Search results for "List of new religious movements" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • writings about salvation and the nature of the cosmos influenced a number ... Böhme’s ideas about the process of Creation, the primacy of will ...
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  • painter who was born in Belarus, then part of the Russian Empire. Among the celebrated painters of the twentieth century, Chagall is ...
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  • resorting to mythology. They initiated a new method of explanation known ... The pre-Socratic style of thought is often called natural philosophy ...
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  • Apostasy is the formal renunciation of one's religion. One who ... in that the latter refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines ...
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  • Civil rights are the protections and privileges of personal power ... rights laws are most often written. Examples of civil rights and liberties ...
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  • teacher. He was the foremost French composer of his generation, and his musical ... a foster-nurse for four years. At the age of nine, he was sent to study ...
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  • date back about 2500 years with the arrival of Judaism, ... followed by arrival of Christianity around 2000 years ago. ...
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  • Lollardy or Lollardry was the political and religious movement of ... perform those same rites, believing that religious power and authority came ...
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  • The Seneca Falls Convention, held in Seneca Falls, New York, on July ... times have turned to the founding documents of the United States to meet their ...
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  • thinker. Tolstoy is widely regarded as one of the greatest of all novelists ... goal. Tormented between a strict religious temperament and his sensual ...
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  • Canonization is the process of posthumously declaring someone to be ... The practice of Canonization is currently practiced by the Roman Catholic ...
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  • he wrote to demonstrate the many dimensions of the instrument. Much of his ... in Chingford, Essex (now Greater London), of mixed Indian (Parsi), Spanish ...
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  • independently in both the official Records of the Grand Historian and unofficial ... China's long history that the concept of ruler's social obligations ...
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  • longing, or storm and impulse) is the name of a movement in German literature ... to have provided the ideological basis of Sturm und Drang, and Johann ...
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  • The Wyndham New Yorker Hotel is a historic hotel located at 481 Eighth ... and interviews broadcast worldwide from New York by BBC News. This iconic ...
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  • C.E., best known for his role in the trial of Jesus. His full name was Yosef ... A member of the party of the Sadducees, Caiaphas was the son-in-law ...
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  • The Nag Hammadi library is a collection of early Christian gnostic ... Corpus Hermeticum and a partial translation of Plato's Republic. The ...
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  • Lake Ladoga, located in the northwestern part of Russia, is the largest ... In total, Lake Ladoga covers an area of 6,700 fresh water square miles ...
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  • than revelation—should form the basis of religion. In England and the ... In France, on the other hand, Deism in the person of Voltaire took ...
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  • The Count of Saint Germain (c. 1710–1784) was a mysterious gentleman ... music, and magic. He had no visible means of support, but no lack of resources ...
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