The Encyclopedia of World Religions

508 S Index

Ghost Dance 173 goddesses 182

Mesoamerica 284–285 Mesopotamia 173–174, 344 Mesopotamian religions 145, 151, 173, 289–291, 290 messiah 252, 291–292, 293 Metamorphoses (Ovid) 3 Methodism 6, 204–205, 292–293, 337, 474–475 Mevlevis 431. See also Whirling Dervishes Mexico 41–42, 282 Micah 293 Middle Ages 22, 157–158, 210, 393, 446, 486 millenarianism 74–75, 275, 293–294 millenialism 98, 360, 389 Miller, William 293, 357–358, 416 folk religion 154 fundamentalism, Christian 162 Jesus 239 religious experience 386 resurrection 388 saints 403 Mishnah 190, 437–438. See also Talmud missionaries 295–296 Africa, new religious movements in 3–4 Christ 84 Christianity 85 dialogue 118 Evangelical Christianity 138 Jesuits 238 Korean religion 257 Latter-day Saints 264 Presbyterian and Reformed churches 352 Russia 399 Milton, John 102 Miner, Horace 27 miracles 294–295

Genesis 172 Judaism 245 Ten Commandments 445

humor and religion 210 masks and religion 284 music and religion 307 prayer 349 sweat lodge 434 tricksters 455 visions 468 nature and religion 316, 332 Nauvoo, Illinois 263 Nazarene, Church of the 316–317 Nazism 205, 326 Nehemiah 317 nembutsu 348, 363 Neolithic Age 82, 182, 351 Neo-Paganism. See Paganism, Modern Nero (Roman emperor) 341 Neumann, Erich 29 neurotheology 61, 447 Neusner, Jacob 437 Nevi’im 52, 414 New Age movement 231, 317–318, 429, 448 New England 101–102, 458, 459 New England Transcendentalism 67, 203, 318, 322, 458 New Kingdom 13, 131 new religions 318–319 New Testament 319–321 . See also specific books and gospels Antichrist 21 anti-Semitism 21 Bible 52 Moses 301 papacy 333 Pharisees 343 Q source 366–367 Satan 408 virgin birth 467 New Testament, apocryphal 283, 321–322, 341–342 New Thought movement 318, 322–323 New Year festivals 69, 323–324, 415, 490 Niagara Bible Conference (1895) 162–163 Nicaea, Council of 102, 214, 240 Nicene Creed 107, 281 Nichiren 67, 234, 267, 324 Nichiren Buddhism 67, 231, 234, 267, 427 Niebuhr, H. Richard 447 Niebuhr, Reinhold 447 Nietzsche, Friedrich 21, 26 Night (Wiesel) 206, 446 Nihonshoki 253 Ninety-five Theses 267, 269, 375 nirvana 273, 274, 324–325 Nizari Isamailis 9, 224, 420. See also assassins Noah 151, 152, 325, 473, 474 devils and demons 116 dreams and religion 124 exorcism 142 gospels 183 incarnation 214 Mary Magdalene 283

Moses Maimonides 53, 291 mosque 30, 301–303, 302 mountains and religion 303 Mount Kailasa 426, 453 Mount Sinai 106, 141, 245, 300, 301, 445 mudras 303 muezzin 302, 303–304 Muhammad (prophet of Islam) 304–305 Allah 10 Hadith 189 Islam 220, 222, 223 Kaaba 251 Mecca, pilgrimage to 286 mountains and religion 303 prophecy 357 Qur’an 368, 369 suicide and religion 432 Muhammad, Elijah 6, 220, 225, 226, 275 Muhammad, Warithuddin 225, 226 mujahideen 366 al-Muktana 126 music and religion 25, 305–307, 309 Muslims. See Islam mystery religions 133, 147, 217, 219–220, 307–308, 329 mysticism 60, 251–252, 287–288, 308–310, 398, 431 Mysticism (Underhill) 309 myth and mythology 310–311

cinema and religion 94 flood stories 151, 153 Grail 184 heroes and hero myths 197–198 Claude Lévi-Strauss 265 Loki 266 Bronislaw Malinowski 276 Manu 277–278 moon and religion 300 Native American religions 314 prehistoric religion 350 religion, theories of origin of 384 sun and religion 433 Thor 450 tricksters 455 virgin birth 467 water and religion 473

Mithra 296–297 modernism 46, 161–162 Mokone, Mangena Maake 4 “monkey trial.” See Scopes Trial monks and nuns 297–299 Benedictines 49 Dominicans 121–122

initiation 217 Jainism 229

sangha 407 Taoism 442 Trappists 454–455 monophysitism 32, 103 monotheism 159, 176, 255, 299, 428 Moody, Dwight L. 389, 390 Moon, Syn Myung 257 moon and religion 299–300, 474 Moore, Roy 346 moral argument for the existence of God 178–179 Mormons. See Latter-day Saints Moroni 16, 263

“myth of Er” (Plato) 377

N Nag Hammadi Codices 53, 174, 175, 450 Nanak 2, 50, 252, 306, 312, 423–424, 424 National Campmeeting Association 204, 205 nationalism, religious 312–313, 421 Nation of Islam. See Islam, Nation of Native American religions 313–316, 314 Canada 72 church and state 92

Morris, Henry M. 163 Moses 300, 300–301 Aaron 1 covenant 106 Exodus 141

cosmogony 103 cosmologies 104 creation and world cycles 106 drugs and religion 125