Encyclopedia of Religion

when passing through the state of Lü. The following century, the emperor conferred posthumous titles on Confucius. In the second ...

the wall when troops of the First Emperor came to the city to burn classical writings. In one important way, architecture of the ...

TEMPLE: ANCIENT NEAR EASTERN AND MEDITERRANEAN TEMPLES Modern writers use the term temple in different ways. Ap- plied to Near E ...

and accompanied by dancers, singers, and instrumentalists to the open-air court. Here the god met visiting gods, while the assem ...

Temples built during the Geometric period (900–700 BCE) were generally modest in scale and simple in plan. The temple of Apollo ...

storerooms for objects, particularly those of value, offered to the gods. ETRURIA. In the beginning, cult practice was performed ...

erings, which might have been political rather than fully reli- gious in character—meetings of the senate, for example. These de ...

regions. Thus, in the central plateau of Mexico we find, as antecedents to the Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon in Te- otihuacan ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY Three general surveys with good photographs and an appreciation of architectural aesthetics may be recommended: Dor ...

lowing the incident). Rose-Marie Klaus managed to have lurid accounts of the “cult of the end of the world” published in the med ...

as long as some people continue to share the OTS ideology and regard the “transit” as both reasonable and desirable. SEE ALSO Mo ...

tary service and grant one’s own government a blind pre- sumption of righteousness in respect to armaments, arms sales, and mili ...

the sinner any exoneration and to avoid any contamination by dualism. Their greatest care was to show God’s wisdom in the sovere ...

emperors. The figure of Satan should not turn attention away from these perennial temptations but should emphasize the superhuma ...

is the uncontrolled and mutually contagious mechanism that leads to the vicious circle of aggressive challenges and aggres- sive ...

Q.” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 83 (June 2002): 103–131. Sorabji, Richard. Emotion and Peace of Mind: From Stoic ...

fully studied the Tiantai texts they obtained in China, but after the ninth century CE relatively little exchange occurred betwe ...

killed as many monks, women, and children as they could find. Tendai influence was eventually reestablished, though never to the ...

by remarkable creativity as Tendai monks traveled to China in search of new teachings and clarification. Although much of Japane ...

example, he argued that the Maha ̄vairocana Su ̄tra should be classified with the Lotus Su ̄tra in the Tendai system of five per ...