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Mathematics and the definitions of religion

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion, 2017
In 2014, I published a proposal for a definition of “religion”. My goal was to offer a definition of this contentious term that would include Buddhism, Daoism, and other non-theistic forms of life widely considered religions in the contemporary world. That proposal suggested necessary and sufficient conditions for treating a form of life as a religious
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A Trans-Species Definition of Religion

Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, 2011
To advance knowledge of the evolution and prehistory of religions over the past two million years of human evolution, it would be useful to know whether other species, including great apes and extinct species of Australopithecines and Homo prior to Homo sapiens sapiens, exhibit behaviors that might be categorized as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’.
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Turner’s Definition and Explanation of Religion

Journal for the Cognitive Science of Religion, 2018
Turner’s Definition and Explanation of ...
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A New Legal Definition of Religion?

King's Law Journal, 2014
Scientology is a religion: this much is clear from the UK Supreme Court's recent ruling in the high profile case of R (on the application of Hodkin and another) (Appellants) v Registrar General of Births, Deaths and Marriages (Respondent) Hodkin. The facts of the case were simple. Mrs Hodkin and her fiance wanted to get married in Church.
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On Peter Berger's Definition of Religion

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, 1975
Peter L. Berger (Berger, 1974a) has proposed definitions and descriptions of religion. The purpose of his efforts is to place some boundaries around the area of scientific study of religion. Berger is much concerned with such dichotomies as the secular ("the mundane," "the ordinary safe reality of everyday life," and "the ordinary, everyday 'life-world'
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Toward a Definition of Folk Religion

2021
Translated from the source Yoder, Don. “Toward a Definition of Folk Religion.” Western Folklore, vol. 33, no. 1, Western States Folklore Society, 1974, pp. 2–15. There is no abstract in the source article.
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The Nature and Definition of Religion

Harvard Theological Review, 1913
To attempt in these days a definition of religion may seem like taking a wanton risk of intellectual confusion. Even a rough classification of religions is difficult. The mass of data is so vast, the varieties of religion so manifold, that no sooner has a scheme of classification established itself than it begins to sag under the weight of material ...
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Definition of Religion

2020
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Religion and Study of Religion: The Problem of Definitions

Izvestia Ural Federal University Journal. Series 3. Social and Political Sciences, 2014
The author claims that current definitions of religion are either too broad and include the phenomena that are not religious or they are too narrow and exclude the phenomena that fall within religion. In this article, the author, relying on Husserl’s notion of science, offers his approach to definition of religion that would be more appropriate for the
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Modern Definitions of Religion

2023
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