Encyclopedia of Religion

ing the number of Spiritualists during these years because the organizations of Spiritualism were transient, and the criteria of ...

having spirituality rather than having religion indicated a change in worldview and a transition from exclusive religious tradit ...

ness to earth as their home, and solidarity with the creatures of the earth as their community, shape their orientation to- ward ...

saw spirituality expressed through sport, music, art, and other aspects of cultural life. Thus, jazz, with its improvisa- tional ...

among them, all the gods spat into a jar, and from this mix- ture Kvasir was created. He was so wise that there was no question ...

Sport is often used as a metaphor for religious striving; Sporting events evoke passionate commitment similar to that of religi ...

religion. The apostle Paul compared religious discipline to sport on several occasions. In his first epistle to the Corinthi- an ...

The bond between the secular and the sacred has been broken, the attachment to the realm of the transcendent has been severed. M ...

bleachers. He took another strike and again indicated his target as Cubs players jeered from the bench. On the next pitch, he ha ...

out with black and white reproductions of art from a range of traditions, this book considers imagery relating to the hunt, bull ...

teaching called the Veda ̄nta Su ̄tra. These scriptures are them- selves interpreted by a host of commentaries and didactic trea ...

Narasimhachari, M. Contribution of Ya ̄muna to Vi ́sis:t:a ̄dvaita. Ma- dras, 1971. Neevel, Walter G., Jr. Ya ̄muna’s Veda ̄nta ...

differently gifted performers, and transformed according into the changing needs and circumstances of each genera- tion (Stanner ...

Women’s Rights Convention in the United States was held in Stanton’s new hometown of Seneca Falls, New York. Stanton wrote the c ...

ing the Scriptures, 2 vols., edited by Elizabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (New York, 1993–1994). Many of Stanton’s works are being iss ...

STAR OF DAVID SEE MAGEN DAVID STARS. In all times and places, the starry night sky has both challenged and satisfied the human n ...

Astral alignments are established by astroarchaeologists, who calculate the age of a site from its remains and then use computer ...

seen as young girls playing instruments for a group of danc- ing young men, the stars of the Orion group. In the Solomon Islands ...

comet appeared and had died three months later, on the very day it disappeared. Elizabeth I of England gained great pres- tige b ...

North, John David. Stonehenge: A New Interpretation of Prehistoric Man and the Cosmos. New York, 1996. SERINITY YOUNG (1987) Rev ...