religion; faith; religious belief




a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny

"he lost his faith but not his morality"

Type of:
  • belief
  • theological virtue; supernatural virtue

Types:
  • apophatism
  • cataphatism
  • doctrine of analogy; analogy
  • cult; cultus; religious cult
  • cult
  • ecclesiasticism
  • mysticism; religious mysticism
  • nature worship
  • revealed religion
  • theism
  • paganism; pagan religion; heathenism
  • Christianity; Christian religion
  • Hinduism; Hindooism
  • Brahmanism; Brahminism
  • Jainism
  • Sikhism
  • Buddhism
  • Taoism; Hsuan Chiao
  • Shinto; Shintoism
  • Manichaeism; Manichaeanism
  • Mithraism; Mithraicism
  • Zoroastrianism; Mazdaism
  • Bahaism
  • shamanism; Asian shamanism
  • shamanism
  • Wicca


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