Religion

Religion:

The belief in and worship of a superhuman

controlling power, esp. a personal God or gods.

Ritual

Ritual

• an established or prescribed procedure for a religious or other rite.

Worship

Worship

• reverence offered a divine being or supernatural power; also : an act of expressing such reverence

Convertnvert

Convert

•A person who has been persuaded to change their religious faith or other beliefs.

Disciple

Disciple

• a person who is a pupil or an adherent of the doctrines of another; follower: a disciple of Freud.

Monotheism

Monotheism

•the doctrine or belief that there is but one God

Polytheism

Polytheism

•belief in or worship of more than one god

Secular

Secular

• of or pertaining to worldly things or to things that are not regarded as religious, spiritual, or sacred; temporal: secular interests.

Fundamentalist

Fundamentalist

• a movement or attitude stressing strict and literal adherence to a set of basic principles <Islamic fundamentalism> <Christian fundamentalism>

Atheist

Atheist

•a person who denies or disbelieves the existence of a supreme being or beings.

Agnostic

Agnostic

• a person who holds that the existence of the ultimate cause, as God, and the essential nature of things are unknown and unknowable, or that human knowledge is limited to experience.

Animist

Animist

• The attribution of a living soul to plants, inanimate objects, and natural phenomena.

Pantheism

Pantheism

• the doctrine that God is the transcendent reality of which the material universe and human beings are only manifestations: it involves a denial of God's personality and expresses a tendency to identify God and nature.