Tra từ religion - Từ điển Oxford Learners Wordfinder Dictionary

1 religious beliefs
2 religious practices
3 different religions
see also GOD

1 religious beliefs
- the belief in a god or gods who made the world and can control what happens in it: religion (noun U)
- connected with religion: religious
religious belief
- connected with God or with religion: holy, sacred
- if sth is not connected with religion, it is secular
secular values
- the part of you that is not physical; your thoughts and feelings, not your body: spirit
- the part of a person that is believed to continue to live after the body is dead: soul
- connected with the soul or spirit: spiritual (adverb spiritually)
- the place where some people think that God lives and where good people go when they die: heaven
to go to heaven
- the place where bad people go when they die, according to some religions: hell
- the continued existence of a person after death: life after death, afterlife, eternal life
a belief in the afterlife
- the belief that after death you are born again: reincarnation (noun U)
※ more on spirits SPIRIT
- an action which breaks a religious law: sin (noun C/U)
He asked for his sins to be forgiven. ◎ the sin of envy
- a person who commits many sins is sinful, a sinner
- being saved from your sins: salvation (noun U)
pray for salvation
- something that a particular religion teaches: doctrine (noun C/U), teaching; adjective: doctrinal
The Christian doctrine of the Trinity ◎ the teachings of Islam ◎ doctrinal differences
- to accept a particular religious belief: believe (in sth); noun (U): belief; a particular religious idea: belief
to believe in God ◎ belief in God ◎ strong religious beliefs
- a feeling of certainty about the truth of religious ideas: faith (noun U)
His faith helped him get through a difficult period of his life.
- a person with religious faith: believer
- the writings on which a particular religion is based: the Scriptures
the Hindu Scriptures
- the main book of the Christian and Jewish scriptures: the Bible

2 religious practices
- to take part regularly in the activities connected with your religion: practise (sth); a person who does this is practising (only before a noun)
It was difficult for people to practise their religion. ◎ a practising Catholic
- a person who believes strongly in a religion and takes part in it is religious
a deeply religious person
- a person who practises their religion very carefully is devout
a family of devout Muslims
- a person who is exceptionally pure and good is holy; the quality of being holy: holiness (noun U)
- a man/woman who is believed to be chosen by God to give his message to people: prophet/prophetess
- to change your religious beliefs: convert to sth
She told me she had converted to Buddhism.
- to persuade sb to change their religious beliefs: convert sb (to sth)
His friend converted him to Islam.
- the act of converting (sb) to a religion: conversion (noun C/U)
the conversion of St Paul
- a person who has been converted: convert
- a person who performs religious ceremonies: priest
- a person who is sent to another country to teach about the Christian religion: missionary
- a man who has taken religious vows and usually lives in a religious community: monk; a building where monks live: monastery; the title given to some monks: brother
- a woman who has taken religious vows and usually lives in a religious community: nun; a building where nuns live: convent
- the title given to a nun: sister
- a man/woman who is head of a religious community: abbot/abbess
※ more on priests PRIEST
- to speak to God in order to give thanks or to ask for sth: pray
- to pray to and show respect for God: worship (God)
- a religious talk, especially in church: sermon; to give a religious talk, especially in church: preach (sth)
He preached to a large crowd. ◎ to preach a sermon
※ more on praying PRAY
- a formal religious event: ceremony
a wedding ceremony
- a public celebration of a religious event: festival
the Hindu festival of Diwali
- to eat no food for a particular period, usually for religious reasons: fast; a period of not eating: fast
Some Christians fast during Lent (= the period of forty days before Easter).
the Muslim fast of Ramadan
※ more on Christian practices CHRISTIAN

3 kinds of religion
- a particular system of religious belief and practice: religion
I don't know what her religion is. ◎ Eastern religions
- a religious group that has broken away from a larger group: sect
a small Protestant sect
- a religious group that is considered unusual: cult
She got involved with a strange cult and did not want to see her family.
- the traditional religion of India in which there are many gods: Hinduism (noun U); a person who believes in this religion: Hindu; adjective: Hindu
- a spiritual leader or teacher in the Hindu religion: guru
- the religion which was started in India by Gautama Buddha: Buddhism (noun U); a person who believes in this religion: Buddhist; adjective: Buddhist
- a building in which Hindus and Buddhists worship: temple
※ other religions CHRISTIAN, JEW, MUSLIM
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- if you follow the traditional practices of certain religions, you are orthodox
an orthodox Jew
- a person who strictly follows the basic teaching of their religion: fundamentalist
Christian fundamentalists believe in the literal truth of the Bible.
- to hurt sb or do bad things to sb because of their religion: persecute sb; noun (C/U): persecution; a person who does this: persecutor
victims of religious persecution
- having hidden spiritual meaning: mystical
a mystical experience
- a person with deep spiritual knowledge: mystic; religion based on this: mysticism (noun U)
- if sth cannot be explained by the laws of science, it is supernatural
supernatural powers. ◎ a supernatural being
- a person who travels to a holy place for religious reasons: pilgrim
Christian pilgrims in Rome
- a journey made by a pilgrim: pilgrimage
He has been on the pilgrimage to Mecca. ◎ to make a pilgrimage