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- allegory, performed in a theater, in which the protagonist is met by personifications ... Morality plays survived the disenchantment of the church and the wrath ...15 KB (2,390 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- and entertainer, widely recognized as one of the most influential figures in ... producer, Brown was a seminal figure in the evolution of gospel and rhythm ...25 KB (3,918 words) - 21:04, 20 March 2024
- from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually reconcile ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- Ravana (Sanskrit: meaning "of terrifying roar") is one of ... could be expected, he continues to endure as the archetypal villain in the ...15 KB (2,384 words) - 19:05, 16 April 2023
- was a Dominican tertiary (lay affiliate) of the Dominican Order and a later ... around 1366, after which she began to attend the poor. She had visions which ...15 KB (2,408 words) - 16:17, 3 December 2023
- enjoyed popular success in many parts of the world and have sold over 400 ... series, including those featuring Noddy, the Famous Five, and the Secret ...16 KB (2,376 words) - 18:54, 13 February 2024
- In Judaism, the yetzer harah is the inclination or impulse to evil ... (Ḳid. 81a). It was to avoid the temptations of the yetzer harah ...17 KB (2,843 words) - 11:10, 24 May 2023
- The Arthashastra (more precisely Arthaśāstra) refers to a tradition ... While the Arthaśāstra tradition played a key role in the establishment ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 11:01, 16 August 2023
- genres emerging from or influenced by the culture of African Americans ... in the style of soul groups such as The Temptations and The O'Jays ...16 KB (2,453 words) - 06:05, 16 June 2023
- c. 1450 – August 9, 1516) was an Early Netherlandish painter of ... to evoke fear and confusion to portray the evil of man. His works contain ...17 KB (2,636 words) - 23:47, 12 February 2022
- controversial Russian mystic who influenced the latter days of the Russian ... and his alleged intimate relationship with the Tsaritsa Alexandra, became ...18 KB (2,856 words) - 20:15, 31 January 2023
- Jeremy Taylor (1613 - August 13, 1667) was a clergyman in the Church ... Taylor was educated at The Perse School, Cambridge, before attending ...18 KB (2,949 words) - 02:26, 1 August 2022
- friend Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, one of the influential figures in what ... The play is a compelling account of the temptations of power, and Wallenstein ...18 KB (2,816 words) - 06:39, 15 April 2024
- Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal ... The Sanskrit word Sita literally means "the line made by the ...19 KB (3,150 words) - 22:35, 29 January 2023
- The Dominican Order, originally known as the Order of Preachers, is ... monks" would never survive the temptations of the city. ...21 KB (3,178 words) - 17:16, 30 January 2024
- famous monastic Rule was adopted throughout the Western monastic tradition ... Benedict founded 12 monastic communities, the best known being Monte Cassino ...20 KB (3,232 words) - 09:12, 27 September 2023
- 30, 2006) was an Egyptian novelist who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature ... with the modernization of society and the temptations of Western values. ...20 KB (2,983 words) - 23:15, 10 November 2022
- Saint Anthony the Great (251 - 356 C.E.), also known as Saint Anthony ... in Bishop Athanasius's Vita Antonii - the source of many tales of his ...22 KB (3,532 words) - 19:06, 22 December 2022
- Egoism is the concept of acting in one’s own self-interest, and ... true morality consists in resisting the temptations of self-sacrifice, sympathy ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- greater spirituality. Many ascetics believe the action of purifying the body ... The term "ascetic" derives from the ancient Greek word askēsis ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
