English-Dutch translations for religion

• godsdienst
  Je zou het bijna met een nieuwe godsdienst kunnen vergelijken. It has practically become a new religion.
  Verschillen op het gebied van godsdienst, nationaliteit en ras. Difference in religion, nationality and race.
  Nigeria kent geen nationale godsdienst. There is no state religion in Nigeria.
• religie
  De staat is de religie en andersom. The state is the religion and vice versa.
  Dit gaat niet over het tegenover elkaar stellen van religies. This is not opposing one religion against another.
  Een andere fundamentele kwestie is de religie. The other vital area is religion.
• geloof
  Het geloof is van de hand van God, de cultuur van de hand van de mens. God created religion, but we create cultures.
  Godsdienstvrijheid is niet vrij zijn van geloof, maar vrij zijn om een geloof te hebben. Freedom of religion is not freedom from religion but the freedom to have religion.
  Ik geloof echter niet dat religie hiervan deel zou moeten uitmaken. But I do not believe that religion should be part of this.
• geloofsovertuiging
  Ik ben niet godsdienstig, maar ik voel in geen geval de behoefte enige religie of geloofsovertuiging aan te vallen. As a non-religious person, I have no intention of upsetting any religion or creed.
  In geen enkele lidstaat wordt de geloofsovertuiging van de houder van de identiteitskaart vermeld op die kaart. In no Member State is the religion of an identity card holder mentioned on the card.
  In welke lidstaten van de Unie wordt de geloofsovertuiging op het identiteitsbewijs vermeld? In which Member States is religion one of the items recorded on citizens' identity cards?

Definition of religion

• Belief in a spiritual reality , accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief
• A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it
• The way of life committed to by monks and nuns
• Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them
• Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted
• Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
• Engage in religious practice
• Indoctrinate into a specific religion
• To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify

Examples

• My brother tends to value religion, but my sister not as much.
• Islam is a major religion in parts of Asia and Africa.
• Eckankar is a new religion but Zoroastrianism is an old religion.
• The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
• I think some Christians would love Jesus more if they werent so stuck in religion
• Jacks spiritual, but hes not really into religion
• At this point, Star Trek has really become a religion.

Related words

• religionist
• coreligionist
• irreligion
• co-religionist
• correligionist
• religion of peace
• freedom of religion
• inte enbart inom fornnordisk religion''
• Abrahamic religion