Religious Dialogue. What is religion?

What is religion? According to an Oxford dictionary, religion is the belief in the existence of a supernatural ruling power, the creator and controller of the universe, who has given to man a spirtual nature which continues to exist after the death of the body. Religion appears to be a simple idea on the surface, but in reality it is a very complex system of ideas that many base their lives upon. There are many …

…society can respect the religious diversity in the world, the challenge of relgious pluralism can be met. W.C. Smith says it best, 'Unless men can learn to understand and to be loyal to each other across religious frontiers, unless we can build a world in which people profoundly of different faiths can live together and work together, then the prospects for our planets future are not bright' ('The Christian in a Religiously Plural World' 11).