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The noun religion has 2 senses (first 2 from tagged texts)

1. (63) religion, faith, religious belief -- (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality")
2. (9) religion, faith, organized religion -- (an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him")

2 senses of religion

Sense 1
religion, faith, religious belief -- (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality")
=> belief -- (any cognitive content held as true)
=> content, cognitive content, mental object -- (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
=> cognition, knowledge, noesis -- (the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning)
=> psychological feature -- (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
=> abstraction -- (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
=> abstract entity -- (an entity that exists only abstractly)
=> entity -- (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
=> theological virtue, supernatural virtue -- (according to Christian ethics: one of the three virtues (faith and hope and charity) created by God to round out the natural virtues)
=> cardinal virtue -- (one of the seven preeminent virtues)
=> virtue -- (a particular moral excellence)
=> good, goodness -- (moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people")
=> morality -- (concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct)
=> quality -- (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained"--Shakespeare)
=> attribute -- (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
=> abstraction -- (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
=> abstract entity -- (an entity that exists only abstractly)
=> entity -- (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

Sense 2
religion, faith, organized religion -- (an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him")
=> institution, establishment -- (an organization founded and united for a specific purpose)
=> organization, organisation -- (a group of people who work together)
=> social group -- (people sharing some social relation)
=> group, grouping -- (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
=> abstraction -- (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
=> abstract entity -- (an entity that exists only abstractly)
=> entity -- (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))

Sense 1
religion, faith, religious belief -- (a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality")
=> apophatism -- (the religious belief that God cannot be known but is completely `other' and must be described in negative terms (in terms of what God is not))
=> cataphatism -- (the religious belief that God has given enough clues to be known to humans positively and affirmatively (e.g., God created Adam `in his own image'))
=> doctrine of analogy, analogy -- (the religious belief that between creature and creator no similarity can be found so great but that the dissimilarity is always greater; language can point in the right direction but any analogy between God and humans will always be inadequate)
=> cult, cultus, religious cult -- (a system of religious beliefs and rituals; "devoted to the cultus of the Blessed Virgin")
=> macumba -- (a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing a chanting and dancing)
=> obeah, obi -- (a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas)
=> Rastafarianism -- (belief in Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie) as the Messiah and that Africa (especially Ethiopia) is the promised land)
=> voodoo, vodoun, voodooism, hoodooism -- (a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities)
=> hoodoo -- (a practitioner of voodoo)
=> ecclesiasticism -- (religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices)
=> mysticism, religious mysticism -- (a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality)
=> quietism -- (a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God)
=> Sufism -- (Islamic mysticism)
=> nature worship -- (a system of religion that deifies and worships natural forces and phenomena)
=> revealed religion -- (a religion founded primarily on the revelations of God to humankind)
=> theism -- (the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods)
=> monotheism -- (belief in a single God)
=> Judaism -- (the monotheistic religion of the Jews having its spiritual and ethical principles embodied chiefly in the Torah and in the Talmud)
=> Orthodox Judaism -- (beliefs and practices of a Judaic sect that strictly observes Mosaic law)
=> Hasidism, Hassidism, Chasidism, Chassidism -- (beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews)
=> Chabad, Chabad Hasidism -- (a form of Hasidism practiced by Lithuanian and Russian Jews under communist rule; the beliefs and practices of the Lubavitch movement)
=> Conservative Judaism -- (beliefs and practices of Conservative Jews)
=> Reform Judaism -- (beliefs and practices of Reform Jews)
=> Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism -- (the monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; "Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion"; "the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion")
=> Mahdism -- (belief in the appearance of the Mahdi; devotion to a Mahdi)
=> Salafism, Salafi movement -- (a militant group of extremist Sunnis who believe themselves the only correct interpreters of the Koran and consider moderate Muslims to be infidels; seek to convert all Muslims and to insure that its own fundamentalist version of Islam will dominate the world)
=> Shiism -- (the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs)
=> Ismailism -- (the branch of Shiism noted for its esoteric philosophy)
=> Wahhabism, Wahabism -- (a conservative and intolerant form of Islam that is practiced in Saudi Arabia; "Osama bin Laden and his followers practice Wahhabism")
=> polytheism -- (belief in multiple Gods)
=> tritheism -- ((Christianity) the heretical belief that the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit are three separate gods)
=> pantheism -- (the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God)
=> pantheism -- ((rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods)
=> paganism, pagan religion, heathenism -- (any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism)
=> druidism -- (the system of religion and philosophy taught by the Druids and their rites and ceremonies)
=> Christianity, Christian religion -- (a monotheistic system of beliefs and practices based on the Old Testament and the teachings of Jesus as embodied in the New Testament and emphasizing the role of Jesus as savior)
=> Adventism, Second Adventism -- (any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent)
=> Seventh-Day Adventism -- (Adventism that is strongly Protestant and observes Saturday as the Sabbath)
=> Catholicism, Catholicity -- (the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church)
=> Romanism, Roman Catholicism, papism -- (the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome)
