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Religion (from O.Fr. religion religious community, from L. religionem (nom. religio) respect for what is sacred, reverence for the gods, obligation, the bond between man and the gods) is derived from the Latin religiÅ, the ultimate origins of which are obscure.
Many languages have words that can be translated as religion, but they may use them in a very different way, and some have no word for religion at all. For example, the Sanskrit word dharma, sometimes translated as religion, also means law.choes of James' and Durkheim's definitions are to be found in the writings of, for example, Frederick Ferre ferrÃ© who defined religion as'one s way of valuing most comprehensively and. Intensively, similarly for the Theologian Paul, tillich faith is the state of being ultimately, concerned which is itself. religion