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It is only possible to assess the reasons for studying a particular subject, if one has an understanding of what exactly the subject is. This may seem an obvious statement to make, but when the subject in question is that of religion, we encounter a problem.
The word religion is very familiar to most and I would argue that most people have a fairly clear idea in their heads of what defines religion. When pushed for a definition however, it is easy to find an example of what most people would define as a religion that falls outside of their given definition. For example, most of the people I asked when researching this essay mentioned the word God or Gods. Whilst it is true that many of the established religions are centred round worship of a God or Gods, Buddhism is not, yet it would still be described by most as a religion.
The very word, religion, only appeared during the Enlightenment in eighteenth century Europe, in order to give a group name to all the cultural......

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