Endnote 3.
A typical definition appears in Stephen Carter's The Culture of Disbelief (New York: Basic Books, 1993: p. 17): "When I refer to religion, I will have in mind a tradition of group worship (as against individual metaphysic) that presupposes the existence of a sentience beyond the human and capable of acting outside of the observed principles and limits of natural science, and, further, a tradition that makes demands of some kind on its adherents."