Collective Quote by Emile Durkheim

Religious phenomena are naturally arranged in two fundamental categories: beliefs and rites. The first are states of opinion, and consist in representations; the second…

— Emile Durkheim

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

— Mario Cuomo

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

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

— Daniel Dennett

“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.”

— Ajmal Siddiqi

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

— Frances Wright

Religion is collective insanity.

— Mikhail Bakunin

Religion supports and perpetuates the social organization it reflects.

— Riane Eisler

The essence of religion consists in the feeling of an absolute dependence.

— Friedrich Schleiermacher

I have described religion as the metaphysics of the people.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Religions have a strong binding function and a cohesive element. They emphasize the primacy of the community as opposed to the individual, and they…

— Frans de Waal

Belief in a religion is the perfect way to control groups of people.

— Peter Molyneux