The Encyclopedia of World Religions

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Pure Land Buddhism 363 Amida 11 Avalokitesvara 40 Buddhism in America 67 China 83 faith 144 grace 184 Japanese religion 234 Korean religion 257 Mahayana Buddhism 274 mappo 278 Vietnamese religions 466 purification, religious 364 Purim 97, 123, 137, 364 Puritanism 364–365 Christmas 91 drama 124 politics and religion 346 Pure Land Sutra 40 purgatory 8, 151

Daniel 112 Ezekiel 142 kingdom of God 255 martyrdom 280 New Testament 321 war and religion 472

Re (sun god) 131, 193 Reagan, Ronald 365, 390 Rebekah 218, 374–375 Reformation, Protestant 375–377 anti-Semitism 22 Apocrypha 25 Bible 54 John Calvin 70–71

revivalism 389–390 Ricci, Matteo 238 Richard I the Lionhearted (king of England) 108 Rinzai 256, 485, 487 rites of passage 390–392

Canterbury 74 Christianity 85 Christianity, independent 89 church and state 91 Evangelical Christianity 138 heresy 197 images, icons, idols in religion 212 justification 250 liturgy 266 Martin Luther 267–268 music and religion 306 politics and religion 345 preaching 349 Presbyterian and Reformed churches 352, 353 Protestantism 359 Psalms 362 Puritanism 364 Roman Catholicism 393 sacraments 400 Council of Trent 455 Waldensians 471 war and religion 471 Max Weber 474 witchcraft 477 Reformed churches. See Presbyterian and Reformed churches Reform Judaism 193, 371–372 reincarnation 8–9, 73, 377, 428, 449 relics 69, 108, 377–378 religion, definition of 378–379 religion, history of 379–381 religion, study of 169, 207–208, 381–383 . See also specific scholars, e.g.: Otto, Rudolf religion, theories of origin of 383–385 religious experience 385–386 religious freedom 460, 461 Religious Freedom Restoration Act (1993) 92 Lutheranism 269 Mennonites 288

African religions 7 ancestor worship 14 baptism 45 bar/bat mitzvah 48 children 82 Christianity 87 folk religion 153–154 heroes and hero myths 198 initiation 217 Zoroastrianism 490

Presbyterian and Reformed churches 352 Protestantism in America 360 revivalism 389 Unitarianism 458 United Church of Christ 459

Ritschl, Albrecht 141 ritual 392 baptism 45–46

birth rituals 55–56 circumcision 95–96 Confucianism 99 cross 108 diet and religion 119 Eucharist 138 family and religion 146

Q al-Qaeda 167, 366, 472 Q source 366–367 Quakers 331, 367, 367–368, 417

Sigmund Freud 160 initiation 216–217 Judaism 246 kingship and religion 256 magic 271 mandala 276 Manichaeism 277 mantra 277 marriage and religion 278–279 masks and religion 284 Maya religion 284 Mecca, pilgrimage to 286 Moon and religion 300 Native American religions 315 ordination 328 priests and priesthood 354 purification 364 rites of passage 390–392 sacraments 400–401 seasons and religion 415 sweat lodge 434 Tantrism 439 Taoism 441–442 Voodoo 470

Quimby, Phineas 322 Qur’an 368–370, 369 Allah 11 angels 16 covenant 106 faith 144 Hadith 189 Islam 220, 223

judgment of the dead 248, 249 missionaries 296 Muhammad 304, 305

pacifism 331 Ramadan 372 resurrection 388 Shariah 419 Shi’ite Islam 420

R rabbi, rabbinate 245, 246, 371–372, 437 Radford-Ruether, Rosemary 147 Raglan, F. R. S. 198 Rama 192, 372, 468 Ramadan 146, 147, 372–373, 373 Ramakrishna 373, 468 Ramanuja 465, 468 Ramayana 191–192, 307, 372, 409, 468 Rancé, Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de 454

the Renaissance 54, 465 The Republic (Plato) 377 Republican Party 346, 444 restoration movement 386–387 resurrection 387–388

Daniel 112 Easter 128 Eastern Orthodox Christianity 129 epistles 135 Jesus 239

Roberts, Oral 194, 339, 444 Roberts, Richard 444 Robertson, Pat 47, 163, 346, 443, 444 Roman Catholicism 392–394 abortion and religion 1 African-American Religions 6 Thomas Aquinas 27 art 33 Augustine of Hippo 38–39 Benedictines 49

Rapture 23, 373–374 Rastafarians 6, 374

Mary Magdalene 283 Paul (apostle) 336, 337 Satan 408 Revelation, book of 388–389 Antichrist 21

Rastriya Svayamsevak Sangh (National Volunteer Association; RSS) 164, 202 Rauschenbusch, Walter 253 Ray, James Earl 255

apocalyptic literature 22, 23