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| | Religious concepts - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Religious concepts |
 | | Other related studies are the psychology of religion, which examines human states of mind under religious influence – for example, ecstasy, diabolic possession, and faith healing – and the possible causes of these states; and the philosophy of religion, which coincides to a large extent with natural theology. | | | Religious belief has generally been encouraged by rulers and governments because people are more likely to obey rules that have the force of supernatural authority behind them. | | | Code of belief or philosophy that often involves the worship of a God or gods. |
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http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Religious+concepts
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| | Western Concepts of God [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] |
| | Concepts of God in philosophy are entwined with concepts of God in religion. | | | Issues related to Western concepts of God include the nature of divine attributes and how they can be known, if or how that knowledge can be communicated, the relation between such knowledge and logic, the nature of divine causality, and the relation between the divine and the human will. | | | Though a Muslim and an Aristotelian, Averroes (Ibn Rushd; 1126-1198) added to the growing concept of emanation by claiming that the universal mind is an emanation from God. |
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http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/g/god-west.htm
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| | Material Culture of Religion: Religious terms, concepts, people, etc. |
| | Religious tradition founded in 19th Century Iran by the Bab, Baha'u'llah and Abdu'l-Baha, who formerly were adherents of Shi'a Islam. | | | The term is used both with reference to churches as buildings and to the church as a theological concept. | | | Tolerant of other religious traditions, Hinduism holds that all lead to the One God and are facets of God's love and light. |
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http://home.att.net/~spmckee/glossary_second.html
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| | BASIC RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS |
| | Theistic God: the concept of a being which is (1) purely spiritual, (2) all good, (3) all knowing, and (4) all powerful. |
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http://www.utm.edu/staff/jfieser/class/religion-terms.htm
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| | purgatory.unfix.org - Hell |
| | According to orthodox Buddhist cosmology, the six "destinies" of mortal existence include three spheres in which those burdened by particularly detrimental karma may be reincarnated: The "destiny" of hell, the "destiny" of the hungry ghosts, and the "destiny" of warring demons. | | | This doctrine was particularly elaborated in the East Asian tradition of Buddhism, in which the dead are judged by the king (or kings) of hell and condemned to fitting punishments. | | | In China, this Buddhist belief fused with native religious concepts of the abode of the Chinese deities and Daoist immortals, giving the dead an even greater variety of potential "destines". |
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http://purgatory.unfix.org/encyclopedia/hell.html
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| | Aquarian Concepts Community & Religious Order |
| | Aquarian Concepts Community Religious Order is a group of individuals who operate under the federal guidelines of a religious order and vow to live under a strict set of rules requiring moral and spiritual self-sacrifice and dedication to the goals of the order. | | | All members of the divine administration and religious order are candidates to become destiny reservists who have a calling from God to use their talents and abilities to help solve the many global issues in a full-time ministry situation and bring continued revelation into the Aquarian millennium. | | | They are under the supervision of Aquarian Concepts Community Church and live together as a community under stricter moral and religious discipline than lay members of the church. |
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http://www.aquarianconceptscommunity.org/community.html
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| | Malinowski Lecture |
| | A cognitive account of religious concepts, based on experimental evidence, gives us a first approximation of a reasonable account of religion. | | | This would suggest that the range of religious concepts people are likely to entertain, acquire and store seems is indeed taken from the same ‘catalogue’ the world over. | | | In such cases, the theological, literate version of the concept is that the god has access to all information about the world from all possible angles. |
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http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/anthro/bec/papers/boyer_religious_concepts.htm
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| | TOWARD BETTER CONCEPTS OF PEACE |
| | The point is that concepts or definitions of peace are the basis for peacemaking. | | | The original meanings of the concepts of peace of the world's main cultures according to Ishida (1969, p.135). | | | Peace definitions or concepts are the basis on which we decide how to make peace. |
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http://www.colorado.edu/conflict/full_text_search/PeacePapers/89-14.htm
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| | On the other hand, other religious inclinations he thinks are not based on instinct'thus he states 'there is no instinct for transcendence in human beings,' and therefore religion can't be explained by appeals to transcendence. | | | The point of this analogy is that folk-religious belief-structures may stand in the same relationship to contemplative knowledge in certain religious communities as folk-scientific belief structures stand to scientific knowledge in modern Western culture. | | | The point of this exercise in diversity-awareness, as it were, is to emphasise how parochial, as it were, many accounts of religion can be. |
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http://www.srhe.ucsb.edu/lectures/text/boyerText.html
