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• Sacred
  ==The sacred in comparative religion== ...eligion was not [[deity]] but the distinction between sacred and profane: "religion is a unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things, tha
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• Encyclopedia of Russian History
  ...d [[sociology|social systems]]; and is designed to complement the study of comparative politics, world history, [[geography]], [[literature]], [[The Arts|arts]] a
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• Thought Controller
  ...] [[stages]] of [[being]]: From the arrival of the [[Adjuster]] to [[Adult|comparative full growth]], about twenty years of age on [[Urantia]], the [[Monitors]] a [[Category: Religion]]
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• Cult
  In [[tradition]]al usage, the '''cult''' of a [[religion]], quite apart from its sacred writings ("[[scripture]]s"), its [[theology] ..., "cult" has come to connote the total [[culture|cultural]] aspects of 'a' religion, as they are distinguished from others through differentiation.
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• Mana
  ...'mana''', and this term has since been a staple of [[anthropological]] and comparative [[religious]] analytics. ...ward_Tylor Edward Tylor]’s claim that the [[simplest]] [[form]] of human [[religion]] was [[animism]], or the [[belief]] in [[spiritual]] [[beings]]. Marett, r
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• 134:4 Sovereignty—Divine and Human
  ...it [[possesses]] exclusive [[authority]] over other religions, will such a religion presume to be intolerant of other religions or dare to [[persecute]] other ...se sight of the [[spirit]] [[sovereignty]] of God [[the Father]], some one religion will begin to [[assert]] its superiority over other religions; and then, in
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• Scripture
  ...d States, 2008) [https://www.religionfacts.com/religion/quotes.htm What is religion?]</ref> ...y, 2004, Donald B. Redford. ''The Ancient Gods Speak: A Guide to Egyptian Religion.'' Oxford University Press, 2002)
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• Holy
  ...was not [[deity]] but the distinction between [[sacred]] and [[profane]]: "religion is a unified system of [[belief]]s and [[practice]]s [[relative]] to sacred ...a.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schleiermacher Friedrich Schleiermacher], who defined religion as a [[feeling]] or [[experience]] rather than adherence to [[doctrine]].)
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• Interfaith
  ...er than to synthesize new beliefs. There is a view that the [[history]] of religion shows [[conflict]] has been more the state of affairs than [[dialogue]]. ...relations refers to [[relationships]] between religions (rel. comparative religion).
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• Salvation
  In religion, '''salvation''' is the [[concept]] that [[God]] or other Higher Power, as ...to [[analyze]] in assessing the [[meaning]] of salvation to a particular [[religion]]:
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• 4:5 Erroneous Ideas of God
  ...of your [https://institute.daynal.org/books/extended_reference/humanities/religion/sacred/sacred_texts.html sacred books] clearly to distinguish between the [ ...tal man is beginning to [[realize]] that he lives in a realm of [[Relative|comparative]] [[law]] and [[Cosmos|order]] as far as concerns the [[administrative]] [[
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• Religion
  ...e been affected by revealed religion. Slowly, surely, but grudgingly, does religion ([[worship]]) follow in the wake of [[wisdom]]--[[knowledge]] directed by e ...ior]]s, and institutions. It describes, compares, interprets, and explains religion, emphasizing systematic, historically-based, and cross-cultural perspective
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• Deity
  ...of religion. At present, the vast majority of humans are adherents of some religion, and this has been true for at least thousands of years. Human burials from ...rth, and fire. The [[anthropology|anthropologist]] E. B. Tylor argued that religion originally took an animist form. [[Theism]] is the view that at least one d
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• Esotericism
  ...], from the Greek ''ἐξωτερικός}}'' ''eksôterikos'', from ''eksôtero'', the comparative form of ''ἔξω}}'' ''eksô'': "outside". [[Plato]], in his dialogue ''Al ...nitiation. Some see Christianity, with its ritual of baptism, as a mystery religion.
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• Monk
  ...the same [[purpose]]. The [[concept]] is ancient and can be seen in many [[religion]]s and in philosophy. ...f twice lived for prolonged periods as a hermit, which may account for the comparative length of the characteristics of their life in this list.