=> Eastern Catholicism -- (the beliefs and practices of any of the eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople or Antioch or Alexandria or Moscow or Jerusalem)
=> Albigensianism, Catharism -- (a Christian movement considered to be a medieval descendant of Manichaeism in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; characterized by dualism (asserted the coexistence of two mutually opposed principles, one good and one evil); was exterminated for heresy during the Inquisition)
=> Donatism -- (a schismatic Christian religion in northern Africa from the 4th to the 7th century; held that only those who led a blameless life belonged in the church or could administer the sacraments)
=> Protestantism -- (the theological system of any of the churches of western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation)
=> predestinarianism -- (the belief or doctrine of predestinarians)
=> Anglicanism -- (the faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church)
=> Anglo-Catholicism, High Anglicanism -- (a doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition)
=> Arminianism -- (17th century theology (named after its founder Jacobus Arminius) that opposes the absolute predestinarianism of John Calvin and holds that human free will is compatible with God's sovereignty)
=> Calvinism -- (the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone)
=> Christian Science -- (religious system based on teachings of Mary Baker Eddy emphasizing spiritual healing)
=> Lutheranism -- (teachings of Martin Luther emphasizing the cardinal doctrine of justification by faith alone)
=> Unitarianism -- (Christian doctrine that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity)
=> Trinitarianism -- (Christian doctrine stressing belief in the Trinity)
=> Congregationalism -- (system of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing)
=> Mennonitism -- (system of beliefs and practices including belief in scriptural authority; plain dress; adult baptism; foot washing; restriction of marriage to members of the group)
=> evangelicalism -- (stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation)
=> revivalism -- (an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith)
=> fundamentalism -- (the interpretation of every word in the sacred texts as literal truth)
=> Methodism -- (the religious beliefs and practices of Methodists characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals)
=> Wesleyanism, Wesleyism -- (evangelical principles taught by John Wesley)
=> Anabaptism -- (belief in: the primacy of the Bible; baptism of believers not infants; complete separation of church and state)
=> Baptistic doctrine -- (any of various doctrines closely related to Anabaptism)
=> Mormonism -- (the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon)
=> pentecostalism -- (the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues)
=> Presbyterianism -- (the doctrines and practices of the Presbyterian Church: based in Calvinism)
=> Puritanism -- (the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects))
=> Tractarianism, Puseyism -- (principles of the founders of the Oxford movement as expounded in pamphlets called `Tracts for the Times')
=> Hinduism, Hindooism -- (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and characterized by a belief in reincarnation and a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)
=> Darsana -- ((from the Sanskrit word for `to see') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on the nature of reality and the release from bondage to karma)
=> Mimamsa -- ((from the Sanskrit word for `reflection' or `interpretation') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on ritual traditions rooted in the Vedas and the Brahmanas as opposed to Vedanta which relies mostly on the Upanishads)
=> Vedanta -- ((from the Sanskrit for `end of the Veda') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints rooted in the Upanishads as opposed to Mimamsa which relies on the Vedas and Brahmanas)
=> Krishnaism -- (worship of Krishna the 8th avatar of Vishnu)
=> Shivaism, Sivaism -- (worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon)
=> Shaktism, Saktism -- (worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva)
=> Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism, Vishnuism -- (worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon)
=> yoga -- (Hindu discipline aimed at training the consciousness for a state of perfect spiritual insight and tranquility that is achieved through the three paths of actions and knowledge and devotion)
=> Vedism -- (the form of Hinduism that revolves primarily around the mythic version and ritual ideologies in the Vedas)
=> Brahmanism, Brahminism -- (the religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads)
=> Jainism -- (religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being)
=> Sikhism -- (the doctrines of a monotheistic religion founded in northern India in the 16th century by Guru Nanak and combining elements of Hinduism and Islam)
=> Buddhism -- (the teaching of Buddha that life is permeated with suffering caused by desire, that suffering ceases when desire ceases, and that enlightenment obtained through right conduct and wisdom and meditation releases one from desire and suffering and rebirth)
=> Mahayana, Mahayana Buddhism -- (one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone; the dominant religion of China and Tibet and Japan)
=> Yogacara -- (one of the main traditions of Mahayana Buddhism; holds that the mind is real but that objects are just ideas or states of consciousness)
=> Theravada, Theravada Buddhism -- (one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through your own efforts; a conservative form of Buddhism that adheres to Pali scriptures and the non-theistic ideal of self purification to Nirvana; the dominant religion of Sri Lanka (Ceylon) and Myanmar (Burma) and Thailand and Laos and Cambodia)
=> Hinayana, Hinayana Buddhism -- (an offensive name for the early conservative Theravada Buddhism; it died out in India but survived in Sri Lanka and was taken from there to other regions of southwestern Asia)
=> Lamaism, Tibetan Buddhism -- (a Buddhist doctrine that includes elements from India that are not Buddhist and elements of preexisting shamanism)
=> Zen, Zen Buddhism -- (a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight)
=> Shingon -- (a form of Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible)
=> Tantra, Tantrism -- (doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet)
=> Taoism, Hsuan Chiao -- (popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic)
=> Shinto, Shintoism -- (the ancient indigenous religion of Japan lacking formal dogma; characterized by a veneration of nature spirits and of ancestors)
=> Manichaeism, Manichaeanism -- (a religion founded by Manes the third century; a synthesis of Zoroastrian dualism between light and dark and Babylonian folklore and Buddhist ethics and superficial elements of Christianity; spread widely in the Roman Empire but had largely died out by 1000)
=> Mithraism, Mithraicism -- (ancient Persian religion; popular among Romans during first three centuries a.d.)
