The HarperCollins Concise Guide to World Religion: The A-to-Z Encyclopedia of All the Major Religious Traditions ( 1999 ) covers 33 principal religions, including Buddhism, Christianity, Jainism, Judaism, Islam, Shinto, Shamanism, Taoism, South American religions, Baltic and Slavic religions, Confucianism, and the religions of Africa and Oceania.

Religious aspects promoted by Confucianism include the establishment of temples for ancestral worship of Confucius and his disciples, knowledge and worship of Tian, ritual and sacrifice ; however, over the centuries Confucianism never developed an official institutional structure as Taoism did, and its religious aspects never completely detached from Chinese folk religion.

The Ministry of Religious Affairs extends official status to six faiths: Islam, Catholicism, Protestantism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism.

" Everywhere and Nowhere: Recent Trends in American Religious History and Historiography ," Journal of the American Academy of Religion, March 2010, Vol.

Organised by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster, North-West England, it was entitled " Nature Religion Today: Western Paganism, Shamanism and Esotericism in the 1990s ", and led to the publication of an academic anthology, entitled Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World.

: Challenges in Translating the Religious Significance of Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings to Film, Jeffrey Mallinson, Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Volume I, Spring 2002-refers to < nowiki >'</ nowiki > On Fairy-Stories < nowiki >'</ nowiki > in relation to filming < nowiki >'</ nowiki > The Lord of the Rings < nowiki >'</ nowiki >

Religion Explained: The Evolutionary Origins of Religious Thought.

The Adventist Society for Religious Studies ( ASRS ) was formed to foster a community among Adventist theologians who attend the Society of Biblical Literature ( SBL ) and the American Academy of Religion.

This is true, for instance, of many departments in the United Kingdom, including the Department of Theology and Religion at the University of Exeter, and the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Leeds.

Elizabeth I, as part of the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, gave royal assent to the Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, which sought to distinguish Anglican from Roman Church doctrine.

The U. S. Religious Landscape Survey, conducted in 2007 by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life and featuring a sample size of over 35, 000, puts the proportion of American adults identifying as Unitarian Universalist at 0. 3 %.

* June 13 – Religion: George Fox preaches to a large crowd on Firbank Fell, leading to the establishment of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

Close Encounters with the Religious Right: Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics.

* Simón, Francisco Marco, " Religion and Religious Practices of the Ancient Celts of the Iberian Peninsula " in e-Keltoi: The Celts in the Iberian Peninsula, 6 287 – 345, section 2. 2. 4. 1 ( on-line )

De La Torre, " Dancing with Ochún: Imagining How a Black Goddess Became White ," in Aesthetics within Black Religion: Religious Thought and Life in Africa and the African Diaspora, Anthony Pinn, ed., Cambridge University Press, pages: 113-134.

The 6th European Association for the Study of Religion and International Association for the History of Religions Special Conference on Religious History of Europe and Asia took place from September 20 to September 23, 2006, in Bucharest.

* Critical Religious Reason: Ali Shari ' ati on Religion, Philosophy and Emancipation by Abbas Manoochehri

This work is cited by William James in his lecture on Neurology and Religion at the beginning of The Varieties of Religious Experience ( footnote 4 ).

* " International Civil Religion: Respecting Religious Diversity while Promoting International Cooperation " ( 2011 ), Amos Prosser Davis, U. C.

* Social Religion: A Discussion of the Place of Social Welfare in a Religious Program.

Greeley, Andrew M. " On Studying Religion ", pp. 197-212 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone.

* Crossley, James ( April 2011 ): " For EveryManc a Religion: Biblical and Religious Language in the Manchester Music Scene, 1976 – 1994 ".

This can be seen in the first article of the original Humanist Manifesto which refers to " Religious Humanists " and by Charles and Clara Potter's influential 1930 book Humanism: A New Religion.

** Religious Information Service of Ukraine //-a project of the Institute of Religion and Society of the Ukrainian Catholic University

* Frontier Religion: Elder Daniel Parker, His Religious and Political Life, by Dan B. Wimberly, Eakin Press, 2002

* Religious Socialists Vision Statement of the Religion and Socialism Commission of the Democratic Socialists of America

In September 2007, the Central Java division and Jepara branch of the Indonesian organisation Nahdlatul Ulama ( the Awakening of the Religious Scholars ) declared the government's proposal to build a nuclear power station nearby at Balong on the Muria peninsula haram or forbidden.

The Nahdlatul Ulama ( Revival / Awakening of Religious Scholars ) was established in 1926 as an organization for orthodox Muslims opposed to the modernist policies of the Muhammadiyah organization, which rejected pre-Islamic Javanese traditions.

Moulana Abdullah Kafulgarvi and Mufti Mir Alam were the famous Religious Scholars.

