Religion


This includes particular religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism. It also includes areas of study corresponding to religious organization, religious practice, and systems of belief.	Sapience Home Site map About Sapience Institutions Religious Traditions Religious Organization Religious Practice Religious Belief

This includes particular religions, such as Christianity and Buddhism. It also includes areas of study corresponding to religious organization, religious practice, and systems of belief.

Institutions

Religions of the World

This includes Pagan religion, Abrahamic religion, Asiatic religion, and secularism.

Religious Organization

This will include such things as priesthoods and clergy, monasteries, and religious orders.

Religious Practice

Categories of religious practice will be examined as more information is added to the knowledge base.

Religious Belief

Categories of religious belief will be examined as more information is added to the knowlede base.


History The origins of religion are lost in prehistory, but can be followed to an increasing extent in antiquity, classical and medieval history, modern history, and can be connected to the future. Sociology Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change provide examples of religion and religious influence.	Links to other sites Virtual Religion Index Religion gateway Academic Info Religion Religions Religious studies page Adherents.com Religion statistics The treatment of religion on this site is in excellent agreement with the approach intended for Sapience.
Other institutions The connections with government are quite significant. Particular governments are significant. Most religion seems to be only indirectly affected by international government. Traditional empires and colonial empires have been connected to various degrees by religion. Modern compacts such as temporary alliances, special purpose organizations, regional organizations, and world government including the old League of Nations and the United nations do not seem to have an obvious connection. National government and local government can be connected. Government activity is connected to religion. State relations including warfare, diplomacy, and espionage can be considered. Administration can be considered. Succession including election, inheritance, appointment, and siezure can be considered. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legistlative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Law including tribal law, asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected. The connection of religion with economics is not well studied. Economic systems including firms, networks, types of systems, and economic system behavior may be connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacuring, constrution, transportation, communication, social and medical services, and commercial and financial services may be useful. Economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and comsumption may be connected. Connections with education can be made. Schools including primary schools, secondary schools, and higher education are important. Educational organization including course material, students, teachers, and administration can be connected. Cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and venues can be considered. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected. The connections with families including marriage, parent-child relations, kinship, and particular families are close. Culture Behavioral culture is important. Cultural events including holidays, gatherings, disasters, and miscellanous events are connected. Parts of what I generally classify as recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music are religious in nature. Occupations are important. Service-related occupations are most significant. Industrial, communication, transportation, building-related, and food-related occupations are important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs are useful. Conceptual culture. Religion is closely linked with philosophy, including such subjects as metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines. Applied science including measurement, engineering science, navigation, medical science, information and computing science, accounting, and applied social science can be considered. Mathematics is also useful. Literature with oral tradition, literary forms, literary types, and particular literary works is highly important. Graphic arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, computer graphics will be useful to religion. Religion is tied to Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world. Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communication and transportation devices, clothing is important. Foodstuffs including agricultural products, processed and preservef food, and prepared food will be significant. Buildings and industrial technology are important. Anthropology Particular groups are also likely to be significant. Human geography including European, African, North American, South American, and Oceanic geography has had a significant influence on religion. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will be useful. Human ecology including the influence of people on nature, other life forms, and of nature on people is also significant. Parts of physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion pose a challenge to some religious beliefs. Demography including birth, migration, death, population size and structure, and population change have some bearing on religion. The connections with social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and social group types are likely to be significant. Personal studies Biography includes important figures associated with religion including: Mohammed Newton Jesus Buddha Confucius Paul Gutenberg Columbus Galileo Aristotle Moses Darwin Shih Huang Ti Augustus Copernicus Lavoisier Constantine Luther Washington Marx Genghis Khan Adam Smith Shakespeare Dalton Alexander Napoleon Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavior patterns, mind, an behavioral foundations will be useful in studies of religion. The human body, including appearance, life cycle, disease, and body systems, is an important part of religion. Science Biology can be connected. Biohistory including Precambrian biology, Paleozoic biology, Mesozoic biology, and Cenozoic biology can be connected. Ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected. Earth science can be connected. Geohistory including Precambrian geology, Paleozoic geology, Mesozoic geology, and Cenozoic geology can be connected. Physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology may be useful. Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and Solar system astronomy has often been connected to religion. Chemistry and physics may be useful.

