"religiology" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Etymology: From religio- + -logy. Etymology templates: {{confix|en|religio|logy}} religio- + -logy Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} religiology (uncountable)
  1. Synonym of religious studies Tags: uncountable Synonyms: religious studies [synonym, synonym-of] Derived forms: religiological, religiologist
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          "text": "Since beauty and ugliness, rightness and wrongness, wisdom and folly, income and expenditures all involve goodness and badness, then understanding the general, specific, and particular problems in aesthetics, ethics, religiology, and economics, etc., involve understanding goodness and badness.",
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