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Not sure if you'd call it religious or not...but it's the gathering of the body. It can mean pretty much any social event that we do together. Anything from a potluck to a hayrack ride to a bunch of us guys heading out to shoot clay pigeons. Of course, it would also apply to a gathering for worship.
Fellowship has a religious connotation among certain religious groups such as evangelical Christians. Those folks generally don't use the word outside of a religious context in my experience.
But the word itself simply means, loosely, "social interaction between a group of friends or people in a social group". It could be applied to a trade union meeting or an office birthday party as well as to anything else.
My guess is that in popular American usage at least, the word has been largely ceded to the religious and has come to have something of an unctuous tone to most people's ears. It is also an increasingly old-fashioned word in this era of social media, "meetups","flash mobs" and the like.
Most definitely has a religious connotation to me. I don't remember ever hearing a non-believer use fellowship in conversation. "Blessed" is another one.
It denotes 4 hobbits, two men, an elf, a dwarf, and a wizard.
That's actually pretty good. Those 9 characters have something in common -- the ring.
In Christianity, "fellowship" means that we all have something in common -- Jesus.
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