Quranologist

By referring these facts we are in a position to request the scholars of Qur' an and Quranologists to study them in strict conformity, concordance and collaboration of Hadith which are parallel, congruous and interdependent.

2001 Zamir Ahmed, The Quranic Sociology of Crime - Page 63

Thus, in line with Kenneth Craig, the non-Muslim British Quranologist, there can be no dichotomization between the two: “Islam is the Quranically guided religion; the Quran is the Islamically revealed book”

2011, Okechukwu Ukaga, Who Was Muhammad? Group: USA Africa Dialogue Series:

Pretzl was the director of the Qur'an Archives of the University of Munich, where three generations of Qur'anologists had collected the biggest collection in the world on Qur'an and its allied subjects

1971, Muhammad Asad, Islamic Culture - Volume 20 - Page 218

2009, HO, hijra: of meaning and meaning of meaning of emigration Group: USA Africa Dialogue Series
hijra: of meaning and meaning of meaning of emigration by afis a. oladosu first, a short note on the title. the medieval rhetorician and quranologist, abdul qahir al-jurjani, in his important works on rhetoric asrar al-balagh (the secret of rhetoric) and dalail al-ijaz (guides to quranic

(Islam) One who studies Quran-related topics


Qurano-

The Qurano-Prophetic intervention may be interpreted on the whole as a definitive affirmation of theocentric ethics.

2007, University Microfilms, Dissertation Abstracts International: The humanities and social sciences:

[…] both his exegesis and also his Quranocentric blueprint for moral reform in language aimed at a wider reading public.

2007, Shabana Fatma, Women And Islam, page 135:

[…] Waqwaq Tree is itself a transformation of the oracular tree(s) of the Sun and Moon into a Qurano-Islamic tree.

2007, Daniel Potts, Memory as history: the legacy of Alexander in Asia, page 76:


Melachim

(Judaism) Either one of the two Books of Kings (1 Kings = Melachim Aleph; 2 Kings = Melachim Bet).


Mnevis

From Latin Mnēvis, from Ancient Greek Μνεῦῐς (Mneûis), from Egyptian U7:r-wr:O5-E1 (mr-wr).

der

<i class="Latn mention" lang="egy">mr-wr</i>

(religion) A bull-shaped aspect of the god Atum-Ra venerated in Heliopolis.


tingsha

One of a pair of small cymbals bound by a strap or chain, used in prayer and rituals by Tibetan Buddhist practitioners.


perceptic

(Scientology) A sense; a perceiving faculty.


pratyekabuddha

(Buddhism) One who achieves enlightenment alone, without a teacher or guide.


sunnize

en-verb

sunnize (third-person singular simple present sunnizes, present participle sunnizing, simple past and past participle sunnized)

sunnizes (present singular third-person)
sunnizing (participle present)
sunnized (participle past)
sunnized (past)

The author may appears in the eyes of some Alevi spokesmen as the example ofa “sunnized Alevi”, as he defends the fulfilment of the five pillars of Islam. Pamukçu argues for an autonomy of the Zazaspeaking Alevi from the Kurds (1992).

Four other extremely popular Alawi shrines are not yet "sunnized" but have received the compulsory honor of a Sunni mosque nearby.

2010, Stephan Procházka, The Plain of Saints and Prophets, p 155


Shi'ize

Shi'ize (third-person singular simple present Shi'izes, present participle Shi'izing, simple past and past participle Shi'ized)

Shi'izes (present singular third-person)
Shi'izing (participle present)
Shi'ized (participle past)
Shi'ized (past)

(transitive, very rare) To make Shi'ite.


prozionist

1999 JGA, Re: Orthodox Exodus from the State of Israel Group: soc.culture.jewish
Purge the leftists out of positions of influence and give zionist Jews who really love Israel a break from the "aliyah pimps" and you'll see plenty of prozionist US Jews coming in the next few years.

2003 Syvanen, Re: Amram Mitzna (Re: OT: This boycott won't help Palestinians) Group: alt.atheism
But each site was maintained by the most partisan proisraeli organizations and a reference to a Krauthammer article Not one independent newspaper hit. I am highly skeptical about the veracity of this quote. Mike Syvanen He made similar comments in a Palestinian newspaper article. All I see is the most extreme prozionist.

2009, Joe Brono, re: hitler didn't have the bomb Group: alt.revisionism
it's only a matter of time before the juwesa military splits up into prozionist and antizionist forces.


Ziochristian

2004 Doug Bashford, Re: SILLY Dems IGNORE CHRISTIANS to LOSE Election ? Amen Brother Randy! Group: talk.politics.misc
about Catholic's Pope declaring Iraq war as illegal and immoral (unjust). alt.religion.christian.baptist, lst night - in a fight with a Ziochristian who loves Nazism and ignores Jesus' message of love and tolerance.

2005, gaffo, Re: Bush Sez Atheists Can't Be President Group: alt.politics.bush
A modern-day Ziochristian Reich equivalent to the Kings of Old Judea's beleife that Judea was God's Nation

2013 John Cooper, Re: Hitler and the Millennial reign of Christ Group: alt.bible.prophecy
When it all goes pear-shaped, there is going to be a backlash against 'End-Timers', Ziochristians, Christian Dominionists, prophetic 'experts', and 'Bible-believing' Christians generally.


Ibadism

From Arabic إِبَاض (ʔibāḍ, part of the name of Abd Allah b. Ibad) + -ism.

af

إِبَاض<lang:ar><pos:part of the name of Abd Allah b. Ibad>

(Islam) The doctrines associated with Ibadis, such as the acceptance of fewer hadiths, and the addition of Jami Sahih as a canonical hadith.


Muhammadist

A person who follows the philosophy of Muhammad, especially a Muslim who does so.


shariafication

We live in a time when Tariq Ramadan, the very personification of the shariafication of the West, is awarded respect and positions of honor while Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the embodiment of individual liberty, lives under twenty-four-hour armed guard.

2009, Bruce Bawer, Surrender: Appeasing Islam, Sacrificing Freedom - Page 275

A minimalist definition of Islamism, then, can be said to be a Shariafication or Islamization of the state and society.

2013, John Andrew McNeish, Gender, Justice and Legal Pluralities:: Latin American and African Perspectives:

(rare) The act or process of shariafying.


Eid al-Saghir

From Arabic الْعِيد الصَّغِير (al-ʕīd aṣ-ṣaḡīr, literally “the small feast”).

bor

الْعِيد الصَّغِير


shariafy

en-verb

shariafy (third-person singular simple present shariafies, present participle shariafying, simple past and past participle shariafied)

shariafies (present singular third-person)
shariafying (participle present)
shariafied (participle past)
shariafied (past)

The need to produce in quotation the spellings adopted by various authors, e.g., Sharia, Shariafy ...

1976, Sayed Ahmed, Maulana Maududi and the Islamic State - Page 1

2007, possum, Re: symbolic mind (was: Evelyn's Hard Karma) Group: alt.buddha.short.fat.guy
What we're facing down the road is North Africa continuing to go up in flames w/ a huge cache of uranium sitting in its midst (in Niger, fortunately buffered by Chad on its eastern border, but bordering already strife-torn & shariafied Muslim Nigeria to on its southern border.

2008, Patrick Keenan, Re: Jew Bible Prohibited by Anti-Semitic Canadian Courts Group: alt.politics.republicans
Owing to the atrocities of Sharia Law the Islamophiles make a crucial necessary distinction between Islamicizing and Shariafying.

I found something that will be useful in our campaign to shariafy the 20 percent of the US Constitution that is still not in compliance with sharia law.

2013, Mark Spahn, Saying No to 13A and 14A Group: Not Honyaku:


Buddhize

Buddhize (third-person singular simple present Buddhizes, present participle Buddhizing, simple past and past participle Buddhized)

Buddhizes (present singular third-person)
Buddhizing (participle present)
Buddhized (participle past)
Buddhized (past)

(transitive) To make Buddhist; to increase the Buddhistic nature of.


Ded Moroz

Borrowed from Russian Дед Моро́з (Ded Moróz, “Old Man Frost”).

bor

A fictional man in Slavic culture who delivers presents to children on New Year's Eve.


Shiaphobe

2014 Haidernaqi, Party to genocide : It is no longer possible to call shia killings the result of a sectarian war Group: SoulsMarch
Renowned Shiaphobes were presented shields by ASWJ chief Ahmed Ludhianvi and witnesses reveal that slogans of “Shia kafir!” resounded throughout the ceremony. This in a city which has become the hub of Shia genocide, where a couple of bomb blasts targeting the Shia Hazara community killed nearly 200 people ...


mechaieh

Borrowed from Yiddish מחיה (mekhaye), originally from Hebrew מְחַיֶּה (mekhayéh, “he revives”).


shraddha

en-noun

shraddha (countable and uncountable, plural shraddhas)

Borrowed from Sanskrit श्रद्धा (śraddhā́).

After returning, I went to Benares with my parents, for my father was to perform a shraddha ceremony there.

1989, Shudha Mazumdar, Memoirs of an Indian Woman, page 94:

But the thought that he would finally be able to complete his mother's shraadha would make the son emotional.

2015, Tridip Suhrud, translating Govardhanram Madhavram Tripathi, Sarasvatichandra I, Orient BlackSwan 2015, p. 110

(Hinduism) A Hindu ceremony performed in commemoration of one's deceased relatives, especially a parent.

শ্রাদ্ধ

Hindu ceremony in commemoration of deceased relatives


Ullr

2013, Samantha-Rae Tuthill, Where Did Old Man Winter, Jack Frost Come From?. Accuweather.com.
"For the Norse mythologies, Ullr was the god of winter. Son of a frost giant, he would rule Asgard in Odin's absence in the winter."

2014, Norse Mythology for Smart People, Ullr
"...Ullr is an excellent archer, hunter, skater, and skier, handsome, warlike, and an especially apt deity to invoke before a duel."

"Ullr is a very old god of the northern lands, so old that by the time the Iron Age Norse myths were written down, not much more was known about him except that he was a god of archery, hunting, and the winter."

2014, Raven Kaldera, Ullr Lord of Winter:

(Norse mythology) An Áss associated with archery and skiing; the stepson of Thor.


Black Peter

The companion of Saint Nicholas in Dutch folklore, depicted as a blackamoor.


halalify

en-verb

halalify (third-person singular simple present halalifies, present participle halalifying, simple past and past participle halalified)

halalifies (present singular third-person)
halalifying (participle present)
halalified (participle past)
halalified (past)


Zahirism

An exception was their position regarding Zahirism, the exoteric or literalist legal doctrine that through its adoption by the eleventh-century Cordoban scholar Ibn Hazm came to represent the most dangerous challenge to Andalusi Malikism. Zahirism is close to Shafi'ism and Hanbalism in its insistence on the predominant role played by Prophetic hadith, in its restriction of the use of analogical reasoning and in its denial of any validity to the consensus arising after the early generations of Muslims.

2016, Andrew P. Roach, Heresy and the Making of European Culture:

(Islam) The Sunni Islamic movement that promotes the apparent meaning of the Quran.


Ibadist

From Arabic إِبَاض (ʔibāḍ, part of the name of Abd Allah b. Ibad) + -ist.


chakravartin

Borrowed from Sanskrit चक्रवर्तिन् (cakravartin).

