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Religions are not things you "believe in"; they're descriptions of the way people approach the world. Sociologists usually divide this worldview into the "three Bs" - believing, belonging, behaviour. Add to these the elements that comprise any worldview: ontology, epistemology and axiology (values), and you will soon realise what gets called religion is invariably part of a comprehensive social system. We largely owe our focus on belief to the Protestant Reformation, which emphasised "true" religion as propositional, private and individual (rather than merely being in good standing with church and society, for obvious reasons). And of course, many Atheists come from a distinctly Protestant environment, so that's what they tend to have in their crosshairs. A good primer for this is Nathan McGovern's Seeing through religion There's an interview with the author at New Books Network
There's a book you can read now. Nathan McGovern, 'Seeing through religion'. https://www.amazon.com/Seeing-Through-Religion-Nathan-McGovern/dp/1032646411