revealed religions

Noun

revealed religion (countable and uncountable, plural revealed religions)

1. (uncountable) The type of religion which relies on communication originating directly from a divine being (as reported by prophets, mystics, disciples, etc.) to establish what religious beliefs are authoritative and acceptable.
   • I am in no wise anxious to weaken the antithesis between natural and revealed religion. Science may help the former, but it has absolutely nothing to do with the latter.1856, Charles Kingsley, chapter 16, in Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet
2. (countable) A particular system of religious beliefs based on such communication from a divine being.
   • Cicero . . . destroyed the whole revealed religion of the Greeks and Romans (for why should not theirs be a revealed religion as well as that of Christ?)1713, Jonathan Swift, chapter 6, in Writings on Religion and the Church, Vol. I