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religion
religion a system of thought, feeling, and action that is shared by a group and that gives the members an object of devotion; a code of behavior by which individuals may judge the personal and social consequences of their actions; and a frame of reference by which individuals may relate to their gr... Read more
Roman religion
Roman religion the religious beliefs and practices of the people of ancient Rome. The spirits were held in awe and were placated with offerings and prayers. Origins and Development The indigenous Italic religion, which was the nucleus of the religion of ancient Rome, was essentially animi... Read more
Bacchus
Bacchus , in Roman religion and mythology, god of wine; in Greek mythology, Dionysus . Dionysus was also the god of tillage and law giving. He was worshiped at Delphi and at the spring festival, the Great Dionysia. In Rome, the mysteries of his cult were closely guarded, and he was identified with ... Read more
mysteries
mysteries in Greek and Roman religion, some important secret cults. The conventional religions of both Greeks and Romans were alike in consisting principally of propitiation and prayers for the good of the city-state, the tribe, or the family, and only secondarily of the person. Individuals sought ... Read more
Cornelis Petrus Tiele
Cornelis Petrus Tiele , 1830-1902, Dutch theologian and author of a number of valuable works on the history of religion. Important is his Outlines of the History of Religion (1876, tr. 1877). ... Read more
Demeter
Demeter , in Greek religion and mythology, goddess of harvest and fertility; daughter of Kronos and Rhea. She was the mother of Persephone by Zeus. When Pluto abducted Persephone, Demeter grieved so inconsolably that the earth became barren through her neglect. Searching for her daughter, she wand... Read more
Tethys
Tethys in Greek religion and mythology, a Titan, daughter of Gaea and Uranus. She was the wife of the seagod Oceanus and the mother of the Oceanids. ... Read more
Mithra
Mithra , ancient god of Persia and India (where he was called Mitra). Until the 6th cent. BC, Mithra was apparently a minor figure in the Zoroastrian system. Under the Achaemenids, Mithra became increasingly important, until he appeared in the 5th cent. BC as the principal Persian deity, the god of ... Read more
Auguste Sabatier
Auguste Sabatier , 1839-1901, French Protestant theologian. He was professor (1867-72) of reformed dogmatics at Strasbourg, and from 1877 until his death he was a member of the Protestant theological faculty of the Sorbonne, Paris. Sabatier became noted as a liberal theologian, stressing the subject... Read more
Greek religion
Greek religion religious beliefs and practices of the ancient inhabitants of the region of Greece. Origins Although its exact origins are lost in time, Greek religion is thought to date from about the period of the Aryan invasions of the 2d millennium BC Those invaders encountered two o... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "mystery religion"

Chapter 4: Mystery Religions and Cults
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained Chapter 4 Mystery Religions and Cults Throughout the history of organized religion there have been congregants...heretical by the mainstream religions, and were branded as...more recently established religions were identified as "devil...
Greek Mystery Schools
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...In addition to the state religion into which every Greek belonged...there were the "mystery religions," which required elaborate...membership. The mystery religions were concerned with the...as in the official state religion, but was considered to...life experience. The early ...
The Mystery Schools
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...cult. All of the early mysteries and mystical traditions...center around a kind of mystery play or ritual reenactment...process, the rites of the mysteries were usually built around...While the initiates of the mystery cult enacted the life cycle...In addition to the state religion into ...
Ancient Mysteries
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Ancient Mysteries Secret rituals of pagan religions, known only to select...spiritual development. Such mysteries were kept apart from...our knowledge of the mysteries is partly conjectural. Typical mystery cults were those of Eleusis...
mysteries
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...mysteries in Greek and Roman religion, some important secret cults. The conventional religions of both Greeks and Romans...sought a more emotional religion that would fulfill their...hierophant. By the 5th cent. BC mysteries were an important part of...out a sacred drama. Some ...
Roman religion
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...which was the nucleus of the religion of ancient Rome, was essentially...earliest period of Roman state religion, Jupiter , Mars , and Quirinus...tolerant of new gods and religions (provided that no harm was...when the old basis of Roman religion had lost much of its importance...turned toward the ...
Egyptian Mystery Schools
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...became the founder of the mystery schools and raised the primitive...scholars of the history of religion have a sense that the mystery schools of Egypt contain within...mortals into transcendent mysteries. Later, the Greek disciples...would be initiates of the mystery schools were well ...
Mithra
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition ...into Europe and became a worldwide religion, called Mithraism. This was one of the great religions of the Roman Empire, and in the 2d...the sacramental forms common to the mystery religions (e.g., baptism and the sacred...Bibliography: See F. Cumont, The Mysteries of Mithra (reissued, 1956) ...
The Freemasons
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained ...initiations, and handshakes have their origins in the Roman mystery religions, Egyptian rituals, and Babylonian paganism. Often linked...might one day reveal itself as the heir of the ancient mysteries of Atlantis and restore all humankind to the earthly paradise...in the midst of seemingly incessant ...
St. Ignatius of Antioch
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography ...wrote to the Christians in Rome. Some of Ignatius's language had the ring of the Greek mystery religions about it. He called the Eucharist the "mystery" of Christ's body and blood and said it was "the medicine of immortality and the antidote...