(India, religion) An ideal universal ruler, who rules ethically and benevolently over the entire world.


pandeism

en-noun

pandeism (countable and uncountable, plural pandeisms)

Possibly borrowed from German Pandeismus, from pan- (from Ancient Greek παν- (pan-, prefix meaning ‘all’)) + Deismus (“deism”) (from Latin deus (“deity, god”) + German -ismus (“-ism”)). (Similar words appear earlier in various languages, but apparently not in the same sense.) The word can be analysed as pan- + deism or as a blend of pantheism + deism.

der

Just as [absolute perfection in some respects, relative perfection in all others] is the whole positive content of perfection, so CW, or the conception of the Creator-and-the-Whole-of-what-he-has-created as constituting one life, the super-whole which in its everlasting essence is uncreated (and does not necessitate just the parts which the whole has) but in its de facto concreteness is created – this panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

1941, Charles Hartshorne, Man’s Vision of God and the Logic of Theism, New York, N.Y.: Harper and Bros., →OCLC, page 348:

What appeared here, at the center of the Pythagorean tradition in philosophy, is another view of psyche that seems to owe little or nothing to the pan-vitalism or pan-deism (see theion) that is the legacy of the Milesians.

1967, F[rancis] E[dward] Peters, “psychḗ”, in Greek Philosophical Terms: A Historical Lexicon, New York, N.Y.: New York University Press, →ISBN, paragraph 13, page 169:

All the actions of created intelligences are not merely the actions of God. Creatures act freely and responsibly as the proximate causes of their own moral actions. If God was the proximate cause of every act, all things would simply be “God in motion”. That is nothing less than pantheism, or more exactly, pandeism. The Creator is distinct from his creation. The reality of secondary causes is what separates Christian theism from pandeism.

1996, Bob Burridge, “God’s Decrees: Certainty and Contingency”, in Survey Studies in Reformed Theology, Genevan Institute for Reformed Studies, published 2016, archived from the original on 2018-06-12:

It could also be argued that the god that no longer requires interaction with the creation is superior to the one that does, so that deistic concepts, including pandeism, are again preferable. Similarly, concerning experiential arguments, the 'hidden' and possibly 'indifferent' god of pandeism better explains why so many people do not experience god, internally, yet also can explain why some do. Pandeisms, and other pantheisms, particularly polytheistic forms, also better explain why it is not only the god of theism (and specifically, Christian theism) that is internally experienced by some people.

2018, Raphael Lataster, “The Case for A-theism”, in The Case against Theism: Why the Evidence Disproves God’s Existence (Sophia Studies in Cross-cultural Philosophy of Traditions and Cultures; 26), Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, Springer Nature, →DOI, →ISBN, →ISSN, section 3.5.3 (Case Study: Pandeism vs. Theism), page 194:

(religion) A belief in a god who is both pantheistic and deistic, in particular a god who designed the universe and then became it and ceased to exist separately and act consciously with respect to it.

pandeïsme

belief in a god both pantheistic and deistic

We hear men prophesy that this war means the death of Christianity and an era of Pandeism or perhaps even the destruction of all which we call modern civilization and culture. We hear men predict that the ultimate result of the war will be a blessing to humanity.

1915 May, Louis S. Hardin, “The Chimerical Application of Machiavelli’s Principles”, in James H. Coghill, editor, The Yale Sheffield Monthly, volume XXI, number 8, New Haven, Conn.: Sheffield Scientific School, Yale College, →OCLC, page 463:

I first came across this extension of ecumenism into pan-deism among some Roman Catholic scholars interested primarily in the "reunion of the churches," [...] Thus they do not necessarily discern in Rome's ecumenism and pan-deism a project for world domination. Yet this danger certainly exists.

1964 October 23, Charles A[nselm] Bolton, “Beyond the Ecumenical: Pan-Deism?”, in Christianity Today: Fortnightly Magazine of Evangelical Conviction, volume 9, Carol Stream, Ill.: Christianity Today, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 21:

If the Bible is only human lore, and not divine truth, then we have no real answer to those who say, "Let's pick the best out of all religions and blend it all into Pan-Deism – one world religion with one god made out of many".

1991, J[ames] Sidlow Baxter, “Our Bible: The Most Critical Issue”, in Prophetic Witness Movement International, archived from the original on 2018-02-22:

(religion, rare) Worship which admits or tolerates favourable aspects of all religions; omnitheism.


ultimism

Introduced by Canadian philosopher J. L. Schellenberg.

Schellenberg's thinking on religion begins with what he calls “ultimism.” “Ultimism,” for him, is the claim that: There is a metaphysically and axiologically ultimate reality (one representing both the deepest fact about the nature of things and the greatest possible value), in relation to which an ultimate good can be attained.

2017, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Religious Genius: Appreciating Inspiring Individuals Across Traditions:

(religion, philosophy) The quasireligious proposition that there is some ultimate phenomenon that is the source of good.


mawla

Transliteration of Arabic مَوْلًى (mawlan).


C. of E.

Church of England
Church of England#English


Malikism

(Islam) A Sunnite school of thought, founded by Malik ibn Anas, that privileges the practices of Medinan scholars.


Shiist

... which took them over, by either a Sunnist or Shiist hue, and whichever was the case, they existed in Azerbaijan before they came to Anatolia.

1974, Afro-Asian Writings, numbers 19-27, page 135:

The radical sunnists wrote ahadiths about Ali to defame him and degrade the Shiaist, the Shiist did the same thing..Ahadiths were maily written to justify some malices and some sins, and to please some rulers.

1999, To Fode: Questions sur la Bible, in soc.culture.algeria, Usenet:

... established of a Theocratic Shiist Iraq highlights the problem of trying to establish a democracy through transplantion.

2007, Gary Gibson, Waveform Politics; A War to End Democide, volume 3, page 100:

A practitioner of fundamentalist Shiism.


Tryphosa

From Ancient Greek τροφή (trophḗ, “softness, delicacy”).

uder

Salute Tryphena and Tryphosa, who labour in the Lord.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Romans 16:12:

(biblical) Name of a Christian woman mentioned in the Bible.


Shi'i

en-adj

Shi'i (comparative more Shi'i, superlative most Shi'i)

more Shi'i (comparative)
most Shi'i (superlative)

Transliteration of Arabic شِيعِيّ (šīʕiyy). By surface analysis, Shi'a + -i.

transliteration

Coordinate term: Sunni


sandhya

Borrowed from Sanskrit संध्या (saṃdhyā, “twilight, twilight prayers”).

bor

He did his sandhya in the mornings after he had his bath, put the red tilak on the foreheads of the gods and goddesses, said his prayers, prostrated before them and went off to work.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 103:


prasad

I gave her the prasad from Eklingji to gain time to think.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 116:

(Hinduism) Food used as a religious offering.


kikayon

(biblical) A plant mentioned in the Book of Jonah, where it provides shade; possibly a gourd or a castor oil plant.


Sokar

(Egyptian mythology) An Ancient Egyptian hawk god of the Memphite necropolis.


Seshat

From the Ancient Egyptian šsꜣ "scribe" + feminine determinative t; šsꜣ.t "female scribe".

Seshat represents the organizational capacity of keeping records—knowledge, information, etc.
Seshat is depicted carrying the reed pen and palette, and records deeds in eternity/space, i.e. memory. As such, Seshat is referred to as: The Enumerator, Lady of Writing(s), Scribe, Head of the House of the Divine Books (Archives), Lady of Builders...

2001, Moustafa Gadalla, Egyptian Divinities: The All Who Are the One, page 50:

The link between the measurement of space and measurement of time is also clear from early periods in the activities of the goddess Seshat, the goddess associated with the foundation ceremony, during which the orientation of buildings was established.

2010, Kate Spence, “Establishing direction in early Egyptian burials and monumental architecture”, in Iain Morley, Colin Renfrew, editors, The Archaeology of Measurement: Comprehending Heaven, Earth and Time in Ancient Societies, page 176:

At least eight separate Egyptologists, in addition to myself, have suggested that the ancient Egyptians directly identified Seshat as a form or aspect of Nebt-het (101).

2010, Tamara L. Siuda, Nebt-het: Lady of the House, 2nd edition, page 14:

The most important of these scenes shows the king leaving his palace with the goddess of writing, Seshat, in order to lay out the foundations for the temple.

2010, Zahi A. Hawass, Wonders of the Horus Temple: The Sound and Light of Edfu, page 8:

(Egyptian mythology) The Egyptian goddess of writing and wisdom, often depicted as a scribe or recordkeeper.


Vertumnus

(Roman mythology) The Ancient Roman god of seasons, change, and plant growth, capable of changing his form at will.


Brighamite

(historical, Mormonism) A follower of Brigham Young (1801–1877), American leader in the Latter Day Saint movement and a settler of the western United States.


Brighamite

(historical, Mormonism) Pertaining to Brigham Young, his followers and their beliefs.


vestryperson

en-noun

vestryperson (plural vestrypersons or vestrypeople)

vestrypersons (plural)
vestrypeople (plural)

We call it “a program of education for wardens, vestry and advisory board members.” It’s primarily to acquaint newly elected ones with their duties and responsibilities, but vestrypersons who have not been before can enroll too, if we have room for them.

1978 July 23, Robert N. Willing, “A Ministry of Regional Leadership”, in The Living Church, volume 177, number 4, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, page 9:

The original Constitution and Canons of the Diocese, adopted by the Primary Convention in 1849, had no qualification of gender for voters in annual meetings, referred to the election of vestrymen, and gave no gender for council delegates. It can be presumed that no women would have thought of accepting election as vestryperson or council delegates at that period.

1979 March, Lawrence L. Brown, “Texas Bishop Vetoes Women Council Delegates in 1921”, in Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, volume 48, number 1, →JSTOR, pages 94–95:

The letter was dated March 8, some six weeks after the vestry’s letter to the bishop, and the only vestrypersons at that time to sign were John Peterson and Ransom Wake.

2005, Craig D. Townsend, Faith in Their Own Color: Black Episcopalians in Antebellum New York City, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, page 122:

(uncommon) A member of a parochial vestry.


vipassana

Transliteration of Pali vipassanā, from Sanskrit विपश्यना (vipaśyanā).

three marks of existence
three marks of existence

(Buddhism) Insight into the true nature of reality, namely as the three marks of existence: impermanence, suffering or unsatisfactoriness, and the realisation of nonself.


Josephite

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.zəˌfaɪt/

/ˈd͡ʒəʊ.səˌfaɪt/

Asher

descendants of the patriarch Jacob, later renamed Israel

A student or alumnus of St Joseph's College, Allahabad.

A member of Josephites-CJ, a Roman Catholic religious order founded in Belgium.

A member of the Josephite Fathers, a Roman Catholic religious order originally established to minister to African Americans, headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

Joseph

Josephite: Ephraim (Ephraimite); Manasseh (Manassite)

A Latter Day Saint adherent tracing Restorationist priesthood lineage through Joseph Smith III, son of the movement's founder.

A member of the Congregation of Sisters of St. Joseph of the Sacred Heart.


chhatra

A gift of land is held to be complete in all its parts, when accompanied by a couch shell, a seat of honor, a chhatra, a good horse and a good carriage.

1838, Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, Vol. 7, part 2:

All the emblems of sovereignty including the chhatra were in place on Father's elephant and war was resumed.

1997, Kiran Nagarkar, Cuckold, HarperCollins, published 2013, page 583:

Originally mounted on a circular drum was the dome or the hemispherical super structure crowned by a railed harmika and a chhatra.

2008, A Satish Babu, Tourism Development in India, page 89:


autosoterism

(chiefly Christianity) The belief that salvation is attained through oneself and not an external agency.


aparigraha

Borrowed from Sanskrit अपरिग्रह (aparigraha).

(Jainism) The Jainist principle of greedlessness, or not having unnecessary possessions.


yidam

From Tibetan ཡི་དམ (yi dam), (Sanskrit: समादान (samādān) or སམཱདཱནི (samādāni)).

Yidams are not to be equated with the patron saints or guardian angels found in the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim traditions.

2004, Chogyam Trungpa, The Collected Works of Chogyam Trungpa, volume 7:

(Tibetan Buddhism) A type of deity associated with tantric or Vajrayana Buddhism said to be manifestations of Buddhahood or enlightened mind.


taghut

Arabic طَاغُوت (ṭāḡūt, “to overstep boundaries or rebel”).

uder

(Islam) idolatry; the worship of anything except Allah


blood atonement

A controversial Mormon doctrine that taught that murder is so heinous that the atonement of Jesus Christ does not apply, and the perpetrator must instead have their blood shed upon the ground as a sacrificial offering.


