1533:. It consists of myths and belief statements excerpted from—and, in some cases, synthesized from a number of excerpts from—both Biblical and non-Biblical Jewish texts. According to Schwartz, the Jewish people continue to elaborate on, and compose additions to, their traditional mythology. In the book's introduction, Schwartz states that the word "myth", as used in the book, "is not offered to mean something that is not true, as in the current popular usage".
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is that it does not provide a formal and indifferent scheme devoid of presuppositions within which all religions could be subsumed. In the second place, theology is influenced by its origins in the Greek and
Christian traditions, with the implication that the transmutation of this concept to other religions is endangered by the very circumstances of origination.
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preached to the world. J. J. Altizer, for example, maintained boldly by stating, "Throughout its history
Christian theology has been thwarted from reaching its intrinsic goal by its bondage to a transcendent, a sovereign, and an impassive God". Bonhoffer called persistently for "Religionless Christianity".
1370:) to mean "fable, fiction, lie"; as a result, the early Christian theologians used "myth" in this sense. Thus, the derogatory meaning of the word "myth" is the traditional Christian meaning, and the expression "Christian mythology", as used in academic discourse, may offend Christians for this reason.
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The story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us in the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God's myth where the others are men's myths: i. e. the Pagan stories
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In the first place, theology is a spiritual or religious attempt of "believers" to explicate their faith. In this sense it is not neutral and is not attempted from the perspective of removed observation—in contrast to a general history of religions. The implication derived from the religious approach
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At a "Consultation on the
Relationship Between the Wesleyan Tradition and the Natural Sciences" in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 19, 1991, Dennis Bratcher presented a discussion of the adaptation of Near Eastern mythical thought by the Israelites. Bratcher argued that the Old Testament absorbed
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Robinson argued in favor of "the detaching of the
Christian doctrine of God from any necessary dependence on a 'supernaturalistic' worldview". He understood this as a prophetic aspect of the Church's ministry to the world. At this time atheism was regarded as the Christian Gospel that should be
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The word 'myth' is popularly understood to mean idle fancy, fiction, or falsehood; but there is another meaning of the word in academic discourse. A myth, in this latter sense of the word, is a story that serves to define the fundamental worldview of a culture .... Using the original Greek term
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Eliade wrote about "sky and sky gods" when
Christian theology was shaken at its very foundations by the "death of God" theology. He spoke of "God up there" when theologians such as J. A. T. Robinson were busy with erasing the mythical language of three-storied universe that underlies the early
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Christians have objected to my use of this word even when I define it specifically. They are terrified by a word which may even have a slight suggestion of fantasy. However, my usage is the one that is common among historians of religion, literary critics, and social scientists. It is a
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For example, Campbell claimed that mythology's primary function is "that of eliciting and supporting a sense of awe before the mystery of being" (Campbell, p. 519), and that mythology also serves "to initiate the individual into the order of realities of his own psyche" (Campbell, p.
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valuable and helpful usage; there is no other word which conveys what these scholarly traditions mean when they refer to myth. The
Christian would be well advised to get over his fear of the word and appreciate how important a tool it can be for understanding the content of his faith.
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Modern day clergy and practitioners within some religious movements have no problem classifying the religion's sacred stories as "myths". They see the sacred texts as indeed containing religious truths, divinely inspired but delivered in the language of mankind. Some examples follow.
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Since the beginning of modern philosophy and science in the 16th century, many
Western intellectuals have seen myth as outdated. In fact, some argued that the Christian religion would be better off without mythology, or even that Christianity would be better off without religion:
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The similarities between cultures and time periods can be useful, but it is usually not easy to combine beliefs and histories from different groups. Simplification of cultures and time periods by eliminating detailed data remain vulnerable or flimsy in this area of research.
