Religion is a broad term that describes the belief in a supreme power or gods. It also describes the beliefs, phenomena and practices associated with those religions. To learn more about any particular religion, it is best to read the Holy Book of that religion (if you can). Then you can go to the source and truly understand that religion. This will help you to understand what the religion is all about and why they believe it the way they do. If you aren’t ready to choose a religion, then keep an open mind and learn about all of them. Then you can decide for yourself which one is the right one.
In antiquity, the concept of religion was used to sort people into social types that differed from each other in a variety of ways. In its earliest senses, the word “religion” approximated the Latin verb religio and thus meant “scrupulous devotion.” These early definitions were all what we now call “substantive” in that they define membership in the category of religion by the presence of some defining property. The European Enlightenment reworked the intellectual understanding of religion, leading to new epistemologies that separated the study of human behavior from earlier theological studies.
The twentieth century saw the emergence of a new approach to understanding religion that dropped the idea that any specific instance could be accurately described by a substantial definition and treated the category as having a prototype structure instead. Emile Durkheim’s definition of religion, for example, turns on the notion that religious practice helps to create a moral community.