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- ==Early Christianity in India== [[Image:Christian prayers in tamil ... ===Dawn of Christianity in India=== The dawn of Christianity to South ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
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- St. Thomas Mount is a small hillock located in Chennai, Tamil Nadu ... * Christianity in India * Portuguese India * Religion in India ...9 KB (1,390 words) - 16:21, 8 February 2023
- dualistic religion that was once prolific in Persia but is now extinct. ... The teachings of Mani were once widely circulated in the ancient world ...9 KB (1,391 words) - 02:52, 6 November 2022
- ==Early Christianity in India== [[Image:Christian prayers in tamil ... ===Dawn of Christianity in India=== The dawn of Christianity to South ...24 KB (3,424 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- Goa Velha ("Velha" means old in Portuguese), referring to ... Christianity constitutes India's third-largest religion, following ...14 KB (2,129 words) - 19:24, 31 December 2023
- the spiritual leadership is not understood in the same way as the Eastern ... Church and Eastern Orthodox Church occurred in the fifth century. This separation ...11 KB (1,534 words) - 01:18, 18 November 2022
- John of Montecorvino, or Giovanni Da/di Montecorvino in Italian, also ... In 1294, he finally reached Khanbaliq (Beijing), just after the death ...11 KB (1,769 words) - 14:51, 15 December 2022
- and eleventh centuries, Danes were involved in exploring and settling as far ... of Greenland, whose colonial status ceased in 1953, and is now an autonomous ...10 KB (1,462 words) - 22:08, 25 January 2024
- in the establishment of Christianity in India, the Malay Archipelago ... In 1529, while attending the University of Paris, Xavier became acquainted ...15 KB (2,402 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- of the most famous Hindu mystics of modern India, who claimed that all religions ... Ramakrishna was born into a poor Brahmin family in Karampukur village ...11 KB (1,615 words) - 15:51, 18 June 2022
- Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions ... common religious tradition or communion. In particular, the Eastern Orthodox ...12 KB (1,717 words) - 17:40, 12 February 2024
- by followers of the Zoroastrian religion in their rituals surrounding death ... At one time, the most widely practiced religion in the world, Zoroastrianism ...11 KB (1,659 words) - 04:48, 1 May 2023
- ancient order of mystical ascetics who lived in many parts of the ancient world ... According to Philo, communities of Therapeutae were widely established ...12 KB (1,764 words) - 18:27, 30 April 2023
- Serampore College, located in Serampore Town, in Hooghly District ... the growing church in India (See: Christianity in India). The Trio's ...14 KB (1,875 words) - 09:54, 26 January 2023
- He turned to religious reform after a career in the service of the British ... In 1828, prior to his departure to England, Rammohan founded, with ...18 KB (2,857 words) - 00:31, 8 December 2022
- Sanchi refers to a small village in India located 46 km north-east ... monuments demonstrate the high regard rulers in the Madhya Pradesh region of ...10 KB (1,469 words) - 03:10, 23 December 2022
- The Saint Thomas Christians are a group of Christians from the Malabar coast (now Kerala) in South India, who follow Syriac Christianity. ...27 KB (3,937 words) - 22:35, 11 January 2024
- Swami Vivekananda on May 1, 1897, who in 1893, when he attended the ... as the best expression of that truth. In a lecture delivered several ...11 KB (1,632 words) - 00:33, 8 December 2022
- an important Hindu religious scholar born in Gujarat, India. He is best ... He was an original scholar, who believed in the infallible authority of ...15 KB (2,357 words) - 08:42, 28 January 2024
- Nagaland (Hindi: नागालैंड) is a state of India located ... Nagaland has played a crucial role in the development of the Republic ...19 KB (2,820 words) - 23:09, 10 November 2022
- and statesman, the second president of India (1962-1967). of comparative religion and philosophy in his day. He built a bridge ...12 KB (1,733 words) - 16:20, 27 July 2021
- her schooling, took her vows to the order in 1936. She taught school for ... her death, and often involved the children in the convent school where she ...13 KB (1,913 words) - 19:04, 22 December 2022
- Robert Morrison (born January 5, 1782 in Bullers Green, near Morpeth ... Morrison produced a Chinese translation of the New Testament in 1813 ...15 KB (2,249 words) - 01:44, 16 December 2022
- Jesus. He is mentioned as the sixth apostle in the three Synoptic Gospels ... as a disciple other than what is related in the Gospel of John concerning ...11 KB (1,622 words) - 19:13, 22 December 2022
- Vasco da Gama was a Portuguese explorer, one of the most successful ... Commissioned by King Manuel I of Portugal to find Christian lands ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- Portuguese India ( Índia Portuguesa of Portugal's colonial holdings in India. At the time of British ...22 KB (3,152 words) - 00:27, 12 April 2023
