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The IFYC was started to bring students of different religions "together not just to talk, but to work together to feed the hungry, tutor children or build housing". The IFYC builds religious pluralism by "respect for people's diverse religious and non-religious identities" and "common action for the common good". [65]
Religious syncretism is the blending of two or more religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation into a religious tradition of beliefs from unrelated traditions. This can occur for many reasons, and the latter scenario happens quite commonly in areas where multiple religious traditions exist in proximity and function ...
Religious syncretism is the blending of religious belief systems into a new system, or the incorporation of other beliefs into an existing religious tradition.. This can occur for many reasons, where religious traditions exist in proximity to each other, or when a culture is conquered and the conquerors bring their religious beliefs with them, but do not succeed in eradicating older beliefs ...
Akashic Records: (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning "sky", "space" or "aether") In the religion of theosophy and the philosophical school called anthroposophy, the Akashic records are a compendium of all universal events, thoughts, words, emotions and intent ever to have occurred in the past, present, or future in terms of all entities and life ...
The Oxford dictionary defines an omnist as "a person who believes in all faiths or creeds; a person who believes in a single transcendent purpose or cause uniting all things or people, or the members of a particular group of people". [4] Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury, considered the first Deist, argued that all religions were ...
Church (congregation), a religious organization or congregation that meets in a particular location; Confessional community, a group of people with similar religious beliefs; Institute of consecrated life, a Catholic association bound by vows; Religious identity, the sense of membership in a religious group and its importance to one's self-concept
The word is applied, according to the context, to sharing or fellowship, or people in such relation, with: a divine nature ( 2 Peter 1:4 ), God ( 1 John 1:6 ), the Father and His Son ( 1 John 1:3 ), Jesus, Son of God ( 1 Corinthians 1:9 ), his sufferings ( Philippians 3:10 ; 1 Peter 4:13 ), his future glory ( 1 Peter 5:1 ), the Holy Spirit ( 2 ...
The concept of religion was formed in the 16th and 17th centuries, [36] [37] despite the fact that ancient sacred texts like the Bible, the Quran, and others did not have a word or even a concept of religion in the original languages and neither did the people or the cultures in which these sacred texts were written.