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believed that people could not understand their individual lives without mythology to aid them. By recalling the significance of old myths, he encouraged awareness of them. In responding to the interview question "How would you define mythology?", Joseph
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Most religions contain a body of traditional sacred stories that are believed to express profound truth. Some religious organizations and practitioners believe that some or all of their traditional stories are not only sacred and "true" but also historically accurate and
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freely called the Christ story a "true myth", and he believed that even pagan myths express spiritual truths. In his opinion, the difference between the Christ story and pagan myths is that the Christ story is historically as well as spiritually true. Lewis writes,
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Eastern pagan mythology (although he drew a sharp distinction between the literally-interpreted myths of the Near Eastern pagans and the "mythopoetic" use of imagery from pagan myths by the Hebrews). During this presentation, he gave the following disclaimer:
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Religious stories are "holy scripture" to believers—narratives used to support, explain, or justify a particular system's rituals, theology, and ethics—and are myths to people of other cultures or belief systems. It is difficult to believe that the
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sought to "demythologize" Christianity, reinterpreting its myths as psychological allegory (Segal, pp. 47-51; Muthuraj). Some 19th and early 20th century secular scholars predicted that science would replace myth, even in religion. The anthropologist
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even wrote, "In the last analysis, magic, religion, and science are nothing but theories of thought; and as science has supplanted its predecessors, so it may hereafter be itself superseded by some more perfect hypothesis" (Frazer, p.
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Though there are similarities among most religious mythologies, there are also contrasts. Many mythologies focus on explanations of the universe, natural phenomena, or other themes of human existence, often ascribing
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According to religious thought, said Eliade, myths establish models for human behavior and "the more religious man is, the more paradigmatic models does he possess as a guide to his attitudes and actions" (Eliade,
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warns against such speculations as " the world eternal or not eternal? the soul different from the body? the enlightened exist after death or not?", viewing them as irrelevant to the goal of escaping suffering.
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Given any of the above definitions of "myth", the myths of many religions, both ancient and modern, share common elements. Widespread similarities between religious mythologies include the following:
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and that calling such stories "myths" disrespects their special status. Other religious organizations and practitioners have no problem with categorizing their sacred stories as myths.
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Religion and mythology differ in scope but have overlapping aspects. Both are systems of concepts that are of high importance to a certain community, making statements concerning the
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might understandably apply the word "myth". All of these stories are definable as myths because they contain events that contradict both our intellectual and physical experience of
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Especially within Christianity, objection to the word "myth" rests on a historical basis. By the time of Christ, the Greco-Roman world had started to use the term "myth" (Greek
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meaning of the word. In its primary and more technical meaning "myth" refers to a story or group of stories that serve to explain how a particular society views their world.
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argued that science was pushing traditional mythology out of religion, which would henceforth consist only of metaphysics and ethics (Segal, p. 14). And the anthropologist
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are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call real things.
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1973: Another classicist, GS Kirk, rejects the notion that all myths are religious or sacred. In the category of "myth", he includes many legendary accounts that are "
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circa 1931, which describes myth-making as an act of "sub-creation" within God's primary creation. The poem in part says creation is "myth-woven and elf-patterned":
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1131:. 2 a: a popular belief or tradition that has grown up around something or someone; especially: one embodying the ideals and institutions of a society or segment of
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are "myths" if and only if one does not belong to the religion in question. By Segal's definition, all religious stories are myths—but simply because nearly all
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1381:, in modern English, the word often still implies that it is "idle fancy, fiction, or falsehood". This description could be taken as a direct attack on
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usually refers either to a system of myths or to the study of myths. However, the word "myth" itself has multiple (and some contradictory) definitions:
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rejected myths about divine intervention, limiting God's role to that of a first cause (Robinson), and a 20th century movement led by the theologian
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insists that "Christianity is not mythology. What we believe in is not religious fantasies, no matter how pious." Evangelical Christian theologian
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881:. Disconnected from its religious system, a myth may lose its immediate relevance to the community and evolve—away from sacred importance—into a
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defines myths as "whatever religious or heroic legends are so foreign to a student's experience that he cannot believe them to be true."
1135:. 2b: an unfounded or false notion. 3: a person or thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence. 4: the whole body of myths.
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My favorite definition of mythology: other people's religion. My favorite definition of religion: misunderstanding of mythology.
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is the divine echo of "the Truth". Tolkien wrote that myths held "fundamental things". He expressed these beliefs in his poem
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Bratcher, Dennis. "Speaking the Language of Canaan: The Old Testament and the Israelite Perception of the Physical World".
