# Learning outcomes

After studying this course, you should be able to:

- identify some different ways in which religion can be understood
- understand the historical reasons behind classifying some traditions as World Religions
- describe the contemporary consequences of how religions are classified.

OpenLearn - Why not ‘World Religions’?
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