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Worlds Parliament of Religions: Where: The city of Chicago When: 1893 and its centenary 1993 Who: all the major religions representatives from the whole world, include Islam, Buddhism and so on. What: the conference included new religious movements of the time, such as Spiritualism and Christian A meeting that provides a platform to let different religions have an open-minded dialogue. The 1893 Parliament which was held in the city of Chicago marked the first formal gathering of representatives of Eastern and Western spiritual traditions. The influence of the meeting is that 人们更open-minded. Trekkies: A group of Star Trek fan. Trekkies in some way resembles a religion, they group together to have their collective gatherings secretly. They regard Star Trek as an important part of their life and it is their belief. In some way they do not like a religion, trekkies all know that what Star Trek talking is not true and they do not have holy text, they do not have social power and they do not have exactly goals. Trekkies are fanatical fans of the Star trek which is a show that was popular in late 1960s. Star trek is a TV show that attracted lots of people in terms of its attractive characters, super natural power, and the ethical morality. Trekkies dressed up, geathering…. Lived religion: In lived religion, we study about the belief, practices, every experiences of religious people who are still alive in the world. Tension exists in lived religion. On the contrary is text religion. Text religion is what we learned from our text book or from other history books related to religion. So, it is meaningful for us to find a religious people to interview in order to acquire some knowledge about lived religion, not only focus on what we study from the course, from the text book. Lived religion?is the ethnographic and holistic framework for understanding the beliefs, practices, and everyday experiences of religious?and spiritual persons in?religious?studies. Even believe