Religious Studies: The Key Concepts (Routledge Key Guides)

healing having been cleansed with water and rubbed with medicines, witnesses the killing of a third dove and the application of ...

heaven HEAVEN From a cross-cultural perspective, in the Western religious traditions, heaven is conceived as a location beyond t ...

henotheism of fleshless souls, resting, and finding pleasure in the presence of God in a theocentric heaven. Around 408, Augusti ...

heresy focus on a single deity such as Agni, god of fire, and others. Although a religious tradition such as Hinduism possesses ...

heterodoxy they reject the divine origins of the Vedic hymns, whereas Jains and Buddhism experience their own controversies over ...

homosexuality HOLY PERSONS This concept refers to all male and female figures considered set apart and special by virtue of thei ...

images homosexuality and refers to fines and modes of ritual expiation, and it even more vehemently opposes lesbianism because o ...

images mysterious and transcendent aspects of the divine nature. This prohibi- tion against representation extends to the Prophe ...

incarnation medium and the message also get befuddled because the former gets diffused, diffracted, and becomes intangible, whic ...

interpretation/hermeneutics INTERPRETATION/HERMENEUTICS The technical term for interpretation is hermeneutics, which originates ...

interpretation/hermeneutics concerned with lived experience (Erlebnis), which is held together by a common meaning. This lived e ...

judgment From the postmodern perspective of Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) and his non-method of deconstruction, he sets forth to s ...

judgment emotion) is weighted against a feather, which symbolically represents Ma’at (harmony and justice). If the heart weighs ...

kingship KINGSHIP The origin of kingship can take two forms: divine by nature and not divine by nature. In the first case, the k ...

knowledge king’s hair and nails, which are considered relics and are connected with the growth of crops. Further reading: Evans- ...

language matter and spirit. The Advaita Vedānta position represents a non-dualism or monism because the aspirant realizes the ab ...

last things Hans-Georg Gadamer (d. 2002), a German philosopher, indicates the importance of living language and of human partici ...

last things existence. Because the ancient Hebrews did not want to escape the world, time, and history due to potential salvific ...

last things last. Christians are urged to wait for his return (parousia) when the forces of evil dominating the world will be an ...

law trumpet, signaling the arrival of the final hour. The Qur’an refers to one blast (69.13) and two blasts (39.68) of the trump ...