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The task of defining what a worship is, is certainly not an easy task. For countless millennia existencekind has worshipped a pantheon of deities whether that is the solarize as seen within ancient Aztec culture or whether that is the theology of the Hebrews. hence a definition of what is Religion must be accessible and furthermost encompassing as it seems it must address a myriad of beliefs which protest in scope. The three definitions I have chosen in revision to analyse concentrate on primarily on the nature of the Belief within a religion. For example Marx saw Religion as a inwardness of enslavement in order to maintain the status quo by the honor of an ideology which maintained absolute equilibrium leading to stagnation and frankincense a lack of change. Thus the belief in a religion is simply the reaction of the oppressed to offer them a shade of harbor in a heartless world. Tylor focused upon the notion of belief as defining religion, in that Religion itself is formulated by raw man explaining what he did not understand by giving all things Animas to explain what they could not understand. He claims belief in spiritual beingnesss to be Animism and that mankind has carried the resultant ignorance. Feuerbachs definition is certainly thought-provoking as his definition of God being a construct of Man, rather than traditional vice versa. Feuerbach as with Tylor and Marx, focus on the nature of belief within religion, I have chosen this as I would prefer to focus upon the belief of religion, rather than the practice due in part to Freuds insistence the practice of religion is a neurosis which has spread through the generations, and also as I would prefer to be able to set about comparisons between the three definitions with the nature of belief being a funda... ... primitive man could not understand, and as such ar of the result of the ignorance of primeval society. Tylor therefore argues that the idea of a belief in a God or Gods is the result of the survival Religion surviving, Tylor claims that Religious survival is due to more or less being guilty of limiting and relying on an outdated customs duty whilst science can explain away such phenomena away. This explanation is surd to categorise, as it is certainly a sociological explanation, as well being anthropological and psychological. Studies analysed by Keleman have identified that children seem to identify some objects in a similar method of Tylors animism in that things are given morality positive or negative based on the likelihood of causing harm to the child. This could be evidence supporting Tylors argument that through knowledge such things become more than nigh(a) or bad.