 that constitutes what religion is (Collected Works, vol. 1, p. 33). (While some idealists, such as Pringle-Pattison, seem to have held that such an Absolute is God, Bosanquet did not—though neither does he explicitly reject the existence of God.) Still, religious belief is neither the same as, nor tied essentially to, rituals and practices. Neither does it require adherence or assent to a set of propositions or dogmas—and certainly not to a set of propositions focusing on beings or events in the history of a community of believers. Religious belief is, in short, quite distinct from theism. In this, Bosanquet brings to completion views characteristic of many of the nineteenth-century British idealist philosophers (see Sweet 2014).