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Religious conversion
Religious conversion, also known as spiritual conversion, is the process by which a person commits to a new religious tradition's beliefs and shifts away from previously held beliefs.
Religious debates over the Harry Potter series
Religious debates over the Harry Potter series are Christian objections and defenses of the books' witchcraft themes, which made them the most challenged books in America.
Religious delusion
Religious delusion (ICD-11 MB26.08) is a delusion with religious or spiritual content rejected by the person's own religious group; DSM exempts culturally accepted faith, and clinical features, history, and prognosis distinguish it from belief.
Religious denomination
A religious denomination is a distinct religious body within a larger tradition, made up of congregations sharing a name and theological or organizational characteristics, coexisting with similar bodies.
Religious discrimination
Religious discrimination: unfavorable treatment based on religion or belief, or lack of it. Covered by Title VII, the UN 1981 Declaration, and EU law; measured by Pew and FRA surveys of harassment and hiring bias.
Religious ecstasy
Religious ecstasy is an altered state of consciousness in religious contexts, expressed in possession, shamanism, devotional emotion, and meditation; induced by drumming, fasting, dancing, sleep deprivation, and pain.
Religious festival
A religious festival is a holy day or feast observed by a religious tradition, ranging from Easter and Christmas to the Hajj and the Kumbh Mela, the world's largest gathering.
Religious Freedom Restoration Act
The Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), P.L. 103-141 (1993), a U.S. federal statute restoring the compelling-interest test for burdens on religious exercise after Employment Division v. Smith; limited to the federal government by City of Boerne v. Flores (1997).
Religious Freedom Restoration Act (Indiana)
Indiana RFRA (Senate Bill 101, Ind. Code 34-13-9), signed by Governor Mike Pence March 26, 2015, effective July 1, 2015: imposes strict scrutiny on government burdens of religious exercise and, unlike the federal RFRA, applies in private litigation; amended April 2, 2015 amid national backlash.
Religious habit
Religious habit, or monastic habit: distinctive dress of Christian religious orders, typically tunic, scapular, cowl or veil, and belt; governed by canon 669, color-coded by order (Franciscan brown, Dominican black over white), relaxed after Vatican II.
Religious intolerance
Religious intolerance is discrimination, harassment, or violence against religious beliefs or communities. Key ideas: Zagorin's history of Christian persecution, toleration theory, UN human rights law, and Pew's GRI and SHI indexes.
Religious law
Religious law is law whose authority derives from a religion, such as God or scripture, covering Islamic shari'a, Jewish halakha, Catholic canon law, and Hindu dharma.
Religious liberalism
Religious liberalism fuses liberal political commitments (individual rights, toleration, secular rule of law) with religious traditions; distinct from liberal theology, it spans mainline Protestant, Unitarian, Quaker, Reform Jewish, and other movements shaped by Enlightenment thought and church–state separation.
Religious order (Catholic)
A religious order in the Catholic Church is an institute of consecrated life whose members take vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, living in common under a superior.
Religious persecution
Religious persecution, also called religious oppression, is physical abuse or displacement of people for their religious practices or affiliation; scholars rank government restrictions as its strongest predictor.
Religious perspectives on tattooing
Religious perspectives on tattooing: Judaism and Islam prohibit it (Leviticus 19:28), Christianity suppressed yet practices Coptic and pilgrimage tattoos, while Buddhism, Hinduism, and Indigenous traditions use sacred tattoos like Sak Yant and tā moko.
Religious pluralism
Religious pluralism is the theological position that more than one religion can be a true or salvific path, central to interfaith theology and criticized as a hidden exclusivism.
Religious Question (Brazil)
The Religious Question (Portuguese: Questão Religiosa) was a 1872 to 1875 conflict between the Catholic Church and Brazil's Empire, ending when Pedro II granted the bishops amnesty.
Religious radio networks
Religious radio networks distribute faith-based programming to multiple stations, funded by listener donations or ministries paying for airtime instead of advertising, with over 4,000 US stations.
Religious restrictions on the consumption of pork
Religious pork prohibitions in Judaism (Leviticus 11) and Islam (Quran 2:173), their Iron Age archaeological origins, scholarly theories from Harris to Price, and the taboo's role in marking communal boundaries.
Religious Science
Religious Science, also known as Science of Mind, is a New Thought movement founded by Ernest Holmes in the United States, teaching affirmative prayer and healing.
Religious significance of Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city sacred to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, home to the Western Wall, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, and the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.
Religious studies
Religious studies, also called the science of religion, is the non-confessional academic study of religious beliefs, practices, and texts as human phenomena, distinct from theology.
Religious symbol
A religious symbol, also called a holy symbol, is a material or verbal form like a cross, crescent, or Om that a tradition treats as mediating sacred reality.
Religious syncretism
Religious syncretism is the fusion of two or more belief systems into a new religion, or an established religion adopting beliefs from other faiths, a term scholars dispute.
Religious television channels
Religious television channels are mostly non-profit networks funded by viewer donations, paid airtime, and product sales rather than advertising; major US examples include TBN, EWTN, and Daystar, carried through must-carry rules or digital tiers.
Religious text
A religious text, also called a sacred text or Holy Writ, is any text a community treats as sacred and authoritative, with scripture the canonized subset.
Religious views of Adolf Hitler
Hitler's religious views: raised Catholic, publicly endorsed "positive Christianity" and called Christianity the foundation of German values, yet privately scorned the churches; scholars debate whether he believed Jesus divine or was an anti-Christian pseudo-religious thinker.
Religious views of Charles Darwin
Charles Darwin's views on religion moved from Christian orthodoxy to deism by 1859, and he called himself an agnostic from 1879 until his death in 1882.
Religious views of Isaac Newton
Religious views of Isaac Newton: his private anti-Trinitarian Christianity, secret for life, half his five-million-word output on theology, prophecy, and church history, and his view that natural philosophy reveals God, stated in the 1713 General Scholium.