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As nouns the difference between religion and democracy

is that religion is religion while democracy is (uncountable) rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).

religion

Noun

(en noun)
  • The belief in and worship of a supernatural controlling power, especially a personal god or gods.
  • My brother tends to value religion , but my sister not as much.
  • A particular system of faith and worship.
  • Islam is a major religion in parts of Asia and Africa.
    Eckankar is a new religion''' but Zoroastrianism is an old '''religion .
  • The way of life committed to by monks and nuns.
  • The monk entered religion when he was 20 years of age.
  • Any practice that someone or some group is seriously devoted to.
  • At this point, ''Star Trek'' has really become a religion .
  • (obsolete) Faithfulness to a given principle; conscientiousness.
  • *, II.8:
  • Oh with what religion doe I respect and observe the same!

    Usage notes

    Generally speaking, certain groups that do not acknowledge the existence of one or more deities, such as Buddhism, are still religious—though some people prefer a definition of religion without non-theistic groups within the definition. Others are in favor of a more inclusive definition of religion that recognizes that everyone has their own set of religious beliefs.

    Synonyms

    * faith * mythology

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Hypernyms

    * belief system

    Derived terms

    * Abrahamic religion * false religion * pseudoreligion * misreligion

    See also

    * afterlife * animism * atheism * belief * church * crusade * cult * druid * faith * jihad * holy * holy man * monk * monotheism * mystic * nun * order * polytheism * priest * reincarnation * sacred * sage * sect * seer * shaman * shrine * spiritual leader * spirituality * superstition * temple * wizard *

    Statistics

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    democracy

    Noun

    (democracies)
  • (uncountable) Rule by the people, especially as a form of government; either directly or through elected representatives (representative democracy).
  • * 1866 , J. Arthur Partridge, On Democracy , Trübner & Co., page 2:
  • And the essential value and power of Democracy' consists in this,—that it combines, as far as possible, power and organization ; THE SPIRIT, MANHOOD, ''is at one with'' THE BODY, ORGANIZATION. [....] ' Democracy is Government by the People.
  • * 1901 , The American Historical Review , American Historical Association, page 260:
  • The period, that is, which marks the transition from absolutism or aristocracy to democracy will mark also the transition from absolutist or autocratic methods of nomination to democratic methods.
  • * 1921 , James Bryce Bryce, Modern Democracies , The Macmillan Company, page 1:
  • A century ago there was in the Old World only one tiny spot in which the working of democracy could be studied. A few of the ancient rural cantons of Switzerland had recovered their freedom after the fall of Napoleon, and were governing themselves as they had done from the earlier Middle Ages[...]. Nowhere else in Europe did the people rule.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 24:
  • Everyone who wanted to speak did so. It was democracy in its purest form.
  • (countable, government) A government under the direct or representative rule of the people of its jurisdiction.
  • * 2003 , Fareed Zakaria, The Future of Freedom: Illiberal Democracy at Home and Abroad , W. W. Norton & Company, page 13:
  • In 1900 not a single country had what we would today consider a democracy : a government created by elections in which every adult citizen could vote.
  • (uncountable) Belief in political freedom and equality; the "spirit of democracy".
  • * 1918 , Charles Horton Cooley, “A Primary Culture for Democracy”, in Publications of the American Sociological Society 13 , p8
  • As states of the human spirit democracy , righteousness, and faith have much in common and may be cultivated by the same means...
  • * 1919 , Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, The Spirit of Russia: Studies in History, Literature and Philosophy , Macmillan, p446
  • It must further be admitted that he provided a successful interpretation of democracy' in its philosophic aspects when he conceived '''democracy''' as a general outlook on the universe... In Bakunin's conception of ' democracy as religious in character we trace the influence of French socialism.
  • * 1996 , Petre Roman, The Spirit of Democracy and the Fabric of NATO - The New European Democracies and NATO Enlargement , p1
  • The spirit of democracy' means, above all, liberty of choice for human beings... ' democracy , in both its individual and collective forms, is the main engine of the eternal human striving for justice and prosperity.

    Synonyms

    * democratism (spirit of democracy)

    Coordinate terms

    * (a form of government) monarchy, aristocracy, dictatorship