Many of Christie ’ s books and short stories both set in the Middle East and back in England have a decidedly otherworldly influence in which religious sects, sacrifices, ceremony, and seances play a part.

From his religious training, Mather viewed the importance of texts for elaborating meaning and for bridging different moments of history — linking, for instance, the Biblical stories of Noah and Abraham with the arrival of such eminent leaders as John Eliot ; John Winthrop ; and his own father, Increase Mather.

Cyril ’ s many works stay within the realm of biblical stories and religious thought contrived from other Christian authors.

Some of the gadgets ( dōgu ) are based on real Japanese household devices with fanciful twists, but most are completely science fiction ( although some may be based on folklore or religious stories ).

The oppressive religious milieu, plus Edvard's poor health and the vivid ghost stories, helped inspire macabre visions and nightmares in Edvard, who felt death constantly advancing on him.

Typical festive Halloween activities include trick-or-treating ( also known as " guising "), attending costume parties, carving jack-o '- lanterns, lighting bonfires, apple bobbing, visiting haunted attractions, playing pranks, telling scary stories, and watching horror films, as well as the religious observances of praying, fasting and attending vigils or church services.

The folk music primarily is related to the various festivals, religious traditions, folk stories and simple life of the people of Uttarakhand.

Midrash is a way of interpreting biblical stories that goes beyond simple distillation of religious, legal or moral teachings.

Apart from religious connotations, stories and folklore abound of pearls occurring in snakes, the Naaga Mani, and elephants, the Gaja Mukta.

As a result, apocryphal stories of a religious nature have appeared over the years about particularly beloved presidents such as Washington and Lincoln.

* 2004: In religious studies, the word " myth " is usually reserved for stories whose main characters are gods or demigods.

By Segal's definition, all religious stories are myths — but simply because nearly all stories are myths.

By the folklorists ' definition, all myths are religious ( or " sacred ") stories, but not all religious stories are myths: religious stories that involve the creation of the world ( e. g., the stories in Genesis ) are myths ; however, religious stories that don't explain how things came to be in their present form ( e. g., hagiographies of famous saints ) are not myths.

* 1968: The classicist Robert Graves defines myths as " whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true.

" Paine lays out a vision of, in Davidson and Scheick's words, " an age of intellectual freedom, when reason would triumph over superstition, when the natural liberties of humanity would supplant priestcraft and kingship, which were both secondary effects of politically managed foolish legends and religious superstitions.

Nestor's many sources included earlier ( now-lost ) Slavonic chronicles, the Byzantine annals of John Malalas and George Hamartolus, native legends and Norse sagas, several Greek religious texts, Rus '- Byzantine treaties, and oral accounts of Yan Vyshatich and other military leaders.

# religious chivalry, in which a knight's chief duty is to protect the innocent and serve God, as exemplified by Sir Galahad or Sir Percival in the Grail legends.

In The Greek Myths the mythographer and poet, Robert Graves, translates and interprets the legends and myth fragments about Clytemnestra, Agamemnon, and Orestes, as suggesting a ritual killing of a " king " ( Agamemnon ) in very early religious ceremonies that were suppressed when patriarchy replaced the matriarchies of very ancient Greece.

Floors are dedicated to mythological legends, religious deities, freedom fighters and leaders.

There are several rocks in this area associated with religious legends, such as the " holy stones ", the " stained wine stones ", the " stone chair ", and the tomb of the Celtic crone-goddess Orcabella.

An important Islamic religious holiday, Eid al-Adha, commemorates Abraham's willingness ( Ibrahim ) to sacrifice his son Ishmael ( Isma ' il ) as an act of obedience to God, before God intervened to provide him with a sheep to sacrifice instead. In some cases, some believe these legends in Islamic text may have influenced later Jewish tradition.

The Historiated Bible, the Letter from Heaven, the Wanderings through Heaven and Hell, the numerous Adam and Cross legends, the religious poems of the " Kaliki perehozhie " and other similar productions owe their dissemination to a large extent to the activity of the Bogomils of Bulgaria, and their successors in other lands.

Paul and Jessica narrowly escape to the desert, finding refuge with the Fremen thanks to the legends planted there by the Bene Gesserit's Missionaria Protectiva, which practices religious engineering.

A number of legends about Kanishka, a great patron of Buddhism, were preserved in Buddhist religious traditions.

He was brought up in a very religious atmosphere, although his mother also had great respect for old Norse legends and traditions.

In his paintings, he used religious themes, but combined them with grotesque fantasies, colourful imagery, and peasant folk legends.

There have been many different and contradictory attempts to classify traditional ballads by theme, but commonly identified types are religious, supernatural, tragic, love, historic, legends and humour.

were used in religious festivals, where the puppets were used to perform reenactments of traditional myths and legends.

:* Discuss the major nations of California Indians, including their geographic distribution, economic activities, legends, and religious beliefs ; and describe how they depended on, adapted to, and modified the physical environment by cultivation of land and use of sea resources.

It consists of lyrico-narrative poems treating of war, chivalry, adventure, religious legends, and the sea, many of which have great beauty and contain traces of the varied civilizations which have existed in the peninsula.

Balinese painting are initially the narative images to depict scenes of Balinese legends and religious scripts.

The Shadows prefer a more " down to earth " appearance, as opposed to the Vorlons who, due to generations of genetic tampering, are perceived as angels from the religious legends of races that see them.

The Fremen await the coming of a prophesied messiah, not suspecting that this prophecy had been planted in their legends by the Missionaria Protectiva, an arm of the Bene Gesserit dedicated to religious manipulation to ease the path of the Sisterhood when necessary.

