Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Dormition of the Theotokos is a Great Feast of the Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic Churches which commemorates the "falling asleep" or death of the Theotokos (Mary, the mother of Jesus; literally translated as God-bearer), and her bodily resurrection before being taken up into heaven. It is celebrated on August 15 (August 28, N.S. for those following the Julian Calendar) as the Feast of the Dormition of the Mother of God. The Armenian Apostolic Church celebrates the Dormition not on a fixed date, but on the Sunday nearest August 15. The first day of the Dormition Fast is a feast day...

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Is religion a choice? Some perceive religion as a static part of their identity that is committed to their culture's traditions; others perceive religion as dynamic, a belief system that they choose to reevaluate. At Brandeis University, which is predominantly Jewish, religion becomes part of everyday conversation and lifestyle. The conspicuous nature of religion at Brandeis invites students to reevaluate the role of religion in their life. I have found three groups of students at Brandeis: 1. Those who were raised in a certain religious tradition and without questioning it, continue in that practice throughout college, 2. Those who set the question of religion aside and do not engage in any religious/spiritual practice during college,...

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Dravidian parties include an array of regional political parties in the state of Tamil Nadu, India, which trace their origins and ideologies either directly or indirectly to the Dravidian movement of Periyar E. V. Ramasamy.The Dravidian movement was based on the linguistic divide in India,where most of the Northern Indian, Eastern Indian and Western Indian languages are classified as Indo-Aryan, whereas the South Indian languages are classified as Dravidian.Dravidian politics has developed by associating itself to the Dravidian community. The original goal of Dravidian politics was to achieve social equality,but it later championed the cause of ending the domination of North India on the politics and economy of the South Indian state of...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Drew Westen (Andrew Westen) is Professor in the Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia. He received his undergraduate degree (B.A.) from Harvard University, an M.A. in Social and Political Thought from the University of Sussex (England), and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Michigan, where he taught introductory psychology for several years. Born in 1959, he is married and has two children. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Le droit divin concerne la justification d'un pouvoir non democratique par le choix de Dieu. Ce choix est souvent exprime par l'affirmation d'une genealogie, d'une « race choisie ». Dans l'Occident chretien, la Reforme protestante ne modifia pas forcement cette doctrine la ou elle existait. Elle en souligna une des consequences qui n'avait pas non plus echappe au catholicisme : le monarque de droit divin se doit d'obeir a Dieu, sous peine de perdre sa legitimite. Le Vatican justifie aussi le pouvoir du Pape par le Droit divin, de meme que toute institution religieuse pour ses « ministres ». Mais il s'agit plutot ici d'une theocratie. Les conceptions issues du Coran concernant la fusion des...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Drongtse Monastery is a Tibetan Buddhist monastery was formerly one of the most important Gelug monasteries in Tsang, Tibet. There was also a chorten there.Drongtse Monastery, is 19 km northwest of Gyantse and 14 km north of Tsechen Monastery, on the "Southern Friendship Highway" to Shigatse, and just 6 km south of the site of the early Tsi Nesar temples. It was almost totally destroyed during the Cultural Revolution, but has been partially restored since, and the Assembly Hall was rebuilt in the 1980s, though many of the main buildings remain in ruins.The original four-storied monastery was on a "rocky eminence" about 300 ft (91 m) above the village. The wall was already partly ruined when...

