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Most religions live from a narrative that shapes their relationship with the divine other, God or the gods, and with the human other, the stranger.

Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

Practically speaking, your religion is the story you tell about your life.

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they also help set one community apart from another that doesn't share their beliefs.

Religion of any form is a sacred matter. It involves the relation of the individual to some Being believed to be infinitely supreme. It involves not merely character and life here, but destiny hereafter, and as such is not to be spoken of lightly or flippantly.

Religion is the organization of spirituality into something that became the hand maiden of conquerors. Nearly all religions were brought to people and imposed on people by conquerors, and used as the framework to control their minds.

In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.

There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.