The Encyclopedia of World Religions

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Locators in boldface indicate main entries. Locators in italic indicate illustrations. Locators followed by m indicate maps. Locators followed by t indicate tables.

evil 140 war and religion 472 Zarathustra 485 Zoroastrianism 489, 490 AIM (American Indian Movement) 315 Akbar (emperor of India) 118 Akhenaton (king of Egypt) 10 alchemy 10, 262, 441 Alexander III the Great (king of Macedon) 131, 329, 489 Ali (cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad) 212, 419–420

Angra Manyu 116, 489 animal sacrifice 92, 401–402, 407, 408, 470 animals and religion 18–20, 19, 31 animism 18, 126–127, 384 Anouilh, Jean 74 Anselm 20–21, 144, 176, 178 anthropology

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Aaron 1 abortion and religion 1 Abraham 1–2 Genesis 172 Isaac 217, 218 Jacob 228

James George Frazer 158 Claude Lévi-Strauss 265 Bronislaw Malinowski 276 religion, theories of origin of 384 sacrifice 402 taboo 437 totemism 454

Ali, Muhammad 226 Ali, Noble Drew 226 Allah 10–11 Alta Khan (Mongol king) 111

Joseph 244 Kaaba 251 Mecca, pilgrimage to 287 monotheism 299 Moses 301 Rebekah 374–375 Sarah 408 Abu Bakr (caliph) 369, 419 Abulafia, Abraham 252 Abu Talib 304, 419 Acts of the Apostles 2, 105, 229–230, 320, 336 Adam 2, 140, 145, 172 Adamski, George 457 Adi Granth 2–3, 176, 252, 312, 424 Adonis 3 Advaita Vedanta 59, 284, 407, 465, 468 Africa, new religious movements in 3, 3–5, 7, 89, 338–340, 444 African-American religions 5–6, 93, 260–261. See also Islam, Nation of African Methodist Episcopal Church 292 African religions 7, 193–194, 407, 455–456, 469–470 Afro-Brazilian religion 61 afterlife in world religions 8–9, 137, 173, 248–249, 428 Against Jews and Their Lies (Luther) 22 Aga Khan 9 Agni 9, 150–151 agriculture 351, 355–357, 422 ahimsa 10, 19, 121, 229, 273, 331 Ahriman 116, 136, 140 Ahura Mazda devils and demons 116 eschatology 136

anti-Catholic persecution 393 Antichrist 21 antifoundationalists 180 anti-Semitism 21–22, 226, 247, 488. See also the Holocaust Anurdhapura, council at 105 apartheid 352 aphorisms 475–476 apocalyptic literature 22–24 Daniel 112 millenarianism 293 New Testament 321 prophets, biblical 358 Rapture 373–374 Revelation, book of 388–389 war and religion 472 Apocrypha 24–25, 52, 142, 475 Apocryphon of John 175 Apollo 25–26 apostles 26 . See also Acts of the Apostles Eastern Orthodox Christianity 128 epistles 135 James 229–230

altar 11, 479 altrusim 385 Amaterasu 11, 219, 227 Ambedkar, B. R. 214 Ambrose 38

American Indian Movement (AIM) 315 American Muslim Mission 225, 226 Amida 11, 40, 234, 274, 278, 363 Amidism. See Pure Land Buddhism Amish 11–12, 288 Amitabha. See Amida Amman, Jakob 11 Amon 10, 13, 131 Amos 13 amulet. See charms and amulets Anabaptists Baptist churches 46 Christianity, independent 89 Eucharist 138 Mennonites 288 nationalism 312 politics and religion 345 Protestant Reformation 376 Analects of Confucius 13–14, 101 ancestor worship 14–15, 15, 69, 100 angels 15–17, 16 Anglicanism 3, 17–18

Mary Magdalene 283 missionaries 295–296 Paul (apostle) 336–337 Peter (apostle) 341–342

Apostles’ Creed 107 apostolic succession 17–18, 128, 354 Aquinas, Thomas 26–27 anti-Semitism 22 faith 144

Canterbury 74 Christianity 88 Episcopalianism 134–135 Methodism 292 Puritanism 364, 365 Protestant Reformation 376 John Wesley 474

Francis of Assisi and Franciscans 158 God, existence of 180

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