Mr. Stark and others started using economic language to describe religion in the mid-1980's.

To describe and explain ancient Indigenous religion, beliefs, practices, deities.

Marx once described religion as the 'opium of the people'.

The terms witch and witchcraft should also not be used to describe traditional African religion in general.

In this latter sense, he described religion as "the opium of the people."

He used it to describe organized religion, government, and the music industry.

He also describes Nuer cosmology and religion in his books.

But it would also be a mistake to describe Roman religion as an easy, tolerant co-existence of cults.

Displays at the museum describe the culture, religion and stories of the immigrants as they worked in the Woonsocket mills.

A striking number of young people described religion as a tool of repression.