religion vs sacrilege

religion

noun
  • Rituals and actions associated with religious beliefs, but considered apart from them. 

  • Any practice to which someone or some group is seriously devoted. 

  • Belief in a spiritual or metaphysical reality (often including at least one deity), accompanied by practices or rituals pertaining to the belief. 

  • A particular system of such belief, and the rituals and practices proper to it. 

  • The way of life committed to by monks and nuns. 

verb
  • Engage in religious practice. 

  • To make sacred or symbolic; sanctify. 

  • Indoctrinate into a specific religion. 

sacrilege

noun
  • Desecration, profanation, misuse or violation of something regarded as sacred. 

How often have the words religion and sacrilege occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )