Religion

=== Morphological classification ===
Some [[Religious studies|religion scholars]] classify religions as either ''[[Universalizing religion|universal religions]]'' that seek worldwide acceptance and actively look for new [[Religious conversion|converts]], such as the Baháʼí Faith, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Jainism, while ''[[ethnic religion]]s'' are identified with a particular ethnic group and do not seek converts.<ref name="Hinnells">{{Cite book |first=Chris |last=Park |chapter=Religion and Geography |title=The Routledge companion to the study of religion |editor-last=Hinnells |editor-first=John R. |year=2005 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-33311-5 |pages=439–440 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IGspjXKxIf8C |access-date=7 September 2020 |archive-date=9 May 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160509023830/https://books.google.com/books?id=IGspjXKxIf8C |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |first=Peter |last=Flügel |title=The Invention of Jainism: A Short History of Jaina Studies |journal=International Journal of Jaina Studies |volume=1 |issue=1 |year=2005 |pages=1–14 |url=https://www.soas.ac.uk/ijjs/archive/file32517.pdf |access-date=8 March 2019 |archive-date=1 December 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201182630/https://www.soas.ac.uk/ijjs/archive/file32517.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> Others reject the distinction, pointing out that all religious practices, whatever their philosophical origin, are ethnic because they come from a particular culture.<ref>Timothy Fitzgerald. ''The Ideology of Religious Studies''. New York: Oxford University Press US, 2000.</ref><ref>Craig R. Prentiss. ''Religion and the Creation of Race and Ethnicity''. New York: NYU Press, 2003. {{ISBN|0-8147-6701-X}}</ref><ref>Tomoko Masuzawa. ''The Invention of World Religions, or, How European Universalism Was Preserved in the Language of Pluralism''. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. {{ISBN|0-226-50988-5}}</ref>