Religion Crosswords
- Angel Crossword In many mythologies and religions, an angel is a good spirit. The word angel comes from the Greek word angelos which means "messenger". …
- Animism Crossword Animism is a belief common in many different religions and philosophies. An animist is a person who believes or practices animism. Animism …
- Church (building) Crossword A church is a building that was constructed to allow people to meet to worship together. These people are usually Christians, or influenced …
- David Crossword David was an important King of Israel. He is described in the Old Testament books of 1 Samuel and 2 Samuel, the Qu'ran, and Bahá'í …
- Mosque Crossword A mosque is a place where Muslims worship. The word mosque comes from the Arabic word masjid. A larger, 'collective', mosque is called a …
- Sharia Crossword Sharia, Sharia law or Islamic law is a set of religious principles which form part of the Muslim faith. The Arabic word sharīʿah refers to …
- Witchcraft Crossword Witchcraft is the use of magical powers. This might be for healing, seeing into the future, causing harm, or for religion. A person …
About Religion
Religion is a range of social-cultural systems, including designated behaviors and practices, ethics, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, or organizations, that generally relate humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements—although there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion. It is an essentially contested concept. Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacredness, faith, and a supernatural being or beings.
The origin of religious belief is an open question, with possible explanations including awareness of individual death, a sense of community, and dreams. Religions have sacred histories, narratives, and mythologies, preserved in oral traditions, sacred texts, symbols, and holy places, that may attempt to explain the origin of life, the universe, and other phenomena. Religious practice may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, matrimonial and funerary services, meditation, prayer, music, art, dance, or public service.
There are an estimated 10,000 distinct religions worldwide, though nearly all of them have regionally based, relatively small followings. Four religions—Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, and Buddhism—account for over 73% of the world's population, and 97.6% of the world either follows one of those four religions or identifies as nonreligious, meaning that the vast majority of remaining religions account for only 2.4% of the population combined. The religiously unaffiliated demographic includes those who do not identify with any particular religion, atheists, and agnostics, although many in the demographic still have various religious beliefs. Many world religions are also organized religions, most definitively including the Abrahamic religions Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and the Baháʼí Faith, while others are arguably less so, in particular folk religions, indigenous religions, and some Eastern religions. A portion of the world's population are members of new religious movements. Scholars have indicated that global religiosity may be increasing due to religious countries having generally higher birth rates.
Text adapted from Wikipedia article “Religion” (revision 1362786558, 2026-07-06), authors, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.