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  2. Animism - Wikipedia

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    Typical metaphors allude to the banyan's epiphytic nature, likening the banyan's supplanting of a host tree as comparable to the way sensual desire overcomes humans. [74] Mun (also known as Munism or Bongthingism) is the traditional polytheistic, animist, shamanistic, and syncretic religion of the Lepcha people. [75] [76] [77]

  3. Religious naturalism - Wikipedia

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    Religious responses to the beauty, order, and importance of nature (as the conditions that enable all forms of life) When the term religious is used with respect to religious naturalism, it is understood in a general way—separate from the beliefs or practices of specific established religions, but including types of questions, aspirations, values, attitudes, feelings, and practices that are ...

  4. Religious art - Wikipedia

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    Sacred art directly relates to religious art in the sense that its purpose is for worship and religious practices. According to one set of definitions, artworks that are inspired by religion but are not considered traditionally sacred remain under the umbrella term of religious art, but not sacred art. [1]

  5. Aniconism in Islam - Wikipedia

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    Religious Islamic art has been typically characterized by the absence of figures and extensive use of calligraphic, geometric and abstract floral patterns. However, representations of Muhammad (in some cases, with his face concealed) and other religious figures are found in some manuscripts from lands to the east of Anatolia, such as Persia and ...

  6. Nature worship - Wikipedia

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    Nature worship, also called naturism [1] or physiolatry, [2] is any of a variety of religious, spiritual and devotional practices that focus on the worship of a nature deity, considered to be behind the natural phenomena visible throughout nature. [3] A nature deity can be in charge of nature, a place, a biotope, the biosphere, the cosmos, or ...

  7. Rainbows in culture - Wikipedia

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    The rainbow – one of the beauties of nature that the blind girl cannot experience – is used to underline the pathos of her condition. Noah's Thank Offering (c. 1803) by Joseph Anton Koch . Noah builds an altar to the Lord after being delivered from the Flood; God sends the rainbow as a sign of his covenant ( Genesis 8–9).

  8. Ecospirituality - Wikipedia

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    An example of such responsibility-taking can be seen in the founding of an association called "Sisters of Earth," which is made up of nuns and laywomen. [40] This network of women from diverse religious communities is significant, both for the movement of general concern for the natural world and for the religious life in Christian contexts. [40]

  9. Christian art - Wikipedia

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    Recently discovered in Syria and Egypt, other examples of medieval Christian art have been explored, such as the Mar Musa Monastery with different examples of medieval Christian art, like wall paintings. Because of the nature of traveling painters and artists, these paintings often had Greek lettering and script [10]