Religion is a set of common beliefs and practices generally held by a group of people, which are related to one god or several gods. Religion encompasses ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience, which can morally influence human behaviour, mindsets and moral concepts.
In northern, western and some eastern European Societies, the meaning of religion has decreased in the course of time. Present, religion is treated as a private matter of choice and is therefore interesting on a political level as well as a fact of personal positioning in a setting of different cultural values.