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A religion is a cultural system of behaviors and practices, worldviews, ethics and social organization that humanity relates to a category 1 existencial.Nota Many religions have narratives, symbols and sacred stories that attempt to explain the meaning of life or explain the origin of life or the universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people can derive a moral, ethical or religious laws or preferred lifestyle. By some estimates, there are about 4200 living religions in the world and countless extintas.1 2

Many religions may have organized behaviors, clergy, a definition of what constitutes adherence or membership, holy places and writings. The practice of religion can include rituals, sermons, commemoration or worship (a deity, gods or goddesses), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trance, initiations, funeral service, marriage offices, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, community service or other aspects of human culture. Religions may contain a mitología.3

The word religion is sometimes used as a synonym for faith, belief system or sometimes a set of duties, 4 however, in the words of Emile Durkheim, religion differs from private belief that it is "eminently social ".5 a global survey of 2012 reported 59% of the world's population as" religious "and 36% as not religious (including 13% of atheists), a decrease of 9 percentage points compared to religious belief 2005.6 on average, women are "more religious" than men.7 Some people follow multiple religions or several religious principles at the same time, regardless of whether the tradition of religious principles that still allows syncretism or no.8 September 10

Define what religion (Latin religare or re-legere) was and is controversial among specialists. According to sociologist G. Lenski, is .11 Meanwhile, "a shared set of beliefs and associated practices that revolve around the nature of the forces shaping the destiny of the human system," the anthropologist Clifford Geertz proposes a alternative definition: "religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish vigorous, penetrating and lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and coating these conceptions with an aureole of effectiveness such that moods and motivations seem of a unique realism ".12

Due to the widespread use of the term, it is particularly complex to provide a comprehensive definition of religion or religious phenomenon. However we can say that as an anthropological fact includes, among others, the following: traditions, ancestral cultures, institutions, writings, history, mythology, faith and creeds, mystical experiences, rites, liturgies, prayers, etc.

The word "religion" is sometimes used synonymously with "organized religion" or "religious organization", ie institutions that support the exercise or activity of certain beliefs and ceremonies, often in the form of legal entities.

Various human sciences have been interested in the religious phenomenon from their respective viewpoints such as anthropology, sociology, psychology and the history of religions. On the other hand, disciplines such as phenomenology of religion studying its manifestations specifically trying to find a comprehensive definition of the phenomenon and show its relationship to the very nature of human beings.