Religion

 Religion is a special form of awareness of the world, due to the belief in the supernatural, which includes a code of moral norms and types of behavior, rituals, religious activities and uniting the people in an organization (Church, religious community)[1].
Other definitions of religion:

one of the forms of social consciousness; set of spiritual concepts, based on the belief in supernatural forces and beings (gods, spirits), which are the subject of worship[2].
organized by the worship of the Supreme forces. Religion not only is the belief in the existence of a higher power, but establishes a special relationship to these forces: it is, therefore, a well-known activities of the will, directed to these forces[3].

A religious system of representation of the world (world view) is based on religious belief and is associated with the attitude of the person to nadchelovecheskomu the spiritual world[4], a kind of super-human reality, about which a man who knows a thing or two, and to which he must in some way to Orient their life[5]. Faith can be supported by a mystical experience.

Of particular importance to the religion represent concepts such as good and evil, the morals, the purpose and the meaning of life, etc.

The basics of religious views of the majority of the world's religions recorded people in the sacred texts, which, on belief of the believers, or dictated by or inspired directly by God or gods, or written by people, who are from the point of view of each particular religion higher spiritual state, great teachers, particularly enlightened or consecrated, Holy, etc.

In most of the religious community occupies a notable place of the clergy (the Ministers of religious worship[6]).