Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

church from a charismatic leader and a circle of disciples forming a brotherhood. At the end of the period of brotherhood, there ...

clothing social and political structure through supporting the existing socio-political powers during peace and war. Three types ...

clothing Special religious clothing is not always visible. The Hebrew Bible refers to an injunction to wear fringed garments (Nu ...

comic social fabric, this group wears long caps and shawls, tall peacock feather hats, and sometimes a set of ankle bells. Some ...

comic The comic possesses the ability to collapse cultural categories. By con- founding and confusing social distinctions, the c ...

comic life and meeting the challenges of existence by making them into a game, these misadventures are about survival and defend ...

community COMMUNITY Within the larger society, a community is a group of people united in their beliefs, practices, and experien ...

comparative religion is encouraged to seek refuge. The irony of the Buddhist monastic com- munity is that a monk must renounce s ...

comparative religion superstitious aspects of Christianity that should be replaced by empir- ical and rational science. Even tho ...

conversion Petrus Tiele (1830–1902) and Pierre D. Chantepie de la Saussaye (1848– 1920). Tiele’s approach to the study of religi ...

cosmology During the early history of America, the Puritan faith manifests two movements with respect to conversion: downward an ...

cosmology inhabit on earth. It is impossible to precisely determine how the world originated, but it is possible to know that it ...

cosmology female twin. Breaking all cosmic rules, Ogo imposes his own disorder upon the creative process, but Amma transforms th ...

covenant COVENANT A covenant consists of an agreement between two parties to abide by its terms. In the ancient Near East, it re ...

cult characteristic of a relationship between a king and a council of elders (1 Chron. 11.30). It is also used as an expression ...

culture (or Bacchus), which embraces madness, sexuality, and ecstatic trance states. The Greek historian Herodotus discusses a g ...

culture The conception of the nature of culture develops from Roman times where it signifies cultivating the land to cultivating ...

cursing ideology of modernity. Culture is less a neutral category than a theoreti- cal argument centered in a particular method ...

dance the person who utters it. The Christian apostle Paul associates curses with Jesus’ crucifixion in Galatians (3.13). As in ...

dance Within the context of many cultures, dance, a form of body language, is a metaphor of sexual relations. Among the Lugbara ...