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• Conversion
  ...tem]], but may also present itself in other ways, such as adoption into an identity group or spiritual lineage. ...e]] [[agency]], volitional [[choice]] to acquire new beliefs and religious identity, [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marital_conversion marital conversion] , [h
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• Oxford Companion to Scottish History
  ...themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious [[belief]] across the centuries in an [[authoritative]] yet approachable wa ...o its competitors - in providing [[analysis]] of issues such as national [[identity]] and living standards and by offering [[readers]] a broader range of topic
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• Psychedelics
  ...ses|sensory]] deprivation, yoga exercises, [[discipline]]d [[meditation]], religious or [[aesthetic]] [[ecstasies]], or [[spontaneous]]ly. Most recently they ha
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• Cultural Formation
  ...entity (philosophy)|personal identity]] and an [[Identity (social science)|identity]] where the individual has some sort of comprehension of him or herself as ...gs. [[James Marcia]]'s theory focuses on identity achievement and has four identity statuses. [[Maria Montessori]]'s sensitive periods of development is concer
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• Nationalism
  ...ists stress [[individualism]] as an important part of their own national [[identity]]. ...f national [[identity]] are often considered [[sacred]], as if they were [[religious]] rather than [[political]] [[symbols]]. Deep [[emotions]] are aroused. Gel
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• 2013-12-23-Celebrating Special Dates
  ...your own: to keep alive values that are meaningful to them – to people, to religious groups, even to entire civilizations. No nation, culture or religion has it ...nd you that you are part of a historical stream of faith that gives you an identity in your spiritual community. Indeed, most of these dates should prompt you
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• 16:9 Reality of Human Consciousness
  ...ntia]] [[status]] and increasingly [[divine]] [[value]]. [[Personality]] [[identity]] survives in and by the survival of the [[soul]]. 16:9.8 [[Altruism|Unselfish]] social consciousness must be, at bottom, a [[religious]] [[consciousness]]; that is, if it is objective; otherwise it is a [[purel
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• Atavism
  ..."more [[primitive]]" tendencies (e.g. [[warlike]] [[attitudes]], "[[clan]] identity", anything suggesting the social and political atmosphere of thousands of y ...escribed "pagans" seeking to overthrow what they deemed to be centuries of religious [[oppression]] by Christianity.
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• 141:5 Spiritual Unity
  ...ho behold your lives will of a surety take cognizance of this [[spirit]] [[identity]] and [[soul]] [[unity]]; they will [[recognize]] that you have been with m ...ould become [[dogmatized]] and [[standardized]] in [[accordance]] with the religious [[interpretations]] of even [[good]] men. Again and again he warned his [[a
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• 2012-02-05-Exclusivity of Belief
  ...als is that once the physical body expires, life, the personality, and the identity of the individual is terminated and no longer holds a presence or conscious ...thout question, the tenets of its creeds and to practice and adhere to the religious doctrines taught by the group. This type of belief system may be beneficial
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• 120:3 Further Counsel and Advice
  ...s of your day. More especially [[devote]] yourself to living the [[ideal]] religious life on [[Urantia]]. ...in [[privileges]] pertaining to the advancement of the [[spiritual]] and [[religious]] [[status]] of the world peoples.
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• 2009-03-16-Urantia Remains Experimental
  ...ealize how blessed you are to have your spirituality as a big part of your identity. You know that when you are making decisions you will often first think of This week let us think if we are putting energy toward a false identity, then make effort to reconnect with the Spirit. Knowing the Master’s pers
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• Ethnic
  ...people classed according to common [[racial]], [[nation]]al, [[tribal]], [[religious]], [[linguistic]], or [[cultural]] [[origin]] or background <ethnic minorit ...group are conscious of belonging to an ethnic [[group]]; moreover ethnic [[identity]] is further marked by the [[recognition]] from others of a group's distinc
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• 132:0 The Sojourn at Rome
  ...pare time for almost six months in [[intimate]] [[association]] with these religious [[teachers]]. And this was his [[method]] of instruction: Never once did he ...cord]] the [[fact]] that, out of this group of thirty-two [[Jesus]]-taught religious [[leaders]] in [[Rome]], only two were unfruitful; the thirty became pivota
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• 2020-07-28-God as a Pronoun
  ...iations. Regardless of the variety of ways one may view his or her gender identity, regardless of how one may respond sexually, and regardless of whether you ...male attributes in such a way that you shed your gender for a more unified identity much in the way that our Creator functions.
