Search results for "Mystery religion" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • various aspects of the classical Greek religion (albeit to a lesser extent ... in Lemnos. The adherents of this mystery religion claimed that their founders ...
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  • Il nome della rosa, 1980), an intellectual mystery combining semiotics in fiction ... novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery set in a fourteenth century ...
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  • Stephen Wilk. Medusa: Solving the Mystery of the Gorgon (Oxford University ... * Harrison, Jane E. Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, 1922 ...
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  • priests, and parish priests administer the mystery of confirmation to newborn ... Orthodox Churches (Introduction to Religion). Cambridge University Press ...
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  • | religion = Jewish | footnotes = }} Eugene Paul Wigner (usually E ... of all human desires, is fundamentally a mystery beyond our grasp. As a young ...
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  • type of philosophy of life. The wonder and mystery of life shaped his thoughts ... Category:Philosophy and religion 32010043 ...
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  • to rites similar to those of other mystery cults in which the subject ... remained ignorant of Islam as a religion and of its internal divisions ...
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  • I will speak to the Lord concerning the mystery of truth: 'In this ... drawing the Lord out on another mystery spoken of in the traditional ...
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  • become the body and blood of Christ is a mystery. The Eastern tradition does ... Presence in an official document entitled This Holy Mystery. ...
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  • churches, it is understood that the mystery of confession and repentance ... of Mutual Forgiveness does not replace the Mystery of Confession and Absolution ...
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  • and practices as a syncretism of certain mystery religions such as Mithraism ... Monster," the deity of a parody religion called The Church of the ...
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  • chambers. In the Hypogeum, the Osiris mystery rituals were practiced. ... cia_hitech03.htm "The Abydos Mystery."] 1996. Retrieved ...
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  • Mlechha (Yavana or "western") religion, some of whom worshiped ... ystery_of_shambhala_part_one.html Mystery of Shambhala] in New Dawn ...
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  • Tad Wise, Blessings on the Wind: The Mystery and Meaning of Tibetan Prayer ... to a particular deity. In Tibetan religion, deities represent aspects ...
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  • was the keystone of human society, religion, morality, and decorum drawing ... by the emergence of chthonic "Mystery Cults" and law, whose ...
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  • Those belonging to a particular religion may define themselves against ... Thus, sometimes a religion's position on the question of how ...
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  • Mithraism, properly known as the Mithraic Mysteries or Mysteries of Mithras, was a mystery religion practiced in the Roman Empire, particularly ...
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  • *Kingsley, Peter. Ancient Philosophy, Mystery and Magic: Empedocles ... Category:Philosophy and religion 26077453 ...
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  • Doctrine Can Be Properly Call'd a Mystery. After having formulated ... for establishing institutionalized religion. Later works of special ...
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  • theologian and apologist, debater, and mystery writer. He was a columnist ... in the early 1930s by the Anglo-American mystery writer John Dickson Carr. ...
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  • meant to invoke divine presence. Each religion has its own sacraments that ... (Anglican Church) Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, Article XXV: ...
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  • to their founders demonstrate that each religion has been rightly guided ... commemorated as the "First Joyful Mystery" each time the rosary ...
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  • to focus his attention on philosophy and religion. Although Berdyaev was a ... Here we can see the influence of religion in Berdyaev’s philosophy ...
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  • relative seclusion added an element of mystery to his philosophical reputation ... but that it could possibly be attained through religion. ...
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  • * Pardoe, Rosemary and Darrell. The Female Pope: The Mystery of Pope ... * Stanford, Peter. The She-Pope. A Quest for the truth behind the ...
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  • remains a popular introduction to comparative religion. to only these values loses the beauty and mystery of faith that nourishes ...
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  • is not science. SETI is unquestionably a religion." Crichton has commented ... called "Environmentalism as a religion" (Radical environmentalism ...
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  • months of the year—thus explaining the mystery of the sun's diminishing ... a feature of the calendar by the Jewish religion during the Babylonian exile ...
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  • ===The Book of Job: Evil as a mystery of faith=== The theodicy of the ... The British philosopher of religion John Hick is not interested in ...
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  • knowledge, as well as aspects of Egyptian religion, became the common property ... Osiris spread and aspects of Egyptian Mystery religion may have influenced ...
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  • topic have concerned various schools of religion. The disagreement many Christians ... #"but we speak God's wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom ...
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  • always held a long standing tradition of mystery and belief in the supernatural ... investigations into the Loch Ness mystery, some privately funded and ...
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  • months of the year—thus explaining the mystery of the sun's diminishing ... a relatively late myth, historians of religion see it as part of the general ...
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  • region was returning to its indigenous religion, bastions of Christian thought ... invited them, if infidels, to embrace the mystery of the faith or if they ...
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  • that the people of Çatalhöyük had a religion that was rich in symbolism ... == Religion == [[Image:Goddess-catal-huyuk.jpg|thumb|200px|right|Enthroned ...
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  • point that the Hellenization of Egyptian religion began. While some scholars ... The worldview engendered by ancient Egyptian religion was uniquely ...
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  • in the Mesopotamian/Persian tradition of mystery symbolism. ... * Griffith, Sidney H. Faith adoring the mystery: reading the Bible ...
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  • an important role in ancient Egyptian religion and cosmology. Most of the ... have shrouded the sources of the Nile in mystery for millennia. Though six ...
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  • and myths of shamanism influenced the mystery cults and led to Daoist ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:philosophers 133277082 ...
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  • #If anyone… attempts thus to introduce into the mystery of Christ ... Category:philosophy and religion Category:religion Category:Christianity ...
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  • non-monastic origin and tributary of this Mystery Rite to the Mahasiddha tradition ... Joanne et.al., 1998. "Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern ...
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  • a syncretism of previous myths and mystery religions that were prevalent ... Another prominent mystery religion that was widespread in the Roman ...
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  • Selfhood of the Buddha himself—a mystery which no words can adequately ... Category: Philosophy and religion Category: Religion Nirvana|82460774} ...
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  • I looked down on the world of mankind, by command of the First Mystery ... Category:philosophy and religion category:religion 96763023 ...
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  • main_interests = Pragmatism, Psychology, Psychology of Religion, Epistemology ... the consequences of beliefs, James found religion to be quite beneficial to ...
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  • to transform the arts, sciences, religion, and political and intellectual ... the occult tradition and inspired by the mystery of this "College of ...
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  • wicce), also known as the "Old Religion," is a Neopagan religion ... Gardnerian Wicca was an initiatory mystery religion, admission to which ...
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  • to tell me used to take me to a world of mystery. It was the same feeling ... Category:Philosophy and religion Category:Religion 174895976 ...
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  • She spent many hours contemplating the mystery of the Eucharist, which ... Category:religion Category:biography 174293509 ...
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  • among "foreign gods" in Greek Religion (1985, section III.3,4) ... Cybele was associated with the mystery religion concerning her son ...
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