Data source: Gina A. Zurlo and Todd M. Johnson, eds., World Christian Database (Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2024).
| Glossary item | Definition |
|---|---|
| religious personnel | See religious. |
| religious persuasion | A person’s religious profession or preference. |
| religious pluralism | The peaceful co-existence of completely different religions or denominations within a particular community. |
| religious practice | The actual performing of religious duties. |
| religious preference | The religion or denominational tradition which a respondee professes to adhere to when asked in a public-opinion poll. |
| religious profession | (1) the religion or denominational tradition professed or preferred in a poll or census. (2) The taking of vows in a religious order. |
| religious research | Investigation, research and experiment on any religious subject or matter. |
| Religious Science | A marginal Protestant tradition emphasizing metaphysical science, Divine Science, Christian Science, New Thought, magnetic healing and the like. |
| religious sociology | The study of religion as it affects society. |
| religious state | The situation in life of the religious vocation (persons called to the religious life). |
| religious states | States, governments or ruling regimes which identify themselves as religious, or with religion and its promotion, numbered 113 out of the world total of 238 in AD 2000 |
| religious survival | A religious practice or belief dating back to an earlier, outmoded, religion, which has survived into the present. |
| religious toleration | The attitude of tolerance and acceptance, on the part of a state or a majority church, towards religious minorities. |
| religious zealots | Persons earnestly devoted to or attached to any religion. |
| Renewal | Generic term for over 100 different current movements of revival or awakening or new spiritual life across the whole spectrum of global Christianity. |
| renewal | Arevival (qv) in personal zeal and commitment to Christ in the churches; the charismatic renewal (qv). |
| Renewal | (1) Generic term for over 100 different current movements of revival or awakening or new spiritual life across the whole spectrum of global Christianity, involving 1,100 million Christians (68% of all affiliated church members). (2) Shorthand term for the entire Pentecostal/ Charismatic/Neocharismatic Renewal in the Holy Spirit. |
| Renewalists | Church members involved in the Pentecostal/Charismatic/Independent Charismatic renewal in the Holy Spirit, also collectively known as "Pentecostal-charismatics". |
| Renewalists | Shorthand term for followers of the Pentecostal/Charismatic/Neocharismatic Renewal in the Holy Spirit. |
| research | Studious inquiry or examination: critical and exhaustive investigation or experimentation having for its aim the discovery of new facts and their correct interpretation, the revision of accepted conclusions, theories or laws in the light of newly-discovered facts, or the practical applications of such new or revised conclusions, theories or laws. |
| research centers | Christian-related and church-related centers producing original research and significant at the national or wider levels numbered over 500 in AD 2000. |
| research, religious | See religious research. |
| resident | One who resides in a place for a time, often temporary or of short duration; usually distinguished from inhabitant which implies permanent or long-term habitation. |
| resident population | The de jure population (qv). |
| residential sees | Dioceses or other jurisdictions with a resident bishop each. |
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