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- The term Bacchanalia describes the initiatory and celebratory rites ... The derogatory and potentially fallacious descriptions of the Bacchanalia ...10 KB (1,570 words) - 05:25, 26 August 2023
- (fall 1793) and subsequently the Cult of the Supreme Being (spring 1794) ... ===Cult of Reason/Cult of the Supreme Being=== New forms of moral religion ...27 KB (3,836 words) - 09:01, 28 January 2024
- Abydos (Arabic: أبيدوس, Greek Αβυδος), is one of the most ... The city was originally called Abdju (technically, 3bdw, hieroglyphs ...12 KB (1,832 words) - 07:07, 14 June 2023
- Wade-Giles Shang Ti), or simply Di (帝), is the High God (or Clan Ancestor ... As noted above, Shangdi was an important religious concept from the ...13 KB (1,969 words) - 15:31, 18 June 2022
- Deprogramming is the process of removing a person thought to be under ... Supporters of deprogramming portray the practice as an antidote to ...23 KB (3,474 words) - 09:48, 29 January 2024
- Bolshevik and Soviet statesman during the Stalin and Khrushchev years ... Anastas Mikoyan joined the Bolshevik Party and fought in Baku during ...19 KB (2,782 words) - 17:21, 2 December 2022
- In Greek mythology, Zeus was the highest ranking god among the pantheon ... Zeus is arguably the most identifiable character in all the world ...16 KB (2,635 words) - 05:54, 13 June 2023
- ::Note: For the planet Saturn, please click here. : holding jurisdiction over agriculture and the harvest. Like many of the ...11 KB (1,785 words) - 17:00, 23 December 2022
- According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, ... In some systems of Hindu thought, Shakti may also be worshiped as ...21 KB (3,235 words) - 10:17, 26 January 2023
- Yamanu) was a multifaceted deity whose cult originated at Thebes, in the ... cosmological belief system that developed in the Nile river basin from earliest ...27 KB (4,283 words) - 17:27, 26 July 2023
- The Reign of Terror (June 1793 – July 1794) was a period in the ... The French Revolution began not only as a revolt against the monarchy ...11 KB (1,738 words) - 09:38, 29 July 2022
- – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science ... 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was the only child of Winfield Scott ...17 KB (2,651 words) - 18:23, 29 July 2023
- (January 1, 1907 – November 10, 1982) was the effective ruler of the Soviet ... However, the USSR may have over-reached itself during his watch. While ...24 KB (3,435 words) - 15:34, 28 April 2023
- Ahura Mazda is the supreme divinity of the Zoroastrian faith, which ... Ahura Mazda thus represents what some lines of evidence suggest to ...19 KB (2,918 words) - 16:30, 30 December 2021
- ploughlands and gardens. She was considered the ancestor of the Roman people ... Venus carries on a tradition of eroticized female divinities featured ...13 KB (1,985 words) - 19:28, 14 November 2022
- Vaishnavism (Sanskrit for "belonging to Vishnu") is one ... Vaishnavism is a prominent faction within Hinduism, with the vast ...42 KB (6,471 words) - 14:11, 3 May 2023
- Stalinism is the name given to the political and economic system which ... The term "Stalinism" was coined by Lazar Kaganovich. Although ...25 KB (3,574 words) - 16:24, 8 February 2023
- Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of ... The term 'mysteries' does not imply that the religion was ...32 KB (4,834 words) - 11:13, 10 March 2023
- Asherdu and in Ugaritic as Athirat. She was the consort of the chief deity ... In the Judeo-Christian tradition Asherah is considered a false Canaanite ...14 KB (2,179 words) - 04:03, 18 August 2023
- In Mesopotamian religion Shamash was the Akkadian name of the sun ... In addition to being the god of the sun, Shamash was also the deity ...13 KB (2,138 words) - 12:22, 27 January 2023
- Vanuatu, officially the Republic of Vanuatu, is a Melanesian island ... Vanuatu is an archipelago of 83 islands, two of which—Matthew and ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- body or creed officially endorsed by the state. In some countries more ... The degree and nature of state backing for a denomination or creed ...28 KB (4,007 words) - 19:54, 9 February 2023
- was a North Korean politician who served as the second Supreme Leader of North ... In the early 1980s, Kim had become the heir apparent for the leadership ...64 KB (9,034 words) - 23:07, 3 March 2023
- Rosenbaum in Russia and emigrated to the United States to become an ... Her novels were based upon the projection of the Randian hero, a man ...20 KB (2,901 words) - 07:26, 23 August 2023
- January 25, 1982) was a Soviet statesman during the Cold War. He served ... Born in rural Russia in 1902, Suslov became a member of the All-Union ...40 KB (5,479 words) - 22:14, 30 March 2023