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| | Amazon.com: Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought: Books |
| | This book sees religious doctrine, dogma, and institutions as secondary to religion's primary role in social interactions, dealing with death and the disposal of dead bodies, and providing explanations for misfortune or other impersonal events for which causal or purposeful explanations may not be available. | | | With these three concepts, Boyer is able to explain all religious experiences and phenomena from all walks of life - from the animist beliefs in Africa to Christendom in Europe, with almost every other religion in between. | | | It is the counterintuitive nature of the concepts that makes them easy to remember and to transmit to others and this seems to by one reason why supernatural concepts are a central part of nearly all religions. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0465006965?v=glance
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| | Anthropology of Religion |
| | Even faith and belief seem to be simple by-products of the way concepts and inferences are doing their work for religion in much the same way as for other domains. | | | Boyer focuses on the inference systems and intuitive expectations of evolved human brain capacities to account for the biocultural origin of religious concepts and supernatural agents (e.g., gods, ghosts, demons, spirits, and witches). | | | For similar reasons, people who are shocked or repulsed by religion would like to find the single source of what is for them such egregious error, the crossroads at which so many human minds take the wrong turn, as it were. |
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| | Because religious beliefs and experiences cannot be deductively or inductively validated, validation occurs only by assuaging the very emotions that motivate religion. | | | Parental encouragement of children’s beliefs was also best captured by a four factor solution described by encouragement of belief in religious entities, belief in the efficacy of scientific concepts, and belief in magic. | | | Origins & Generation of Religious Concepts Panelists: Stewart Guthrie Discussant: Deb Kelemen, HYPERLINK mailto:dkelemen@bu.edu dkelemen@bu.edu Gods, spirits, angels, ghosts, and devils populate the conceptual space of religions. |
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http://www.icc.isr.umich.edu/MindsandGodsprog.doc
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| | Religous Concepts in China |
| | Chinese religious terminology was already so rich that it was tempting to use an existing terms (dao, for 'God', for instance) with all the risks of misunderstanding that might arise perhaps even the absorption of the new religion into the indigenous systems of belief. | | | There were Buddhist and Daoist monks and nuns who did make such a commitment of course, and periods of religious persecution, but still nothing to compare with the bloody European wars of religion nor the burning of heretics and witches. | | | The three main religions, Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism came to be seen as in essence different aspects of a single truth, and so there were relatively few people who defined themselves as Buddhist rather than Confucian or Daoist rather than Buddhist. |
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| | Understanding Other Religions |
| | It is encouraging to read in the Public Forum the intelligent discussions of religious concepts generated by LDS Apostle Boyd Packer's address on the question "Is Mormonism Christian?" Public discussion of differing religious beliefs has been historically discouraged for a variety of reasons. | | | I believe the "Three R's" program is promoting this approach to religious education in Utah's public schools. | | | That will not happen with the continued indoctrination in isolation of religious concepts. |
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http://www.humanistsofutah.org/1998/bb2apr98.html
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| | Pascal R. Boyer |
| | Professor Boyer is the author of three books, including "The Naturalness of Religious Ideas: A Cognitive Theory of Religion," which has been called a landmark study of religion and of cognitive approaches to culture. | | | In the past I have used such developmental studies, combined with fieldwork, to describe and perhaps explain some aspects of the transmission of religious concepts. | | | Past research was mainly focused on the general features of religion. |
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| | The Origins of Harn's Religious Concepts |
| | All of these possible sources of influence on NW Lythian religions have of course their part in explaining how 'unnatural' ideas have come to be used in the Harnic religions. | | | Maybe ideas of this kind influenced the religions who seems to have originated in the easternmost areas of NW Lythia (the eastern parts of the Venarian Sea) Halea and Naveh; but on the other hand neither of these religions seems to have any of the ideas I'm interested in. | | | Influences from religious beliefs from outside the area GoH covers, e.g.Dalkesh, Mafani states, and Beshakan. |
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http://pages.sbcglobal.net/harn-religion-team/general/origin_concepts.html
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| | Introductory Concepts in Religious Studies |
| | There are probably as many definitions for "religion" as there are people who follow or embrace any given religious path. | | | What is the difference between the concepts of "sign" and "symbol?" Give an example of each and explain how it applies to the definition. | | | A symbol, too, may have a direct (discursive) relationship with a person, place or thing, but it differs from a sign in that its referent does not have to be present in order for the symbol to have meaning. |
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| | In support: Do Not Require Children To Say Under God Petition |
| | However, leading students in recitations or songs with religious concepts does not constitute teaching about religion, rather it constitutes endorsing religion. | | | WHEREAS acknowledging the existence of a god is endorsing a religious belief, and | | | However, we believe there is a vital difference between discussing religious concepts and leading groups of people in observances containing religious endorsements. |
