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  2. Prostration - Wikipedia

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    Prostration is the gesture of placing one's body in a reverentially or submissively prone position. Typically prostration is distinguished from the lesser acts of bowing or kneeling by involving a part of the body above the knee, especially the hands, touching the ground.

  3. Proskynesis - Wikipedia

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    According to Arrian, Callisthenes explains the existence of separated ways of honoring a god or a human and that prostration is a way to explicitly honor gods. It is seen as a threat to the Greeks, ‘who are men most devoted to freedom’. According to Callisthenes, prostration was a foreign and degrading fashion. [6]

  4. Kneeling - Wikipedia

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    The history of kneeling and prostration have always been a sign of worship in Christianity. [10] [11] Passages in the Bible show that kneeling is preferred over other forms of prayer. [citation needed] It is mentioned in the New Testament that "whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues ...

  5. Bowing in the Eastern Orthodox Church - Wikipedia

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    'Metania'. This type of a bow could be treated in two ways: sometimes it is only the 'very thoroughly done type 2 bow'. Sometimes, on the other hand, it is a 'lightened' version of a prostration (5). For example, when Popovtsy Old Believers ask their priests for a blessing, they should, theoretically, perform an prostration. However, since one ...

  6. Slain in the Spirit - Wikipedia

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    People slain in the Spirit after receiving prayer from faith healer and Catholic priest Fernando Suarez. Slain in the Spirit or slaying in the Spirit are terms used by Pentecostal and charismatic Christians to describe a form of prostration in which an individual falls to the floor while experiencing religious ecstasy.

  7. Eastern Orthodox worship - Wikipedia

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    A prostration in the Orthodox tradition is the action in which a person makes the sign of the cross and, going to his knees, touches the floor with his head. Prostrations express to an even greater degree the reverence evinced by a bow and both are used as tools to train the mind in reverence of God through the obeisance of the body.

  8. As-Sajdah - Wikipedia

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    The name of the chapter has been translated as ۩ 'prostration' [1] or 'adoration' [2] and is taken from the fifteenth verse, which mentions those who "... fall prostrate and hymn the praise of their Lord". [1]

  9. Karaite Judaism - Wikipedia

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    (1) God is the Creator of all created beings; (2) He is premundane and has no peer or associate; (3) the whole universe is created; (4) God called Moses and the other Prophets of the Biblical canon; (5) the Law of Moses alone is true; (6) to know the language of the Bible is a religious duty; (7) the Temple at Jerusalem is the palace of the ...