The Encyclopedia of World Religions

Index S 507

God, existence of 179 Nation of Islam 225 Malcolm X 275 pacifism 332 kingdom of God 239, 240, 255, 319 kingship and religion 255–256 Knights Templar 109 Knox, John 352 koan 256, 485–487 Kofuku no Kagaku (Science of Happiness) 232 Kojiki 253 Konkokyo 256 Kook, Abraham 291–292 Korean religion 257 kosher foods 120 Kramer, Samuel Noah 289 Kramrisch, Stella 11 Krishna 49–50, 257–260, 258, 265, 468, 472 Krishnaism in the West 260 Kristallnacht 205 kundalini 260, 404, 439, 482 Kushner, Harold 446 Kwanzaa 260–261 L Labouré, Catherine 282 LaHaye, Tim 163, 374 Lakshmi 262, 267, 468 Lalou, Marie 4 Lamarck, Jean Baptiste 140 Lang, Andrew 384 Lankavatara Sutra 56 Lao Tan 262, 263 Lao-tzu 262–263, 263, 440, 442 Last Judgment (Michaelangelo) 249 Last Supper 138, 184, 239 The Last Temptation of Christ 283 The Late Great Planet Earth (Lindsey) 163 Latin America 339, 340, 444 Latter-day Saints 16, 263–265 law 418–419 Laws of Manu 124, 200, 201, 408–409 Lee, Ann 417 Lee v. Weisman 92 “Left Behind” novels 163, 374 “Letter from Birmingham Jail” 254 Lévi-Strauss, Claude 265, 383, 454 Lewis-Williams, David 385 Lhasa, council of 452 liberation theology 340, 447 lila 258, 265 Lilith 265 Lindsey, Hal 163 liturgy 112, 265–266, 393 Loki 210, 266, 326 Long, Charles H. 103 Lord’s Prayer 255, 266, 349 Lord’s Supper. See Eucharist lotus 267, 483 Lotus Sutra 40, 234, 266, 267, 324, 432 Leibniz, G. W. 445 Lent 75, 146, 265 Leo I (pope) 333

Lowie, Robert 454 Lubavitch community 192–193, 248 Lugh (Lugus) 79 Luke 2, 183, 239, 255, 280, 366–367 Luria, Isaac 251–252 Luther, Martin 267–269, 268 Christianity, independent 89 Evangelical Christianity 138 justification 250 Lutheranism 269 miracles 294 music and religion 306 Protestant Reformation 375, 376 John Wesley 474 anti-Semitism 22 John Calvin 70, 71

Marcion 175, 319–320, 337 Marett, R. R. 18, 127, 384 marijuana 374 Mark 102, 183, 255, 281, 296, 367 Marr, Wilhelm 21 marriage and religion 278–279 . See also weddings Mars 279 martial arts and religion 279 martyrdom 279–280, 403, 432 Martyr’s Mirror (Thieleman J. van Braght) 280 Marx, Karl 160, 280, 280, 383, 384 Mary 139, 239, 280–281, 467 Mary, apparitions of 281–283 Mary I (queen of England) 376 Maryland 393, 395 Mary Magdalene 283–284 masks and religion 284 Masoretic text 113, 415 Mass 122, 393, 394 Massachusetts 91, 101, 345, 459 mass suicides 432 matriarchy 148 Matthew gospels 183 Isaiah 218 Jesus 238–239 magi 271 Mary 280–281 Q source 366–367 trinity 456 Matthews, Shailer 46 Maxeke, Charlotte Manye 4 maya (Sanskrit term) 284 Maya religion 153, 284–285, 285 May Day 285 McLaine, Shirley 317 McPherson, Amiee Semple 339 Mecca 301, 303, 304, 408 Mecca, pilgrimage to 285–287, 286 Buddha 62, 64 Buddhism 66 four noble truths 156 four unlimited virtues 156 koan 256 mandala 276 mysticism 309 worship 478 yantra 481 yoga 483 zazen 485 Zen Buddhism 485, 487 Medjugorje, Bosnia-Herzegovina 282 Mehta, Deepa 95 Memphis, Egypt 362 Menes (king of Egypt) 131 Mennonites 11–12, 89, 288–289 Merton, Thomas 299, 454 Mesmer, Anton 429 Islam 223 Kaaba 251 Malcolm X 275 Muhammad 304 pilgrimage 343, 344 meditation 287–288 . See also zazen

Lutheranism 269–270

M

Macedo, Edir 61 Macleish, Archibald 445

magi 239, 271 magic 271–272

James George Frazer 158 Bronislaw Malinowski 276 Pacific Ocean religions 330 prehistoric religion 350, 351 witchcraft 476–478 Mahabharata 49–50, 200, 257, 468 Mahavira 228, 229, 272, 272–273, 298 Mahayana Buddhism 273, 273–274 bodhisattva 56–57 Buddha 65 Buddhism 65, 66 Buddhist dharma 118 Buddhist festivals 68 Diamond Sutra 119 Korean religion 257 Lotus Sutra 267 nirvana 325 prajna 347 samsara 407 scriptures, Buddhist 412, 413 Tantrism 439 Vietnamese religions 466 Mahikari (Divine True Light) 232 Maitreya 274–275 bodhisattva 56, 57 eschatology 136 messiah 291 millenarianism 293 Vietnamese religions 466 Malcolm X 6, 225, 226, 275–276, 287 Malinowski, Bronislaw 158, 160, 276 mana 127, 141, 330, 437 Mandaeans 45, 174 mandala 276, 439, 481 Mani 174, 276–277, 357 Manichaeism 38, 174, 276–277, 316, 489 mantra 277, 327, 328, 483

Manu 107, 277–278 Mao Zedong 84, 99 mappo 145, 278 Mara 115–116, 278 March on Washington (1963) 253