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• Self-government
  ...e, absolute government or monarchy, as well as demands for [[autonomy]] by religious, ethnic or geographic regions which [[perceive]] themselves as being unrepr ...can, and many do, "rat" (inform) on their [[colleagues]], gaining a new [[identity]], e.g., via the FBI Witness protection program in the U.S.. Such [[betraya
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• Veil
  ...ocial distance and the [[communication]] of [[social status]] and cultural identity. The [[Quran]] has no requirement that women cover their faces with a veil,
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• 2002-01-27-Soul Expectations
  ...[living philosophy]], are very important. And this kind of [[crisis]] of [[identity]], this question of who am I and what kind of person shall I be, comes up o ...this serene acceptance of reality is the mark of [[religious living]]. The religious person accepts reality as it is but fully [[expects]] that reality to [[cha
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• Stage
  ...[[ethical]] realms, Stages continues onward to the consideration of the [[religious]] realms. ...d [[progresses]], the [[writer]] begins to distance himself from his own [[identity]], subtly shifting to third person descriptions of, and eventually warnings
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• 2011-01-07-Walking On Their Own
  ...uman beings of ancient times to follow the rules and to establish a social identity that contributed to the development of nations and modern social groups. Ma
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• Self Governance
  ...bsolute government or [[monarchy]], as well as demands for [[autonomy]] by religious, ethnic or geographic regions which perceive themselves as being unrepresen ...luding ethnic or ethical 'nations' not defined by national borders, and of religious organizations, which have professional and political elements. There are ma
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• 1994-06-07-Socializing Your Religious Pursuit
  ===Topic: ''Socializing Your Religious Pursuit''=== ...ation]] of your [[purposes]], both individual and group. [[Socializing]] [[religious]] pursuit is good in the [[effort]] to produce [[spiritual]] outcome. Socia
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• Yoga
  ...dia.org/wiki/Samsara samsara]), at which point there is a realization of [[identity]] with the Supreme Brahman. In the Mahabharata, the aim of yoga is variousl ...austere self-[[discipline]] common to nearly all forms of [[mystical]] and religious life. The practices at the [[foundation]] of this self-disciplined life are
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• 92:4 The Gift of Revelation
  ...nal [[value]] and in some concept of the [[survival]] of [[personality]] [[identity]] after [[death]]. 92:4.4 There have been many [[events]] of religious [[revelation]] but only five of [[epochal]] significance. These were as fol
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• Ritual
  ...rescribed by a [[religion]] or by the [[tradition]]s of a [[community]] by religious or [[political]] [[law]]s because of the perceived efficacy of those action ...set of the [[community]], and may enable or underscore the passage between religious or social states.
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• Tolerance
  ...hibited. Though developed to refer to the religious toleration of minority religious sects following the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation P ...he modern understanding of tolerance, involving concepts of [[nation]]al [[identity]] and equal [[citizen]]ship for [[persons]] of different [[religion]]s, was
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• 2011-06-16-Refusing to be Authoritarian
  ...d so this becomes a great puzzle. How can something be unique, yet have no identity? ====''[[Identity]]''====
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• 132:3 Truth and Faith
  ...iginates in [[science]]; [[wisdom]], in true philosophy; [[truth]], in the religious experience of spiritual living. [[Knowledge]] deals with [[facts]]; [[wisdo ...UL human soul] ([[personality]]) of man survives [[mortal]] [[death]] by [[identity]] association with this [[Thought Adjuster|indwelling spark]] of [[divinity
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• 196:3 The Supremacy of Religion
  ...personality]] for [[effective]] [[adjustment]] to all mortal requirements. Religious [[faith]]—the [[positive]] [[leading]] of the [[Thought Adjuster|indwelli ...in [[universal]] [[reality]]: [[fact]], [[idea]], and [[relation]]. The [[religious]] [[consciousness]] identifies these realities as [[science]], [[philosophy
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• 2013-08-26-Life, Personality, and Spiritual Life
  ...ind is the source of autonomous will and causes the emergence of the Self (identity). However, Personality, although coming from the Father, does not in itself ...ry of the adjutant spirits of wisdom and worship, which usually produces a religious life, but genuine spiritual life is only possible by the presence and minis
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• 111:3 The Evolving Soul
  ...the [[embryo]] of the [[future]] [[morontia]] vehicle of [[personality]] [[identity]]. ...urvival]] of [[supreme]] [[values]] is the core of [[religion]]; genuine [[religious]] [[experience]] consists in the [[union]] of supreme [[values]] and cosmic
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• 2012-06-06-Worship
  ...ritual tradition, no matter how much he or she might be mistaken about His identity. In time a more progressive understanding of Deity will bring to this plane
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• 94:2 Brahmanism
  ...ipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahmans], who, in turn, have [[maintained]] their religious [[hegemony]] in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/India India] to the present ...ccan]. In a desperate effort to stem the tide of racial [[extinction]] and religious [[obliteration]], the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brahmin Brahman] [[cas
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• 79:4 The Aryan Invasion of India
