8.Role of Family:The structure, role, and significance of family in an individual’s life is markedly shaped by culture. In China, for example, the concept of “filial piety” guides family relationships and obligations, underlining respect for one’s parents. 9.History and Folklore:Histories ...
Inquisitively, for people so strictly disapproved, the Greeks had no word for religion itself; the closest terms were Eusebeia (“piety”) and Threskeia (“cult”). Despite the fact that its roots might be followed to the remotest periods, Greek religion in its... MythsReligious Beliefs ...
with the emperor’s extensive building programs on sacred sites. Many centuries earlier, in the 3rd centurybce, the Mauryan emperorAshoka, who had converted to Buddhism, visited many of the important sites of theBuddha’slife. In common with Helena, he combined piety withastuteimperial patronage...
World Evangelical Alliance (WEA), international fellowship of organizations that hold biblically conservative interpretations of the Christian faith. From 1846 until the mid-1900s, the World Evangelical Alliance (WEA) was primarily the venture of its fou