- Shaivism (also spelled Śaivism) refers to a cluster of religious ... With approximately 200 million adherents, Shaivism is one of the most ...34 KB (5,141 words) - 19:47, 14 April 2020
- Nabonidus (Akkadian Nabû-nāʾid) was the last king of the Neo-Babylonian ... As king, Nabonidus was maligned by the priests of the chief Babylonian ...17 KB (2,715 words) - 22:59, 10 November 2022
- – September 11, 1971) assumed leadership of the Soviet Union during the ... Khrushchev is remembered for his rejection of the “personality cult” ...21 KB (3,122 words) - 20:28, 9 March 2022
- ; November 15, 1757 – March 24, 1794) was a French journalist, the ... Hébert's thousands of followers were known as the Hébertists ...26 KB (3,903 words) - 21:56, 28 November 2022
- Shaktism is a denomination of Hinduism that worships Shakti (or Devi ... The magnitude and significance afforded to Shaktism illustrates the ...40 KB (6,102 words) - 10:18, 26 January 2023
- Angkor refers to the region of Cambodia serving as the seat of the ... Angkor and the Khmer Empire practiced Hinduism, most likely the largest ...32 KB (4,644 words) - 18:07, 27 July 2023
- The Jade Emperor (玉皇 (Yù Huáng) or 玉帝 (Yù Dì)), known ... is the ruler of Heaven (Tian) in Chinese mythology and is among the ...18 KB (2,861 words) - 08:35, 18 March 2024
- The sociology of religion is primarily the study of the practices ... Historically, sociology of religion was of central importance to sociology ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- Brainwashing refers to the systematic application of coercive techniques ... Whether any techniques exist that change thought and behavior to the ...29 KB (4,296 words) - 22:37, 20 November 2023
- The Chinese Rites controversy (ca. 1630-1715 C.E.) was a dispute within ... The original Jesuit missionaries led by Matteo Ricci had initially ...22 KB (3,410 words) - 16:46, 10 December 2023
- Japanese mythology a sun goddess and perhaps the most important Shinto deity ... Amaterasu is seen as the highest manifestation of Kunitokotachi, the ...14 KB (2,300 words) - 02:45, 24 July 2023
- it carried out a lethal sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Founded by Shoko Asahara, Aum emerged in Japan in the mid-1980s and ...20 KB (2,989 words) - 17:50, 22 August 2023
- The Pontifex Maximus (which literally means "Greatest Pontiff ... The title of "Pontifex Maximus," dating back to the times ...31 KB (4,749 words) - 00:22, 12 April 2023
- The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (French: La ... by the National Constituent Assembly (Assemblée nationale constituante ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
- Minerva was the ancient Roman goddess of wisdom and war. Her areas ... Her name is virtually identical to that Menrva, the Etruscan goddess ...11 KB (1,742 words) - 18:48, 9 November 2022
- ISBN 978-0415200493). A modern Hindu sect, the Brahma Kumaris articulate ... Lawrence A. Babb, Redemptive Encounters: Three Modern Styles in the ...28 KB (3,991 words) - 22:34, 20 November 2023
- Akhenaten, known as Amenhotep IV at the start of his reign, was a ... was Nefertiti, who has been made famous as the most “beautiful women in ...35 KB (5,451 words) - 07:14, 16 June 2023
- [[Image:ac-parthenon5.jpg|thumb|300px|The Parthenon seen from the ... The Parthenon (Παρθενώνας) is a temple of the Greek goddess ...33 KB (4,981 words) - 18:45, 23 March 2023
- The Council of Trent was the 19th Ecumenical Council of the Roman ... 1545, and December 4, 1563, as a response to the Protestant Reformation. It ...19 KB (2,903 words) - 08:28, 10 January 2024
- Ganesha is one of the most easily recognizable gods in the Hindu pantheon ... 039; lives. Widely worshiped among Hindus as the lord of beginnings, Ganesha ...34 KB (5,402 words) - 04:23, 18 April 2024
- The Bhagavad Gita (Sanskrit sa|भगवद् गीता ... , "Song of God" or “The Lord’s Song”) is a Sanskrit ...36 KB (5,510 words) - 03:32, 1 October 2023
- [[Image:rosetta stone.jpg|thumb|right|The Rosetta Stone in the British ... The Rosetta Stone is an ancient stele inscribed with the same passage ...13 KB (1,999 words) - 19:17, 16 December 2022
- (May 6, 1758 – July 28, 1794) was one of the primary leaders of the ... Politically, Robespierre was a disciple of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, ...30 KB (4,512 words) - 09:20, 10 March 2023
- in Central Asia that until 1991, was part of the Soviet Union as the Turkmen ... With one-half of its irrigated land planted in cotton, Turkmenistan ...47 KB (6,838 words) - 00:25, 3 May 2023
- 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