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Grassie, William (March 1998). "Science as Epic? Can the modern evolutionary cosmology be a mythic story for our time?".
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the term "myth" as used here does not mean "false" or "fiction". Even in my old and yellowed Webster's, "fiction" is the
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forces. However, some religions have very few of this kind of story of cosmic explanation. For instance, the
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7577:Trinidad and Tobago
7472:Antigua and Barbuda
6640:Religion by country
5696:Cult of Magna Mater
4198:Philippine Dayawism
3779:Nimbarka Sampradaya
3527:Chinese Manichaeism
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7977:capital punishment
7902:Transgender people
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6558:Abrahamic prophets
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3296:Modernist Salafism
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2474:Campbell, Joseph.
2101:Images and Symbols
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2970:Eastern Orthodoxy
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2546:Menion, Michael.
2458:Buxton, Richard.
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2290:Schwartz, p. lxxv
2258:Myths of Religion
1932:Segal 2004, p. 5.
1911:Kirk 1973, p. 11.
1805:is the notion of
1764:978-0-19-515669-0
1655:Islamic mythology
1621:Mythical theology
1485:Myths of Religion
1330:divinely revealed
1081:or higher being,
1011:Theology and myth
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3229:Swedenborgianism
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2520:Western Folklore
2493:Myth and Reality
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1453:
1432:... There is no
1383:religious belief
1375:sacred mysteries
1356:Carl F. H. Henry
971:for the fleeing
831:
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786:Pseudo-mythology
698:Related concepts
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6398:Religiocentrism
6378:National church
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3087:Presbyterianism
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2568:Religion Online
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1117:Merriam-Webster
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1089:, practices of
1085:, practices of
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1045:Hermeneutically
1013:
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932:Book of Genesis
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6189:Neurotheology
6187:
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5883:Folk religion
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5706:Imperial cult
5704:
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5275:Discordianism
5273:
5271:
5270:Anthroposophy
5268:
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5055:Neo-Theosophy
5053:
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4993:New Acropolis
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4636:
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4392:Kwakwakaʼwakw
4390:
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4120:Austroasiatic
4117:
4109:
4106:
4104:
4101:
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4099:
4096:
4092:
4091:Vattisen Yaly
4089:
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4021:
4018:
4016:
4013:
4011:
4010:Kirat Mundhum
4008:
4006:
4003:
3999:
3996:
3994:
3991:
3990:
3989:
3986:
3984:
3981:
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3369:Milah Abraham
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3028:
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3025:Protestantism
3023:
3019:
3016:
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3007:
3006:
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2229:, circa 1931.
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1938:
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1917:
1908:
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1890:
1883:
1880:"Mythology",
1877:
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1854:9781532617539
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8394:Psychedelics
8362:Mesoamerican
8233:superstition
8166:negotiations
8160:
8129:the internet
8124:intelligence
7932:
7822:
7179:Turkmenistan
7139:Saudi Arabia
6884:South Africa
6874:Sierra Leone
6679:Burkina Faso
6588:Names of God
6535:Unaffiliated
6490:Antireligion
6346:Universalism
6294:Assimilation
6159:Anthropology
6034:Supernatural
6029:Spirituality
5997:Sacred space
5985:Purification
5934:
5858:Denomination
5812: /
5620:Paleo-Balkan
5586:Mesopotamian
5426:Cook Islands
5397:Old Prussian
5310:UFO religion
5249:
5245:Zalmoxianism
5173:Neoshamanism
5030:Spiritualism
4913:Other ethnic
4802:
4628:Traditional
4588:Bongthingism
4476:Acoma Pueblo
4419:Mesoamerican
4138:Austronesian
3959:
3955:Neo-Buddhism
3887:
3883:Neo-Hinduism
3804:Swaminarayan
3642:
3591:Salvationist
3576:Confucianism
3427:Samaritanism
3397:Ali-Illahism
3378:
3245:
3239:Unitarianism
3180:Old Catholic
2987:Nestorianism
2945:Christianity
2932:
2898:Conservative
2774:Occultopedia
2765:
2756:
2740:
2726:
2725:Wright L.M.