Krampus

A beast in the folklore of Alpine countries, said to punish misbehaving children during the Christmas season.


Tibetan Buddhism

The body of Buddhist religious doctrine and institutions characteristic of Tibet, Mongolia, Tuva, Bhutan, Kalmykia, Buryatia and certain regions of the Himalayas, including northern Nepal, and India.

ဝဇိရယာန

body of Buddhist religious doctrine characteristic of Tibet and surrounding areas


adhisthana

en-noun

adhisthana (plural adhisthanas or adhisthana)

adhisthanas (plural)
adhisthana (plural)

(Buddhism) An initiation or blessing in Vajrayana schools such as Tibetan Buddhism and Shingon Buddhism.


Stir-up Sunday

From the opening words of the collect for the 25th Sunday after Trinity in the Book of Common Prayer of 1549 and later (a translation of the Roman Missal's collect "Excita, quæsumus"): "Stir up, we beseech thee, O Lord, the wills of thy faithful people..."

(informal, Anglicanism) The last Sunday before the season of Advent, on which families traditionally gather in their kitchens to prepare Christmas pudding.


Ishan

(Hinduism) One of the aspects of the god Shiva.


Musloid

(informal, derogatory) A Muslim extremist


neoatheist

A fundamental blind spot that so many of the neoatheist critics of religion share is that they have been unable to imagine an authentic religion that does not operate with certainty as its only common coin ...

2008, Robert Jones, Progressive & Religious, page 186

2011, Frank J, Re: All Finnish public 3 IDists are now practically or close to YECs ... Group: talk.origins
just denied unguided evolution and attacked strongly on neoatheists

I praise Dawkins' clarity, I rejoice in Dennett's call to study religion scientifically as a natural phenomena, and I admire S. Harris's keen polemical skill. Yet I think these thinkers are all arrogantly out of their depth. These "neo-atheist" authors chiefly use highly selective analogy, anecdote, personal sentiment, and rash generalization...

2012, Charles Crawford, Dennis Krebs, Foundations of Evolutionary Psychology, →ISBN:

2013, The Faces of Satan, They batter believers in religion with smug certainty Group: can.politics, link
neoatheist thinkers such as Sam Harris and Christopher Hitchens, I thought it amazing that he still wanted to learn something new

A member of the vocally anti-religious movement that came to prominence in the early 2000s.


Istanu

The Hittite and Hattic goddess of the sun. She was a god of judgement, and was depicted bearing a winged sun on her crown or head-dress, and a crooked staff.


anhypostatic

(theology, Christianity) Not hypostatic.


Ordinary Time

(Christianity) A season of the Christian liturgical calendar, celebrated in two segments: from the Monday following the baptism of Jesus Christ up to Ash Wednesday; and from Pentecost Monday to the first Sunday of Advent.


nasibi

From Arabic نَاصِبِيّ (nāṣibiyy, literally “hater”).

bor

(derogatory) Someone who hates the family of the Prophet Muhammad.


Sunniphobia

I address the ideological underpinnings of this 'Sunniphobia' in Chapter 5, as part of the discussion of the structural problems of the US counter-insurgency campaign.

2005, Ahmed Hashim, Insurgency and Counter-insurgency in Iraq, Cornell University Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 82:

For all the talk of "Shi'philia" and "Sunniphobia," sectarian manipulation was a secondary, tactical factor for the occupiers, who were most interested in the creation of a new "national" bourgeoisie at massive cost to most Iraqis, including the middle and professional classes.

2008 April 6, Richard Seymour, “The Sadrist Revolt”, in Monthly Review:

[…] as well as modern mechanisms and instruments for conflict resolution and the fear of the unknown similar to the rising fever of Islamophobia (fear of Islam), Shiaphobia and Sunniphobia in the Western industrialized countries because it did neither sufficiently nor adequately addressed^([sic]) their vital national economic and strategic security interests in the country.

2012 November 7, David de Chand, “The Obstacles, Hurdles, Mechanisms and Instruments for the Implementation of the Cooperation Peace Agreement: A Critical Analysis”, in Sudan Vision:

(rare) Fear or hatred of Sunnism and Sunnites.


Sportianity

(US, derogatory) An evangelistic, triumphal variety of Christianity associated with American athletes.


abhayamudra

From Sanskrit अभय (abhaya, “fearlessness”) + मुद्रा (mudrā, “sign, hand gesture”).

A Buddhist gesture of reassurance and safety, in which the right hand is held upright, and the palm is facing outwards.


paideia

From Ancient Greek παιδείᾱ (paideíā, “rearing of a child, education”), from παιδεύω (paideúō, “rear a child”) + -ίᾱ (-íā), from παῖς (paîs, “child”).

suffix

(Early Christianity, historical, education) An early model of Christian higher learning having theology as its chief subject.


tathata

en-noun

tathata (countable and uncountable, plural tathatas)


Eudist

From the name of Saint Jean Eudes, + -ist.

A member of the Congregation of Jesus and Mary


clarissa

Borrowed from Italian clarissa, from Medieval Latin Clarissa; see there for more. Doublet of Clarisse, Clare, and Clarist.

[…] all these obscene references of a sexual nature punctuate the ritualistic prodigality of the Northeast and its winter cycle, and if in the main popular qualification of the character of the clarissa nun called Maria Ermelinda Correia, the composer of the sweet in the mouth of the people, as an expression of her overblown greediness.

2020, Richardo Ferreira de Almeida et al., “Popular Sweets in Douro Valley”, in Advances in Tourism, Technology, and Systems, page 188:

(Catholicism) Alternative letter-case form of Clarissa: a nun of the Order of Saint Clare.


Marianist

And Catholic Marianists, for their part, have looked for ultimate authority instead in the miraculous realm of mystical visions and end-time prophecy. Mainly because of their passionate commitment to anti-abortion activism, Catholic conservatives have thus far wielded a far greater public presence than either separatists or Marianists.

1999, Michael W. Cuneo, The Smoke of Satan, JHU Press, →ISBN, page 179:

(Roman Catholicism) A member of the Society of Mary, a congregation of Roman Catholic brothers and priests who look to the Virgin Mary as a model of faith and spirituality.


Stam

From Hebrew סְתָ״ם (sta"m), acronym of סִפְרֵי קוֹדֶשׁ, תְּפִלִּין, וּמְזוּזוֹת (sifréi qodéš, t'filín um'zuzót).

(Judaism) collectively, the Jewish ritual scrolls, including holy scrolls, mezuzahs and tefillin


neigong

From Mandarin 內功／内功 (nèigōng, “internal exercises”).

Any of the variety of Chinese breathing, meditation and spiritual disciplines associated with Taoism and martial arts.


cafeteria Christianity

Referring to the practice of selecting food from a counter in a cafeteria.

(derogatory) A moderate form of Christianity whose adherents pick and choose which doctrines to respect and follow, avoiding what is controversial or unpleasant.


fivefold ministry

(Christianity) The Charismatic and Evangelical Christian belief that five offices mentioned in Ephesians 4:11, namely those of apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors (or "shepherds") and teachers, remain active and valid offices in the contemporary church.


evangelical counsels

evangelical counsels pl (normally plural, singular evangelical counsel)

(Christianity) Chastity, poverty (or perfect charity), and obedience, given by Jesus of Nazareth in the Canonical gospels as advice for those who desire to become perfect.


eternal sin

Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit is an eternal sin.

(Christianity) The sin which is unpardonable by God and therefore make salvation impossible.


Desposyni

From Ancient Greek δεσπόσυνοι (despósunoi), plural of δεσπόσυνος (despósunos, “belonging to the master or lord”).

The term Desposyni in Greek means 'Heir of the Lord', but seems to have been invented after the crucifixion of Jesus and relates specifically to those who were of the direct descent of Jesus or blood related through his mother. […] According to Father Martin, the Jerusalem Church only referred to direct descendants of Jesus as Desposyni, and they became known by this title throughout the Roman Empire.

2012, Miles Augustus Navarr, Forbidden Theology: Origin of Scriptural God, page 108:

(Christianity) Those people in the same family descent as Jesus Christ.


Ancient of Days

The first is true: all under the first is obnoxious to error; the puisne posthumous antiquity hath been a refuge for falsehood: the primigenous antiquity, which proceeded from the Ancient of Days, is certain.

1641, Joseph Hall, A Short Answer to the Vindication of Smectymnuus:

I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.

1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Daniel 7:13-14:


vairagya

Borrowed from Sanskrit वैराग्य (vairāgya).

bor+

(Hinduism) detachment from the material world


bhava

en-noun

bhava (countable and uncountable, plural bhavas)

(Buddhism) A feeling or mood, especially one of maturation that arises from understanding of the continuity of life and death (reincarnation).


Manti

A city, the county seat of Sanpete County, Utah.


rafidi

rafidi (plural rafidis or rafida or rawafid)

rafidis (plural)
rafida (plural)
rawafid (plural)

From Arabic رَافِضِيّ (rāfiḍiyy, literally “rejector”), formed from the active participle of the verb رَفَضَ (rafaḍa, “to refuse, deny”).


Zaidi

Of or pertaining to a particular branch of Shi'a Islam.


petuhah

Borrowed from Hebrew פְּתוּחָה (“open”), feminine of פָּתוּחַ.

(Judaism) An open parashah (a section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh), set apart in roughly the same way as a paragraph would be in modern text.


parashah

en-noun

parashah (plural parashahs or parashiyot or parashot or parashoth or parashiot or parashiyos or parshioth or parashioth or parashiyoth)

parashahs (plural)
parashiyot (plural)
parashot (plural)
parashoth (plural)
parashiot (plural)
parashiyos (plural)
parshioth (plural)
parashioth (plural)
parashiyoth (plural)

(Judaism) A section of a book in the Hebrew text of the Tanakh, which may be open (a petuhah) or closed (a setumah).

(Judaism) One of 54 sections of the Torah read weekly by religious Jews, particularly in the synagogue on the morning of the Jewish Sabbath


Apocrypha

That group of works which formed part of the Septuagint, but not of the Hebrew canon recognized by the Jews, and which is considered by some Christians to form an authentic part of Scripture, but which is rejected by others (namely by Protestants).

外典

writings recognized by some but not all Christians


asha

Transliteration of Avestan 𐬀𐬴𐬀 (aṣ̌a). Doublet of rta.

(Zoroastrianism) The concept of truth and existence in Zoroastrianism, usually associated with the Amesha Spentas.


New Commandment

(Christianity) Jesus Christ's exhortation to "love one another", part of the final instructions given to his disciples after the Last Supper.


New Covenant

(Christianity) An interpretation of the Bible, originally derived from a phrase in the Book of Jeremiah, and often thought of as an eschatological Messianic Age or world to come.


Great Apostasy

(Christianity) The supposed fallen state of traditional Christianity, especially the Roman Catholic Church, as a result of tolerating the Greco-Roman mysteries and deities of solar monism.


God-fearer

(historical, Christianity) A member of a class of non-Jewish sympathizers to Second Temple Judaism, mentioned in the New Testament and other contemporary sources.


Great Commission

(Christianity) The instruction of the resurrected Jesus Christ to his disciples that they spread his teachings to all the nations of the world.


Great Schism

Eastern Orthodox Church
Eastern Orthodox Church

Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church

(Christianity, historical) The split between the Eastern Orthodox Church and the Roman Catholic Church in 1054.

(Christianity, historical) A split within the Roman Catholic Church that lasted from 1378 to 1417.


nonfaith

nonfaith (countable and uncountable, plural nonfaiths)

(uncountable) Absence of religious faith.

