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Website. CharterForCompassion.org. Karen Armstrong (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator of Irish Catholic descent known for her books on comparative religion. [ 1 ] A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith.
t. e. Zarathushtra Spitama, [ c ] more commonly known as Zoroaster[ d ] or Zarathustra, [ e ] was an Iranian religious reformer who challenged the tenets of the contemporary Ancient Iranian religion, becoming the spiritual founder of Zoroastrianism.
The religions of the ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic, with some examples of monolatry (for example, Yahwism and Atenism). Some scholars believe that the similarities between these religions indicate that the religions are related, a belief known as patternism. [1]
Polytheism is the belief in or worship of more than one god. [1] [2] [3] According to Oxford Reference, it is not easy to count gods, and so not always obvious whether an apparently polytheistic religion, such as Chinese Folk Religions, is really so, or whether the apparent different objects of worship are to be thought of as manifestations of a singular divinity. [1]
In the Abrahamic tradition, God is one, eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, and the creator of the universe.[1] God is typically referred to with masculine grammatical articles and pronouns only,[1][12]and is further held to have the properties of holiness, justice, omnibenevolence, and omnipresence. Adherents of the Abrahamic religions believe ...
Greek divination is the divination practiced by ancient Greek culture as it is known from ancient Greek literature, supplemented by epigraphic and pictorial evidence. Divination is a traditional set of methods of consulting divinity to obtain prophecies (theopropia) about specific circumstances defined beforehand.
Limestone relief at Amarna depicting Akhenaten, Nefertiti, and their children adoring Aten, c.1372–1355 BC. Atenism, also known as the Aten religion, [ 1 ] the Amarna religion, [ 2 ] and the Amarna heresy, was a religion in ancient Egypt. It was founded by Akhenaten, a pharaoh who ruled the New Kingdom under the Eighteenth Dynasty. [ 3 ]
Manichaeism. آیینِ مانی 摩尼教. Sealstone of Mani, rock crystal, possibly 3rd century CE, Iraq. Cabinet des Médailles, Paris. [1][2] The seal reads "Mani, messenger of the messiah", and may have been used by Mani himself to sign his epistles. [3][1] Type. Universal religion. Classification. Iranian religion.