The Islamic Movement of Kurdistan ( or Kurdistan Islamic Movement ) is an Islamist group founded in 1979 by Shaykh Uthman Abd-Aziz and several other Sunni mullahs who were all part of the non-political " Union of Religious Scholars " ( Yaketi Mamostayani Ayni Islami ).

), The Apocalyptic Premise: Nuclear Arms Debated: Thirty-one Essays by Statesmen, Scholars, Religious Leaders, and Journalists.

* The Symposium of Chinese-American Philosophy and Religious Studies: Volume 1, East & West Philosophy of Religion, co-editor with Zhang Zhigang, Bethesda: International Scholars Publications, 1998.

Modarresi also founded and currently heads the League of Religious Scholars which brings together many high ranking Shi ’ ite scholars or their representatives in Iraq.

Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

Emma Curtis Hopkins " the teacher of teachers "; Ernest Holmes, founder of Religious Science ; the Fillmores, founders of Unity ; and Malinda Cramer and Nona L. Brooks, the founders of Divine Science ; were all greatly influenced by Transcendentalism.

The Congregational Nuns were the Congregation of Notre Dame, founded by Marguerite Bourgeoys, not the Sisters of Charity, as Monk stated at the beginning of her text ; the Religious Hospitallers of St. Joseph, whose habits were black but who were not typically called " Black Nuns ", operated the Hotel-Dieu, where Monk claimed that she entered and suffered, and it was not founded by " Sister Bourgeoise "; and it was the Sisters of Charity who were commonly known as the Grey Nuns.

Before the university hired her in 1996, the chaplaincy position was called " Dean of Memorial Church "; in order to accommodate Karlin-Neumann, the position's name was changed to " Dean of Religious Life at Stanford ".

Hesder ( in Hebrew: " arrangement "; or Yeshivat Hesder ישיבת הסדר ) is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework.

* Temimei Haderech (" A Guide To Jewish Religious Practice ") by Rabbi Isaac Klein with contributions from the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

* October 5 – Claudine Thévenet ( known as ' Mary of St. Ignatius ') founds the Roman Catholic order Religieuses de Jésus-Marie (" Religious of Jesus And Mary ") in Lyon, France.

In chapter 4 (" The Terror of History ") of The Myth of the Eternal Return and chapter 9 (" Religious Symbolism and the Modern Man's Anxiety ") of Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, Eliade argues at length that the rejection of religious thought is a primary cause of modern man's anxieties.

* The Castrati (" Skoptsy ") Sect in Russia: History, Teaching and Religious Practice by Irina A. Tulpe and Evgeny A. Torchinov

Janssen also founded two congregations of Religious Sisters: The Holy Spirit Missionary Sisters ( members known as " Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit ") on December 8, 1889, and the Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters (" Sister Servants of the Holy Spirit of Perpetual Adoration ") on September 8, 1896.

It was not known for scholarship, wealth, or particular fervour, but it was highly regarded for its generosity to travellers and sailors, and for the devout lives (" by Raporte of good Religious conversation ") led by its monks.

Though Betar had many of the same political goals as the rapidly growing Gush Emunim (" Bloc of the Faithful ") and Bnei Akiva youth movements ( tied to the National Religious Party ), they remained a secular movement and did not join the latter organizations in their taking of the contested West Bank and Gaza territories.

This is the main Religious Science technique to tap into God ( defined in # 1 as " present in everything " — i. e. Its " Infinite Nature ") to create all the good we desire on the human level, analogous to God creating on the Universe level ( see # 3 ).

* Religious works, e. g. « Иже херувимы » and « Вечери Твоея тайныя » (" Of Thy Mystical Supper ")

The checkerboard logo then evolved into personal development concept Danforth put forth in his book I Dare You, in which he proposed the four key components in life (" Physical ", " Mental ", " Social " and " Religious ") need to be in balance, and one area was not to develop at expense of the other.

" Religious bigotry, the combination of graft and political power, the corruption of justice, the mob spirit ( being " the social group gone mad ") and mob action, militarism, and class contempt -- " every student of history will recognize that these sum up constitutional forces in the Kingdom of Evil.

Deutsche Unitarier Religionsgemeinschaft (" German Unitarian Religious Community ") was founded in 1876 in Germany's Rheinhessen region under the name Religionsgemeinschaft Freier Protestanten (" Religious Community of Free Protestants ").

Major 9th-century texts include the encyclopedic Denkard ; Manushchihr's Dadestain-i Denig (" Religious Decisions ") and Epistles ; the treatises of Manushchihr's heretical brother, Zat-Sparam ; and Bundahishn (" Original Creation ").

George Fox, a founder of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), spoke in St. Andrew's Church ( which he called a " steeple house ") and on nearby Firbank Fell during his travels in the North of England in 1652.