Religion

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A religion is an organized collection of beliefs, cultural systems, and world views that relate
humanity to an order of existence.
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A critique of Geertz's model by Talal Asad categorized
religion as "an anthropological category."
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Many religions have narratives, symbols, and sacred
histories that are intended to explain the meaning of life and/or to explain the origin of life or the
Universe. From their beliefs about the cosmos and human nature, people derive morality, ethics,
religious laws or a preferred lifestyle. According to some estimates, there are roughly 4,200 religions
in the world.
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Commerce
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Commerce is the whole system of an economy that constitutes an environment for business. The
system includes legal, economic, political, social, cultural and technological systems that are in
operation in any country. Thus, commerce is a system or an environment that affects the business
prospects of an economy or a nation-state. It can also be defined as a component of business which
includes all activities, functions and institutions involved in transferring goods from producers to
consumers.

Government
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A government is the system by which a state or community is governed.
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In Commonwealth
English, a government more narrowly refers to the particular executive in control of a state at a given
time
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known in American English as an administration. In American English, government refers
to the larger system by which any state is organized.
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Furthermore, government is occasionally used
in English as a synonym for governance.
In the case of its broad associative definition, government normally consists of legislators,
administrators, and arbitrators. Government is the means by which state policy is enforced, as well as
the mechanism for determining the policy of the state. A form of government, or form of state
governance, refers to the set of political systems and institutions that make up the organization of a
specific government.
Government of any kind currently affects every human activity in many important ways. For this
reason, political scientists generally argue that government should not be studied by itself; but should
be studied along with anthropology, economics, history, philosophy, science, and sociology.