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Rigorism
(735 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies Rigorism is an ethical category used mostly in connection with perfectionist communities. …
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Religion Past and Present
Sects
(2,685 words)
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I. Religious Studies Both the etymology and the usage of the word
sect are disputed. Derivation from Latin
secare (“separate”) is possible, as is derivation from
secta (from
sectus, sequi, “school of thought”). English uses the word…
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Religion Past and Present
Transmigration of Souls
(1,282 words)
[German Version]
I. Religious Studies
1. Terminology. Theories of transmigration, which go back to the pre-Socratics of the 6th and 5th centuries bce (Empedocles, Pythagoras, Orphism), presuppose a dualism of body and soul. They hold that a human birth is not a totally new creation but the reincarnation of a pre-existent soul. Repeated incarnations extend not only to human beings of all classes and stations but also to flora and fauna; their purpose is the eschatological purification of the soul from ritual and ethic…
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Religion Past and Present
Tolerance and Intolerance
(6,428 words)
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I. Religious Studies Tolerance and intolerance must be defined in terms of their relationship to respect, coexistence, indifference, acceptance, and prejudice. In the public context, they ¶ correspond to the presence or absence of freedom of religion. They originate in the claim to exclusive religious truth or else collide with it. Tolerance requires insight into the human ability to err and into the limits of human cognition with regard to faith, whereas intolerance rejects this insight. Following Gerlitz,…
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Religion Past and Present