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• Sectarianism
  ...ion]] may believe that for the achievement of their own [[political]] or [[religious]] project their internal opponents must be purged. ...who do not [[support]] this newfound clarified definition of political or religious 'orthodoxy.' In other cases, [[dissenters]] from this orthodoxy will secede
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• Plausible
  The believability of [[religious]] and/or [[secular]] meanings. ...atic]]. Believers require [[social]] [[support]], usually in the form of a religious [[community]] or congregation, to authenticate and reaffirm the typically e
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• Church
  *2: the clergy or officialdom of a [[religious]] body *3: often capitalized : a body or [[organization]] of religious believers: as
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• Seekers
  ...ring the English Revolution were as committed to religious [[liberty]] and pluralism as [[traditional]] histories have suggested. However, historian John Coffey ...ligious]] group in any way that would be recognised today (i.e. not like a religious Cult or Denomination). They were shambolic (by modern standards), informal
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• Interfaith
  ...[[cooperative]] and positive [[interaction]] between people of different [[religious]] [[traditions]] (i.e., "faiths") and spiritual or humanistic beliefs, at b ...Spain Muslim Spain] is an additional historical example of great religious pluralism.
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• University
  ...Demographic and urban growth, industrialization, democracy, and religious pluralism provided new arenas for academic [[inquiry]] and problem-solving and produc ...ia.org/wiki/Secularism Secularism] and pluralism called into question many religious assumptions. At the same time universities embraced new forms of [[critical
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• Tolerance
  ...hibited. Though developed to refer to the religious toleration of minority religious sects following the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation P ...difference]]; such critics may instead emphasise notions such as civility, pluralism, or respect. Other critics may regard a narrow definition of 'tolerance' as
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• Pantheistic
  As a [[religious]] position, pantheism holds that [[nature]] is imbued with [[value]] and wo ...ki/Hinduism Hindu] forms of pantheism, which have relegated [[change]] and pluralism to the realm of the [[illusory]] and [[phenomenal]]. In addition, the [[rom
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• Duality
  ...(in western religions) between the "benevolent" and the "malignant". Most religious systems have some form of moral dualism - in western religions, for instanc ...dualistic [[thinking]], without merely substituting dualism with monism or pluralism.
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• 2009-02-02-Love of Spirit
  * Diversity (Cross- and multi-cultural pluralism) We see as marvelous this growth of cross- and multi-cultural pluralism that allows each individual to reach their full potential of expression and
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• J. Gordon Melton
  ...ist in [[religion]] and [[New Religious Movement]]s with the Department of Religious Studies at the [https://www.ucsb.edu/ University of California, Santa Barba ...everal encyclopedias, handbooks, and almanacs on American religion and new religious movements. He lives in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_barbara,_ca San
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• Dimensions
  The [[concepts|concept]] may be found in [[religion|religious]], metaphysical and [[esoteric]] teachings which propound the [[idea]] of a ...hannes Jacobus Poortman, ''Vehicles of Consciousness. The Concept of Hylic Pluralism'', The Theosophical Society in Netherlands, 1978
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• Materialism
  ...such, it is different from ontological theories based on [[dualism]] or [[pluralism]]. For singular explanations of the phenomenal [[reality]], materialism wou Materialism has been criticised by religious thinkers opposed to it, who regard it as a [[Spirituality|spiritually ]] em
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• Buddhist Philosophy
  ...of clergy (not usually characteristic of a "philosophy"), and its overall religious organization. Early Buddhist philosophers and exegetes created a [[Pluralism (philosophy of mind)|pluralist]] metaphysical and phenomenological system i
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• Density
  The [[concept]] may be found in religious, and esoteric teachings - e.g. Vedanta (Advaita Vedanta), shamanism, [[Herm # Johannes Jacobus Poortman, Vehicles of Consciousness. The Concept of Hylic Pluralism, The Theosophical Society in Netherlands, 1978
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• Ken Wilber on Spiritual Growth: A Christian Perspective
  ...(UR) are released in the brain (UR), thus creating the feeling of having a religious [[experience]] (UL). They conclude therefore that nothing is happening exce ...rudely: “Why are you sitting there in Peoria, Illinois interpreting your religious experience in terms of the petty genocidal God of an ancient Mesopotamian t
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• God
  Different names for God exist within different religious traditions: ...ne, which adherents of other religions do not. Another view is [[religious pluralism]]. A pluralist typically believes that his religion is the right one, but d
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• Democracy
  ...liberal democracy, which may include additional elements such as political pluralism, rule of [[law]], the right to petition elected officials for redress of gr ...emocracy results in the people's distrust and disrespect of governments or religious sanctity. The distrust and disrespect pervades to all parts of society when
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• 2012
  ...avid (1990). Religions of Mesoamerica: Cosmovision and Ceremonial Centers. Religious traditions of the world [series]. San Francisco, CA: Harper & Row. ISBN 0-0 ...and Richard M. Leventhal (1993). "The topography of ancient Maya religious pluralism: a dialogue with the present". in Jeremy A. Sabloff and John S. Henderson (
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• Perfection
  ...osophical watchword. Soon it would be transformed, in Christianity, into a religious one.[11] ...a of moral perfection. Faith in it remained, but it changed character from religious to secular. This secular, 18th-century perfection was a fundamental article
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