- IAST Ayodhyā), an ancient city of India, holds a cherished place ... (320 to 550 C.E.), Hinduism again ascended in Ayodhya, entering a golden ...16 KB (2,296 words) - 07:27, 23 August 2023
- In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ... In sociology and biology, infanticide is the practice of intentionally ...20 KB (2,994 words) - 22:37, 5 February 2023
- her modest lifestyle and unwavering faith in her religion. She traveled ... Christianity has had difficulty coping with racial diversity, and ...7 KB (1,128 words) - 02:38, 24 July 2023
- Sadhu Sundar Singh (1889 - 1929), born in Patiala State, India, became ... * Christianity in India * Saint Thomas Christians * History of Christianity ...21 KB (3,248 words) - 18:35, 22 December 2022
- William Wilberforce (August 1759 - July 1833) was born in the great ... to overcome the many setbacks and defeats. In 1807, Parliament finally passed ...18 KB (2,796 words) - 15:18, 14 May 2023
- portrays the courage of Japanese Christians in the seventeenth century and ... Many of Endo’s protagonists are weak and had failed in some important ...12 KB (1,864 words) - 18:33, 13 February 2024
- Jesus alive, Thomas professed his faith in Jesus, exclaiming "My ... said to have taken it eastwards as far as India. The churches of Malankara ...21 KB (3,427 words) - 00:53, 23 December 2022
- was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431 C.E. The christological ... Nestorianism originated in the fifth century out of an attempt to ...10 KB (1,525 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- Roman trade with India started around the beginning of the Common ... coastal voyage, helped enhance trade between India and Rome. ...21 KB (3,121 words) - 04:51, 16 December 2022
- 326 B.C.E. when Alexander the Great invaded India. He ruled an area of what ... no place for privilege of birth or of wealth in his system. There is little ...11 KB (1,687 words) - 17:43, 31 October 2023
- established the Portuguese colonial empire in the Indian Ocean. After gaining ... Alfonso de Albuquerque was born in Alhandra in the year of 1453, near ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 06:01, 16 June 2023
- Christianity in Japan is a religious minority, which constitutes about ... Nearly all known traditional denominations of Christianity, including ...21 KB (2,903 words) - 21:10, 10 December 2023
- A quarterly journal, Athenäum, founded in 1798 by Freidrich von Schlegel ... der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India, 1808) was a pioneering work ...14 KB (2,106 words) - 07:21, 5 October 2022
- or Axum), was an important trading nation in northeastern Africa, growing ... Ethiopian culture today has its roots in this civilization. The decline ...22 KB (3,389 words) - 07:18, 16 June 2023
- 1936 he was a Church of Scotland missionary in India, where he was consecrated ... Despite roots in a non-Episcopal tradition, he became convinced that ...30 KB (4,685 words) - 22:01, 25 October 2022
- of hand. The practice occurs most commonly in India, though other Asian nations ... evil, even the devil or Satan. The snake, in the great monotheistic traditions ...17 KB (2,596 words) - 21:41, 30 January 2023
- most fundamental virtues universally found in diverse cultures throughout ... In Confucian thought, filial piety ( c=孝|p=Xiào ) is one of the ...10 KB (1,518 words) - 22:58, 1 May 2021
- Religion plays a major role in life in Indonesia, which has the largest ... History-and-Legal-Position-of-Confucianism-in-Post-Independence-Indonesia ...26 KB (3,688 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- and the Sikh Empire. His Samadhi is located in Lahore, Pakistan. For almost ... Maharaja Ranjit Singh was a Sikh born in 1780 in Gujranwala in modern ...14 KB (2,163 words) - 05:26, 5 November 2022
- Authority (Latin auctoritas, used in Roman law as opposed to potestas ... authority has been a subject of research in a variety of empirical settings; ...10 KB (1,553 words) - 19:17, 22 August 2023
- an Indian yogi and guru. He was instrumental in bringing the teachings of meditation ... of Jesus teachings to Western Christianity. His understanding of ...22 KB (3,146 words) - 07:48, 18 November 2022
- essayist. His informal but polished style in both Chinese and English made ... who had a profound understanding of Christianity, Buddhism, Confucianism ...17 KB (2,538 words) - 08:46, 8 March 2023
- Sir William Muir, KCSI (April 27, 1819 – July 11, 1905) was born ... His writing on Islam pioneered, in the English-speaking world, use ...26 KB (3,916 words) - 10:37, 11 May 2023
- works of Lucretius and Giordano Bruno, and in 1696 published Christianity ... the first to use the term “pantheism” in 1705 in the title of his work ...15 KB (2,286 words) - 07:58, 3 August 2022
