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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
