Religion involves psychology {psychology, religion} {religion, psychology}.
emotion
Religion can express emotions, such as humility, reverence, awe, ecstasy, joy, and terror. Religion allies with art.
mystical experience
People can have unwilled short ineffable feelings of insight.
religious behavior
Religion seeks perfection through good behaviors. Pray. Fast. Sacrifice wants. Have patience. Seek unity with God. Be content. Concentrate on ideal things. Be humble. Do good works. Give alms. Contribute money. Worship. Tell truth. Honor oaths. Obey God. Repent sin. Serve. Perform rituals. Fear God. Live in harmony with other people. Respect people. Be serious and solemn. Trust in God. Have joy in faith. Be at peace with oneself. Resign oneself to fate. Be conscious of duty.
religious experience
Religions appear to have arisen from personal experiences. Religious experiences follow periods of uneasiness. Then insight grasps solution. People feel sense of wholeness and sense of something given from outside, without asking for it, without earning it. From such experiences, people can infer a giver. Givers can be something unseen outside person and have power to do amazing things.
Myths of flight and ascension suggest escape from one mode of being to another. Religious feeling can manifest as speaking in tongues, trembling, writhing, or religious possession.
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