- their lack of empirical content. Inductivist in his method, Jones' work ... maps of the area developed during the survey in preparation for the Act had ...8 KB (1,180 words) - 01:42, 14 December 2022
- kingdom on the earth, a utopian society in which wealth would be spread ... Richard Henry Tawney was born on November 30, 1880, in Calcutta, India ...14 KB (1,999 words) - 01:48, 14 December 2022
- of Dravidian speakers live mainly in southern India, most notably ... Still others argue that Dravidian held sway in a much larger region, replacing ...24 KB (3,241 words) - 17:33, 30 January 2024
- Islam in India constitutes the second-most practiced religion after ... Islam in India has had a fascinating, and powerful impact. Indeed ...25 KB (3,703 words) - 06:10, 8 March 2024
- was condemned at the Council of Ephesus in 431, and the conflict over ... continued to be called "Nestorian" in the West, to distinguish it ...19 KB (2,813 words) - 16:23, 11 November 2022
- an eminent theologian and religious scholar in the German Protestant tradition ... Born in Peine (near Hanover), Rufolf Otto attended the Gymnasium Adreanum ...15 KB (2,383 words) - 17:41, 22 December 2022
- and Muslim thinkers; his impact is evident in the theology of St. Augustine ... was sixty-six years old when he died in 270 c.e., the second year of ...12 KB (1,813 words) - 08:05, 24 November 2022
- religion of Iranian origin, founded in the third century C.E. by the ... struggle between the forces of good and evil in the universe. It is also an ...22 KB (3,392 words) - 11:06, 9 March 2023
- groups that constitute traditional societies in certain regions of the world ... similar structures. While most are no longer in force, one common attribute ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 14:24, 29 November 2023
- or depiction of aspects of Eastern cultures in the West by writers, designers ... . This is the opposite of the term Occident. In terms of the Old World, Europe ...18 KB (2,670 words) - 01:22, 18 November 2022
- the social gospel movement, especially in the USA although his ideas ... Rauschenbusch was born in Rochester, New York. His father, Augustus ...17 KB (2,661 words) - 22:29, 3 May 2023
- a tribal group of approximately 60,000 in Ziro in the Apatani plateau ... striving to protect their traditional ways in the face of modernization. ...11 KB (1,672 words) - 05:57, 11 August 2023
- Anglicanism has its roots in the Celtic Christianity of the earliest ... Anglicanism today operates flexibly and autonomously in many nations ...21 KB (3,167 words) - 05:52, 28 July 2023
- original intent sas to help with expenses in the creation of the new family ... Today, the practice has decreased in developed countries and urban ...20 KB (3,330 words) - 17:30, 30 January 2024
- priest and missionary who introduced Christianity and Western ideas to the ... In 1601, Ricci became the first foreigner from the West to enter the ...19 KB (2,924 words) - 16:54, 7 November 2022
- observed by several faiths including Christianity, Islam, and Sikhism. Within ... The religious act of foot-washing is also practiced in Islam and Sikhism ...15 KB (2,385 words) - 15:11, 5 September 2022
- , or the 'Emperor's Mosque', in 1673 in Lahore, Pakistan. The ... The Badshahi Mosque in Lahore, completed in 1673, had been designed ...10 KB (1,530 words) - 05:38, 26 August 2023
- various religious traditions that originated in India, and now are practiced ... caste. Throughout his life, a person remains in the same caste into which he ...19 KB (2,973 words) - 13:22, 22 January 2024
- the dualistic ethos that spawned these terms in the first place. ... In this new understanding, pagan traditions are defined by the absence ...24 KB (3,484 words) - 10:58, 11 March 2023
- . Many believe him one of the earliest Marxists in India. ... Born to a family which had earlier been involved in revolutionary ...28 KB (4,246 words) - 03:31, 1 October 2023
- of the countries south of China, east of India and north of Australia. South ... the north. Austronesian peoples predominate in the maritime region; taken ...38 KB (5,260 words) - 15:15, 27 April 2023
- the Baptist Missionary Society. His interest in mission was stimulated by reading ... Among those who assisted in the task of Bible translation was Ram ...25 KB (3,845 words) - 15:53, 7 May 2023
- quot; of the organization. As a lay preacher in her own right, she helped to ... She was born Catherine Mumford in Ashbourne, Derbyshire, England, ...9 KB (1,475 words) - 16:14, 3 December 2023
- southward. Thus the rounding of the cape in 1488 was considered a significant ... In 1488, navigator Bartholomew Dias named the Peninsula "Cabo ...15 KB (2,280 words) - 00:36, 13 January 2023
- and government, but he also wrote much in the field of economics. His ... While the twentieth century in many ways proved him correct, stronger ...28 KB (4,212 words) - 01:03, 9 November 2022
- In religious discourse, Inclusivism designates a particular theological ... All religions provide a sense of community to their followers, in ...21 KB (3,342 words) - 22:00, 4 February 2023
