what religion is defined as

There are numerous definitions of religion and only a few are stated here. The anthropologist Clifford Geertz defined religion as a system of symbols which acts to establish powerful, pervasive, and long-lasting moods and motivations in men by formulating conceptions of a general order of existence and clothing these conceptions with such an aura of factuality that the moods and motivations seem uniquely realistic. The sociologist Durkheim, in his seminal book The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, defined religion as a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things. By sacred things he meant things set apart and forbidden beliefs and practices which unite into one single moral community called a Church, all those who adhere to them. Sacred things are not, however, limited to gods or spirits. On the contrary, a sacred thing can be a rock, a tree, a spring, a pebble, a piece of wood, a house, in a word, anything can be sacred. Religious beliefs, myths, dogmas and legends are the representations that express the nature of these sacred things, and the virtues and powers which are attributed to them. Some recent scholarship has argued that not all types of religion are necessarily separated by mutually exclusive philosophies, and furthermore that the utility of ascribing a practice to a certain philosophy, or even calling a given practice religious, rather than cultural, political, or social in nature, is limited.

Today society

Many of us has misunderstood the main meaning of religion and behave completely outside of it. the most commun conplains that many of us say; that religion is the cause of many conflicts in this world , the terrorism, violence, that spirit of not accepting others for who they are or seeing ourselves different from the other is all wrong because as a christian the bible tell us in the book of  Mark 12:31  that love your neighbor as yourself.

There is no commandment greater than these. Exodus 20:112-16 that 12 “Honor your father and your mother, so that you may live long in the land the Lord your God is giving you. 13 “You shall not murder. 14 “You shall not commit adultery. 15 “You shall not steal. 16 “You shall not give false testimony against your neighbor. But we have  turn all this commandments to and to completely the opposite of what is right even the society encourage us to do what’s wrong.But if only we could all live following the law that our religion ask us to do things or none of  us would have been living this kind of fearful life,worries, lack of trust for our brothers and sisters, hatress, the courage of hurting our neighbors, killing,prejudges, terrorism ete.  Because we are so full of ignorance, we are so greedy, we never had enough of what we have, As the world says: "You have needs, satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more." This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.” ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov “I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind.”

― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays This is the world of today.

the importance of religion

Religion is an important part of life for many people. Even people that are no at all that religious  by nature consider it to be important. The reason why the society need religion is to regulate behavior. Religion can have a great importance  for a society for a variety of reason. Religion provides mental peace, because humans life is uncertain. We struggle for our own survival between our concerns, insecurities,dangers and  sometimes fell helpless but it's religion that consoles and encourage us those times in our lives. whatever the religion you believe is the same religion that gives you that peace of mind, consolation, is like our strong tower,  it gives us shelter it also take way whatever is troubling our lives, whatever put or lives wounds in our hearts and it encourage us to face life and problems. On God religion puts faith and entertains the belief that some unseen power moves in mysterious ways to make even our loss meaningful. Religion gives release from sorrow and release from fear, it helps us to bear our frustration and integrate our personality. Religion like Hinduism, Islam and  Christianity ete. put emphasis  on aim-giving to the poor and beggars, with influence of religious belief different religious,