Angels and demons are, respectively, any benevolent or malevolent spiritual beings that mediate between the transcendent and temporal realms. They are among various spiritual beings, powers, and principles that mediate between the realm of the sacred or
religious dress, any attire,accoutrements, and markings used in religiousritualsthat may be corporate, domestic, or personal in nature. Suchdressmaycomprisetypes of coverings all the way from the highlysymbolicand ornamentedeucharisticvestmentsofEastern OrthodoxChristianitytotattooing, scarification, or body...
Louis Comfort Tiffany: Sermon on the MountSermon on the Mount, stained glass window by Louis Comfort Tiffany; in the Arlington Street Church, Boston.(more) Christianity, with its evangelical message, offered considerations in support of individual nonviolence as well as of collective peacefulness. Je...
it must also be atoned for as a cultic sin that offends the sacred precincts of the Lord. In general, the more universalistic religions—Christianity, Buddhism, and Islām—seem to de-emphasize true pollution concerns, and to subsume them within their frameworks of moral and religious beliefs...
but the emergence of the subconscious in the act of prayer is not the essence of prayer, since it minimizes the role of intelligence and the will. Among what are called the higher religions (e.g.,Judaism,Christianity,Islam,Hinduism,Buddhism), divine action, which is the object of the human...
whose purpose is to serve the gods by providing them with sacred dwellings, food, and tribute; it is also populated by minor gods and demons who play a role in magic. At death human beings descend to the underworld, a dreary land of no return; only a few exceptional human heroes are ...
(Greco-Roman) religions—e.g., the mystery, or salvatory, religions, such as those of Mithra, Isis, and the Eleusinian mysteries—and Semitic-based religions—e.g.,Judaism,Christianity, andIslam. According to this view Egyptian terms for festival, such asḥb, ḫʿ,andpr.t,all ...