Search results for "Religious conversion" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • up his faith with action, abandoning the religious tolerance of his predecessors ... (jurisprudence) usually controlled by the religious scholars and of siyasin ...
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  • Germany around 1380. He was educated by a religious order called the Brethren ... the works that influenced them at their conversion. General Charles George ...
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  • (baptízô), is a religious act of purification by water usually associated ... holy water) ceremony of Sikhism and other religious washing rituals. ...
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  • and his 12 companions set about the conversion of pagan Scotland and much ... and soon became one of the largest religious centers in western Europe ...
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  • bridge-building role to play in promoting religious tolerance and dialogue; ... Hassan's studies did not end with his conversion. He continued ...
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  • purposes. It is also used in some religious ceremonies. ... * Conversion to isonitrosocamphor: : [[Image:Camphor-Isonitrosocamphor ...
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  • An icon is a religious image or representation of an object, deity ... entered Kievan Rus' following its conversion to Orthodox Christianity ...
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  • a French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher. Pascal was ... ===Religious conversion=== Biographically, we can say that two basic ...
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  • which can be comparable to religious conversion. The concept of incommesurability ... between scientific knowledge and religious knowledge; each type of ...
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  • 1, 1814 – June 1, 1864) was a Chinese religious prophet and leader of the ... == Conversion to Christianity == Hong recovered and returned to his ...
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  • well-known proponent of the idea that New Religious Movements (NRM), or "cults ... twentieth century, at the time when New Religious Movements, including the ...
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  • as capital. Many scholars argue that his conversion was a pragmatic measure ... C.E. His rise to power was facilitated by religious strife within the Songhai ...
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  • displayed one of the world's most religious states. Almost all the ... Wat, possibly world's largest single religious monument. Many of the temples ...
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  • Indonesia has several flourishing religious communities that have ... In order to preserve and to celebrate Indonesia's rich religious ...
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  • apostasy is called an apostate. Many religious faiths consider apostasy ... refers to the corruption of specific religious doctrines but is not a ...
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  • the most part, Indian Christians rejected religious exclusivism and have chosen ... passed laws restricting or prohibiting conversion to Christianity. ...
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  • had failed. Many schoolteachers and religious missionaries arrived in ... a white supremacist, a result of his conversion to states' rights ...
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  • The moon played a key role in Mesopotamian religious culture. As it ... for his lack of attention to his religious duties in the capital. ...
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  • resistive to the attempts at Christian conversion. However, in later years ... a head when the former, prompted by the religious leader Handsome Lake, accused ...
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  • Südfeld, a Hebrew poet. His family were religious Orthodox Jews and he attended ... Nordau's conversion to Zionism was eventually triggered by the ...
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