This is the kind of inaccuracy you get by defining ‘religion’ and ‘culture’ by a Pearson textbook for middle schoolers. I am so glad i found this write up as Ihad a hard time finding a book that speaks so clearly on culture and religion in their distinct features. Religion helps people understand the natural calamities happening around them. The people of Bangladesh are greatly influenced by the faith. There have been several theories suggesting the connection of the two such as religion being the center of culture. It can be their way of living, depend on the circumstances, what type of area they are living in and many other factors. In one sense it is correct to say that religion can be a part of culture while culture cannot be a part of worship. That is what constitutes culture which includes religion as one of its many subsets. Religion, in other words, makes sense of the events in every person or believer’s life. It is the faith which can influence people living a particular way of life and can become an important component of culture, but culture can have no influence of belief expect for the ease or difficulty of practicing it. Then I propose that religious groups are cultures, because they have all of the defining features of cultures (such as beliefs and values). Religion does not get influenced by external factors. Read on and take some notes, if you will. Religion is defined as simply as worship of one entity and a set of beliefs provided by that entity. It keeps on evolving with time and just like people change, culture changes. Instead of reasoning and facts, people stick to their beliefs. Religion can be part of culture, and can shape it but culture cannot be part of religion, and neither can influence it. Religion and culture are just two of the closely-related matters in this world but are actually different in nature and definition. Notify me of followup comments via e-mail, Written by : Julian Angelo. It does not evolve with time, and people cannot make changes in it depending on their circumstances. Many factors determine them to be different from each other. Pages: 351-370. However less logic there is. Because of this, religion has become the backbone of most people in every society even at the onset of those times when animism was prevalent. However, the things mentioned earlier are just the physical part of a certain culture. There is no one definition of this term and people can explain it differently but if there is one word to correctly describe culture it has to be society. However, we can never deny the fact that certain cultures can also be disconnected from any form of religion in a society. Thank you very much for stating clearly the difference between religion and culture. 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