Action Quote by Emile Durkheim

A religious phenomenon will only be recognized as such if it is grasped at its own level, that is to say, if it is…

— Mircea Eliade

Organized belief in spirituality - that's what a religion is.

— Mario Cuomo

Religious representations are collective representations which express collective realities.

— Emile Durkheim

Religion is defined as social systems whose participants avow a supernatural agent or agents whose approval is to be sought.

— Daniel Dennett

A religion is a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods in men by formulating conceptions of a general…

— Clifford Geertz

I think most religious belief structures are essentially like mind viruses.

— Panos Cosmatos

By religion I mean a set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated…

— Bertrand Russell

Religion is interested primarily in the One who is the source of all things, the master of every phenomenon.

— Aiden Wilson Tozer

Religion is more than rite and ritual.

— Yann Martel

In ancient times the ritual, mythological and doctrinal aspects of spiritual space were predominant.

— Tom Turner

Since religion is a primitive form of philosophy — an attempt to offer a comprehensive view of reality — many of its myths are…

— Ayn Rand

RELIGION: A set of beliefs held as dogmas, dominating the conduct of life, going beyond or contrary to evidence, and inculcated by methods which…

— Bertrand Russell