- logo.png|right|thumb|275px|"Eugenics is the self-direction of human evolution ... Eugenics is a social philosophy which advocates the improvement of ...35 KB (5,140 words) - 04:18, 23 March 2024
- Polytheism (from the Greek: polus, many, and theos, god) refers to ... The term "polytheism" is sometimes applied to a wide variety ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 08:48, 24 November 2022
- Enosh, Noah, Shem, Aram, and especially John the Baptist. They describe Abraham ... 60,000 and 70,000 Mandaeans and until the 2003 Iraq war, almost all ...22 KB (3,408 words) - 11:01, 9 March 2023
- This period in Soviet history was inaugurated by the death of Joseph ... ==De-Stalinization and the Khrushchev era== After Stalin died in March ...24 KB (3,578 words) - 12:48, 1 February 2024
- a Hindu goddess, Tārā was absorbed into the Buddhist pantheon during the ... and visualization are used by practitioners of Vajrayana to develop certain ...26 KB (4,258 words) - 04:30, 27 February 2023
- Scientology is a new religious movement based on the writings of L ... The organization presents itself as a fully integrated system of religious ...33 KB (4,873 words) - 17:26, 25 January 2023
- Zoroastrianism (or Mazdaism) refers to the religion developed from ... was tremendously influential on the history, culture, and art ...42 KB (6,394 words) - 06:12, 13 June 2023
- ) was a member of the Jacobin Club, a revolutionary political movement ... and the formation of the Cult of the Supreme Being, the latter reason ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- In the Bible, Baal (also rendered Baʿal) was an important Canaanite ... The worship of this deity was prevalent in Canaan from ancient times ...25 KB (4,203 words) - 05:22, 26 August 2023
- Omaña (April 2, 1792 - May 6, 1840) was one of the military and political ... as President from 1833 until 1837, then in the Senate until his death. Considered ...17 KB (2,641 words) - 04:56, 9 April 2024
- North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea ... The history of North Korea formally began with the establishment of ...72 KB (9,967 words) - 06:32, 16 November 2022
- estranged from each other because one of them offends the other, eventually ... Atonement in its primary, religious sense is done very often in the ...32 KB (5,060 words) - 18:12, 21 August 2023
- revolutionary whose assassination led to the first of the Great Purges. Kirov was an early revolutionary in the Russian Empire and member ...41 KB (5,846 words) - 09:59, 26 January 2023
- | order=38th President of the United States | date1=August 9, 1974 ... | date of birth=July 14, 1913 | place of birth=Omaha, Nebraska ...30 KB (4,525 words) - 17:06, 28 August 2021
- c. 1370 B.C.E. - c. 1330 B.C.E.) was the chief consort of the Egyptian ... In Akhenaten's new state religion centered on the sun god, he ...18 KB (2,906 words) - 16:08, 11 November 2022
- The Vedic Period (or Vedic Age) (c. 1500 – c. 500 B.C.E.) is ... The literary legacy, however, does take us back to one of very earliest ...25 KB (3,858 words) - 14:44, 3 May 2023
- to describe a group whose values and norms of behavior run counter to those ... On the other hand, countercultures can be detrimental to society, ...27 KB (4,003 words) - 08:31, 10 January 2024
- movements that are concerned with notions of cultural decline or decadence ... Fascists promote a type of national unity that is usually based on ...43 KB (6,085 words) - 00:42, 25 March 2024
- ٱللَّٰه, romanized: Allāh,) is the common Arabic word for God ... (ʼAlāhā) and the Hebrew word El (Elohim) for God. The word Allah ...42 KB (6,212 words) - 23:54, 4 March 2024
- intercourse in exchange for remuneration. The legal status of prostitution ... Prostitution, however, has continued to exist since the earliest societies ...45 KB (6,813 words) - 01:19, 12 April 2023
- Hermeticism is a set of philosophical and religious beliefs based ... The movement is generally traced to Alexandria in the first centuries ...42 KB (6,476 words) - 10:52, 22 January 2024
- The Torres Strait Islands are a group of at least 274 small islands ... The Torres Strait Islanders are a sea-faring people. They have been ...22 KB (3,240 words) - 04:40, 1 May 2023
- The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet ... # the "Case of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center" ...42 KB (6,087 words) - 00:57, 30 December 2022
- witch"; feminine wicce), also known as the "Old Religion," ... claimed that Wicca had secretly existed for thousands of years, originating ...23 KB (3,499 words) - 18:43, 4 May 2023
- The Waco "cult" — more properly known as the Branch Davidians ... This tiny apocalyptic sect was thrust into the international spotlight ...56 KB (8,825 words) - 22:04, 3 May 2023
