What does it mean to be religious? It means almost everything because religions deal with the whole of human life and death. For thousands of years people have searched for the meaning and truth of their own nature and of the universe, and religions, which deal with the whole of human life and death, are the result. Even the natural sciences were originally religious; only in the last 300 years have religion and science come apart as ways of exploration. We look at religions now as communities of people who share practices and beliefs (often in God or gods), who gather in special buildings for worship or meditation, and who live in special ways in the world. We know that more than three quarters of the world's population consider that they belong to a religion, however little or much they do about it. The great faiths explored and explained through interpretation of sacred texts, religious artefacts, paintings, and architecture. Learn about the central figures and...