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The book researches the writings of Jewish writers in the Second Temple period and analyses their attitudes to Drinking and Prostitution. The book focuses on three stories in the book of Genesis; Noah's Drunkeness, the immoral behaviour of Lot's daughters and the story of Judah and Tamar. In each story, the author examines second temple sources to discover the attitude of these early writers to both drunkenness and prostitution. The study focuses on the literary and rhetorical aspects of these Genesis texts and the exegesis of ancient biblical interpreters. Using close reading and rhetorical techniques, this work seeks to discover the views of the ancients to these vices and how these views were influenced by the culture in which Jews...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dual- covenant theology is a term found in contemporary inter-religious dialogue that teaches that Jews may simply keep the Law of Moses, because of the "everlasting covenant" (Genesis 17:13) between Abraham and God expressed in the Hebrew Bible, whereas Gentiles (those not Jews or Jewish proselytes) must convert to Christianity. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Duke Kimbrough McCall (b. 1914, Meridian, Mississippi) is a Christian religious leader who has served as a Baptist pastor, as chief executive officer of the Southern Baptist Convention (SBC) Executive Committee, as president of two seminaries, and as president of the Baptist World Alliance. McCall grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, one of five children of John W. McCall, a judge, and Lizette Kimbrough McCall, a leader in Southern Baptist mission support. McCall attended Furman University, Greenville, South Carolina, from which he graduated as valedictorian in 1935. While attending Furman, McCall met Greenville resident Marguerite Mullinnix. The couple...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Dulcinian movement was a religious sect of the Late Middle Ages, originating within the Apostolic Brethren. The Dulcinians, or Dulcinites, and Apostolics were inspired by Franciscan ideals and influenced by the Joachimites, but were considered heretical by the Catholic Church. Their name derives from the movement's leader, Fra Dolcino of Novara (ca. 1250-1307), who was burned as a heretic on the orders of Pope Clement V. The Apostolic/Dulcinian sects can be viewed as a manifestation in Northern Italy of the older Cathar movement that was also suppressed by a Papal crusade. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Sir Edward Evan (E. E.) Evans-Pritchard (21 September, 1902 – 11 September, 1973) was an English anthropologist instrumental in the development of social anthropology in his country. He was professor of social anthropology at Oxford from 1946 to 1970.Born in Crowborough, East Sussex, England, he was educated at Winchester College and studied history at Exeter College, Oxford, where he was influenced by R. R. Marett, and then as a postgraduate at the London School of Economics (LSE)....

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Earl Peel is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1929 for the Conservative Party politician William Wellesley Peel, 2nd Viscount Peel, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster from 1921 to 1922, Secretary of State for India from 1921 to 1922 and 1928 to 1929 and First Commissioner of Works from 1924 to 1928. He was made Viscount Clanfield, of Clanfield in the County of Southampton, at the same time, also in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. He was the son of Arthur Wellesley Peel, who served as Speaker of the House of Commons between 1884 and 1895. The latter year he was created Viscount Peel, of Sandy in the County of Bedford, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom....

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Many social changes took place under Islam between 610 and 661, including the period of Muhammad's mission and the rule of his four immediate successors who established the Rashidun Caliphate.According to William Montgomery Watt, for Muhammad, religion was not a private and individual matter but rather "the total response of his personality to the total situation in which he found himself. He was responding [not only]... to the religious and intellectual aspects of the situation but also the economic, social, and political pressures to which contemporary Mecca was subject."Bernard Lewis says that there are two important political traditions in Islam - one that views Muhammad as a statesman in Medina, and another that views him as a rebel...

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Eastern Christianity refers collectively to the Christian traditions and churches which developed in the Balkans, Eastern Europe, Asia Minor, the Middle East, Northeastern Africa and southern India over several centuries of religious antiquity. The term is generally used in Western Christianity to describe all Christian traditions which did not develop in Western Europe. As such the term does not describe any single communion or common religious tradition (indeed some Eastern Churches have more in common historically and theologically with Western Christianity than other Eastern Churches). The terms Eastern and Western in this regard originated with the division between the Eastern and Western Roman Empire and the cultural split that...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Easter Week or Bright Week is the period of seven days from Easter Sunday through the Saturday following. In the Latin Rite of Roman Catholicism, Anglican and other Western churches, Easter Week is the week beginning with the Christian feast of Easter and ending a week later on Easter Saturday. The term is sometimes inaccurately used to mean the week before Easter, which is properly known as Holy Week, and particularly confusing in this context is the secular usage of the term Easter Saturday to refer to the day known liturgically as Holy Saturday or Easter Eve (the day before Easter), rather than the Saturday following Easter. While the first day of Easter Week is called Easter Day or Easter...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Eastphalia is a historical region in northern Germany, encompassing the eastern part of the historic Duchy of Saxony, roughly demarcated by the rivers of Leine and Saale. Today it covers the southeastern part of the state of Lower Saxony and the western part of Saxony-Anhalt. Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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The Ebionites were a Jewish-Christian sect that insisted on the necessity of following Jewish religious law and rites, which they interpreted in light of Jesus' expounding of the Law. They regarded Jesus as the Messiah but not as divine. The Ebionites revered his brother, or cousin, James as the head of the Jerusalem Church and rejected Paul of Tarsus because he was an apostate towards the Law . Their name suggests that they placed a special value on religious poverty. Much of what is known about the Ebionites derives from the Church Fathers, who wrote polemics against the Ebionites, whom they deemed heretical Judaizers. Some scholars agree with the substance of the traditional portrayal as an offshoot of mainstream Christianity. Many...