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• Valentin Tomberg
  ...d in the Tallinn Central Post Office. He studied languages and comparative religion at the University of Tartu in Estonia. [[Category: Religion]]
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• Wingmakers, Featured Links
  ...rit.org/ Science & Spirit] - Explores the relationship between science and religion in the context of our everyday lives. Broad mix of subjects ranging from co ...ation of the seminal works of Joseph Campbell on mythology and comparative religion. Dr. Campbell was best known for his PBS special with Bill Moyers called th
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• Evolution and Religion, M. Ruse
  There is a common belief that [[evolution]] and [[religion]], Darwinian evolution and Christianity especially, are world pictures that ...in the history of life, from "monad" to "man." Critics, like the father of comparative anatomy, the French biologist Georges Cuvier, found the idea religiously of
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• Theology
  ...son]]ed [[discourse]] about God or the [[gods]], or more generally about [[religion]] or [[spirituality]]. * make [[comparative religion|comparisons]] between religious traditions,<ref>See, e.g., David Burrell, '
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• 2003-07-20-Letting Your Light Shine
  ...in the long [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_religions history of religion] on this world and still it is incompletely understood because human beings ...[book]] of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_religion comparative religion] contrasting the fact that [[Jesus]] did not write anything down versus [[M
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• New Religious Movement
  '''New religious movement''' (NRM) is a term used to refer to a [[religion|religious]] faith or an ethical, [[spiritual]], or philosophical [[movement ...g from loose affiliations based on novel approaches to [[spirituality]] or religion to communitarian enterprises that demand a considerable amount of [[group]]
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• Trinity Teacher Sons
  ...e. They will be due to appear on Urantia after its inhabitants have gained comparative deliverance from the shackles of animalism and from the fetters of material ...e. They will be due to appear on Urantia after its inhabitants have gained comparative deliverance from the shackles of [[animalism]] and from the fetters of [[ma
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• Mythology
  ==Religion and mythology== ...e, scholars may speak of "religious mythology" without meaning to insult [[religion]]. (For instance, a scholar may call [[Christian]] and [[Muslim]] scripture
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• Seven psychic circles
  ...r equal partner in the attainment of the seven circles--the achievement of comparative [[mortal]] maturity. The Adjuster ascends the circles with you from the sev [[Category: Religion]]
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• Genocide
  ...olitical and social institutions, of culture, language, national feelings, religion, and the economic existence of national groups, and the destruction of the ...Definition in the Jurisprudence of the Ad Hoc Tribunals", International & Comparative Law Quarterly (2000), 49 : 578-598 Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/
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• Compassion
  ...res and interviews around the world by the prominent writer on comparative religion [[Karen Armstrong]]. * [https://encyclopedia-of-religion.org/compassion.html Compassion: Encyclopedia of Spiritual Knowledge.]
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• Prophecy
  ...oral prophecy, with only marginal appeal to divination (e.g., in Israelite religion). ...oracles became, at least in part, the revelational basis of a major world religion. Zarathushtra (Zoroaster), a Persian prophet of the late second millennium
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• Chapter 2 - The Sojourn at Rome
  ...ities or pass away before the emergence of a material science or spiritual religion of a truer and more worthy order.” ...such spirit personalities, goodness is no longer partial, contrastive, and comparative. It has become divinely complete and spiritually replete. It approaches the
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• Paper 4 - God's Relation to the Universe
  ...nite mind of [[time]]; hence must there always be afforded a contrast with comparative [[evil]] (not [[sin]]) for the effective exhibition of all [[phases]] of [[ ...se of science and the self-existent [[Unity]] of philosophy are the God of religion, full of [[mercy]] and [[goodness]] and pledged to [[effect]] the eternal [
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• Islamic philosophy
  ...rue adherent of [[Islam]], which is believed to be a [[Revelation|revealed religion]] by its adherents. In this view, all attempts at synthesis ultimately fail ...rer and more difficult path is to apply analytical philosophy to one's own religion. In this case a religious person would also be a philosopher, by asking que
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• Golden rule
  == Religion == ...ext of the [[C. S. Lewis]] book [[The Abolition of Man]], which includes a comparative appendix.
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• 64:6 The Six Sangik Races of Urantia
  ...AYAL Caligastia's] downfall a widespread [[revival]] of [[learning]] and [[religion]] of a [[primitive]] sort—but none the less real and beneficial—occurre ...[enlightened]] and more recently taught [[groups]] lived [[together]] in [[comparative]] [[harmony]], though no great [[cultural]] [[conquest]] of the world races
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• Anthropology
  ...s|cross-cultural comparisons]] (socio-cultural anthropology is by nature a comparative discipline),<ref name="Langlois99" /> and the importance it places on long- ...ge of Classics, also concerned himself with religion, myth, and magic. His comparative studies, most influentially in the numerous editions of [[The Golden Bough]
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• God
  ...commonly refers to the [[deity]] [[worship]]ped by followers of various [[religion]]s, whom they believe to be the [[Creation|Creator]] and ruler of the [[uni In the context of comparative religion, "God" is also often related to concepts of universal deity in Dharmic reli
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• Heresy
  ...ndpoint of [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_religion comparative religion], an understanding of the applicability of the concept of heresy can shed l ...le or norm of [[faith]] was wholly [[alien]] to such a national or popular religion. As a result, divergent views on, for example, the nature of the gods or si
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• Adultery
  ...hem. The nature of these attitudes vary widely depending on local culture, religion and values, and how seriously the adulterer regards the opinions of others. ...jstor.org/sici?sici=0007-1315(195612)7%3A4%3C286%3AACATIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M A Comparative Approach to Incest and Adultery]'' The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 7
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• Biblical Apocrypha
  A comparative list can be found in the article on [[books of the Bible]]. For extra-bibl [[Category: Religion]]
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• Paper 71 - Development of the State
  ...olution]] does not at once produce superlative [[perfection]] but rather [[comparative]] and advancing [[practical]] [[adjustment]]. ...ted by the [[co-ordination]] of [[science]], [[commerce]], [[play]], and [[religion]].