2719:
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2696:
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2659:Deborah Lipp
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2532:Kirk, G. S.
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1867:"Religion",
1863:
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1828:the original
1823:
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1790:Leeming 2005
1785:
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1406:Christianity
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1053:Dogmatically
1043:
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1006:
957:
951:
948:witch trials
909:
900:Introduction
891:
843:supernatural
840:
790:
731:Culture hero
575:West African
513:Proto-Uralic
355:Californian
311:Mesopotamian
8747:Mythography
8686:Eschatology
8319:Freemasonry
8304:Environment
8253:video games
8248:vaccination
8226:pornography
8181:personality
8134:LGBT people
8007:coronavirus
7947:agriculture
7922:World War I
7907:Vaccination
7847:Disability
7630:New Zealand
7567:Saint Lucia
7517:El Salvador
7422:Switzerland
7357:Netherlands
7129:Philippines
7057:South Korea
7052:North Korea
6942:Afghanistan
6889:South Sudan
6779:Ivory Coast
6563:Deification
6510:Objectivism
6485:Agnosticism
6438:Persecution
6428:Video games
6393:Populations
6304:Proselytism
6272:Monasticism
6263:Clericalism
6253:Agriculture
6244:and society
6209:Soteriology
6169:Comparative
6139:Transtheism
6124:Panentheism
5908:Monasticism
5701:Gallo-Roman
5603:Micronesian
5569:Manichaeism
5517:Hermeticism
5485:Continental
5480:Anglo-Saxon
5360:Paleolithic
5355:Prehistoric
5305:Scientology
5168:Italo-Roman
5023:Radha Soami
5003:New Thought
4843:Espiritismo
4784:Waaqeffanna
4724:Fon and Ewe
4662:Sub-Saharan
4545:Satsana Phi
4331:Ghost Dance
4284:Californian
4262:Anishinaabe
4188:Karo Pemena
4167:Indonesian
3841:Lingayatism
3789:Mahanubhava
3759:Vaishnavism
3690:Jeungsanism
3613:Folk Taoism
3596:Xiantiandao
3450:Zoroastrian
3109:Charismatic
3104:Pentecostal
3067:Anglicanism
3018:Waldensians
2953:Catholicism
2081:Segal, p. 3
1606:Esotericism
1554:Norse Sagas
1537:Neopaganism
1467:C. S. Lewis
1463:C. S. Lewis
1452:JRR Tolkien
1309:Similarly,
1198:an initial
1162:Folklorists
1083:eschatology
1075:moral codes
924:folklorists
330:Algonquian
316:Micronesian
209:Anglo-Saxon
32:Mythologies
8736:Categories
8706:Golden Age
8701:Heortology
8696:Eviternity
8681:Divination
8604:technology
8572:by country
8522:government
8507:euthanasia
8348:Mythology
8339:Liberalism
8206:bestiality
8201:adolescent
8094:government
8074:executions
8027:disability
8012:corruption
7933:some topic
7620:Micronesia
7497:Costa Rica
7392:San Marino
7352:Montenegro
7332:Luxembourg
7189:Uzbekistan
7164:Tajikistan
7069:Kyrgyzstan
7042:Kazakhstan
6992:East Timor
6962:Bangladesh
6952:Azerbaijan
6869:Seychelles
6834:Mozambique
6819:Mauritania
6804:Madagascar
6694:Cape Verde
6476:irreligion
6471:Secularism
6373:Minorities
6341:Toleration
6336:Syncretism
6321:Fanaticism
6311:Disability
6299:Missionary
6289:Conversion
6277:Ordination
6199:Psychology
6194:Philosophy
6134:Polytheism
6114:Monotheism
6109:Henotheism
5950:Orthopraxy
5940:Ordination
5903:Meditation
5898:Indigenous
5863:Entheogens
5848:Conversion
5674:Pueblo III
5591:Babylonian
5581:Melanesian
5507:Gnosticism
5392:Lithuanian
5285:Fourth Way
5139:Circassian
5117:Dievturība
5040:Tensegrity
4973:Falun Gong
4618:Sanamahism
4598:Donyi-Polo
4210:Polynesian
4156:Kaharingan
4081:Burkhanism
4020:Ravidassia
3998:Śvetāmbara
3784:Pushtimarg
3764:Krishnaism
3700:Vietnamese
3685:Cheondoism
3618:Yao Taoism
3554:East Asian
3320:Isma'ilism
3276:Maturidism
3055:Mennonites
3050:Hutterites
3035:Anabaptism
2928:Humanistic
2556:the poem).
