Search results for "Religious conversion" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • tax. Buddhists had the starker choice of conversion or expulsion. ... In foreign relations however things this conversion had no effect ...
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  • Emperor Basil II. He then ordered the conversion of Kiev and Novgorod to ... After his conversion, and with the Byzantine Empire now his ally, ...
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  • of his followers quickly interpreted his conversion as a mystical act which ... Sabbatai's conversion was devastating for most of his followers ...
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  • in Göttingen in 1921, that caused her conversion. Stein, then 29, was vacationing ... Most of her writing on women came from the period between her conversion ...
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  • professor and clergyman until a religious conversion in 1374, after which ... printing them, reproducing scriptural and religious texts and also literature ...
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  • of social institutions—family, kinship, religious, and economic organizations. ... Firth wrote extensively on the traditional religious thoughts and ...
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  • martyr of Britain. Shortly after his conversion, he allowed himself to ... brief, being executed shortly after his conversion. However, several miracles ...
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  • notably the foundation or restoration of religious houses. ... She dedicated herself to prayer and other religious exercises and carried on ...
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  • he read the Bible and experienced a religious conversion. His distrust of reason ... from cover to cover and experienced a religious conversion. ...
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  • missions, parliamentary reform, and religious liberty, he is honored ... of reform is derived from roots in conversion to an unpopular "sect ...
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  • The miji constitutes a collection of religious chants performed by ... socially inferior. The ongoing conversion in Ziro has led to the ...
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  • This background can be either religious (such as a Christian marrying ... of the planet, views towards inter-religious and inter-racial marriage ...
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  • him to lay a firm foundation for their conversion, though he did not see ... *Carver, M. O. H. The Cross Goes North: Processes of Conversion in ...
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  • Religious exclusivism is the doctrine that the adherents of a particular ... to come." In Christianity, religious exclusivism is seen in ...
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  • who had undergone a profound religious conversion and was gathering ... Loyola had undergone a profound religious conversion and was then gathering ...
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  • in the theology of "instant conversion" that was, at that ... of "high emotion" alienated the religious establishment, it won many ...
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  • an antidote to supposedly coercive religious conversion practices by "cults ... argue that they are not opposed to religious conversion per se, but only to ...
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  • not fully satisfied as to his own "conversion" until an experience ... underpinnings for it in his work on the religious affections. At the same ...
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  • ==Cultural and religious legacy== [[Image:Bowl Iran sabz.JPG|thumb ... the Hanafi school of thought. The mass conversion of the Turks to Islam eventually ...
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  • of some methodologies for the religious conversion of inductees to new ... likened the personality changes to religious conversion experiences recounted ...
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  • of the Fulani through conquest and religious conversion. jihads, or holy wars. In continuing religious conquest, they took over ...
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  • Shortly after his conversion to Christianity, Montanus began traveling ... century, about 20 years or so after his conversion to Christianity. A respected ...
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  • with legal authority in a number of religious and civil matters both ... had been established as the political and religious center of ancient Israel ...
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  • Owen became the boy's source of religious and aesthetic development ... death, during which time he had a religious conversion experience. The death ...
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  • later sonnets and devotionals, reflect religious themes and sentiments. Rossetti's poems are studied by religious scholars because of ...
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  • to provide a synthesis of previous religious teachings. Its founder ... denounced Manichaeism in his post-conversion writings, and eventually ...
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  • and debates, they formed the Jewish Religious Union in London. Liberal ... the amount of Hebrew used in their religious services and are incorporating ...
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  • of the house of God"), on his conversion he assumed the name of ... to a leader but joined the Muslim religious community, of which he ...
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  • one or more persons regardless of their religious faith. They are often given ... ;Conversion This has been the content of many messages. However, the ...
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  • States. He had a paradigmatic personal conversion from rationalist skepticism ... Adams, New York, but after his dramatic conversion experience at the age of ...
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  • and morals offensive to many (especially religious believers) it is worth ... :Till the conversion of the Jews. :My vegetable love should grow ...
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  • sometimes given to a period of heightened religious activity, primarily in ... the means of informing the public on religious manners and was akin to ...
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  • interact and engage in constructive Inter-religious Dialogue. They have begun ... Other religious categories used to group the world's religions ...
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  • For instance, a charismatic leader in a religious context might promote an ... leadership and the onset of new religious movements has been closely ...
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  • He was a pioneer in the field of secular religious studies. In 1967, he established ... a popular readership. His defense of religious studies as a secular discipline ...
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  • aspects of Islam's development as a religious-social-political system ... After his conversion to Islam, he remembered with shame and regret ...
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  • had to endure slavery and her personal religious experiences formed a personality ... with the Van Wagenens, she underwent a religious experience that began her ...
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  • early 1500s, Pfefferkorn condemned Jewish religious tradition as intolerably ... several pamphlets alleging that Jewish religious writings such as the Talmud ...
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  • Camp meetings were outdoor religious gatherings that became a prominent ... churches in the new settlements created a religious vacuum in rural areas. ...
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  • under severe threats, declared his own conversion to Islam. A great disillusionment ... on his head; and thus his supposed conversion to Islam was accomplished. ...
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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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