Wit saking kapercayaan agama inggih punika pitaken sané mabuka, antuk minab pidarta sané ngeranjing kasadaran indik sédané individu, rasa komunitas, lan ipian.[8] Agama madué babad suci, narasi, lan mitologi, sanékalestariang ring tradisi lisan, téks suci, simbol, lan genah suci, sané minab mautsaha nlatarang indik fénoména asal-usul kahuripan, alam semesta, miwah sané lianan.
Wénten kirang langkung 10.000 agama sané mabinayan ring sajebag jagat,[9] yadiastun sampun akéh sané madué pangikut mabasis régional, sané relatif alit. Petang agama—Kristen, Islam, Hindu, lan Budhha—ngawetuang langkungan saking 77% saking populasi jagaté, lan 92% saking jagaté nganutin silih sinunggil saking petang agama punika agama utawi ngidentifikasi pinaka ten-agama,[10] suksmannyané sisa 9.000+ agama wantah 8% saking populasi sané kagabungan. Demograpi sané nénten mapaiketan sareng agama rumasuk sané nénten ngidentifikasi sareng agama, atéis, lan agnostik, yadiastun akeh ring demograpi kantun madué makudang-kudang keyakinan agama.[11]
↑Morreall, John; Sonn, Tamara (2013). "Myth 1: All Societies Have Religions". 50 Great Myths of Religion. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 12–17. ISBN978-0-470-67350-8.
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↑"Religiously Unaffiliated". The Global Religious Landscape. Pew Research Center: Religion & Public Life. 18 December 2012. Kaarsipin saking versi asli tanggal 30 July 2013. Kaaksés 16 February 2022. The religiously unaffiliated include atheists, agnostics and people who do not identify with any particular religion in surveys. However, many of the religiously unaffiliated have some religious beliefs.
↑Eileen Barker, 1999, "New Religious Movements: their incidence and significance", New Religious Movements: challenge and response, Bryan Wilson and Jamie Cresswell editors, RoutledgeISBN0-415-20050-4
↑Zuckerman, Phil (2006). "3 – Atheism: Contemporary Numbers and Patterns". Ring Martin, Michael (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Atheism. pp. 47–66. doi:10.1017/CCOL0521842700.004. ISBN978-1-13900-118-2.
↑James, Paul (2018). "What Does It Mean Ontologically to Be Religious?". Ring Stephen Ames; Ian Barns; John Hinkson; Paul James; Gordon Preece; Geoff Sharp (eds.). Religion in a Secular Age: The Struggle for Meaning in an Abstracted World. Arena Publications. pp. 56–100. Kaarsipin saking versi asli tanggal 14 December 2021. Kaaksés 23 August 2018.