  ...kipedia.org/wiki/Deccan Deccan] their [[influence]] was [[cultural]] and [[religious]] more than racial. The greater [[persistence]] of the so-called [https://e .../wiki/Proto-Indo-Europeans Aryans] in an [[effort]] to perpetuate racial [[identity]]. This elaborate [[caste]] system has been [[preserved]] on down to the pr
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• Pantheistic
  As a [[religious]] position, pantheism holds that [[nature]] is imbued with [[value]] and wo ...t supersedes his earlier "piecemeal supernaturalism" in ''The Varieties of Religious Experience'' (1902). James's conception emphasizes the full [[reality]] of
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• 2011-07-17-The Great Divide
  ...then be absorbed back into the oneness of infinity and shall no more have identity or personality. ...ed for, yet the spark of faith is still required to continue the journey. Religious affiliation is not a requirement, only the tiniest of desire to know God an
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• 2012-09-23-What Is Saving Grace
  ...time? Are there some magical words that must be spoken? Must you join some religious group and follow some creed or perform some ritual to attain it? There has ...he super-universe administrators for final adjudication – the cessation of identity. This is most unfortunate and sounds frightening to most, but this becomes
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• Mores
  ...s specific to the [[individual]] [[society]] such as [[blasphemy]]. Such [[religious]] or sacral [[customs]] may be unpredictable and vary completely from one [ ...ms specific to a given [[society]] are a defining aspect of the cultural [[identity]] of a ethnicity or a nation. Coping with the [[differences]] between two s
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• New Religious Movement
  ...ent [[origin]] that is not part of an established denomination, church, or religious [[tradition|body]]. ...s that demand a considerable amount of [[group]] conformity and a social [[identity]] that separates its adherents from mainstream [[society]]. Its use is not
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• Identity
  ...sed upon [[energy]] and associated only with living energy systems, but '''identity''' can be associated with nonliving energy [[pattern]]s.[https://nordan.day '''Identity''' is a term used throughout the [[Social Sciences|social sciences]] to des
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• Consciousness
  ...porary sense of the word (consciousness associated to the idea of personal identity, which is assured by the repeated consciousness of oneself) was therefore i ...a result of religious observance. It is also maintained by some religions, religious factions and some scientists that the universe itself is consciousness.
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• Design
  ...user interfaces and charts. Even virtual [[concepts]] such as corporate [[identity]] and cultural [[tradition]]s such as celebration of certain holidays[3] ar ...s. "Purpose" may also lead to [[existential]] questions such as [[religion|religious morals]] and [[purpose|teleology]]. These philosophies for the "purpose of"
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• 97:10 The Hebrew Religion
  97:10.5 As a [[nation]] the Jews [[eventually]] lost their [[political]] [[identity]], but the [[Hebrew]] [[religion]] of [[sincere]] [[belief]] in the one and ...ctice]] of isolated [[individuals]]. This has ever been the error of the [[religious]] [[leaders]]: Seeing the [[evils]] of [[institutionalized]] [[religion]],
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• 1993-05-02-What Do You Understand
  ===='''''[[Identity]]''''', '''''[[Integration]]'''''==== ...understand]] what their [[religion]] is, or their backround, or what their religious [[beliefs]] are. I know when [[the Master]] was here He could [[discern]] w
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• Mesopotamia
  ...A modern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_nationalism Mesopotamian identity] is espoused by the ethnically indigenous Mesopotamian and Eastern Aramaic ...work, agriculture, animals, pottery, weaving, commercial law, civil codes, religious ceremonial, and an old system of writing. At the beginning of the historica
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• Religion
  ...[[Intellectual|academic]] field of multi-disciplinary study of [[religion|religious]] [[belief]]s, [[behavior]]s, and institutions. It describes, compares, int ...behavior]] and [[belief]] from outside any particular religious viewpoint. Religious studies draws upon multiple disciplines and their methodologies including [
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• 2008-06-25-Monjoronson Q & A Session 8
  ...Thank you for the question and concern which it addresses; the question of identity, the question of personality and the question of names. Throughout the univ ...ance to a name yet a name carries with it authority, rank and somewhat the identity of character, the personality carrying the name. What is peculiar and inter
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• Reconciliation
  ...ng of [[difference]]s, the [[healing]] of broken relations, is initially a religious [[concept]] addressed in the [[Hebrew Bible]] and especially in the [[New T ...addressed. Connected with this is the tendency, sometimes, of churches and religious [[actor]]s, as well as those who most benefit from systems of exploitation,
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• Names
  ...n [[society]] when a knight refuses to take off his helmet or reveal his [[identity]], even after he has won a duel. Sometimes this results from the victorious ==In religious thought==
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• Homosexuality
  ...it also refers to an [[individual]]'s sense of [[personal]] and [[social]] identity based on those attractions, behaviors expressing them, and membership in a ...] interplay of [[biological]] and [[environmental]] factors. Although some religious sects hold the view that homosexual activity is unnatural or dysfunctional.
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