- In Hinduism, Balarama (Devanagri: बलराम) is listed in the ... Reverence of Balarama is especially popular in South India as well as in the ...10 KB (1,539 words) - 05:51, 26 August 2023
- the blessings associated with such a state. In its more extreme form, religious ... Exclusivism is most prevalent in Abrahamic religions. In Jewish tradition ...15 KB (2,291 words) - 10:03, 29 July 2022
- Axum, or Aksum, is a city in northern Ethiopia named after the Kingdom ... own coins by the third century, converting in the fourth century to Christianity ...13 KB (2,015 words) - 07:23, 23 August 2023
- sinned could receive absolution. Early Christianity abandoned this practice ... absolution, especially for monks and nuns. In Hinduism an act or rite of ...20 KB (3,117 words) - 06:36, 14 June 2023
- Müller's use of comparative linguistics in his research methodology ... He was born in Dessau, the son of the Romantic poet Wilhelm Müller ...30 KB (4,499 words) - 00:55, 9 November 2022
- (1110 - May 1, 1171) was a King of Leinster in Ireland. Ousted as King of ... may have unfolded differently. Celtic Christianity might have continued to ...16 KB (2,466 words) - 01:09, 2 July 2020
- Annie Wood Besant (October 1, 1847 – September 20, 1933) was born ... M. K. Gandhi said that she woke India from a deep sleep and that he ...34 KB (5,469 words) - 04:59, 31 July 2023
- The history of the missions of the Jesuits in China in the early modern ... The first attempt by Jesuits to reach China was made in 1552 by Saint ...29 KB (4,469 words) - 08:20, 3 April 2024
- Islamic Party), a political Islamic party in Pakistan. Abul A’la was born ... AH). Maududi’s father, Ahmad Hasan, born in 1855 C.E., a lawyer by profession ...26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
- ]); formerly known as Cochin), a city in the Indian state of Kerala ... *Christianity in India *India *Kerala *Portuguese Empire ...42 KB (5,911 words) - 04:06, 4 March 2023
- 1583 – August 28, 1645) worked as a jurist in the Dutch Republic and laid ... very nature, natural laws were authoritative in themselves, with or without ...25 KB (3,772 words) - 12:17, 4 February 2023
- the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem in the days before his Passion ... The holiday is celebrated with processions in which Christians carry ...17 KB (2,712 words) - 06:25, 18 November 2022
- , a hill station (a hill town) nestled in the Shiwalik Hills (or Lower ... attracts students from all over North East India, West Bengal, Bhutan, Nepal ...23 KB (3,408 words) - 02:28, 5 October 2022
- a codex is a book made of bound sheets; in a codex, one can directly turn ... publishing method, it is still used today in order to indicate historicity ...16 KB (2,500 words) - 17:30, 25 January 2023
- and Pakistan, as well as large parts of India, Mesopotamia, and Caucasus ... In the sixteenth century, Timurid prince Babur, the ruler of Ferghana ...22 KB (3,337 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
- In Christianity, an Apostle (Greek: Ἀπόστολος apostolos: ... The status of the apostles in the early Church was penultimate to ...30 KB (4,741 words) - 15:51, 11 August 2023
- to a Jewish movement within contemporary Christianity. Jewish Christians predominated in the movement of early Christianity ...32 KB (4,998 words) - 08:45, 3 April 2024
- The folklore of India comprises the folklore of the nation of India ... The folklore of India is distinguished from classical Sanskrit literary ...32 KB (4,865 words) - 07:00, 5 September 2022
- to a sacred geometric device commonly used in the religious practice of Hinduism ... the ultimate unity from which the cosmos in all its manifold forms arises." ...23 KB (3,394 words) - 16:47, 24 October 2023
- constraints bring them greater freedom in various areas of their lives ... and hermits, who withdraw from the world in order to live an ascetic life; ...22 KB (3,334 words) - 03:51, 18 August 2023
- or bodies, which are said to be manifested in different ways: 1) the nirmanakaya ... conflicting teachings about the Buddha found in Buddhist texts. As with earlier ...13 KB (1,936 words) - 16:53, 2 May 2023
- ; "orthodox") are technical terms used in Indian philosophy ... the criterion of both orthodoxy and heresy in Hinduism is not based on the ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 01:27, 11 November 2022
- woodcut. The original was published in Paris in 1888. Pantheism states ... The term panentheism (meaning "all-in-God") was coined by ...21 KB (3,199 words) - 11:13, 11 March 2023
- not being fulfilled by mainstream churches in Victorian England. A large ... Booth was born in Sneinton, Nottingham, England, the only son of four ...11 KB (1,744 words) - 15:41, 6 May 2023
- modern education for the Muslim community in India by founding the Muhammedan ... working as a jurist for the British East India Company. Personally affected ...32 KB (4,963 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