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ebrach Abbey was a Cistercian monastery in Ebrach in Oberfranken, Bavaria, Germany. It is located in the Bishopric of Wurzburg. The abbey, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, Saint John the Evangelist and Saint Nicholas, was founded in 1126 or 1127 by Conrad III of Germany, his consort Gertrude, who at her death in 1146 was buried here, and various Frankish nobles, including Berno and Richwin. It was settled by twelve monks from Morimond Abbey in Burgundy, under the first abbot, Adam of Ebrach. It was dissolved during the secularisation of Bavaria in 1803. The abbey church became the local parish church. Beginning with the 13th century, the bishops of Wurzburg had their hearts brought to the...

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An ecclesiastical province is a large jurisdiction of religious government, so named by analogy with a secular province, existing in certain hierarchical Christian churches, especially in the Catholic Church and Orthodox Churches and in the Anglican Communion. In the early church, and in some modern churches, its chief city and seat is called a metropolis and its bishop is called a metropolitan Данное издание не является оригинальным. Книга печатается по технологии принт-он-деманд после получения заказа.

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Ecclesiastes is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title. The main speaker in the book, identified by the name or title Qohelet, introduces himself as "son of David, and king in Jerusalem." The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. The work emphatically proclaims all the actions of man to be inherently "vain", "futile", "empty", "meaningless", "temporary", "transitory", or "fleeting," depending on translation, as the lives of both wise and foolish men end in death. While Qohelet clearly endorses wisdom as a means for a...

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Ecclesiology is the study of the theological understanding of the Christian church. Specific areas of concern include the church's role in salvation, its origin, its relationship to the historical Christ, its discipline, its destiny, and its leadership. Ecclesiology is, therefore, the study of the church as a thing in itself. Different ecclesiologies give shape to very different institutions. Thus, in addition to describing a broad discipline of theology, ecclesiology may be used in the specific sense of a particular church or denomination’s character, self- described or otherwise. This is the sense of the word in such phrases as Roman Catholic ecclesiology, Lutheran ecclesiology, and ecumenical ecclesiology Данное...

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Ecclesiastical jurisdiction in its primary sense does not signify jurisdiction over ecclesiastics ("church leadership"), but jurisdiction exercised by church leaders over other leaders and over the laity. Jurisdiction is a word borrowed from the legal system which has acquired a wide extension in theology, wherein, for example, it is frequently used in contradistinction to order, to express the right to administer sacraments as something added on to the power to celebrate them. So it is used to express the territorial or other limits of ecclesiastical, executive or legislative authority. Here it is used as the authority by which judicial officers investigate and decide cases under Canon law. Such authority in the minds of lay Roman...

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Because the Christian religion is about the acts of the God-Man, Jesus of Nazareth, it treats human issues in a human way. Although there is no direct interest in the New Testament in matters economic, there is much economic material in the NT. This is especially so in the Lukan writings, St Luke’s Gospel and the Acts of the Apostles. These books tend to be treated by theologians as theological texts, and sometimes by economists as economic texts. The author of this book has graduate degrees and publications in both theology and in economics. The book thus gives an integrated reading that is informed both by NT and Economic scholarship – although it is mainly a theological reading. The book draws on the original Greek text, but in...

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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The Ecumenical Institute for Study and Dialogue, formerly called Study Center for Religion and Society, is an institute located in Colombo, Sri Lanka that is devoted to the study and interpretation of religious and social movements of people in Sri Lanka, in order to assist the Church in fulfilling its duty to be a witness and service to the life of the nation. The center has been involved in successfully organising a number of dialogues, meetings and seminaries, and it has become an internationally recognised center for study and dialogue with Buddhism, along with other ecumenical concerns. The center was...

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