Wikipedia:Contents/Overview/Religion and belief systems
Religion and video games - Wikipedia
Games involve moral decision, rely on invented religions, and allow users to create and experience virtual religious spaces. As one of the newest forms of ...
Animism is used in anthropology of religion as a term for the belief system of many Indigenous peoples in contrast to the relatively more recent development of ...
Nonbelievers contend that atheism is a more parsimonious position than theism and that everyone is born without beliefs in deities; therefore, they argue that ...
Anthropology of religion - Wikipedia
Anthropology of religion is the study of religion in relation to other social institutions, and the comparison of religious beliefs and practices across ...
Religion in Canada - Wikipedia
Religion in Canada encompasses a wide range of beliefs and customs that historically has been dominated by Christianity. The constitution of Canada refers ...
Religion in the United States - Wikipedia
Religion in the United States is both widespread and diverse, with higher reported levels of belief than other wealthy Western nations.
Religious conversion - Wikipedia
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.
A secular religion is a communal belief system that often rejects or neglects the metaphysical aspects of the supernatural, commonly associated with ...
Theories about religion - Wikipedia
Sociological, psychological, and anthropological theories about religion generally attempt to explain the origin and function of religion.
This article is about the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent. For religious demographics of the Republic of India, see Religion in India. For ...
Criticism of religion - Wikipedia
Thus, some criticisms of religion become criticisms of one or more aspects of a specific religious tradition. Critics of religion in general may view religion ...
The surviving essential aspect varies between belief systems; it may be some partial element, or the entire soul or spirit, which carries with it one's personal ...
Nontheistic religion - Wikipedia
Nontheistic religions are traditions of thought within a religious context—some otherwise aligned with theism, others not—in which nontheism informs ...
Asia is the largest and most populous continent and the birthplace of many religions including Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Hinduism, Islam, ...
Magic and religion - Wikipedia
Belief in magic exists in all societies, regardless of whether they have organized religious hierarchy including formal clergy or more informal systems.
Irreligion is the absence or rejection of religious beliefs or practices. It encompasses a wide range of viewpoints drawn from various philosophical and ...
Religious philosophy - Wikipedia
Religious philosophy is philosophical thinking that is influenced and directed as a consequence of teachings from a particular religion.
History of religion in the United States - Wikipedia
Later, religion also played a role in the founding of some colonies, as many colonists, such as the Puritans, came to escape religious persecution. Historians ...
Evolutionary origin of religion - Wikipedia
The evolutionary origin of religion and religious behavior is a field of study related to evolutionary psychology, the origin of language and mythology, ...
Women and religion - Wikipedia
The study of women and religion examines women in the context of different religious faiths. This includes considering female gender roles in religious ...
The Scarlet Letter
Novel by Nathaniel HawthorneThe Scarlet Letter: A Romance is a work of historical fiction by American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, published in 1850. Set in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony during the years 1642 to 1649, the novel tells the story of Hester Prynne, who conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married and then struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.