(countable) Any system of belief that is not a religious faith.


ghusl

ghusl (countable and uncountable, plural ghusls)

(Islam) A full-body wash taken by Muslims to restore the body to a state of purity.

غُسْل

full-body taken to restore the body to purity


Mollywood

Blend of Molly + Hollywood, from Molly Mormon, a term for a stereotypical female member of the LDS Church.

Faller has said that he sees this version of Pride and Prejudice as an example of a Mollywood film or, in other words, a "Mormon chick flick";

2010, Juliette Wells, “Jane Austen in Mollywood”, in Peculiar Portrayals: Mormons on the Page, Stage, and Screen:

The comedies that came out of Mollywood in the 2000s can be almost excluseively associated with HaleStorm Entertainment, based in Provo, Utah.

2012, E McIntyre, Knock Knocking on Heaven's Door: Humour and Religion in Mormon Comedy, page 75:

Mollywood is not an official Church institution, although the Church has been using film as a tool for religious education since the early twentieth century.

2012, Elisha McIntyre, Handbook of New Religions and Cultural Production, →ISBN, page 74:

Rigal-Cellard's comments about 'Mormon culture' demonstrate that, more than a mere religion, Mormonism indeed appears like a culture, a way of life encompassing all aspects of daily life. American Mormons have their own music (the Church-sponsored traditional Mormon Tabernacle Choir or non-Church sponsored Mormon boy band 'Evercleen'), are encouraged to dress 'modestly', and there is even a Mormon cinema ('Mollywood').

2013, Nadia Marzouki, Olivier Roy, Religious Conversions in the Mediterranean World, →ISBN:


Lambeth

en-proper noun

Lambeth (countable and uncountable, plural Lambeths)

The name is recorded in 1062 as Lambehitha, from Old English lamb (“lamb”) + hȳþ (“hithe, landing-place”), and in 1255 as Lambeth. Equivalent to lamb + hithe.

The first Lambeth Conference concluded with affirmation of the council format and the ideals of Church unity and ecumenical reunion. Those themes became important reference points for later Lambeths and for Anglicans generally.

1993, William L. Sachs, The Transformation of Anglicanism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 204:

(Anglicanism) Ellipsis of Lambeth Conference.


chronolatry

/kɹəʊˈnɒlətɹɪ/

/ˌkɹəˈnɑlətɹi/

From chrono- (“time”) + -latry (“worship”).

For quotations using this term, see Citations:chronolatry.


veghar

From Armenian վեղար (veġar). Doublet of velarium.

All wear this, but only the celibate priests and higher clergy may cover it with a large black veil (veghar) which hangs down behind.

1913, Adrian Fortescue, The Lesser Eastern Churches, page 436:

Armenian Apostolic Church
Armenian Apostolic Church

The pointed conic cowl worn by the celibate clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church, including abeghas, bishops and the catholicos.

վեղար

the pointed conic cowl worn by the celibate clergy of the Armenian Apostolic Church


abegha

(ecclesiastical) A celibate priest or monk of the Armenian Apostolic Church; a hieromonk.

աբեղա

a celibate priest or monk of the Armenian Apostolic Church


sky fairy

A generalization of the earlier Sky Fairy, q.v.

Then there's the Roman sky fairies, the ancient Greek sky fairies the multi-limbed female with an Elephant's head that the "world's biggest democracy" (India) believes in.

2008 March 20, Zarya, “Re: If You Have Morality and Reason on Your Side . . . .”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

This thread has degenerated now into a debate about whose sky fairy is the true sky fairy and therefore has reached the point of total absurdity.

2012 February 13, Ördög [username], “Re: The most unpopular government ever...”, in aus.politics (Usenet):

You don't prove the negative. The burden of proof is on those who posit the existence of their cosmic sky fairy.

2013 December 1, Gawdlezz [username], “Re: What!? You Mean Birds Did Come from Dinosaurs, After All?”, in alt.politics.usa (Usenet):

(derogatory slang, possibly offensive) A god.


Flying Spaghetti Monsterism

en-noun

Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (uncountable)

When the Kansas Board of Education took up the question of teaching intelligent design as an alternative to Darwinian evolution, Henderson wrote an open letter (posted at www.venganza.org) demanding equal classroom time for Flying Spaghetti Monsterism as well.

2005 October 2, Jeff Jacoby, “The timeless truth of creation”, in Boston Globe:

Meanwhile, Flying Spaghetti Monsterism (FSM-ism to its "adherents") has thrived — particularly on college campuses and in Europe.

2007 November 16, Justin Pope, “Pasta theology: Scholars mull Spaghetti Monster”, in USA Today:

Despite the inherent ridiculousness of Flying Spaghetti Monsterism, he said Mr. Canuel’s case is a legitimate religious freedom issue.

2014 October 8, Tristin Hopper, “B.C. ‘pastafarian’ fights for a driver’s license, and religious freedom, with a spaghetti colander on his head”, in National Post:

Flying Spaghetti Monster
Flying Spaghetti Monster

A parody religion centered around the Flying Spaghetti Monster, a creator deity who resembles spaghetti and meatballs.


Sky Fairy

From sky + fairy, in reference to the usual conception of the Abrahamic God as a supernatural being resident in Heaven.

Because theists are forgiven by the Sky Fairy. So they can be as bad as they wanna be.

2007 October 25, ScottyFLL [username], “Re: Dr. Francis Collins on The Colbert Report”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

... other than the fact that they have different names for the Sky Fairy?

2010 June 29, Major Debacle [username], “What's the difference between the Taliban and the Christian right?”, in alt.religion.christian (Usenet):

Which is pretty much the tantamount to saying the Sky Fairy sent the tsunami to punish man's wickedness, i.e utter nonsense.

2011 March 11, Kevin N, “Re: OT: Monster Quake and Tsunami in Pacific”, in rec.music.classical.recordings (Usenet):

(derogatory slang, possibly offensive) Synonym of God, particularly the Abrahamic God.


misogi

A Shinto form of ritual purification by washing the entire body.


Puseyan

en-adj

Puseyan (comparative more Puseyan, superlative most Puseyan)

more Puseyan (comparative)
most Puseyan (superlative)

Of or relating to Edward Bouverie Pusey (1800–1882), English churchman and one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement.


invination

(Christianity) The actual, substantial presence of the blood of Christ with the wine of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper.


Shiadom

It seems an unwisely conferred blessing really for the Kazvini is known throughout Persia as the biggest rogue in Shiadom.

1933, Indian State Railways Magazine, volume 6, number 10:

In the middle of Shalmi, the working-class inner sanctum of Lahori Shiadom, I find myself swept along a tide of sweat, blood and tears at four in the morning.

2005, Muneeza Shamsie, And the World Changed, page 207:

As long as the holiest sites in Shiadom —Najaf and Karbala — were located in Iraq, the ayatollahs regarded that part of the country as their appanage, viewing as an abomination secular Ba'thists' attempts to dictate affairs in the South.

2007, Stephen C. Pelletiere, Losing Iraq: Insurgency and Politics, page 60:


BDE

en-noun

BDE (countable and uncountable, plural BDEs)

baruch dayan emet
baruch dayan emet#English

(Judaism) Initialism of baruch dayan emet ("blessed is the true judge"; said when hearing about a death).


Hinduize

en-verb

Hinduize (third-person singular simple present Hinduizes, present participle Hinduizing, simple past and past participle Hinduized)

Hinduizes (present singular third-person)
Hinduizing (participle present)
Hinduized (participle past)
Hinduized (past)


Nusayrism

From the name of Ibn Nusayr, believed to have founded the group during the 9th century, + -ism.

(Islam) A syncretic offshoot of Shi'ism, whose adherents self-identify as Alawites.


Stylites

Representing the Latin Stȳlītēs and/or the Ancient Greek Στῡλῑ́της (Stūlī́tēs) in saints’ epithets borrowed or adapted in toto from those languages.

(Christianity) an epithet of several saints revered as stylites


apophatism

en-noun

apophatism (countable and uncountable, plural apophatisms)

(theology) A theory of approaching knowledge of God through negative rather than positive assertions.

αποφατισμός

a theory of approaching knowledge of God through negative assertions


Shiaphilia

(very rare) Love or admiration for Shiism or of Shiite civilization.


maftir

/ˈmɑːfˌtiːɹ/

From Hebrew מַפְטִיר (maftír), also through Yiddish מפֿטיר (mafter).

(Judaism) The person who reads the Haftarah.

(Judaism) The Torah portion read for or by the person who will read the Haftarah, most often the last few lines of the weekly parashah.


parabolanus

In the quarrel between Cyril and Orestes, A.D. 416, the parabolani, zealously espousing the cause of their bishop, threw the city of Alexandria into such confusion that the inhabitants despatched an envoy to Theodosius II., begging him to issue a prohibition for the bishop to leave Alexandria, as his was the only authority by which their violence could be checked.

1880, Sir William Smith, A Dictionary of Christian Antiquities, volume 3, page 1551:

(historical, Christianity) In the early Eastern Church, a lay assistant to the clergy for tending the sick.


bah humbug

/bɑː ˈhʌmbʌɡ/

/ˌbɑ ˈhʌmˌbʌɡ/

A Christmas Carol
Chapman & Hall
Charles Dickens
Ebenezer Scrooge
Jacob Marley

From bah (interjection expressing contempt, disgust, or bad temper) + humbug (“balderdash!, nonsense!, rubbish!”). The words were originally spoken by the miser Ebenezer Scrooge in the novella A Christmas Carol (1843) by English author Charles Dickens (1812–1870).

Honor!—bah! humbug! Patriotism!—pshaw! / Are we to be bamboozled by such guys?

1848 January 22, “Important Official Documents”, in The John-Donkey, volume I, number IV, New York, N.Y.: Published and supplied by George Dexter, Burgess, Stringer & Co., W. H. Graham, R. G. Berford & Co. [et al.], →OCLC, page 126, column 2:

Only a modern Scrooge could say, "Bah, Humbug," where helping people to get enough to eat is concerned. Well, we are not going to argue that food aid has never filled an empty stomach or saved a dying child—but we will contend, in the case of the United States at least, that it has done so only inadvertently.

1976, Susan George, “Food Aid? … Or Weapon?”, in How the Other Half Dies: The Real Reasons for World Hunger, Harmondsworth, London; New York, N.Y.: Penguin Books; reprinted Totowa, N.J.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1989, page 164

[O]nce you understand why Bah Humbug is a good term, you will see that it is going to become packed with a biblical position that could warrant every Christian to mindfully say "Bah Humbug" about the Christmas Holiday, and know what it is they are meaning. Bah Humbug is going to work succinctly.

2012, C. Matthew McMahon, Therese B. McMahon, “Scrooge Had It Right, but for the Wrong Reasons”, in Bah Humbug: How Christians Should Think about the Christmas Holiday, Coconut Creek, Fla.: Puritan Publications, →ISBN, pages 5–6:

(humorous) Expressing cynicism, disillusionment or distrustfulness; and specifically a dislike of Christmas and its celebrations and festivities.


Quakerize

en-verb

Quakerize (third-person singular simple present Quakerizes, present participle Quakerizing, simple past and past participle Quakerized)

Quakerizes (present singular third-person)
Quakerizing (participle present)
Quakerized (participle past)
Quakerized (past)

(transitive) To convert or adapt to the Quaker religion.


monthly meeting

en-noun

monthly meeting (plural monthly meetings)

(Quakerism) The basic unit of administration in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), which typically meets for services weekly, and holds a business meeting once a month.

