• 'Religious history' was not, up to this point, an expression abundantly utilized, and it has not been as completely organized, scholastically and educationally, as 'Ministerial History', which for eras was an examinable subject for ordinands and different understudies of Theology. A subject known as 'The History of Religions' turns out, upon examination, to look like what used to be called 'Similar Religion', not especially authentic by any stretch of the imagination. So we may start by characterizing Ecclesiastical History. This is obviously the guardian discipline. The editorial manager of a late volume of articles called Religion and the People 800 – 1 700 (James Obelkevich) was making, in a manner of speaking, an immature and generational challenge when he declared: 'the writers have broken with the related order of religious history and have deserted its limits and traditions' 
  • Religion (from the Latin Religio, signifying 'restriction', or Relegere, as per Cicero, signifying 'to rehash, to peruse once more', or, probably, Religionem, to show regard for what is consecrated) is a sorted out arrangement of convictions and works on rotating around, or prompting, an extraordinary profound ordeal. There is no society recorded in mankind's history which has not rehearsed some type of religion. 
  • In old times, religion was vague from what is known as `mythology' in the present day and comprised of customary ceremonies in light of a faith in higher powerful elements who made and kept on keeping up the world and encompassing universe. Postulations elements were human and carried on in ways which reflected the estimations of the way of life nearly (as in Egypt) or some of the time occupied with acts contradictory to those qualities (as one sees with the lords of Greece). Religion, then and now, worries about the profound part of the human condition, divine beings and goddesses (or a solitary individual god or goddess), the making of the world, a person's place on the planet, life after death, time everlasting, and how to escape from misery in this world or in the following; and each country has made its own particular god in its own particular picture and similarity. The Greek savant Xenophanes of Colophon (c. 570-478 BCE) once composed: