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Definition of Religions
1. religion [n] - See also: religion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Religions
Literary usage of Religions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"The positive religions are institutions which morally preeminent men have ...
The various religions are representations of the idea of religion rising in ..."
2. The American Journal of Psychology by Edward Bradford ( Titchener, Granville Stanley Hall (1918)
"religions may be divided historically into nature and redemptive religions.
The chief distinction between the nature and the redemptive religions may be ..."
3. The Outline of History: Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind by Herbert George Wells (1921)
"This essential identity is the most important historical aspect of these great
world religions. They were in their beginnings quite unlike the priest, ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"From internal evidence, it may be supposed that these religions were ... And the
chthonic religions were themselves in their origin an innovation upon ..."
5. China by Robert Kennaway Douglas (1882)
"THE religions OF CHINA. ^ j"^HE Chinese describe A themselves as possess- ^L9 J
ing three religions, or more accurately, three sects, ..."
6. The History of Japan, Together with a Description of the Kingdom of Siam by Engelbert Kaempfer, Simon Delboe, Hammond Gibben, William Ramsden (1906)
"I. Of the religions of this Empire in general, and of the Sintos Religion in
particular. ... Hence it is, that foreign religions were introduc'd with ease, ..."
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