(Quakerism) A religious service held by a monthly meeting.


recording clerk

recording clerk (plural recording clerks)

(Quakerism) The member of a Quaker meeting for business that takes the minutes.


cenobiarch

Simplification of coenobiarch, from Latin coenobiarcha (“abbot”), from Koine Greek κοινοβιάρχης (koinobiárkhēs, “abbot”), from κοινόβιον (koinóbion, “cenobium, monastery”) + ἀρχή (arkhḗ, “rule”) + -ης (-ēs).

der

κοινοβιάρχης

(often Christianity, chiefly Eastern Orthodoxy) The leader of a cenobium: an abbot, a guru.


rafida

From Arabic رَافِضَة (rāfiḍa), plural of رَافِضِيّ (rāfiḍiyy, “rejector”) also passed as Rafidhi.

(religious slur, offensive, Islam) Shiite


Levana

(Roman mythology) An Ancient Roman goddess involved in rituals relating to childbirth.


Twelverism

The largest branch of Shi'ism, believing that the Twelve Imams were divinely ordained leaders, and that the Mahdi will be the returned Twelfth Imam who disappeared and is believed by Twelvers to be in occultation.


Akedah

From Hebrew עֲקֵדָה (aqedá, “the binding of Isaac”, literally “binding”).

bor

Many medieval Jewish communities saw themselves as re-enacting the drama of the Akedah without the redemptive ending.

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 118:

(Christianity, Judaism) The Binding of Isaac.


Jewsploitation

The Hebrew Hammer may very well be the first "Jewsploitation" comedy, but star Adam Goldberg promises the film avoids the truly offensive.

2002 July, Diane Vadino, “Movie News”, in Spin, page 47:

Saturday night I went to the Gershman Y to see the new "Jewsploitation" film The Hebrew Hammer, which I'm guessing is going to raise some hackles in the same way my headline did.

2003 December 10, Liz Spikol, “Hammer Time”, in Philadelphia Weekly:

The film, one of the first to emerge from the burgeoning "Jewsploitation" genre, is ripped from true-crime headlines and follows an impressionable youth (Eisenberg) from an Orthodox Brooklyn community.

2007 November 15, Gregg Goldstein, “Eisenberg, Bartha in the 'Holy' land”, in The Hollywood Reporter:

(film) A genre of exploitation films focusing on Jews and Jewish experiences.


i'tikaf

(Islam) The retreat into a mosque for worship, especially during the Night of Power.


Bhima

In the Hindu epic Mahabharata, the second of the Pandava brothers.


the-

From Latin theo- (“god”), combining form of theos (“god”); from Ancient Greek θεό- (theó-, “god”), combining form of θεός (theós, “god”).


UUism

Unitarian Universalism
Unitarian Universalism#English


Zend

Via Zoroastrian Middle Persian znd (zand, “understanding, interpretation”), from Avestan 𐬰𐬀𐬌𐬥𐬙𐬌 (zainti, “understanding”), from Avestan verbal root 𐬰𐬀𐬥- (zan-, “to know, to understand”), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃-.

der

As to grammatical forms, the Gâtha dialect shows not a few deviations from the current Zend language.

1878, Martin Haug, Essays on the Sacred Language, Writings, and Religion of the Parsis. Trübner, page 115

[The Avesta] is the only work known to be written in the Zend language.

1819, William Erskine, “On the Sacred Books and Religion of the Parsis”, in Trans. of the Lit. Soc. of Bombay, II, 1820, page 312:

The dialect in which these writings are composed goes usually by the name of the Zend ; it is also styled the Avestan, and sometimes the Old Bactrian, from the country Bactria, the north-easternmost region of the great Iranian territory, which is supposed to have been its specific locality.

1867, William Dwight Whitney, Language and the Study of Language, Trübner, page 222:


stocking filler

en-noun

stocking filler (plural stocking fillers)

A small present given at Christmas to go in a stocking


Mephibosheth

/məˈfɪb.əˌʃɛθ/

From the Biblical Hebrew מְפִיבֹשֶׁת (Məp̄īḇṓšeṯ).

uder

(biblical) the son of Jonathan, grandson of Saul


Yom Teruah

From Hebrew יום תרועה \ יוֹם תְּרוּעָה (yom truá, “day [of] shouting / blasting”).

יום תרועה \ יוֹם תְּרוּעָה

(Judaism) Rosh Hashanah (the first day of Tishrei / Tishri, the first month of the civil year and seventh month of the religious year in the Hebrew calendar)


Allism

From all + -ism, coined by Peter van Inwagen in 2009.

Let us call it Allism – since it is essentially the thesis that natural selection does it all.

2009, Louis Caruana, Darwin and Catholicism, →ISBN, page 12:

Allism is inconsistent with theism, and, therefore, anyone who professes ignorance as to whether Allism is true should profess ignorance as to whether God exists.

2009, Melville Y. Stewart, Science and Religion in Dialogue, →ISBN, page 823:

2013, A. Rosenberg, Theism and Allism in The Philosophy of Peter Van Inwagen Ed. John Christopher Adorno Keller

(creationism) The rejection of creationism in all its forms (including intelligent design) and the assertion that evolution alone is responsible for the diversity of all living creatures.


Ghost Dance

In the fall of 1890, a new religious fever, “Ghost Dancing,” spread among the Indian tribes pushed to the far edge of the prairies by broken treaties and the advance of the white man. Their religion held that floods would come, destroying, the whites. And then, game would return; dead Indians would be resurrected, and living Indians would be protected from all harm by wearing painted ghost shirts and performing the special dance.

1973 March 4, John Kifner, “The Ghosts Dance Once Again at Wounded Knee”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

In life, many of the Army’s victims were the followers of the Ghost Dance, a nineteenth-century faith that originated with a vision, delivered, it was said, by God to the Paiute messiah Jack Wilson, more commonly known as Wovoka.

2019 December 5, Julian Brave NoiseCat, “Perhaps the World Ends Here: The coming battle over space”, in Harper's Magazine, →ISSN:

A 19th-century religious movement, incorporated into numerous Native American belief systems, according to which performing a dance would reunite the living with spirits of the dead and bring prosperity and unity to native peoples.


archconfraternity

/ˌɑː(ɹ)t͡ʃˌkɒnfɹəˈtɜː(ɹ)nɪti/

From arch- + confraternity, calque of Ecclesiastical Latin archiconfrāternitās.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) A religious confraternity that, as a special concession of the Holy See, can join or affiliate with, and extend privileges to, other similar brotherhoods.

arciconfraternita

religious confraternity that can join with and extend privileges to other similar brotherhoods


Omega Point

The use of omega to refer to the concept was originated by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, in reference to it being the final letter of the Greek alphabet; see alpha and omega.

We may hope that the intelligence at the omega point will consist of our descendants. That is to say, of our intellectual descendants, since our present physical forms could not survive near the omega point.

1998 [1997], David Deutsch, The Fabric of Reality, New York: Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 352:

[Philip] Goff likens this scenario to the visions of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, the French Jesuit priest who, as we've seen, prophesied the coming Omega Point and inspired aspects of transhumanism.

2021, Meghan O'Gieblyn, chapter 9, in God, Human, Animal, Machine […] , →ISBN:

A maximal level of complexity in the universe, often equated with the Christian God, which some philosophers believe is inevitable.


manteletta

(Roman Catholicism) A long silk or woollen vestment, fastened in front, with a low collar and no sleeves, worn by cardinals, bishops, abbots, and the prelates of the Roman court.


Yahwism

(religion, historical) The polytheistic religion of Iron Age Israel, worshipping a pantheon of gods headed by Yahweh and Asherah.


Nunc dimittis

Named after its incipit, Latin nunc dimittis (literally “now you dismiss”).

bor

(Christianity, music) A canticle from a text in the second chapter of Luke in the Bible, often used as the final song in a religious service.


Yahwist

(historical, religion) A follower of the Iron Age religion of Yahwism.


Yahwist

(historical, religion) Of or pertaining to Yahwism (the Iron Age religion).


pandeist

en-adj

pandeist (comparative more pandeist, superlative most pandeist)

more pandeist (comparative)
most pandeist (superlative)

[Y]ou're drifting somewhere in the Pandeist or Deist dogma, where god is either the Universe itself or is a part of each person.

Indeed, most of the staff is either Hindu or Moslem, but they are full of these pan-deist ideas, and even Zahir deliberately used the Christian word "God" rather than "Allah" when talking with me.

2003, Paul La Porte, Social Work and Other Experiences in India:

[S]ome pragmatists (such as William James) took a more pantheist or pandeist approach by rejecting views of God as separate from the World.

2007, John Lachs, Robert Talisse, American Philosophy: An Encyclopedia, page 310:


pandeist

Is Gordon a pan-deist, or a monotheist?

1975, American Jewish Congress, Judaism: A Quarterly Journal of Jewish Life and Thought, page 41:

Does that mean that it holds a majority of Christians as its subjects? That it was founded by Christians? That it must hold only to what Christians say, ignoring Jews, Muslims, non-deists, pandeists, and all other non-Christians?

2003, Clay Colwell, BC Court rules FOR same sex marriage!!! YEAH!/CBC:

(religion) One who believes in pandeism, a blend of pantheism and deism.

(rare, religion) one who believes in the truth of all religions


artophorion

(Eastern Orthodoxy) The tabernacle on the high altar in an Eastern Orthodox church


Zionistical

Zionistical (comparative more Zionistical, superlative most Zionistical)

more Zionistical (comparative)
most Zionistical (superlative)


crux ansata

From Latin crux (“cross”), and ansatus, from ansa (“a handle”).

The well-known T-shaped cross was in use in pagan lands long before Christianity, as a representation of the male member, and also at the same time of the 'tree' on which the god (Attis or Adonis or Krishna or whoever it might be) was crucified; and the same symbol combined with the oval (or yoni) formed the Crux Ansata ☥ of the old Egyptian ritual - a figure which is to-day sold in Cairo as a potent charm, and confessedly indicates the conjunction of the two sexes in one design.

1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 183:


bread of affliction

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Talmudism

(chiefly Christianity, derogatory) Rabbinic Judaism (used by some to imply that post-Christian Judaism is an aberration from pre-Christian Judaism)


cross oneself

en-verb

cross oneself (third-person singular simple present crosses oneself, present participle crossing oneself, simple past and past participle crossed oneself)

crosses oneself (present singular third-person)
crossing oneself (participle present)
crossed oneself (participle past)
crossed oneself (past)

(Christianity) To make the sign of the cross.


shariatic

en-adj

shariatic (comparative more shariatic, superlative most shariatic)

more shariatic (comparative)
most shariatic (superlative)

(religion) In conformity with sharia law.


Alb Sunday

From Ecclesiastical Latin Dominica in Albīs, itself a contraction of Dominica in Albīs dēpōnendīs or dēpositīs, “Sunday for putting away the white things”, so called because, in the early church, those who had been baptized on Easter eve laid aside on the following Saturday their white albs which had been put on after baptism.

(Christianity) The first Sunday after Easter Sunday.


Anglo-Catholicism

anglo-catolicismo

Anglicanism focusing on its Catholic heritage


anito

en-noun

anito (countable and uncountable, plural anitos)

From Spanish anito, Tagalog anito, Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *qanitu, Proto-Austronesian *qaNiCu.

(uncountable) Synonym of anitism (“folk religion of the Philippines”)


corpse powder

A powder made from corpses and used by Navajo witches to curse their victims.


autoctisis

A neologism based on the Ancient Greek roots αὐτός (autós, “self”) + κτῐ́σῐς (ktísis, “creation”), introduced by Giovanni Gentile.

compound

(theology, philosophy) The “pure act” of self-creation through being conscious of oneself.


ahura

Transliteration of Avestan 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 (ahura, “lord”).

translit

(Zoroastrianism) A member of the ahuric triad.


sinner's prayer

en-noun

sinner's prayer (plural sinners' prayers)

(Christianity) A prayer of repentance sometimes spoken by those wishing to convert to Christianity.


Ahura

Transliteration of Avestan 𐬀𐬵𐬎𐬭𐬀 (ahura, “lord”). Doublet of Asura.

Ahura Berezant Apam Napat
Apam Napat#English

(Zoroastrianism) Title of the three members of the ahuric triad – Ahura Mazda, Ahura Mithra, and Ahura Berezant Apam Napat – that regulate (or, in the case of Mazda, create) the physical and moral order (asha).


Nephthys

Borrowed from Ancient Greek Νέφθυς (Néphthus), from Egyptian nbt-ḥwt, O9 t:H8

(Egyptian mythology) An ancient Egyptian goddess, the wife of Set and sister of Isis, Osiris, and Set, worshiped as a protective goddess and nurse of the pharaoh and associated with funerary rites and the transition from life to death.

Νέφθυς

ancient Egyptian funerary and protective goddess


decision theology

(Christianity) A theology that stresses the importance of the decision to become a Christian for salvation. Often this decision takes the form of the sinner's prayer.


cafeteria Catholicism

(derogatory) The practice of picking and choosing which Catholic teachings to follow, while disregarding the others.


autocephality

The Macedonian Orthodox Church is struggling for the recognition of its autocephality by the other Orthodox Churches.

2011, Ina Merdjanova, Patrice Brodeur, Religion as a Conversation Starter: Interreligious Dialog for Peacebuilding in the Balkans, →ISBN, page 1916:

(Christianity) The right of autonomy for a church; specifically, the right to resolve all internal problems on its own authority and to appoint its own bishops, including the head of the church, without any obligatory expression of dependence on another church.


quindene

From Medieval Latin quindena, from Latin quīndēnī (“15 each”), from the distributive form of quīndecim (“15”). It is used for a period of 14 days owing to the Roman and medieval practice of counting inclusively.

(chiefly Christianity) The 14th day after a festival.

(chiefly Christianity) The 14-day period between the festival and the quindene.


shecht

en-verb

shecht (third-person singular simple present shechts, present participle shechting, simple past and past participle shechted)

shechts (present singular third-person)
shechting (participle present)
shechted (participle past)
shechted (past)

From Yiddish שעכטן (shekhtn), from Hebrew שָׁחַט (shakhát) (Ashkenazi Hebrew: Shókhat).

(Judaism) to perform shechita, to ritually slaughter


Comma Johanneum

The Johannine Comma; a phrase included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8.


Heavenly Witnesses

the Heavenly Witnesses (canonical plural)


Johannine Comma

A short phrase, included in some manuscripts of 1 John 5:7-8, whose authenticity is debated and is widely agreed to be an interpolation.


material heresy

en-noun

material heresy (plural material heresies)

Calque of Ecclesiastical Latin haeresis māteriālis.

calque

(Roman Catholicism) An opinion that is objectively contradictory to the teachings of the Church, and as such heretical, but which is uttered by a person without the subjective knowledge of its being so.


Apollinarism

From Apollinaris of Laodicea, who taught this theology, + -ism.

(Christianity theology) The Christological theology that Jesus's mind was only divine and not human, condemned as a heresy at the First Council of Constantinople.

apollinarismi

the doctrine that Jesus’s mind was only divine and not human


Lukan

en-adj

Lukan (comparative more Lukan, superlative most Lukan)

more Lukan (comparative)
most Lukan (superlative)

In the structure of this rite (details of which varied from church to church), it is easy to discern the lineaments of the Lucan sequence of repentance, baptism, and laying-on of hands (though neither Tertullian nor Hippolytus is at any pains, as Luke apparently was, to separate the gift of the Spirit from the baptism proper).

1985, Williston Walker et al., A History of the Christian Church, 4th edition, page 107:

(Christianity) Relating to Luke the Evangelist or to Luke-Acts.


PAS

Parti Islam Se-Malaysia
Parti Islam Se-Malaysia#English

Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party
w:Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party

(Malaysia, politics) Initialism of Parti Islam Se-Malaysia. ("Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party", an Islamist and conservative political party in Malaysia)


Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

en-proper noun

the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

A church of Lutherans in the United States of America, tending to be liberal, in contrast with the conservative Missouri Synod Lutheran Church.


Knights of Columbus

Many Catholic Colleges throughout the United States do not permit a Fraternity on the campus but the Knights of Columbus is a fraternal organization of which the Church and the faculty approve.

1949, John P. Bauernschub, Fifty Years of Columbianism in Maryland, Maryland State Council, page 218:

A Roman Catholic fraternity for men, founded by a Roman Catholic priest named Michael McGivney.


ushioni

Borrowed from Japanese 牛鬼 (うしおに, ushioni).

(Japanese folklore) An ox ogre or demon; an evil ox spirit.


kayadanda

Borrowed from Sanskrit कायदण्ड (kāyadaṇḍa, “complete control over one's body”).

bor

(Hinduism, Buddhism) complete control over one's bodys


manodanda

Borrowed from Sanskrit मनोदण्ड (manodaṇḍa, “complete control over one's thoughts”).

(Hinduism, Buddhism) complete control over one's thoughts


Skoptsy

(religion) An underground religious movement in Russia, known for practising castration and mastectomy in accordance with their teachings. The movement was active to the mid 20th century.


Stundism

(Protestantism) The beliefs and practices of the Stundists.


only-begotten

From Middle English oonlybigeten, equivalent to only + begotten. Compare also Middle English only geten, oonly geten (“only-begotten”, literally “only-gotten”) and Middle English onbygoten, oon be-gotyn, one bygeten, oon bigetun, oon bigeten (“only-begotten”, literally “one-begotten”). Calque of Latin ūnigenitus, itself a calque of Ancient Greek μονογενής (monogenḗs).

Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
And [we believe] in one Lord Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God.

(Christianity theology) One of the attributes of Jesus Christ, the only-begotten Son of God the Father.


credobaptism

From Latin credo (“I believe”) + baptism.

(Christianity) Practice of the credobaptists; belief that baptism is only to be administered to those who profess their faith.


transformationalism

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Their position denies the general revelation of God given in the other religions, while inclusive transformationalism acknowledges the relative usefulness and values that other religions have, even though they do not bring salvation.

2003, Wallace M. Alston, Michael Welker, Reformed Theology: Identity and Ecumenicity - Volume 1, →ISBN, page 16:

Unlike ecumenism, transformationalism is not an expression of denominational uniformity, but an expression of interdenominational alliances.

2007, Joshua Reichard, Rust to Renewal, →ISBN, page 123:

Transformationalism may describe the reality of religion in America, but normatively speaking it fails to reveal anything about the quality or implications of those changes.

2009, Zachary I. Heller, Synagogues in a Time of Change, →ISBN, page 23:

(theology) A fusion of evangelicalism, Pentecostalism, and ecumenism that became prominent in the early 21st century; transformational Christianity.


Deobandi

en-adj

Deobandi (comparative more Deobandi, superlative most Deobandi)

more Deobandi (comparative)
most Deobandi (superlative)

From Hindustani دیوبندی / देवबन्दी (devbandī); which means "of Deoband, Deobandi," from Devband, Deoband, town in Uttar Pradesh, India, the location of the Islamic seminary in which the movement began.

Belonging to a certain revivalist movement within Sunni Islam.


ISWAP

Abbreviation of Islamic State's West Africa Province.

A branch of the Islamic State based in northeast Nigeria


ekagrata

Borrowed from Sanskrit एकाग्रता (ekāgratā, “concentration, singlemindedness”).

bor

(Hinduism, Buddhism) Extreme focus on a particular point.


Metatron

From Hebrew מְטַטְרוֹן (Məṭaṭrôn), whose origin is obscure. Possibly from Hebrew מטרא (mattara) 'keeper of the watch.' The Greek/Latin form superficially appears to be a Greek compound meta-τρον (-tron), but that would not seem to make much sense semantically, meaning something like "among-tool." It has also been proposed that the Hebrew word actually does in turn originate from Greek, coming from μετά + θρόνος, with the "th" being transformed into a "t" as the word was repeatedly taken up by one language from another. A review by Hekhalot lists these two possibilities plus seven more.

Hebrew מְטַטְרוֹן (Məṭaṭrôn)

(Christianity, Judaism) An archangel and the chancellor of Heaven and the scribe of the book of life, in Christian and Jewish folklore. According to medieval apocrypha, he is Enoch, ancestor of Noah, transformed into an angel.


Azazel

From Hebrew עֲזָאזֵל (azazél, “Azazel, cliff from which the scapegoat was sent to its death”), Arabic عَزَازِيل (ʕazāzīl).

der

Arabic عَزَازِيل (ʕazāzīl)

Then strait commands that at the warlike sound / Of Trumpets loud and Clarions be upreard / His mighty Standard ; that proud honour claim'd / Azazel as his right, a Cherub tall:

1674, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], 2nd edition, London: […] S[amuel] Simmons […], →OCLC, lines 531–535:

(Judaism, Christianity) A fallen angel in some traditions of Judaism and Christianity.


Enbilulugugal

(Mesopotamian mythology) One of the three aspects of the god Enbilulu, as the power presiding over growth and abundance.


vakass

An Armenian priest's vestment resembling the amice.


creatianism

(religion) The doctrine that God creates a soul for each body that is generated.


Sacrament of the Altar

(high-church Christianity) The Holy Communion; the sacrament instituted by Jesus at the Last Supper.


Berean

From Berea + -an. Protestants adopted the name in reference to the Bible, Acts 17: "These [Berea] were more noble than those in Thessalonica in that they received the word with all readiness of mind and searched the scriptures daily whether those things were so."

Even ſo, although many things herein contained, may be counted rediculous or erroneous; Yet courteous Reader, let me deſire thee to prove thy ſelf a Berean in this matter, Search the Scripture, and ſee whether it be ſo or not.

1663, Samuel Bradley, The Afflicted and Retired Mans Meditations, Concerning the Excellency of the Spirit, London:

Once again, this^([sic – meaning this is]) a case where being a Berean would clear up a lot of confusion. I once heard another WOF teacher, Andrew Wommack, teaching the same thing, and then going on to say that Isaac was conceived because Abraham's faith-filled words spoke him into existence. You will have an impossible task supporting this with scripture, yet most WOF teachers repeat this falsehood as if it were common knowledge.

2018, Daniel Plunkett, Learn to Discern: Recognizing False Teachings In the Christian Church Today, Cambridge, Ohio: Christian Publishing House, →ISBN, page 30:

(Christianity) Someone who is meticulous in the study of the Scriptures.


Berean

en-adj

Berean (comparative more Berean, superlative most Berean)

more Berean (comparative)
most Berean (superlative)

The evangelical Church of America is not rationalistic. It is becoming more Berean, not accepting the dicta of theologians, but searching the Scriptures.

1880, W. H. Maynard, “The American Church and Our Heterogeneous Population”, in The Baptist Review, volume 2, number 5, page 148:

Crowds of men all over the land are flocking into adult Bible classes. This is a sign of nobility. This is the Berean way.

1909 July 16, William H. Ridgway, “Iron Rose Bible Class”, in The Hamilton Spectator, page 13:

Lately however, this disturbance in my spirit has been enough of a concern to awaken a more Berean attitude.

1998 February 6, Dale Ogilvie, “May women teach in the church?”, in soc.religion.christian.bible-study (Usenet):

By helping a congregation grow in their understanding of the ways in which the arguments and theology of the New Testament are dependent upon an understanding of the Old Testament, a pastor or preacher may both demonstrate a personal love and passion for the Old Testament as the Bible of the authors of the New Testament and develop such a love and passion in the church that it becomes more “Berean” and less likely to fall into Marcionite ways of thinking.

2006, Roy E. Ciampa, “Toward the Effective Preaching of New Testament Texts That Cite the Old Testament”, in Scott M. Gibson, editor, Preaching the Old Testament, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, →ISBN:

(Christianity) Meticulous in the study of the Scriptures.


