Collocations for religion - noun

great, major | world
Islam is one of the great world religions.

dominant | established, old | new | orthodox | true | false | alternative
Football has become an alternative religion for many people.

organized
I believe in God, but I don''t belong to any organized religion.

primitive | pagan | monotheistic, polytheistic | eastern
eastern religions such as Shintoism

Hindu, Jewish, etc. | Catholic, evangelical, Orthodox, Protestant | official, state

belong to, have
She has no religion.

follow, practise
Do you still practise your religion?

change | abandon, reject | defend
She believed that her religion needed to be defended by philosophy and logic.

found
He founded a new religion.

spread

be based on sth
a religion based on reason

originate from sth
He believes that all religions originated from a single source.

develop | spread

by ~
These people are predominantly Russian Orthodox by religion.

in a/the ~
In their religion, mountains are sacred.

an adherent/follower of a religion, a form/kind of religion