This theme is continued in the short extract titled from Canto CXII, which also draws on the work of the anthropologist and explorer Joseph F. Rock in recording legends and religious rituals from China and Tibet.

Various religious texts, myths and legends describe a state of humanity in which originally only one language was spoken.

Führich has been fairly described as a Nazarene, a romantic religious artist whose pencil did more than any other to restore the old spirit of Dürer and give new shape to countless incidents of the gospel and scriptural legends.

There are some moral narratives taken from religious legends, a romance of Julius Caesar, some short histories of ancient knights, the Tavola rotonda, translations of the Viaggi of Marco Polo, and of Latini's Tesoro.

It also states that a religious sect can be considered a cult if its beliefs involve a denial of any of the essential Christian teachings such as salvation, the Trinity, Jesus himself as a person, his works and his miracles, his crucifixion, his death, his resurrection, his return, and the Rapture.

Like other religious terms, such as " Trinity ", the term " Limbo " does not appear in the Bible.

* 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

The term existed shortly before it became the name of a religious movement, and thus occasionally it is used as a common noun and would describe any Christology ( i. e. understanding of Jesus Christ ) that denies the Trinity or believes that God is only one person.

The religious needs of the growing population were dealt with by a church building programme starting with the rebuilding of St Mary's Church in 1849 and the construction of Christ Church ( 1859 ) and Trinity Church ( 1862 ).

* Elizabeth of the Trinity ( Marie – Élisabeth Catez, 1880 – 1906 ), Carmelite nun and religious writer

Norwalk is also home to multiple options for religious education including Norwalk Catholic Schools / Saint Paul High School ( Roman Catholic ), and Trinity Christian Academy ( Protestant, non-denominational ).

On Friday, May 19, 1690, two days before the Sunday of the Holy Trinity, Alonzo de Leon arrived at this river and following the custom of the Spanish explorers of the day, named the river after this religious Holy Day – “ Rio de la Santissima Trinidad ” or the River of the most Holy Trinity .”

On the 3rd May 1955 the Provost, Mr A. J. McConnell pointed out in a piece in the Irish Times that certain state funded County Council scholarships excluded Trinity College from the list of approved institutions, this he suggested amounted to religious discrimination.

In religious Taoism, the trident represents the Taoist Trinity, the Three Pure Ones.

The idea of a single religious truth was more apparent among Sufi mystics, who borrowed from both the Judaeo-Christian tradition and from Hinduism, than it was among orthodox scholars, who accepted the Jewish and Christian truths, but rejected all beliefs that ran counter to Islam ( such as the Trinity, the sonship of Christ, or the reality of the crucifixion ).

During the Shiva Kavi period ( see Shivakavi Trayamu, the Trinity of Shaivite Poets ), the new religions Shaivism and Vaishnavism were spreading in Andhra, resulting in conflict between these two groups as well as between the two established religious groups, Buddhism and Jainism.

Though he was second to Nannayya in attempting to translate Mahabharatamu and second poet among the Trinity of Poets, he is second to none in his political, religious and literary accomplishments.

Some nontrinitarians also find a link between the doctrine of the Trinity and the Egyptian Christian theologians of Alexandria, suggesting that Alexandrian theology, with its strong emphasis on the deity of Jesus, served to infuse Egypt's pagan religious heritage into Christianity.

This priory, the Priory of the Holy Trinity, became the wealthiest religious house in Ireland, holding over of property in County Dublin alone, most notable of which were the three home farms held at Grangegorman, Glasnevin and Clonken or Clonkene, now known as Deansgrange.

* Marian and Holy Trinity columns, religious monuments built in honour of the Virgin Mary

Consequently, they may not recognize religious communities that baptize without this formula – e. g. Unitarians, Branhamists, Frankists, Jehovah's Witnesses, and Oneness Pentecostals, all of whom deny the Trinity – as Christian religions.

On April 23-24, 2009, The American Schools of Oriental Research and the Duke University Center for Jewish Studies, along with the Duke Department of Religion, the Duke Graduate Program in Religion, the Trinity College of Arts and Sciences Committee on Faculty Research, and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute, sponsored a conference entitled " Archaeology, Politics, and the Media ," which addressed the abuse of archaeology in the Holy Land for political, religious, and ideological purposes.

It summarizes key Southern Baptist thought in the areas of the Bible and its authority, the nature of God as expressed by the Trinity, the spiritual condition of man, God's plan of grace and salvation, the purpose of the local church, ordinances, evangelism, Christian education, interaction with society, religious liberty, and the family.

* Paisley where there were former congregations and parishes surrounding three churches: the High Kirk ( now formally Oakshaw Trinity Church, but still retaining the High Kirk name ), the Middle Kirk and the Laigh Kirk, the Middle Kirk no longer existing as a religious institution and none of the three names referred to Paisley's historic Abbey ;

The complex was auctioned off and bought by the Trinity Broadcasting Network for its religious programs.

Sissinghurst's religious activities are served by its Anglican church, Trinity Church ( built in 1838 ), with the Rev Allan Norris who is also Rector of Frittenden.

Many religious broadcasting networks and stations exist, also surviving on viewer contributions and time leased to the programming producers, including Trinity Broadcasting Network, Three Angels Broadcasting Network, Hope Channel, Amazing Facts Television, Daystar Television Network, The Word Network, The Worship Network, Total Christian Television, and INSP.

St. John's Chapel, designed by Richard Upjohn the architect of Trinity Church in New York City, served as the religious hub of the campus, replacing Polynomous, the original campus chapel.