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http://www.petitiononline.com/uctaa001/petition.html
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| | Amazon.ca: Books: The Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts |
| | Further, the text compares Yoruban religious concepts to those of other religions in order to make understanding the tradition even easier. | | | The author does a very good job in blending religious principles from both Yorubaland and the New World (where Orisa religion's derivatives are practiced, i.e. | | | Author Karade traces the concepts of the Yoruba religion through its entrance into the Americas via Haiti, Puerto Rico, Brazil and Cuba. |
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| | Religious concepts - definition of Religious concepts in Encyclopedia |
| | Concepts in religion are ideas that are central to an understanding of how a particular belief system frames its world view. | | | Religious concepts - definition of Religious concepts in Encyclopedia | | | Embed a dictionary search in your own web page |
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http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Religious_concepts
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| | heaven, purgatory: religious concepts revisited |
| | In regards to the place or condition, duration, or what kind of punishment, the Catholic Church is not adding any insight or suggestions. | | | The scriptural basis for this concept rests on paragraphs like Matt. | | | And, since all these concepts rest on what constitutes Reality, this page will also discuss |
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| | Adherents.com |
| | The Mount Mao movement was founded in the 6th century by T'ao Hung-ching and is basedo n the teachings of the brothers Mao (2nd century), whom T'ao venerated... | | | Manichaeism was also exceedingly syncretistic; indeed, Mani's aim was the foundation of a world religion and community, which would overcome the spacial limitations of previous religious traditions. | | | Mani (or Manes, 216-76), a Mesopotamian ecstatic, taught a dualistic philosophy with signs of an Iranian Gnostic influence and elements of Jewish and Buddhist belief... |
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| | Category:Religious Concepts - TheoWiki |
| | Religious Concepts are those ideas and figures that are found in more than one religion or a major religious tradition, as well as other words used by those who study Comparative Religion. | | | This listing is, thus, a glossary of important terms, but the terms will be given deeper analysis than will be found in a general purpose dictionary. |
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| | Recovering Religious Concepts; Author: Phillips, D.Z. (Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate ... |
| | The author aims to show the consequences for an understanding of religion of the epistemic divides which can be found in contemporary philosophy of religion. | | | Recovering Religious Concepts; Author: Phillips, D.Z. (Danforth Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Claremont Graduate School, California, USA, and Rush Rhees Research Professor, University of Wales, Swansea); Hardback; Book | | | This volume argues that we need to recover concepts from the distortions of philosophy. |
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| | ipedia.com: Meaning Article |
| | out of the activity of God or other religious concepts | | | See especially: philosophy of language and the meaning of meaning. |
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| | Abstract - Naive Causality |
| | These studies used material constructed in the same way as religious concepts, but not used in religions familiar to the subjects. | | | Overall sensitivity to violations is similar in different cultures and produces similar recall effects, despite differences in commitment to religious belief, in the range of local religious concepts of in their mode of transmission. | | | Cognitive templates for Religious concepts: Cross-cultural evidence for recall of Counter-intuitive representations. |
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| | AP: English Literature |
| | To understand and appreciate much of English and American literature, you should have some acquaintance with the major themes of Judaic and Christian religious traditions and with Greek and Roman mythology. | | | These religious concepts and stories have influenced and informed first English and then American literary traditions from the Middle Ages through modern times. | | | As you study Literature and Composition, you should study extensively several representative works from various genres and periods from the Renaissance forward. |
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| | The Magical Blend -- Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts, The |
| | Karade shows us how to work with divination, to use the chakras to internalise the teachings of Yoruba, and describes how to create a sacred place of worship. | | | Santeria : Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts, The | | | The Magical Blend -- Handbook of Yoruba Religious Concepts, The |
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| | MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS WHICH INCREASE SURVIVABILITY - continued |
| | Page Title: MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS WHICH INCREASE SURVIVABILITY - continued | | | Politics, which opens up a world of ideas regarding the | | | MORAL AND RELIGIOUS CONCEPTS WHICH INCREASE SURVIVABILITY - continued |
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| | Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Quran |
| | The book search engine to find any title, author, isbn or keywords at over 50 online merchants including Amazon.com, Half, BarnesandNoble, Powells, abebooks, OverStock, Alibris and more. | | | Ethico-Religious Concepts in the Quran ISBN 0773524266 Author Toshihiko Izutsu |
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| | CQ Press In Context : Terrorism |
| | This Web site provides material from a variety of CQ Press sources relevant to the issues. | | | Pakistani border security officials stop a truckload of Afghan refugees at Chaman border, sealed against further influx on Sept. 19, 2001. |
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