
Word families (Nouns, Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs): religion, religious, irreligious, religiously
Xem thêm: faith, religious belief, faith, organized religion
religion noun
ADJ. great, major | world Islam is one of the great world religions. | dominant | established, old | new | orthodox | true | false | alternative Football has become an alternative religion for many people. | organized I believe in God, but I don't belong to any organized religion. | primitive | pagan | monotheistic, polytheistic | eastern eastern religions such as Shintoism | Hindu, Jewish, etc. | Catholic, evangelical, Orthodox, Protestant | official, state
VERB + RELIGION belong to, have She has no religion. | follow, practise Do you still practise your religion? | change | abandon, reject | defend She believed that her religion needed to be defended by philosophy and logic. | found He founded a new religion. | spread
RELIGION + VERB be based on sth a religion based on reason | originate from sth He believes that all religions originated from a single source. | develop | spread
PREP. by ~ These people are predominantly Russian Orthodox by religion. | in a/the ~ In their religion, mountains are sacred.
PHRASES an adherent/follower of a religion, a form/kind of religion
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accept, adopt, convert to, embrace, follow, turn to ~ He converted to Judaism when he got married. people who follow Hinduism
abandon, reject ~ He rejected Christianity and became a Buddhist.
~ spread Islam spread rapidly through North Africa.
~ preaches, proclaims, teaches sth Christianity preaches that sinners can be forgiven.
a follower of ~ followers of Sikhism
the rise/spread of ~ the rise of Christianity in the first century
the teachings/tenets of ~ the basic tenets of Buddhism
n.
he lost his faith but not his morality
he was raised in the Baptist religion
a member of his own faith contradicted him