Religion

[Dawud]

I suspect - like Wittgenstein - that there is not one thing that is common to all things referred to as "religion" or "religious." Instead there is a family resemblance between certain things that people are socialized into recognizing that these things are religious but, because there is no common defining feature, what is religious and what is not is potentially limitless..!

Is anyone else Witgenstinian in their definition of religion here? Or do you have a great reductive definition of religion (ie you can say it is a religion if it is x,y,z)?

[pocaracas]

From dictionary.com:

2.
a specific fundamental set of beliefs and practices generally agreed upon by a number of persons or sects

That's my concept of religion.

[My imaginary friend is GOD]

There are two senses of religion. In the anthropological sense, religion is what a person uses to organize their interpretation of the universe. Every human has one, even the nonbelievers subscribe to something like naturalism or physicalism in their worldview.

In the common usage, a religion is an organized set of beliefs, traditions, etc., that one subscribes to. Not everyone has one.

[frz]

There are two senses of religion. In the anthropological sense, religion is what a person uses to organize their interpretation of the universe. Every human has one, even the nonbelievers subscribe to something like naturalism or physicalism in their worldview.

So you saying anthropologist are trying to make a religious person out of everyone by defining religion as a universal characteristic.

[Angrboda]

Wittgenstein was a beery swine who was just as schloshed as Schlegel.