have grown globally, many of the religiously unaffiliated still have various religious beliefs.The study of religion encompasses a wide variety of academic disciplines, including theology, comparative religion and social scientific studies. Theories of religion offer various explanations for the origins and workings of religion, including the ontological foundations of religious being and belief. |