Buddhism

Thesis Statement

Buddhism is striking for its not speaking of a personal god.

Religion

Religions and beliefs are of great importance for anthropological research on the development of humankind and its history, as they represent the human reaction to an extra human, holy, transcendent, or divine object. Almost no other terms of the mental and intellectual human life seem to have such a big and colorful variety as “belief” or “religion.”

The term religion has its etymologic and historical roots in the ancient Roman world. A different context can be found for the terms personal belief or universal faith; they have their semantic origin ...