world religion
English
Noun
world religion (plural world religions)
- An internationally widespread religious belief system which has become generally recognized as having independent status from any other religion, but which nonetheless may have many, sometimes mutually antagonistic, sects or denominations.
- Christianity is a world religion consisting of Roman Catholics, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Protestants.
- 1995, Sagan, Carl, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, First edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, LCCN 95-34076, OCLC 676826053, page 19:
- While vast barriers may seem to stretch between a local, single-focus contention of pseudoscience and something like a world religion, the partitions are very thin.
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