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faith,
organized religion,
religion loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; "keep the faith"; "they broke faith with their investors"
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sisterhood a religious society of women who live together as sisters (especially an order of nuns)
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albigenses,
cathari,
cathars a Christian religious sect in southern France in the 12th and 13th centuries; believers in Albigensianism
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high anglican church,
high church a group in the Anglican Church that emphasizes the Catholic tradition (especially in sacraments and rituals and obedience to church authority)
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abecedarian a 16th century sect of Anabaptists centered in Germany who had an absolute disdain for human knowledge
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amish sect an orthodox Anabaptist sect separated from the Mennonites in late 17th century; settled chiefly in southeastern Pennsylvania
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karaites a Jewish sect that recognizes only the Hebrew Scriptures as the source of divinely inspired legislation and denies the authority of the postbiblical tradition of the Talmud; the sect arose in Iraq in the eighth century
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shia,
shiah,
shiah islam one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam; mainly in Iran
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sunni,
sunni islam one of the two main branches of orthodox Islam
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shivaism,
sivaism worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon
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saktism,
shaktism worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva
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vaishnavism,
vaisnavism worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon
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haredi any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel
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hare krishna,
international society for krishna consci,
iskcon a chant to the Hindu god Krishna
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jainism religion founded in the 6th century BC as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being
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taoism philosophical system developed by Lao-tzu and Chuang-tzu advocating a simple honest life and noninterference with the course of natural events
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kokka,
kokka shinto the branch of Shinto recognized as the official state religion of Japan
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shua,
shuha shinto any branch of Shinto other than Kokka
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brethren (plural) the lay members of a male religious order
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monastic order,
order the act of putting things in a sequential arrangement; "there were mistakes in the ordering of items on the list"
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quakers,
religious society of friends,
society of friends a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660; commonly called Quakers
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shakers,
united society of believers in christ's a celibate and communistic Christian sect in the United States
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vaudois,
waldenses a Christian sect of dissenters that originated in southern France in the late 12th century adopted Calvinist doctrines in the 16th century
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zurvanism a heretical Zoroastrian doctrine holding that Zurvan was the ultimate source of the universe and that both Ahura Mazda and Ahriman were Zurvan's offspring
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convent a religious residence especially for nuns
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