=> Zoroastrianism, Mazdaism -- (system of religion founded in Persia in the 6th century BC by Zoroaster; set forth in the Zend-Avesta; based on concept of struggle between light (good) and dark (evil))
=> Parsiism, Parseeism -- (the faith of a Zoroastrian sect in India)
=> Bahaism -- (a religion founded in Iran in 1863; emphasizes the spiritual unity of all humankind; incorporates Christian and Islamic tenets; many adherents live in the United States; "Bahaism has no public rituals or sacraments and praying is done in private")
=> shamanism, Asian shamanism -- (an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans)
=> shamanism -- (any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes))
=> Wicca -- (the polytheistic nature religion of modern witchcraft whose central deity is a mother goddess; claims origins in pre-Christian pagan religions of western Europe)

Sense 2
religion, faith, organized religion -- (an institution to express belief in a divine power; "he was raised in the Baptist religion"; "a member of his own faith contradicted him")
=> church, Christian church -- (one of the groups of Christians who have their own beliefs and forms of worship)
=> Armenian Church, Armenian Apostolic Orthodox Church -- (an independent Christian church established in Armenia since 300; was influenced by both Roman and Byzantine traditions)
=> Catholic Church -- (any of several churches claiming to have maintained historical continuity with the original Christian Church)
=> Roman Catholic, Western Church, Roman Catholic Church, Church of Rome, Roman Church -- (the Christian Church based in the Vatican and presided over by a pope and an episcopal hierarchy)
=> Old Catholic Church -- (Catholic churches that broke away from the Roman Catholic Church in the 18th century)
=> Eastern Church, Byzantine Church -- (the Catholic Church as it existed in the Byzantine Empire)
=> Orthodox Church, Orthodox Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Church, Eastern Orthodox -- (derived from the Byzantine Church and adhering to Byzantine rites)
=> Greek Orthodox Church, Greek Church -- (state church of Greece; an autonomous part of the Eastern Orthodox Church)
=> Russian Orthodox Church -- (an independent church with its own Patriarch; until 1917 it was the established church or Russia)
=> Uniat Church, Uniate Church -- (any of several churches in eastern Europe or the Middle East that acknowledge papal authority but retain their own liturgy)
=> Nestorian Church -- (a Christian Church in the Middle East that followed Nestorianism; there is still a small Nestorian Church in Iraq)
=> Coptic Church -- (the ancient Christian church of Egypt)
=> Protestant Church, Protestant -- (the Protestant churches and denominations collectively)
=> Pentecostal religion -- (any fundamentalist Protestant church that uses revivalistic methods to achieve experiences comparable to the Pentecostal experiences of the first Christian disciples)
=> Unification Church -- (a Christian church (with some Buddhist elements) founded in 1954 by Sun Myung Moon and known for staging mass weddings and other communal activities)
=> Judaism, Hebraism, Jewish religion -- (Jews collectively who practice a religion based on the Torah and the Talmud)
=> Orthodox Judaism, Jewish Orthodoxy -- (Jews who strictly observe the Mosaic law as interpreted in the Talmud)
=> Hasidim, Hassidim, Hasidism, Chasidim, Chassidim -- (a sect of Orthodox Jews that arose out of a pietistic movement originating in eastern Europe in the second half of the 18th century; a sect that follows the Mosaic law strictly)
=> Conservative Judaism -- (Jews who keep some of the requirements of the Mosaic law but allow for adaptation of other requirements (as some of the dietary laws) to fit modern circumstances)
=> Reform Judaism -- (the most liberal Jews; Jews who do not follow the Talmud strictly but try to adapt all of the historical forms of Judaism to the modern world)
=> Hinduism, Hindooism -- (the predominant religion of India; characterized by a caste system and belief in reincarnation)
=> Brahmanism, Brahminism -- (the religious and social system of orthodox Hinduism)
=> Taoism -- (religion adhering to the teaching of Lao-tzu)
=> Buddhism -- (a religion represented by the many groups (especially in Asia) that profess various forms of the Buddhist doctrine and that venerate Buddha)
=> Zen, Zen Buddhism -- (school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan)
=> Mahayana -- (a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation; China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; Mongolia)
=> Hinayana -- (a major school of Buddhism teaching personal salvation through one's own efforts)
