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Dead, Cult of the
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Death is part of the order of this world. Almost without exception, however, people have protested against its dominion, refused to acknowledge it, and even denied it. Accounts like that in …
Human Sacrifice
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1. Almost all religions include reports of people sacrificing the dearest thing they have, even life. Only in rare cases, however, …
Pseudo-Religions
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[German Version] The terms
pseudo-religion (from Gk
pseúdos, “lie, falsehood”) and
ersatz religion are used colloquially – a…
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Religion Past and Present
Pseudo-Science/Para-Science
(380 words)
[German Version] The pseudo-sciences or parasciences (“alternative sciences”) generally include such phenomena as alchemy, acupuncture, anthroposophy, astrology, esotericism, geomancy, homeopathy, occultism, and parapsychology, and ¶ sometimes also psychoanalysis, radiesthesia, etc. insofar as their claim to be sciences is rejected by science on theoretical and methodo…
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Religion Past and Present
Esotericism
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[German Version] Today, esotericism (Gk ἐσωτερικόv/
esōterikón, “the internal”) encompasses all those writings, doctrines and practices that either (1), to…
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Religion Past and Present
God
(23,549 words)
[German Version] I. Religious Studies – II. Old Testament – III. New Testament – IV. Philosophy of Religion – V. Dogmatics – VI. Practical Theology – VII. Missiology – VIII. Art – IX. Judaism – X. Islam
I. Religious Studies
1. It is fundamentally true that God is not an object of religious studies, since God – as theology teaches – cannot be made an object of empirical scientific study. Religious studies can only address the concepts that human beings have expressed concerning their God (or gods: God, Representations and sym…
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Religion Past and Present