Encyclopedia of Religion

reform that had attracted many intellectuals in the Poona re- gion and elsewhere. Many reformers believed, however, in working w ...

(Madras, India, 1922). An English translation of his Marathi work is available in Srimad-Bhagavadg ̄ıta ̄-Rahasya, edited by B. ...

professional reciters know several of the phonetic systems of the classic reciters and their disciples, and they will often re- ...

pointed by the Muslim calendar. The ninth month, Ramad:a ̄n—the month when Muh:ammad’s mission was first announced to him with t ...

SEE ALSO Dhikr; QurDa ̄n; Rites of Passage, article on Mus- lim Rites; Sama ̄E; Tafs ̄ır. BIBLIOGRAPHY The standard work on the ...

THEORY OF RELIGION AND SYMBOLS. Tillich’s major work is the three-volume Systematic Theology, in which Tillich un- dertakes to i ...

1955), Theology of Culture (New York, 1959), Christianity and the Encounter of the World Religions (New York, 1963), and Dynamic ...

ety in 1895. He died the next year. Tingley succeeded him, although the circumstances surrounding her succession re- main unclea ...

dena, which publishes a bimonthly magazine and Theosoph- ical classics, including the works of Katherine Tingley. SEE ALSO Blava ...

pears to have been well fixed by the beginning of the com- mon era, there have been some developments through the course of time ...

ophy, Logic, Ritual and Symbols, edited by N.K. Wagle and Olle Qvarnström (Toronto, 1999). Sculptures of T ̄ırtham:karas are amo ...

merous references to tithes of the annual harvest and to tithes of spoil taken in battle are known. Delphi, Delos, and Athens ar ...

as a whole. The mbatsav (people with tsav) perform rituals to repair the land, but they may, through reckless human emotions suc ...

neric in anthropological literature and is used to identify a wide variety of Australian Aboriginal religious objects. (The term ...

ed with feather down: these too represent stylized versions of territories within their mythic context. In such circum- stances, ...

Aztec (still spoken by nearly three million Mexicans), the word for city is altepetl. Its literal translation is “water moun- ta ...

The main characteristics of Tlaxcalan polytheism were seven: A highly diversified and specialized pantheon, in which hundreds o ...

constitute the bulk of the magical component. All these prac- tices are of pre-Hispanic origin, but they do contain elements of ...

landfall in the Western Hemisphere, and spread on that con- tinent so quickly that some students of the phenomenon as- sumed it ...

cies are available, the wild varieties are sometimes feared for their association with death. The oldest evidence thought to poi ...