Definition of Religions. Meaning of Religions. Synonyms of Religions

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Definition of Religions

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Ghost dance Ghost dance A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, religion, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.

Meaning of Religions from wikipedia

- estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions—Christianity, Islam...
- The Abrahamic religions are a grouping of several religions that revere Abraham in their scripture, with the three largest and most influential being...
- religions, sometimes also termed Dharmic religions or Indic religions, are the religions that originated in the Indian subcontinent. These religions,...
- by religion as of 2015 Christianity (31.2%) Islam (24.1%) Irreligion (16%) Hinduism (15.1%) Buddhism (6.9%) Folk religions (5.7%) Other religions (1%)...
- their traditional beliefs with the practice of Abrahamic religions. These two Abrahamic religions are widespread across Africa, though mostly concentrated...
- divided religions into three broad categories: world religions, a term which refers to transcultural, international faiths; Indigenous religions, which...
- religions, Indigenous religions, and new religious movements (NRMs), which are also used by scholars in this field of research. The world religions paradigm...
- term Semitic religions most commonly refers to religions that were founded in Western Asia, such as Mandaeism (a pre-Abrahamic religion) and the Abrahamic...
- these religions are not ubiquitous worldwide in the way that adherents of bigger world religions are, and they remain primarily an ethnic religion. Nonetheless...
- and Sikhism, which are collectively known as native Indian religions or Dharmic religions and represent approx. 83% of the total po****tion of India....