=> Tantrism -- (movement within Buddhism combining elements of Hinduism and paganism)
=> Khalsa -- (the group of initiated Sikhs to which devout orthodox Sikhs are ritually admitted at puberty; founded by the tenth and last Guru in 1699)
=> Scientology, Church of Scientology -- (a new religion founded by L. Ron Hubbard in 1955 and characterized by a belief in the power of a person's spirit to clear itself of past painful experiences through self-knowledge and spiritual fulfillment)
=> Shinto -- (the native religion and former ethnic cult of Japan)
=> established church -- (the church that is recognized as the official church of a nation)
=> sect, religious sect, religious order -- (a subdivision of a larger religious group)
=> sisterhood -- (a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns))
=> Albigenses, Cathars, Cathari -- (a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism)
=> High Church, High Anglican Church -- (a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority))
=> Abecedarian -- (a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge)
=> Amish sect -- (an orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in southeastern Pennsylvania)
=> Karaites -- (a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century)
=> Shiah, Shia, Shiah Islam -- (one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran)
=> Sunni, Sunni Islam -- (one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam)
=> Shivaism, Sivaism -- (a Hindu sect worshiping Shiva)
=> Shaktism, Saktism -- (a Hindu sect worshiping Shakti)
=> Vaishnavism, Vaisnavism -- (Hindu sect worshiping of Vishnu)
=> Haredi -- (any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel)
=> Hare Krishna, International Society for Krishna Consciousness, ISKCON -- (a religious sect founded in the United States in 1966; based on Vedic scriptures; groups engage in joyful chanting of `Hare Krishna' and other mantras based on the name of the Hindu god Krishna; devotees usually wear saffron robes and practice vegetarianism and celibacy)
=> Jainism -- (sect founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism)
=> Taoism -- (a Chinese sect claiming to follow the teaching of Lao-tzu but incorporating pantheism and sorcery in addition to Taoism)
=> Kokka Shinto, Kokka -- (the branch of Shinto recognized as the official state religion of Japan)
=> Shuha Shinto, Shua -- (any branch of Shinto other than Kokka)
=> brethren -- ((plural) the lay members of a male religious order)
=> order, monastic order -- (a group of person living under a religious rule; "the order of Saint Benedict")
=> Augustinian order -- (any of several monastic orders observing a rule derived from the writings of St. Augustine)
=> Augustinian Canons -- (an Augustinian monastic order)
=> Augustinian Hermits -- (a monastic order of friars established in 1256 by the Pope)
=> Austin Friars -- (an Augustinian monastic order)
=> Benedictine order, order of Saint Benedict -- (a Roman Catholic monastic order founded in the 6th century; noted for liturgical worship and for scholarly activities)
=> Carmelite order, Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel -- (a Roman Catholic mendicant order founded in the 12th century)
=> Carthusian order -- (an austere contemplative Roman Catholic order founded by St. Bruno in 1084)
=> Dominican order -- (a Roman Catholic order of mendicant preachers founded in the 13th century)
=> Franciscan order -- (a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in the 13th century)
=> Society of Jesus, Jesuit order -- (a Roman Catholic order founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola in 1534 to defend Catholicism against the Reformation and to do missionary work among the heathen; it is strongly committed to education and scholarship)
=> Religious Society of Friends, Society of Friends, Quakers -- (a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers)
=> Shakers, United Society of Believers in Christ's Second Appearing -- (a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States)
=> Waldenses, Vaudois -- (a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century)
=> Zurvanism -- (a Zoroastrian sect that claims Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe)
=> cult -- (adherents of an exclusive system of religious beliefs and practices)
=> cargo cult -- ((Melanesia) one of several millenarian cults that believe salvation will come in the form of wealth (`cargo') brought by westerners; some ascribe divine attributes to westerners on first contact (especially to missionaries))
=> Wicca -- (a community of followers of the Wicca religion)