A study on the definitions of religion from another view

Definition of religion is regarded as a challenging and important treatment in different fields of religious studies particularly in psychological, social and phenomenological fields and in this way, it has appeared as a new theological problem. In this paper, some special principles of deffernt definitions of religion and the imporatance of the definitions have been studied and, with an imphasis on psychological, social and phenomenological definitions, the factors differentiating the definitions have been introduced as: disregarding religion as an independent reality in human life, disregarding the distinction between realized religion and ideal religion, numerous aspects of religion, various fields in religious studies with disagreement in presuppositions and accepted theories.