- Ancient Egypt as a general historical term broadly refers to the civilization ... Egyptian contributions to knowledge in the areas of mathematics, medicine ...44 KB (6,818 words) - 19:13, 26 July 2023
- The Girondins (US: /(d)ʒɪˈrɒndɪnz/ ji-RON-dinz, zhi-, ... French: [ʒiʁɔ̃dɛ̃], or Girondists, were a group of loosely affiliated ...34 KB (4,885 words) - 16:31, 15 December 2022
- 1917 – September 28, 1989) was President of the Philippines from 1965 to ... Marcos initially had laudable intentions: to improve the economy, ...51 KB (7,579 words) - 17:20, 26 March 2024
- Daniel Toroitich arap Moi (September 2, 1924 - February 4, 2020) was ... philosophy," which means following the leader and is, he claimed ...24 KB (3,582 words) - 06:24, 15 January 2023
- This article is about the nation of Georgia. For the U.S. state, see ... , known officially from 1990 to 1995 as the Republic of Georgia, is a ...46 KB (6,605 words) - 20:12, 4 September 2023
- |Place of Birth: |Thessaloníki (Selânik) |- |Death: |November 10, 1938 ... |Place of Death: |Istanbul |- |Political Party: |As PM: Republican ...25 KB (3,912 words) - 02:38, 11 March 2023
- somber contemplation, and endless debate as the topic of God. In the English ... Throughout history, the vast majority of people in the world have ...102 KB (16,134 words) - 19:54, 31 December 2023
- Bergquist, Swedenborg's Secret. London: The Swedenborg Society, 2005, ... his theology as for his mysticism, for much of it was centuries ahead of its ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- ), was an ancient Iranian prophet and the founder of Zoroastrianism ... as an authentic historical figure, but the period in which he lived remains ...25 KB (3,791 words) - 06:11, 13 June 2023
- 28, 551 B.C.E. – 479 B.C.E.) is one of the world's foremost exemplary ... Confucius taught personal and public morality, correctness of social ...28 KB (4,530 words) - 19:00, 15 May 2020
- Josef Stalin, consolidated power to become the absolute ruler of the Soviet ... Stalin was responsible transforming the Soviet Union from an agricultural ...78 KB (11,862 words) - 20:16, 24 October 2022
- and Loathing in Las Vegas. He is credited as the creator of Gonzo journalism ... Thompson himself became a central figure in the 1960s and 1970s ethos ...43 KB (6,622 words) - 22:52, 5 February 2024
- The French Revolution (1789–1799) was a period of ideological, political ... The Revolution was originally a popular uprising against the absolute ...68 KB (10,394 words) - 10:55, 11 April 2024
- The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, better known simply as ... The Cultural Revolution was initiated by Party Chairman Mao Zedong ...30 KB (4,513 words) - 06:46, 11 January 2024
- align:center;" | [[Image:Elizabeth I of England - coronation portrait ... Elizabeth I (September 7, 1533 – March 24, 1603) was Queen of England ...47 KB (7,593 words) - 16:23, 13 February 2024
- The Mongol Empire (Mongolian: Их Монгол Улс, meaning "Great ... After unifying the Mongol–Turkic tribes, the Empire expanded via ...30 KB (4,683 words) - 19:57, 9 November 2022
- The music of India includes Indian classical music, multiple varieties ... Indian classical music has one of the most complex and complete musical ...31 KB (4,712 words) - 02:37, 11 March 2023
- A dictatorship is a form of government which is characterized by a ... The term dictatorship originates from its use in the Roman Republic ...76 KB (10,337 words) - 22:00, 28 January 2023
- Landscape Painting depicts the scenery of the European natural world ... Early in the fifteenth century, Landscape painting was established ...29 KB (4,569 words) - 20:24, 12 October 2021
- dæmon, or daimon) is a supernatural being of malevolent intent, or ... Most religions and cultures of the world accept the existence of demons ...32 KB (5,129 words) - 09:29, 28 January 2024
- A journalist and politician during the French Revolution, he was ... and Chaumette and later the Cult of the Supreme Being of the Committee ...49 KB (7,367 words) - 18:14, 1 December 2022
- Ku Klux Klan (KKK) is the name of several past and present organizations ... The Klan's first appearance was shortly after the American Civil ...52 KB (7,797 words) - 04:38, 4 March 2023
- The Republic of Iraq, commonly known as Iraq, is a Middle Eastern ... Iraq is bordered by Jordan to the west, Syria to the northwest, Turkey ...56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
- KGB (transliteration of "КГБ") is the Russian-language ... The KGB was the umbrella organization for the Soviet Union's ...41 KB (6,060 words) - 21:47, 4 October 2022
- Mohammad Rezā Shāh Pahlavi, Shah of Iran (Persian language: محمدرضا ... It was lack of his regime's religious legitimacy in the eyes ...53 KB (8,258 words) - 19:29, 9 November 2022