History

The origins of religion are lost in prehistory, but can be followed to an increasing extent in antiquity, classical and medieval history, modern history, and can be connected to the future.

Sociology

Peoples of the world, communities, and social structure and change provide examples of religion and religious influence.

Links to other sites
Virtual Religion Index
Religion gateway Academic Info
Religion Religions Religious studies page
Adherents.com Religion statistics The treatment of religion on this site is in excellent agreement with the approach intended for Sapience.

Other institutions

The connections with government are quite significant. Particular governments are significant. Most religion seems to be only indirectly affected by international government. Traditional empires and colonial empires have been connected to various degrees by religion. Modern compacts such as temporary alliances, special purpose organizations, regional organizations, and world government including the old League of Nations and the United nations do not seem to have an obvious connection. National government and local government can be connected. Government activity is connected to religion. State relations including warfare, diplomacy, and espionage can be considered. Administration can be considered. Succession including election, inheritance, appointment, and siezure can be considered. Government structure including political parties and interest groups, judicial systems, legistlative systems, executive systems, heads of state, and forms of government can be connected. Law including tribal law, asiatic law, Western law, and international law can be connected.

The connection of religion with economics is not well studied. Economic systems including firms, networks, types of systems, and economic system behavior may be connected. Industries including companies, agriculture, extraction and manufacuring, constrution, transportation, communication, social and medical services, and commercial and financial services may be useful. Economic activities including production, distribution and exchange, and comsumption may be connected.

Connections with education can be made. Schools including primary schools, secondary schools, and higher education are important. Educational organization including course material, students, teachers, and administration can be connected. Cultural institutions including museums, libraries, and venues can be considered. Teaching can be connected. Research can be connected.

The connections with families including marriage, parent-child relations, kinship, and particular families are close.

Culture

Behavioral culture is important. Cultural events including holidays, gatherings, disasters, and miscellanous events are connected. Parts of what I generally classify as recreation and entertainment including sports, games, theater, dance, and music are religious in nature. Occupations are important. Service-related occupations are most significant. Industrial, communication, transportation, building-related, and food-related occupations are important. Customs including vital customs, living and dwelling customs, dress and adornment customs, social interaction customs, and institutional customs are useful.

Conceptual culture. Religion is closely linked with philosophy, including such subjects as metaphysics, aesthetics, ethics, epistemology, and philosophical schools and doctrines. Applied science including measurement, engineering science, navigation, medical science, information and computing science, accounting, and applied social science can be considered. Mathematics is also useful. Literature with oral tradition, literary forms, literary types, and particular literary works is highly important. Graphic arts such as drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, computer graphics will be useful to religion. Religion is tied to Language including linguistics, writing, and languages of the world.

Material culture including miscellaneous artifacts, communication and transportation devices, clothing is important. Foodstuffs including agricultural products, processed and preservef food, and prepared food will be significant. Buildings and industrial technology are important.

Anthropology

Particular groups are also likely to be significant. Human geography including European, African, North American, South American, and Oceanic geography has had a significant influence on religion. Asian geography including Southwest Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, East Asia, and North Asia will be useful. Human ecology including the influence of people on nature, other life forms, and of nature on people is also significant. Parts of physical anthropology including human origins, racial variation, and human dispersion pose a challenge to some religious beliefs. Demography including birth, migration, death, population size and structure, and population change have some bearing on religion. The connections with social foundations including social presentation, social interaction, social control, social group behavior, and social group types are likely to be significant.

Personal studies

Biography includes important figures associated with religion including:

Psychology including social psychology, personality, mental disorders, developmental psychology, behavior patterns, mind, an behavioral foundations will be useful in studies of religion. The human body, including appearance, life cycle, disease, and body systems, is an important part of religion.

Science

Biology can be connected. Biohistory including Precambrian biology, Paleozoic biology, Mesozoic biology, and Cenozoic biology can be connected. Ecology, systematics, organism biology, cell biology, and molecular biology can be connected.

Earth science can be connected. Geohistory including Precambrian geology, Paleozoic geology, Mesozoic geology, and Cenozoic geology can be connected. Physical geography, atmospheric science, hydrospheric science, and geology may be useful.

Astronomy including cosmology, galactic astronomy, stellar astronomy, and Solar system astronomy has often been connected to religion. Chemistry and physics may be useful.

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