Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

other examples of Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox forms of Christianity, it is not unusual to have competing forms of orthod ...

other from the researcher by his/her different worldview, society, religion, language, and culture. From an even wider perspecti ...

pacifism an alternative to presence and absence. In other words, one’s relation to the other makes the other possible and also i ...

pain King, Jr., the Dalai Lama, and the Vietnamese Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh. In addition to these individuals, large groups ...

pantheism From a negative perspective, pain can cause a person to become decentered leading to personal disintegration. A good e ...

perception and Ibn Rushd. The mystic Jakob Boehme and the philosopher Spinoza are seventeenth-century examples of pantheism in t ...

performance touching and knowing the image with one’s eyes. In this process of per- ception, the viewer is not the initiator of ...

pilgrimage framework. Ronald Grimes critically responds to Bell that ritual and per- formance are substantively related but also ...

pilgrimage The annual pilgrimage (hajj) to the Ka’ba in Mecca, which is believed to have been built by Abraham and his son Isma’ ...

pilgrimage journey home where a pilgrim can verbally share their experience with others. Just as it does for Islam, pilgrimage p ...

play PLAY A distinction can be drawn between human forms of play, such as engag- ing in sports, games, and inter-human interacti ...

play study, Huizinga connects play to ritual and war, and he indicates how they are bound by designated space and rules. He conc ...

play The spirit of play is also evident among Hindu holy men, such as Rāmakrishna, a nineteenth-century Bengali saint and devote ...

politics PLURALISM This refers to the cross-cultural realization that there are many religions around the globe and even within ...

pollution church. After the Reformation, the state controls the church, a position that dates to the work of a Swiss theologian ...

pollution form of purification. This implies that pollution is best understood in relation to forms of purification. As the anth ...

polytheism On the village level of existence in India, pollution ideas are directly related to supernatural beings because the h ...

possession major monotheistic religions arise within, and react against, prevailing polytheistic religions, even though the term ...

postmodernism In India, it is possible to find something similar with a distinction between two Sanskrit terms āveśa (entrance i ...

postmodernism Martin Heidegger and his vision of the end of metaphysics. According to some postmodern thinkers, postmodernism re ...