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| an agreed on and formalized pattern of ceremonial movements and verbal expressions carried out in a sacred context |
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| rituals connected with critical events in the lives of individuals |
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| transitional stages in ones life’s (thresholds) |
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| spontaneous bond of communion between members of a society |
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| - the transition from the asexual world o childhood to an adult society that is differentiated by sexual roles |
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| - a ritual undertaken to meet a specific crisis in the life of an individual or a community |
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| Seasonal and calendar rites |
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| closely associated with the rhythmic changes of nature; with the cycles of the sun and moon; with winter, spring, summer, and autumn; as well as with seed time and harvest |
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| - Hindu holy text only to be recited in Sanskrit |
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| Islam holy text only to be in Arabic |
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| Jewish Holy text only to be read in Hebrew |
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| normative (accepted) scriptures of a community |
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| oral traditions relating to the words and deeds of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, collections are regarded as important tools for determining the Sunnah, or Muslim way of life, by all traditional schools of jurisprudence. |
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| In contemporary usage in religious studies,refers to the study of the interpretation of religious texts. |
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| the holy book, or scriptures, of the Sikhs |
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| term refers to different cultures, religions, and ethnicities in a certain area |
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| putting up with other religions |
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| accepting other religions |
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| leaves things out or traps them out |
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| the merging of cultural traits from formerly distinct cultural groups |
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| head of Greek pantheon, god of all Greek gods |
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| associated with the themes of death and rebirth, had a deep human appeal and spread far beyond Egypt |
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| perceives the world as constituted by or as living under the ordering of two coequal, and often coeternal, sacred powers |
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| dualism of China is very ancient and reflects a benign, complementary conception of two ancient sacred cosmic forces or principles |
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| the ancient religion of Persia |
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| - according to Persian tradition; he was instructed by Ahura Mazda in the true religion and led to the reform of ancient Persian polytheism |
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| The supreme deity in the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia |
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| tendency to view God in too human terms |
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| The bad spirit of the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia |
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| the belief that all existing things are in some sense divine |
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| interchangeable with the term above |
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| is a philosophical term used within Hinduism and Vedanta to identify the soul. It is one's true self (hence generally translated into English as 'Self') beyond identification with the phenomenal reality of worldly existence |
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| belief in one holistic god and creator |
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| refers to those religions that, while recognizing the reality of many gods, but they worship and believe in the ascendancy of only one god. |
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| an account of the emergence or creation of world order |
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| a religion that began in ancient India as a protest against Hindu ritualism, goal is to free the coul from its imprisonment in karmis matter and the cycle of rebith |
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| an account of the emergence or creation of world order |
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| refers to the recognition by some physicists of the extraordinary fine-tuning observed and required to explain our natural world as we know it |
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| to legally require the teaching of the biblical account of Creation as science in science courses in the public schools |
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| The bad spirit of the Zoroastrian religion of ancient Persia |
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