Talibangelical

It makes perfect sense, if you are a hypocritical far right wing Talibangelical. Having a totally heterosexual military is *far* more important than keeping the troops alive.

2006 January 30, Gregory Gadow, “Re: Military discharges hundreds of medics under gay ban”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):

Change the channel and the TV Talibangelical proclaims,
That Hurricane was the Hand of God!

2008, Raymond McNiece, “And The Jazz Plays On...Part 2”, in Greatest Hits 1987–2007, Pudding House Publications, →ISBN, page 34:

If this country continues to elect Talibangelicals like Paul Broun, this country is doomed!

2013 June 13, “Whineline”, in The Metro Spirit, volume 24, number 24, page 2:

(US, slang, politics, derogatory) An overzealous evangelical Christian, especially one who espouses strong right-wing views.


lashon hara

(Jewish law) Any form of communication — verbal, written, body language — that can result in emotional, financial, or physical harm to another person


monenergism

The doctrine that the human and divine natures of Christ work together as a single entity


Jewland

(colloquial) Any territory occupied largely by Jewish people.


nephesh

en-noun

nephesh (plural nephashoth or nepheshes)

bor

Hebrew נֶפֶשׁ

(biblical) The tangible aspects of life, as possessed by human beings and the higher animals; sometimes translated as soul.


kliros

(Christianity) The section of an Eastern Orthodox or Eastern Catholic church dedicated to the choir.


Haredi Judaism

(Judaism) A stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.


trunky

en-adj

trunky (comparative more trunky, superlative most trunky)

more trunky (comparative)
most trunky (superlative)

This is normal, but don’t let your enthusiasm carry over too much into your letters. Your missionary needs to remain focused on serving the Lord and the people he or she has come to love. We knew a missionary who stopped reading his mother’s letters during the last few weeks of his mission because, as he said, “She is so trunky!”

2003 July, Dallas H., Marjorie S. Bradford, “Helping from Home”, in Ensign:

My trainer was going home. He was tired and trunky and wanted to be with his family.

2013 August 13, David M. R. Covey, “Chapter 1: The Highly Effective Missionary”, in The Highly Effective Missionary: Bold and Innovative Approaches to Hasten the Work, Cedar Fort, →ISBN:

(Mormonism, informal) homesick; said of Mormon missionaries


mother church

From an association of spiritual comfort and hierarchy with familial relationships, probably originally as a calque of similar expressions in other languages, especially 2nd-century Latin mater ecclesia (“mother church”) and 12th-century Old French mere eglise (“mother church”).

Catholics regard Mary as Mother of the Church but an all-male hierarchy as the Mother Church.

(Christianity) The Church regarded as nourishing and protecting its members.

Mothering Sunday arose from the custom of visiting mother churches at Mid-Lent, rather than the usual parish church.

(Christianity) A church with oversight over another or others, now especially a cathedral or metropolitan church.

The mother church of Christian Scientists is in Boston, Massachusetts.

(Christianity) The original church of a denomination, regarded as having birthed the others.

The Church of England is the mother church of Anglicans around the world.

Not Rome, but Ierusalem should be the Mother Church.

1667, Matthew Poole, Dialogue between a Popish Priest & an English Protestant, page 35:

Puritanism is the mother church of Western democracy.

1908 February, P.T. Forsyth, Contemporary Review, page 159:

(Christianity) The original denomination or community of believers from which other denominations and communities of believers sprang.


Zalmoxis

(mythology) A divinity among the Getae, an ancient people of the lower Danube.


sola scriptura

Latin ablative, sōlā scrīptūrā, meaning "by Scripture alone".

(Christianity) The Protestant Christian doctrine that the Bible is the supreme authority in all matters of doctrine and practice.


Apostolic Age

(Christianity) The period of the Twelve Apostles, dating from the Great Commission of the Apostles by the resurrected Jesus in Jerusalem (c. 33 CE), until the death of the last Apostle, believed to be John the Apostle in Anatolia (c. 100 CE).


kiss of peace

(Christianity) An early Christian greeting consisting of a kiss, originally on the mouth but later on the cheek, still used in some traditional churches.


Ietsism

From Dutch ietsisme, from iets (“something”) + -isme.

(religion) An unspecified belief in an undetermined transcendent force.


temple garment

(religion, clothing) A form of underwear worn by Latter-day Saints after taking part in the endowment ceremony; they are a symbolic reminder of the covenants made in temple ceremonies.


gilgul

Abravanel, for example, chooses to argue at length in favor of gilgulim in his commentary on the section of the Torah that discusses yibbum.

2001, The Torah U-Madda Journal, volume 10, page 9:

The limitation of gilgul to men here is intriguing. Gilgul, among other things, is a process of purification from the sins of past lives, an alternative to the more anguished purification of Gehenna.

2008, Shaul Magid, From Metaphysics to Midrash: Myth, History, and the Interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala:

(Judaism, Kabbalism) reincarnation, metempsychosis


religious studies

The academic study of religious beliefs, behaviours and institutions.


goddessdammit

(rare, chiefly paganism or humorous) Synonym of goddammit


alhamdulillah

Borrowed from Arabic اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ (al-ḥamdu li-llāhi, literally “praise [be] to God”).

bor

اَلْحَمْدُ لِلّٰهِ


daruma

Borrowed from Japanese 達磨 (daruma), from Sanskrit धर्म (dhárma, “law; morality; code”), used as a clipping of 菩提達磨 (Bodaidaruma, “Bodhidharma”). Doublet of Dharma.

der

Like a daruma doll, you knock it over and it rights itself.

1988 February 19, Janice Perrone, “A Gloom of Their Own”, in Chicago Reader:

This combination of piety and fun also accounts for the continued popularity of roly-poly darumas, popular doll-like figures named after Bodhidharma.

2012, Conrad Schirokauer, David Lurie, Suzanne Gay, A Brief History of Japanese Civilization, page 255:

A hollow, round, Japanese traditional doll modeled after Bodhidharma, the founder of the Zen sect of Buddhism.


amillennialistic

(theology, rare) Relating to amillennialism.


antilapsarian

(theology) One who does not believe that mankind has fallen from a better state.


BBE

Bible in Basic English
w:Bible in Basic English

(biblical) Initialism of Bible in Basic English.


liturgical language

en-noun

liturgical language (plural liturgical languages)

(religion) A language of religious texts and ceremonies, such as Church Slavonic.


kapota

Borrowed from Hebrew קָפּוֹטָה, derived from French capote (“greatcoat”).

bor

Hebrew קָפּוֹטָה

They also wear large-brimmed black felt fedoras, and for all religious occasions a kapota, a knee-length double-breasted silk coat.)

1988 September 2, Florence Hamlish Levinsohn, “A Special Connection With God”, in Chicago Reader:

(Judaism) A long black coat worn on certain occasions by members of the Chabad movement.


durood

Borrowed from Urdu دُرُود (durūd), from Classical Persian دُرُود (durūd).

(Islam, chiefly South Asia) Salawat; The uttering of specific phrases to compliment the prophet Muhammad whenever he is mentioned or encountered in a text.


Chol HaMoed

(Judaism) The intermediate days between the beginning and end of the Jewish festivals of Pesach and Sukkot, on which some work is permitted.


lamassu

Learned borrowing from Akkadian 𒀭𒆗 (lamassu).

lbor

An Assyrian protective deity, often depicted as having the head of a human, the body of an ox or lion, and the wings of a bird.


deadland

After the feverish days over deadland trails, — The repose of the gray-veiled and quiet-eyed twilight, The shimmering haze of the blue mountain valley, And the tranquil blue deep of the pool

1920, Lew Sarett, Many Many Moons: A Book of Wilderness Poems, page 46:

To return to the deadland of desolation and desert, to choke in its dust, to be lashed in the face with its wind, to feel a loneliness of time and space, a loneliness of emptiness, […]

1964, Michael Yatron, The Lunatic, the Lover, and the Poet: A Novel, page 51:

He runs out of gas, and back on the ground meets up with a girl who is motoring through the deadland to meet her boss in Phoenix for some obscure technocratic purpose.

Within that deadland lies Kurash Qwellinir, the Shattered Hills.

1981, Stephen R. Donaldson, The power that preserves, →ISBN, page 390:

These must be the real deadlands. Here, there is no new growth to camouflage what the wars have done.

2005, Ellen Dee Davidson, Stolen Voices, →ISBN, page 99:

Wasteland; a desert or other place that does not support life.

Does the hideous famine that gnaws the entrails with fiery fangs and burns up the wrenched and tortured tissues till the land sickens with its burden of deadland dying—does that show His pity?

1905, Frederick C Vernon-Harcourt, From Stage to Cross: The Record of a Rolling Stone, page 236:

A band of iron fastens around his neck, a long chain drags him to the ground, pulling him away from his people to the deadland of the south — to the land of strangers, unknown and terrifying.

Nations that imprison, torture, assassinate, or drive their writers into exile fall into the deadlands of their own darkness.

2011, Ben Okri, A Time For New Dreams, →ISBN:

I could not find out whether the victims are intoxicated before execution : it is highly probable, as the African's, and especially the Yoruban's, object is to send these messengers to deadland in the best of tempers.

1866, Leone Levi, Annals of British Legislation: Digest of blue books - Volume 2, page 222:

A conquering race would scarcely credit that its heroes would, after death, betake themselves to the deadland of the beaten and enslaved aborigines.

1946, Lewis Spence, British Fairy Origins, page 77:

“Do not do it,” said the god, “You cannot escape Ungit by going to the deadlands, for she is there also."

They feared lest passing souls, which had just quitted the bodies of dying people, should enter their huts and carry off the souls of the inmates to deadland.

1990, Sir James George Frazer, The Golden Bough: Taboo and the perils of the soul, page 70:

[…] the unseen world of the spirits and ancestors. […] as messengers bearing questions to the "deadland" of royal ancestors.

2000, Francesca Piqué, Leslie H. Rainer, Palace Sculptures of Abomey: History Told on Walls, page 12:

The afterlife, especially in belief systems that do not include reward or punishment such as heaven and hell.


day of days

The residents skirting the line of the Harlem Railroad as far as Croton Falls, were not a little annoyed, last Sunday, by numerous cheap excursion trains. . . . [W]e doubt whether the law gave being to a great corporation for the purpose of tempting men from their homes on the Day of days.

1863 June 7, “To the Editor: Sunday Railway Excursions”, in New York Times, retrieved 2015-07-09:

To be sure, Christians celebrate the Resurrection of Christ every Sunday, but there is a special place for the celebration we call Easter. It should be approached as the Day of Days.

2009, Charles G. Fuller, Give Him Time, →ISBN, page 107:

(Christianity, sometimes capitalized) Sunday, especially Easter Sunday.


call and response

(religion) A prayer or preaching verbal technique similar to this.


Shuaib

(Islam) A prophet of Islam who prophesied to the Midianites, sometimes identified with the Biblical Jethro.


Uthman

bor

Arabic عُثْمَان (ʕuṯmān)

(Islam) Uthman bin Affan, third Islamic caliph and a companion of Muhammad.


Abu Bakr

Transliteration of Arabic أَبُو بَكْر (ʔabū bakr, literally “father of a young camel; father of a person named Bakr”).


Saleh

From Iranian Persian صالح (sâleh), from Arabic صَالِح (ṣāliḥ); the prophet's name literally means "pious."

(Islam) A prophet of Islam who prophesied to the people of Thamud.


Rudra

(Vedic religion) A Rigvedic deity, associated with wind or storm and the hunt.


Hud

(Islam) A prophet of Islam, sometimes identified with Eber in the Bible

هُود

A prophet of Islam; the name of the 11th sura

(Islam) The eleventh sura of the Qur'an.


sheloshim

/ʃ(ə)lɒˈʃɪm/

From the Hebrew שְׁלוֹשִׁים (shloshím, “thirty”).