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• Paper 16 - The Seven Master Spirits
  ...implied [[a priori]] [[assumptions]] of [[science]], [[philosophy]], and [[religion]]. This [[reality]] [[sensitivity]] of the cosmic mind responds to certain ...knows its [[moral]] [[duty]]; [[spirit]]-[[faith]] ([[worship]]) is the [[religion]] of the [[reality]] of [[spiritual]] [[experience]]. These three basic fac
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• Social Sciences
  ...nean Basin|Mediterranean]] and [[South Asia]]. Al-Biruni's anthropology of religion was only possible for a scholar deeply immersed in the lore of other nation ...]], [[Experimental economics|psychology]], [[Economic history|history]], [[religion]], [[marriage]] and family life, and other social interactions.
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• Paper 64 - The Evolutionary Races
  ...Onagar] were vanishing from the [[face]] of the [[earth]]; [[culture]], [[religion]], and even [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Sandel_Mesolithic_site#Art ...ki/Ape apelike creatures] that they were scarcely [[human]]. They had no [[religion]] but were crude flintworkers and [[possessed]] sufficient [[intelligence]]
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• Paper 134 - The Transition Years
  ...e building—a [[lecture]] [[amphitheater]]—[[dedicated]] to the " spirit of religion. " This [[structure]] was really a [[temple]] of the [https://en.wikipedia. 134:3.2 This [[temple]] of [[religion]] had been built by a [[wealthy]] merchant [[citizen]] of [https://en.wikip
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• Human Being
  ...ugh [[animal cognition]], [[ethology]], [[evolutionary psychology]], and [[comparative psychology]] as well. [[Human ecology]] is an [[List of academic discipline ...r step in cultural evolution. Language is closely tied to [[ritual]] and [[religion]] (cf. [[mantra]], [[sacred text]]).
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• Paper 132 - The Sojourn at Rome
  ...on]] of these thirty Romans for the subsequent [[leadership]] of the new [[religion]] in [[Rome]] and throughout the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Empir ...away before the [[emergence]] of a [[material]] [[science]] or spiritual [[religion]] of a truer and more [[worthy]] order.
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• Paper 12 - The Universe of Universes
  ...is gigantic outer belt of [[force]] [[activity]], there is a space zone of comparative quiet, which varies in width but averages about four hundred thousand [[lig 12:3.5 2. ''Spiritual Gravity''. By the same [[technique]] of comparative estimation and calculation these [[researchers]] have explored the [[presen
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• States of Consciousness
  ...nitive aspect of the mystical state. This is not the rational, discursive, comparative function of thinking, however. It is, rather, visionary understanding or wi ...fall prey. There Freud wrote of a friend who was opposed to his idea that religion is a crutch allowing psychologically weak people, enfeebled because of thei
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• 2004-08-21-Morontia Energetic Mind Expansion
  ...re meant to be addressed to every individual, no matter what philosophy or religion or tenets of belief they wish to live by in their life. This may not assist ...ared to others who hold the same beliefs and who are adherents to the same religion. We do not weigh the worth of any one organization.
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• 2007-05-06-No One Is Denied
  ...ives, looking for ways to learn more about what the options might be, some comparative analysis. ...of God and so the battle is on. This is the way it is, though, in evolved religion.
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• Totalitarianism
  ...[[debates]] about the reformability and durability of the Soviet system in comparative [[politics]]. ...itarianism.” Polis 5 (1986): 4-29. Reprinted in Plato 2: Ethics, Politics, Religion, and the Soul, ed. Gail Fine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 280-2
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• 2016-08-21-Solving the Disunity of the Urantia Revelation
  ...revelation, as it was and still is being directed by the Revelators. This comparative study will afford new [[readers]] and committed long-time readers a deeper ...nd passed them on to present-day inhabitants such that today many follow a religion about Jesus that is hardly recognizable as originating from him.
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