- "Religious toleration may signify 'no more than forbearance and the permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful'."
Discusses the different religious beliefs and their impact on individuals and society.
Definition of Religion: An explanation of what religion is, its purpose, and its characteristics.
Religious Diversity: The study of the world's religions, including their teachings, beliefs, and practices.
Religious Experience: The subjective encounter with the divine, supernatural, or spiritual.
Religious Identity: How individuals define themselves in relation to religion, including the role of self-identification, identification by others, and the intersection of multiple identities.
Religious Organizations: The various forms of religious institutions, including their structures, functions, and impact on individuals and communities.
Religious Rituals: The practices, ceremonies, and symbols that define and reinforce religious beliefs and values.
Religion and Society: The role of religion in shaping social norms, values, and institutions, as well as its relationship with politics, economics, and culture.
Secularization: The process by which religion loses its social and cultural significance, and its impact on individuals and societies.
Religious Authority: The sources of religious authority, including religious texts, leaders, institutions, and personal experience.
Religion and Science: The relationship between religion and science, including the conflict and harmony between them.
Religion and Violence: The connection between religion and violence, including the causes, motivations, and effects of religiously motivated violence.
Religion and Gender: The ways in which religion constructs gender roles, expectations, and identities, as well as its impact on women's rights.
Comparative Religion: The comparative study of religions, including their similarities, differences, and interactions.
New Religious Movements: The emergence and growth of new religious movements, including their appeal, teachings, and controversies.
Religion and Globalization: The impact of globalization on religions, including their diffusion, adaptation, and transformation.
Monotheism: The belief in one God.
Polytheism: The belief in multiple Gods.
Atheism: The absence of belief in any God or deity.
Agnosticism: The belief that the existence of God or deity is unknown and cannot be proven or disproven.
Animism: The belief that all natural objects and phenomena have spirits or souls.
Pantheism: The belief that God is synonymous with the universe and exists in all things.
Deism: The belief in a God who created the universe but does not intervene in human affairs.
Paganism: The worship of nature, ancestors, and spirits.
Buddhism: The teachings of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, which emphasize the nature of suffering and the path to enlightenment and freedom from suffering.
Christianity: The belief in Jesus Christ as the son of God and savior of humanity.
Hinduism: A complex religion with multiple deities and belief systems centered around karma and reincarnation.
Islam: The belief in one God and the prophethood of Muhammad as the final prophet of God.
Judaism: The belief in one God and the importance of following the laws and commandments of the Torah.
Sikhism: The belief in one God and the teachings of the ten Gurus.
Shintoism: The native religion of Japan, focused on the worship of ancestors and natural spirits.
Taoism: A philosophical and religious tradition centered around the Tao, or "the way," and the concept of balance in nature and life.
Wicca: A modern pagan religion focused on the worship of Goddess and God and the celebration of nature.
- "Historically, most incidents and writings pertaining to toleration involve the status of minority and dissenting viewpoints in relation to a dominant state religion."
- "However, religion is also sociological, and the practice of toleration has always had a political aspect as well."
- "An overview of the history of toleration and different cultures in which toleration has been practiced, and the ways in which such a paradoxical concept has developed into a guiding one, illuminates its contemporary use as political, social, religious, and ethnic, applying to LGBT individuals and other minorities, and other connected concepts such as human rights."
- "Permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist, even though the latter are looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful."
- "However, religion is also sociological, and the practice of toleration has always had a political aspect as well."
- "The status of minority and dissenting viewpoints in relation to a dominant state religion."
- "Its contemporary use as political, social, religious, and ethnic, applying to LGBT individuals and other minorities, and other connected concepts such as human rights."
- "Permission given by the adherents of a dominant religion for other religions to exist."
- "An overview of the history of toleration and different cultures in which toleration has been practiced [...] illuminates its contemporary use as political, social, religious, and ethnic."
- "Looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful."
- "The status of minority and dissenting viewpoints in relation to a dominant state religion."
- "The practice of toleration has always had a political aspect as well."
- "Contemporary use as political, social, religious, and ethnic, applying to LGBT individuals and other minorities, and other connected concepts such as human rights."
- "However, religion is also sociological, and the practice of toleration has always had a political aspect as well."
- "Other connected concepts such as human rights."
- "Looked on with disapproval as inferior, mistaken, or harmful."
- "LGBT individuals and other minorities."
- "Minority and dissenting viewpoints."
- "Illuminates its contemporary use as political, social, religious, and ethnic."