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  • 21Cults and new religious movements in literature and popular culture — New religious movements and cults can appear as themes or subjects in literature and popular culture, while notable representatives of such groups have produced, for their own part, a large body of literary works. Contents 1 Terminology 2… …

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  • 22Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty — The Baptist Joint Committee for Religious Liberty (BJC) is an education and advocacy association in the United States with a number of Baptist denominations. It states that it seeks to promote religious liberty for all and to uphold the principle …

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  • 23New Religious Movement — Introduction       the generally accepted term for what is sometimes called, often with pejorative connotations, a “cult.” The term New Religious Movement has been applied to all new faiths that have arisen worldwide over the past several… …

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  • 24Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation —     Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Ecclesiastical and Religious Vocation     An ecclesiastical or religious vocation is the special gift of those who, in the Church of God, follow with a pure intention the… …

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  • 25Heavenly Discourse — is a collection of satirical essays by Charles Erskine Scott Wood, published in 1927.It is written in the form of plays or discussions between such characters as God, Jesus, Mark Twain, Tom Paine, Robert Ingersoll, Billy Sunday, and Theodore… …

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  • 26Truth (religious) — Most religious traditions hold a body of truths that are part of the particular tradition. Such truths may be considered to be spiritually revealed, or may be developed through tradition, or may be a combination of both. Whatever these truths are …

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  • 27Unfulfilled religious prophecies — This page attempts to list time specific historical predictions (or prophecy) by claimed prophets or leaders within various churches whose predictions failed to happen. Biblical prophecy is not included, and is dealt with in separate articles.… …

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  • 28literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …

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  • 29Christianity — /kris chee an i tee/, n., pl. Christianities. 1. the Christian religion, including the Catholic, Protestant, and Eastern Orthodox churches. 2. Christian beliefs or practices; Christian quality or character: Christianity mixed with pagan elements; …

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  • 30Nasr Abu Zayd — Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd (Arabic: نصر حامد ابو زيد‎, IPA: [ˈnɑsˤɾe ˈħæːmed aboˈzeːd]; (July 10, 1943 – July 5, 2010, Cairo) was an Egyptian Qur anic thinker and one of the leading liberal theologians in Islam. He is famous for his project of a… …

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