Is my religious education an outcome of this place? (8)
I believe the answer is:
seminary
'is my religious education an outcome of this place?' is the definition.
Although both the answer and definition are singular nouns, I cannot understand how they can define each other.
'education an outcome of this place?' is the wordplay.
'education' becomes 'seminar' (seminar is a kind of education).
'an outcome of this place?' becomes 'y' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'seminar'+'y'='SEMINARY'
(Other definitions for seminary that I've seen before include "Religious training college" , "Educational establishment" , "private school" , "Theological school" , "College for priests or rabbis" .)