... " as "belief in God," effectively excluding polytheistic religions and atheistic religions while including theists who have no religious belief system. A good example of a vague definition is the tendency to define religion as "worldview", but how can every worldview qualify as a religion? It is worth noting that another problem lies in the fact that this broad definition ... discussed about the diversity of religions is taken seriously, we would not think that religions are branches of a single tree. Therefore, no single definition of religion seems possible. Efforts to define religion a...

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... endorses Durkheim's dichotomy of the sacred and profane, but employs it quite differently. Durkheim associates the sacred with the clan or society and the profane to individual; however Eliade "define the sacred as the sphere not of society, but of the supernatural – the realm beyond earthly life, full of changeless perfection, order, power, and beauty [and] the profane, by ... fate. In conclusion, both Eliade and Weber illustrates that we need to understand religion on its own terms and not just explain it away. Although Eliade's arguments could be a bit vague and generalized and Web...

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My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also ... free abortion, I believe that President Obama has done the right thing and also given liberty in any regard to his people. The issue for him is to be able to define religious values and to take into consideration that his people are multi-cultural and share different beliefs....

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