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Relievant Medsystems
Relievant Medsystems was an American medical device company founded in 2006, maker of the Intracept system for vertebrogenic back pain, acquired by Boston Scientific in 2023.
ReLIFE
ReLIFE (リライフ) is Yayoiso's full-color webtoon on comico, 2013–2018, 15 volumes, about 27-year-old Arata Kaizaki repeating high school; adapted into a 2016 TMS anime, a stage play, and a 2017 live-action film.
Religare Enterprises
Religare Enterprises is a New Delhi-based financial services holding company, founded in 1984, whose largest business is Care Health Insurance; the Burman family has been its promoter since 2025.
Religio Medici
Religio Medici, Latin for "the religion of a doctor," is a meditative prose work by Sir Thomas Browne expressing his Christian faith, first printed in 1642.
Religion
Religion is the set of social practices, beliefs, and institutions concerning sacred or supernatural realities, organized into communities; in 2020, 75.8% of the world identified with one, Christians the largest group.
Religion and mythology
Religion and mythology: related but distinct domains, where mythology comprises sacred foundational narratives within religion. Covers definitions, the myth-ritual school, structuralist and functionalist theories, and the comparative study of religions.
Religion and schizophrenia
Religion and schizophrenia: religious delusions affect 6–63.3% of patients, religious coping is used by up to 80%, and religiosity shapes help-seeking, adherence, and recovery.
Religion and sexuality
Religion and sexuality, also known as religious views on sex, is the field covering how religious traditions formulate and enforce teachings on sexual behavior, and how adherents' views diverge from official doctrine.
Religion in Afghanistan
Religion in Afghanistan: about 99.7–99.9% Muslim, mostly Hanafi Sunni with a Hazara-dominated Jaafari Shia minority; since the Taliban's 2021 takeover a single strict interpretation of Islam is enforced through the 2024 morality law, with minorities nearly gone and ISIS-K attacking Shia communities.
Religion in Africa
Religion in Africa covers the continent's beliefs and practices, dominated by Christianity and Islam alongside indigenous African traditions; sub-Saharan Africa was 62% Christian and 33% Muslim in 2020.
Religion in Albania
Religion in Albania is a landscape of several communities under a secular state: Sunni Muslims are largest, followed by Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and Bektashi Sufis, with low religious practice overall.
Religion in ancient Rome
Religion in ancient Rome: the polytheistic system of obligations (religio), sacrifice, household gods, priesthoods, the imperial cult, and mystery cults of Mithras and Isis, transformed by Christianity's legalization in 313 CE.
Religion in Armenia
Religion in Armenia is dominated by the Armenian Apostolic Church, an Oriental Orthodox national church that tradition says adopted Christianity in 301, alongside Yazidi, Catholic, and other minorities.
Religion in Asia
Religion in Asia covers the religious demographics of the Asia-Pacific region: 4.5 billion people, no religious majority, 99% of Hindus and 98% of Buddhists, Buddhist decline, and rising unaffiliated populations.
Religion in Australia
Religion in Australia is the pattern of religious affiliation reported in the national census, asked since 1911; Christianity led at 43.9% in 2021, with 38.9% reporting no religion.
Religion in Azerbaijan
Religion in Azerbaijan is practiced in a secular republic of 10.6 million where about 96 percent identify as Muslim, roughly 65 percent Shia and 35 percent Sunni.
Religion in Bangladesh
Religion in Bangladesh is the pattern of belief in a mostly Muslim country: about 91 percent Muslim and 8 percent Hindu per the 2022 census, with Islam the state religion.
Religion in Belgium
Religion in Belgium is historically Catholic, and the state recognizes and funds six religions plus organized secular humanism, with no formal constitutional separation of church and state.
Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Religion in Bosnia and Herzegovina: four recognized communities (Islamic, Serb Orthodox, Catholic, Jewish) tied to Bosniak, Serb, Croat identities; Dayton guarantees, 2004 religion law, census figures, discrimination, and interreligious dialogue.
Religion in Brazil
Religion in Brazil covers the country's religious landscape: historically Catholic under Portuguese rule, now plural, with the 2022 census showing 56.7% Catholic, 26.9% evangelical Protestant, 9.3% unaffiliated, and growing Afro-Brazilian religions.
Religion in Canada
Religion in Canada: religious affiliations measured by the decennial census since 1871. In 2021, 53.3% Christian, 34.6% no religion, 4.9% Muslim; immigration drives growth of non-Christian religions; Quebec secularized after the 1960s Quiet Revolution.
Religion in China
Religion in China comprises five state-recognized religions, Buddhism, Taoism, Islam, Catholicism, and Protestantism, administered through patriotic associations, alongside a much larger body of folk religion and ancestor veneration.
Religion in Egypt
Religion in Egypt is dominated by Sunni Islam, about 90 percent of the population, with a roughly 10 percent Christian minority centered on the Coptic Orthodox Church.
Religion in England
Religion in England is the pattern of religious belief and practice in England, where the 2021 census made Christians a minority at 46.2% while "no religion" reached 37.2%.
Religion in Eritrea
Religion in Eritrea is divided almost evenly between Eritrean Orthodox Tewahedo Christianity and Sunni Islam, and since 2002 the government has authorized only four denominations, with hundreds of other believers reportedly imprisoned.
Religion in Ethiopia
Religion in Ethiopia spans Orthodox Christianity adopted in the fourth century under Emperor Ezana, Islam tracing to the first hijra, fast-growing Protestantism, and surviving indigenous traditions.
Religion in Europe
Religion in Europe covers the continent's beliefs and institutions: in 2020 about 67% of Europeans were Christian, 25% unaffiliated, and 6% Muslim, with Christianity declining.
Religion in France
Religion in France is shaped by laïcité, the 1905 law separating church and state; in 2019–2020, 51% of people aged 18–59 declared no religion, 29% Catholic, and 10% Muslim.
Religion in Germany
Religion in Germany is marked by the decline of the two large Christian churches and a growing religiously unaffiliated population that surpassed combined Christian membership in 2024.
Religion in Ghana
Religion in Ghana is 71.3% Christian, 19.9% Muslim, and 3.2% traditionalist by the 2021 census, with no state religion and constitutional freedom to practice any faith.