S'fardim commonly dedicate the [grave]stone at the end of sh'loshim

2001, David L. Lieber, Jules Harlow, Etz Hayim: Torah and Commentary, page 214:

(Judaism) A period of thirty days after the burial of a deceased person, during which a mourner is forbidden to do certain things, such as marrying or shaving.


kafala

(Islam) A form of Islamic adoption in which the child is not regarded as a true child of the adoptive parents.


rainbow body

(Buddhism) According to Dzogchen beliefs, a body made of pure light, acquired after reaching a certain level of spiritual realization.


Kimbanguism

From Kimbangu + -ism, after its founder, Simon Kimbangu.

A Congolese religion based on Christianity.


Kunti

(Hinduism) Kunti, wife of Pandu, mother of Pandavas and daughter of Shurasena, adopted by Kuntibhoja in the Mahabharata.


Kierkegaardianism

/ˌkɪəkəˈɡɑːdɪ.ənɪzəm/

/ˌkɪɹkəˈɡɑɹdi.ənɪzəm/

(philosophy, religion) The philosophical or religious views of the Danish thinker Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855).


Ramanavami

(Hinduism) A Hindu festival on the 9th day of Chaitra, i.e. Rama's birthday.


Ramanuja

(Hinduism) A Hindu theologian and philosopher.


Jewify

en-verb

Jewify (third-person singular simple present Jewifies, present participle Jewifying, simple past and past participle Jewified)

Jewifies (present singular third-person)
Jewifying (participle present)
Jewified (participle past)
Jewified (past)

(nonstandard, rare, transitive) To Judaize.


deistic evolution

Evolution set forth by God but not guided thereafter.


moh

Borrowed from Punjabi ਮੋਹ (moh), itself borrowed from Sanskrit मोह (moha).

(Sikhism) Attachment to the transient material world, which hinders the soul's search for its ultimate goal and is therefore one of the Five Evils.


bless oneself

bless oneself (third-person singular simple present blesses oneself, present participle blessing oneself, simple past and past participle blessed oneself)

blesses oneself (present singular third-person)
blessing oneself (participle present)
blessed oneself (participle past)
blessed oneself (past)

(Christianity) To make the sign of the cross.


antiuniversalist

(theology) One who opposes universalism (the theological belief that all souls can attain salvation).


Shukra

(Hinduism) The son of Bhrigu, and preceptor of the Daityas, and the guru of the Asuras, identified with the planet Venus.


antiatheistic

en-adj

antiatheistic (comparative more antiatheistic, superlative most antiatheistic)

more antiatheistic (comparative)
most antiatheistic (superlative)


Conservative Judaism

(Judaism) A moderate stream of Liberal Judaism centered in North America that theoretically maintains Jewish tradition and law, but provides for a more flexible interpretation of it than Orthodox Judaism, in keeping with an evolving world and society.


Renuka

(Hinduism) Name of the wife of Jamadagni and mother of Parasurama (she was the daughter of रेणु) in Mahabharata.

A female given name from Sanskrit commonly used in India.


Danu

(religion, Hinduism) A Hindu primordial goddess who had numerous children.


sannyasi

Via Hindi संन्यासी (sannyāsī), ultimately from Sanskrit संन्यासिन् (saṃnyāsin).

Only a householder could do the rites, they said – not a sannyasi.

2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 56:

(Hinduism) A man in the stage of sannyasa; a wandering ascetic, a religious mendicant.


Giftmas

(humorous or derogatory) Christmas, regarded as a consumerist event for the purchasing of gifts


Turkery

(obsolete, now offensive) Muslims as a whole; the Muslim world.


turn Turk

en-verb

turn Turk (third-person singular simple present turns Turk, present participle turning Turk, simple past and past participle turned Turk)

turns Turk (present singular third-person)
turning Turk (participle present)
turned Turk (participle past)
turned Turk (past)

"She wants to be a princess, and has turned Turk," roared the rabbis.

1850, William Makepeace Thackeray, Rebecca and Rowena:


sun cross

The symbol 🜨 or 🝴, a cross in a circle, frequently found in the symbolism of prehistoric cultures, particularly during the Neolithic to Bronze Age periods.


veche

From Old East Slavic вѣче (věče, “council”)
or modern Russian ве́че (véče)

(paganism) a modern assembly of Rodnovers, atavistically based off the medieval veche.


prayer flag

On the final night of his journey, he strung up the inflated balloons at Duchala, a sacred mountain pass at 10,000 feet, bobbing amidst Buddhist prayer flags.

2011 November 6, Maria Popova, “'Balloons for Bhutan': Jonathan Harris Documents Happiness”, in The Atlantic:

There are two kinds of prayer flags: horizontal ones, called Lung ta (Wylie: rlung-rta, meaning “Wind Horse”) in Tibetan, and vertical ones, called Darchor (Wylie: dar-Icog, meaning “flagstaff”).

2017, Carol A. Wilson, Stillness on Shaking Ground: A Woman's Himalayan Journey Through Love, Loss, And Letting Go, John Hunt, →ISBN:

A colourful rectangular cloth hung from a thread and strung along mountain ridges and peaks high in the Himalayas by practitioners of Tibetan Buddhism to bless the surrounding countryside or for other purposes.


prozymite

Borrowed from German Prozymit, from Medieval Latin prozymīta, from Byzantine Greek προζυμίτης (prozumítēs), from Ancient Greek προζύμιον (prozúmion, “leaven”) + -ῑ́της (-ī́tēs, suffix forming masculine nouns meaning being connected to or a member of something, or coming from a particular place). προζύμιον is derived from προ- (pro-, suffix meaning ‘before, in front’) + ζύμη (zúmē, “leaven, yeast”) + -ιον (-ion, suffix forming nouns). The English word is analysable as, by surface analysis, pro- + zym- + -ite.

der

Whosever shall obstinately blame the faith of the Holy See of Rome and its sacrifices, let him be anathema, and let him not be deemed Catholic, but a prozymite heretic, that is to say, Defender of the Leaven.

1867, [Alexis-François] Artaud de Montor, “153. St. Leo IX.—a.d. 1049.”, in [William Hayes] Neligan, editor, The Lives and Times of the Roman Pontiffs, from St. Peter to Pius IX. … Translated from the French, New York, N.Y.: Published by D[enis] & J[ames] Sadlier & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 284–285:

The inclusion not only of [Michael I] Cerularius, but of all his followers, and the denunciation of the Greeks as prozymite heretics, does look like a condemnation of the whole Byzantine church until it should change its practices.

1989, Colin Morris, “Greeks and Saracens”, in The Papal Monarchy: The Western Church from 1050 to 1250 (Oxford History of the Christian Church), Oxford: Clarendon Press, published 2001, →ISBN, part I (The Papal Reform Movement and the Conflict with the Empire (c. 1046–1122), page 139:

For example, Greeks using leavened bread for the consecration, were in opposition with the unleavened bread of the Latin Church, and stigmatised as fermentarians or prozymites.

2014, Hara Procopiou, “Barley Meal Processing in the Aegean World: A Look at Diversity”, in Annelou van Gijn, John C. Whittaker, Patricia C. Anderson, editors, Exploring and Explaining Diversity in Agricultural Technology (Early Agricultural Remnants and Technical Heritage (EARTH); 2), Oxford, Havertown, Pa.: Oxbow Books, →ISBN, section 2 (The Agricultural Process: Tools and Techniques in Cultural Context):

(Roman Catholicism, historical, derogatory) One who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread, in particular a member of the Eastern Orthodox Church.

Prozymit

one who administers the Eucharist with leavened bread


Goddess knows

(uncommon, chiefly paganism) Synonym of God knows


sallekhana

(Jainism) The religious practice of facing death voluntarily at the end of one's life, with fasting and meditation.


Hayagriva

(Hinduism) An avatar of the Lord Vishnu in Hinduism.


Christ event

Another problem is that reconstructions of Paul with the help of the concept of 'corporate personality' tend to emphasise the objectivity and realised character of the Christ event.

2009, Hans Burger, Being in Christ: A Biblical and Systematic Investigation, page 264:

In fact, if a theologian approaches the Christ-Event with the intent to exhaustively grasp God, the Christology of the theologian is doomed to failure.

2010, Victor I Ezigbo, Re-Imagining African Christologies, page 187:

Because of the Star of Bethlehem, we would expect there to be astrological stories predating the actual Star of Bethlehem, much in the same way that Lewis argued that because of the actual Christ-event we should expect to find echoes and intimations outside of the actual event.

2012, PH Brazier, C.S. Lewis – The Work of Christ Revealed, page 262:

(theology) The Incarnation, considered as a historical event rather than a matter of theology.


Tishbite

An inhabitant or a resident of Tishbe in Galilee


crux decussata

A diagonal cross, resembling the letter X.


Young-Earther

Young Earth Creationism
Young Earth Creationism


Dönmeh

From Turkish Dönme, from Ottoman Turkish دونمه (dönme), of a root prefix meaning "turn" or "convert".

(historical) A group of crypto-Jews in the Ottoman Empire who, to avoid imprisonment after declaring arrival of the doomsday messiah, converted publicly to Islam, but retained their Jewish beliefs in secret.


bonsho

(Buddhism, music) A very large bell used in Buddhist temples in Japan to mark time and call monks in for prayer.


jataka

From Sanskrit जातक (jātaka, “born under”).

In the centuries after the Buddha's life, many ordinary, non-literate Indians would have learned of him through Jatakas, popular morality tales about his imagined previous lives […]

2016, Sunil Khilnani, Incarnations, Penguin, published 2017, page 4:

(Buddhism) Any of a large number of Indian tales concerning the previous lives of Gautama Buddha.


Petrinize

en-verb

Petrinize (third-person singular simple present Petrinizes, present participle Petrinizing, simple past and past participle Petrinized)

Petrinizes (present singular third-person)
Petrinizing (participle present)
Petrinized (participle past)
Petrinized (past)

(transitive, Christianity, theology) To cause to conform with the writings or doctrines of Saint Peter.


Paulinize

Paulinize (third-person singular simple present Paulinizes, present participle Paulinizing, simple past and past participle Paulinized)

Paulinizes (present singular third-person)
Paulinizing (participle present)
Paulinized (participle past)
Paulinized (past)

(transitive, Christianity, theology) To cause to conform with the writings or doctrines of the Apostle Paul.


antipredestinarian

en-adj

antipredestinarian (comparative more antipredestinarian, superlative most antipredestinarian)

more antipredestinarian (comparative)
most antipredestinarian (superlative)

/ˌæntɪpɹiːdɛstɪˈnɛəɹɪən/

Antipredestinarian ideas cropped up in many places, expressed by persons who may have had little else in common: sectaries such as the Quakers and General Baptists, democratizing radicals such as Walwyn and Winstanley, and academics such as the Cambridge Platonists Cudworth and More.

2006, Tobias Gregory, From Many Gods to One, page 304:

A 17th-century controversy between the followers of Jacob Arminius and Francis Gomar over predestination was settled by the Synod of Dort (1618—1619), which condemned the antipredestinarian teachings of Arminius in its Canons of Dort.

2009, Robert Benedetto, Donald K. McKim, Historical Dictionary of the Reformed Churches, page 346:

(theology) Opposed to the doctrine of predestination.


syncellus

From Latin syncellus, from Ancient Greek σύγκελλος (súnkellos).

(Christianity) One who holds an office in an Eastern Catholic or Orthodox Church roughly equivalent to that of an episcopal vicar in the Roman Catholic Church.


kintype

Though the experience of being otherkin is typically described in spiritual terms, it is also reported to have physical aspects, such as the sensation of phantom limbs for the body parts their kintype possess but which are absent in the human form […]

2015, Joseph P. Laycock, Spirit Possession around the World, page 265:

The base type of an otherkin's identity, such as animal or robot.