Religion without belief

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Tim Mansfield

Religion without belief
Belief is the second album of the British EBM group Nitzer Ebb. It was the first album recorded with drummer Julian Beeston (who took over from David Gooday), and Flood took over as producer from Phil Harding.
Belief n. 
1. Mental acceptance of a claim as truth.
2. Something believed.
3. The quality or state of believing.
4. One's religious or moral convictions.
5. Religious faith.

Source: Wiktionary

Belief 
late 12c., replaced O.E. geleafa "belief, faith," from W.Gmc. *ga-laubon (cf. O.S. gilobo, M.Du. gelove, O.H.G. giloubo, Ger. glaube), from *galaub- "dear, esteemed." [...] Belief used to mean "trust in God," while faith meant "loyalty to a person based on promise or duty" (a sense preserved in keep one's faith, in good (or bad) faith and in common usage of faithful, faithless, which contain no notion of divinity). But faith, as cognate of L. fides, took on the religious sense beginning in 14c. translations, and belief had by 16c. become limited to "mental acceptance of something as true," from the religious use in the sense of "things held to be true as a matter of religious doctrine" (early 13c.).

Source: Online Etymology Dictionary
1000AD Love
1200 AD Trust
1500AD Mental acceptance
Belief
A religion is a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a supernatural agency or agencies
involving devotional and ritual observances
a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs
narrative, symbolism, beliefs, and practices that are supposed to give meaning to the practitioner's experiences of life
religion is commonly identified by the practitioner's prayer, ritual, meditation, music and art, among other things
specific supernatural, metaphysical, and moral claims about reality
ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and religious experience
Truth claims
Behaviours
injunction - do something
experience - gather data
interpretation
communal confirmation
Post-metaphysical meaning
The meaning of a statement is the injunction of its enactment

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