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religiology (uncountable)

1. Synonym of religious studies
   • 1967 Jul, “RELIGIOLOGY”, in Numen, volume 14, number Fasc. 2, Brill, page 81:

     Religiology is a branch of science and its aim is the scientific study of religion. It seeks to acquire a basic knowledge of religion as a phase of culture, without the bias of a specific belief-system. Only the scientific study of religion can achieve this aim.

   • 1982, I[gnatius] J[ohannes] Van der Walt, “Religiology and Ethno-Religiology”, in Defining Ethnology and Religious Science, Potchefstroom: Universum, section 6 (Christian Religiology), page 46:

     Religiology has to manage its own evaluation. If not, a serious shortcoming is created. On the other hand this leads to a theologising of ethnology and religiology. And neither ethnology nor religiology is theology!

   • 1993, Archie J. Bahm, “Why Axiology?”, in Axiology: The Science of Values (Value inquiry book series; volume 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta, Ga.: Rodopi, →ISBN, section 1 (Axiology as a Science), subsection B (Axiology Is the Most Basic Value Science), pages 4–5:

     Since beauty and ugliness, rightness and wrongness, wisdom and folly, income and expenditures all involve goodness and badness, then understanding the general, specific, and particular problems in aesthetics, ethics, religiology, and economics, etc., involve understanding goodness and badness.

   • 1994, Peter Moore, “Religions as Systems”, in Peter Masefield, Donald Wiebe, editors, Aspects of Religion: Essays in Honour of Ninian Smart, Peter Lang, →ISBN, page 55:

     Nor should it be assumed that theology and religiology are fundamentally incompatible kinds of discipline.

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