Religion

== Sources ==
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;Primary
* Lao Tzu; ''Tao Te Ching'' (Victor H. Mair translator); Bantam (1998).
* ''The Holy Bible'', King James Version; New American Library (1974).
* ''The Koran''; Penguin (2000), {{ISBN|0-14-044558-7}}.
* ''The Origin of Live & Death'', African Creation Myths; Heinemann (1966).
* ''Poems of Heaven and Hell from Ancient Mesopotamia''; Penguin (1971).
* ''Selected Work'' Marcus Tullius Cicero

;Secondary
* Yves Coppens, ''Origines de l'homme – De la matière à la conscience'', De Vive Voix, Paris, 2010
* Yves Coppens, ''La preistoria dell'uomo'', Jaca Book, Milano, 2011
* Descartes, René; ''Meditations on First Philosophy''; Bobbs-Merrill (1960), {{ISBN|0-672-60191-5}}.
* Dow, James W. (2007), ''[https://www.anpere.net/2007/2.pdf A Scientific Definition of Religion] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211022153443/http://www.anpere.net/2007/2.pdf |date=22 October 2021 }}''
* {{citation |last=Dundas |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Dundas |title=The Jains |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X8iAAgAAQBAJ |edition=Second |date=2002 |orig-date=1992 |publisher=[[Routledge]] |isbn=978-0-415-26605-5 |access-date=17 March 2018 |archive-date=22 January 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170122135027/https://books.google.com/books?id=X8iAAgAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}
* Durant, Will (& Ariel (uncredited)); ''Our Oriental Heritage''; MJF Books (1997), {{ISBN|1-56731-012-5}}.
* Durant, Will (& Ariel (uncredited)); ''Caesar and Christ''; MJF Books (1994), {{ISBN|1-56731-014-1}}
* Durant, Will (& Ariel (uncredited)); ''The Age of Faith''; Simon & Schuster (1980), {{ISBN|0-671-01200-2}}.
* {{cite book|last=Durkheim|first=Emile|date=1915|url=https://archive.org/details/elementaryformso00durkrich|title=The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life|location=London|publisher=George Allen & Unwin}}
* {{cite book|last=Geertz|first=Clifford|date=1993|chapter=Religion as a cultural system|title=The interpretation of cultures: selected essays, Geertz, Clifford|location=London|publisher=Fontana Press|pages=87–125}}
* [[Marija Gimbutas]] 1989. ''The Language of the Goddess''. Thames and Hudson New York
* Gonick, Larry; ''The Cartoon History of the Universe''; Doubleday, vol. 1 (1978) {{ISBN|0-385-26520-4}}, vol. II (1994) {{ISBN|0-385-42093-5}}, W.W. Norton, vol. III (2002) {{ISBN|0-393-05184-6}}.
* Haisch, Bernard ''The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields, and What's Behind It All''—discussion of science vs. religion ([https://archive.today/20121204150309/https://www.thegodtheory.com/preface.html Preface]), Red Wheel/Weiser, 2006, {{ISBN|1-57863-374-5}}
* {{cite book|last=James|first=William|date=1902|url=https://archive.org/details/varietiesreligi02jamegoog|title=The Varieties of Religious Experience. A Study in Human Nature|publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co.}}
* Khanbaghi, A., ''The Fire, the Star and the Cross: Minority Religions in Medieval and Early Modern Iran''  (IB Tauris; 2006) 268 pages. Social, political and cultural history of religious minorities in Iran, c. 226–1722 AD.
* King, Winston, ''Religion'' [First Edition]. In: ''Encyclopedia of Religion''. Ed. Lindsay Jones. Vol. 11. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference US, 2005. pp.&nbsp;7692–7701.
* [[Andrey Korotayev|Korotayev, Andrey]], ''World Religions and Social Evolution of the Old World Oikumene Civilizations: A Cross-cultural Perspective'', [[Lewiston, New York]]: [[Edwin Mellen Press]], 2004, {{ISBN|0-7734-6310-0}}.
* McKinnon, Andrew M. (2002), [https://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3073/1/McKinnon_Definition_of_Religion_author_version_no_format.pdf "Sociological Definitions, Language Games and the 'Essence' of Religion"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304070842/http://aura.abdn.ac.uk/bitstream/2164/3073/1/McKinnon_Definition_of_Religion_author_version_no_format.pdf |date=4 March 2016 }}. Method & theory in the study of religion, vol 14, no. 1, pp.&nbsp;61–83.
* {{cite journal |last=Massignon |first=Louis |author-link=Louis Massignon |title=Les trois prières d'Abraham, père de tous les croyants |journal=Dieu Vivant |volume=13 |year=1949 |pages=20–23 }}
* Palmer, Spencer J., ''et al''. ''Religions of the World: a Latter-day Saint [Mormon] View''. 2nd general ed., tev. and enl. Provo, Utah: Brigham Young University, 1997. xv, 294 p., ill. {{ISBN|0-8425-2350-2}}
* {{Citation |last=Pals |first=Daniel L. |year=2006 |title=Eight Theories of Religion |publisher=Oxford University Press}}
* Ramsay, Michael, ''Abp.'' ''Beyond Religion?'' Cincinnati, Ohio: Forward Movement Publications, (cop. 1964).
* Saler, Benson; ''Conceptualizing Religion: Immanent Anthropologists, Transcendent Natives, and Unbounded Categories'' (1990), {{ISBN|1-57181-219-9}}
* Schuon, Frithjof. ''The Transcendent Unity of Religions'', in series, ''Quest Books.'' 2nd Quest ... rev. ed. Wheaton, Ill.: Theosophical Publishing House, 1993, cop. 1984. xxxiv, 173 p. {{ISBN|0-8356-0587-6}}
* {{cite encyclopedia | first=Robert A | last=Segal | title=Theories of Religion | editor-first=John R. | editor-last=Hinnells| encyclopedia=The Routledge Companion to the Study of Religion | year=2005 | location=London; New York | publisher=Routledge | pages=49–60}}
* {{Citation |last=Stausberg |first=Michael |year=2009 |title=Contemporary Theories of religion |publisher=Routledge}}
* {{cite book |last1=Toropov |first1=Brandon |last2=Buckles |first2=Luke |date=2011 |title=Guide to World Religions |publisher=Penguin}}
* [[Anthony F. C. Wallace|Wallace, Anthony F.C.]] 1966. ''Religion: An Anthropological View''. New York: [[Random House]]. (pp.&nbsp;62–66)
* ''The World Almanac'' (annual), World Almanac Books, {{ISBN|0-88687-964-7}}.
* ''The World Almanac'' (for numbers of adherents of various religions), 2005
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