"world religion" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 16:",
          "text": "It is seen that religious evolution through the ages has been practically One thing - that there has been in fact a World-religion, though with various phases and branches.",
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          "ref": "1995, Carl Sagan, “The Most Precious Thing”, in The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, 1st edition, New York: Random House, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 19:",
          "text": "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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