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People's beliefs and opinions concerning the existence, nature,
and worship of deity or deities, and divine involvement in the
universe and human life.
A particular institutionalized or personal system of beliefs and
practices relating to devine.
A set of strongly-held beliefs, values, and attitudes that
somebody lives.
Pratt (1924) ubeka atsi ngenkholo:
Religion is the attitude of the self toward an object in which the
self genuinely believes. Religion is the serious and social
attitude of individuals or communities towards the power or
powers which they conceive as having interest ultimate control
over their interest and destinies ... The religious attitude
towards the Determiner of Destiny must not be •mechanical' ...
nor coldly intellectual. It must have some faint touch of what
social quality which we feel in our relations towards anything
that can make response to us.
(Pratt, 1924:12).
Idowu, (1973) ucishe asonge konkhe natsi:
Religion results from man's spontaneous awareness of, and
spontaneous reaction to, to his awareness of a Living Power,
. Wholly Other' and infinitely greater than himself; a Power
mysterious because unseen, yet a present and urgent Reality,
seeking to bring man into communion with Himself. This
awareness includes that of something reaching out from the
depths of man's being for close communion with, a vital
relationship to, this power as a source of real life.
(Idowu, 1973:75).
Kuliciniso kutsi inkholo ifaka ekhatsi uMdali. Kungako Immanuel Kant
uyichaza kanje inkholo:
Religion is the belief which sets what is essential in all adoration
of God in human morality ... Religion is the law in us, in so far
as it obtains emphasis from a law giver and judge over us. It is
a morality, directed to the recognition of God, (Kant, 1945:12).
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