Dictionary entries related to "mystery religion"

mystery
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...gospel. But whereas this mystery is apparently revealed to...early Church were the pagan mystery religions in which initiates were admitted...immortality . The Eleusinian mysteries were Greek in origin, as...risen from the grave. Similar mystery religions were founded on...
Knowledge
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions ...competence in most religions. Gnosis (Gk...insight into the deepest mysteries flourished in the Hellenistic...world, leading to both mystery religions (with initiates alone...knowledge) and to gnostic religions. Christian history...
syncretism
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible syncretism A combination of two religions, as in Israel when the worship of Yahweh , who had led them...theory that Paul blended primitive Christianity with pagan mystery religions of a dying and rising god has had powerful and attractive...
new birth
Book article from: A Dictionary of the Bible ...terms of 1 Pet. were also common in the pagan mystery religions, and it has been suggested that if 1 Pet. is...document, it could have been influenced by these mysteries. Equally, however, the language of new birth...
Isis
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable ...Greece, and Rome, where she was identified with various local goddesses, and became the focus of one of the major mystery religions, involving enactment of the myth of the death and resurrection of Osiris .
mysteries
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable mysteries the secret rites of Greek and Roman pagan religion, or of any ancient or tribal religion, to which only initiates are admitted.
Pythagoreanism
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...philosophical school in Croton, in South Italy. The school included men and women, and was influenced by the Greek mystery religion of Orphism, which taught reincarnation and stressed the purification of the soul. Like the other Presocratics...
What If I Am a Woman? (1833, by Maria W. Stewart)
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...unto the emperors. And in most barbarous nations all things that have the appearance of being supernatural, the mysteries of religion, the secrets of physic, and the rights of magic, were in the possession of women. If such women as are here...
Terror
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas ...strand, a religious, aesthetic aspect that implies awe or reverence before a universe whose many mysteries — including those of religion — have never been fully grasped. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850), in his...
Roerich, Nikolai
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Art ...in India, and many of his later paintings feature mountain landscapes. He had a deep interest in esoteric religions and the mysteries of nature, and he developed a philosophy in which art should unite humanity. There are Roerich museums in...

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Inside the spiritual Jacuzzi: what JewBus, Unitarian Pagans, and the Hot Tub Mystery Religion tell us about traditional faiths.(amalgamated faith groups)
Magazine article from: Reason; 5/1/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...called the Hot Tub Mystery Religion. Its adherents hold...one of the smallest religions in the world: With...have long regarded religion as, at best, a collective...do not merely regard religion as a human creation...authors of their own religions, though quite a few...
NOURISHING A LINK AMID ELEMENTS OF MYSTERY.(Religion)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 4/18/2009; 700+ words ; ...sure-fire path of connection to the mystery of the eternal. As children of the Earth...possible the link we seek is food. All religions have rituals around food involving what...grand ballroom where all elements of the mystery await us. But there is a catch to all...
The mystery behind religion
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 2/6/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...religion to be wrapped in mysteries? Or do you believe that...challenges you to solve a mystery wrapped in an enigma wrapped...unversed in the history, religion and culture of anything...extensive dictionary of world religion close by. This is both...down to how you like your ...
New novel deftly joins religion, mystery
Newspaper article from: Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME; 6/30/2003; ; 700+ words ; ...loom for successfully weaving mystery and religion into a compelling tapestry. Her...lives of her characters with a mystery. She tackled topical subjects...topics with sensitive depth, the mystery always felt tacked on and not...
Resurrection makes sense as only mystery can.(Religion)
Newspaper article from: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR); 4/11/2009; 700+ words ; ...body. While grounded in the mystery of God - the awareness of being...curious, I taste-tested other religions to find that sense. One day...simple beauty. The sense of mystery found me: I had been dead...life and made sense as only mystery can. I understood a truth...
Hanks haunted by mystery of religion
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City); 3/28/2009; ; 700+ words ; ...superman whose knowledge of art, religion, history and philosophy can...he said, and it's the "mystery of it all" that continues...to church -- I ponder the mystery," he said. "I meditate...to bad people.' ... The mystery is what I think is, almost...
Where is God?; Reason puts mystery in religion, writer says.(NEWS)
Newspaper article from: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN); 6/7/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...of science and of fact can religion then move forward to reclaim its mystery and sacredness. But by accepting...unquestioned supremacy as the leading religion of Western Civilization...mainliners want the old-time religion. Mainliners tend to drop...
SHEDDING LIGHT ON A MYSTERY.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 3/18/2000; 700+ words ; ...and father preaching about the ``Paschal Mystery.'' I can't say that I remember it making...a brand-new understanding of the Paschal Mystery for the maturing Christian. The Paschal Mystery is ``at the heart'' of Christianity...
Worshippers' touch of mystery; RELIGION.(News)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 1/1/2008; 407 words ; ...Shrewsbury has welcomed the arrival of "mystery worshippers" in pews across the Midlands...Unannounced visitors, who earn a living as mystery shoppers, are set to test out a secret...questionnaire used has already seen 13 mystery worshippers visit Telford, where churches...
`EMERGENT CHURCH' AIMS TO RESTORE MYSTERY.(RELIGION)
Newspaper article from: Albany Times Union (Albany, NY); 10/11/2003; 700+ words ; ...across denominational lines in an effort to reclaim the sense of mystery found in the ritual and symbols of the faith's ancient past...rely so much on presentation that people miss the depth and mystery of the message. ``It's the difference between an art flick...