2554:Mythopoeia
2299:"About Us"
2227:Mythopoeia
1824:Britannica
1820:"Theology"
1667:References
1424:Mythopoeia
1215:axis mundi
1145:classicist
1143:1968: The
1121:world view
1073:, and the
989:irrational
938:of famous
904:See also:
764:Euhemerism
570:Vietnamese
503:Polynesian
498:Philippine
476:Talamancan
306:Melanesian
276:Lusitanian
246:Indonesian
107:Cantabrian
72:Lithuanian
8577:in France
8517:geography
8502:education
8404:Sexuality
8309:Evolution
8294:Economics
8196:sexuality
8161:mythology
8099:happiness
8089:geography
8069:ethnicity
7997:communism
7852:Fertility
7837:Astronomy
7832:Anarchism
7738:Venezuela
7683:Argentina
7600:Australia
7552:Nicaragua
7527:Guatemala
7327:Lithuania
7149:Sri Lanka
7144:Singapore
7124:Palestine
7012:Indonesia
7002:Hong Kong
6824:Mauritius
6545:Overviews
6500:Criticism
6453:Sectarian
6443:Terrorism
6418:Theocracy
6363:Happiness
6331:Pluralism
6316:Education
6242:Religion
6214:Salvation
6204:Sociology
6149:Religious
6129:Pantheism
6119:Nontheism
6012:Mountains
5990:Sacrifice
5945:Orthodoxy
5935:Mythology
5930:Mysticism
5819:Behaviour
5728:Canaanite
5711:Mithraism
5679:Pueblo IV
5669:Pueblo II
5574:Mazdakism
5549:Hungarian
5522:Mysteries
5431:Dravidian
5213:Hungarian
5129:Caucasian
5100:Godianism
5060:Agni Yoga
5050:Theosophy
5013:Rastafari
4988:Modekngei
4968:Brahmoism
4961:Syncretic
4953:movements
4951:religious
4863:Quimbanda
4811:Candomblé
4804:Diasporic
4583:Bathouism
4573:Benzhuism
4493:Tsimshian
4439:Purépecha
4360:Longhouse
4335:Sun Dance
4279:Blackfoot
4193:Malaysian
4183:Kapitayan
3993:Digambara
3978:Ayyavazhi
3943:Vajrayana
3908:Theravada
3821:Ganapatya
3794:Ramanandi
3723:Hoahaoism
3601:Yiguandao
3496:Yarsanism
3491:Shabakism
3478:Yazdânism
3468:Zurvanism
3463:Mazdaznan
3422:Rastafari
3417:Mandaeism
3291:Wahhabism
3271:Ash'arism
3234:Tolstoyan
3224:Spiritual
3214:Mormonism
3185:Judaizers
3158:Quakerism
3136:Methodist
3126:Irvingism
3077:Calvinism
3030:Adventism
3013:Moravians
2850:Abrahamic
2758:Mythology
2442:The Voice
2256:Greeley,
2225:Tolkien,
1672:Citations
1542:Neopagans
1459:Christian
1434:firmament
1419:mythology
1255:or other
1166:narrative
1108:mythology
1105:The term
1101:Mythology
1029:Aristotle
1015:The term
851:mythology
796:Symbolism
736:Folk hero
636:Creatures
631:Creations
455:Puebloan
339:Blackfoot
241:Hungarian
92:Brazilian
23:Mythology
8711:Prophecy
8691:Eternity
8666:Calendar
8542:medicine
8532:HIV/AIDS
8480:children
8465:abortion
8460:the arts
8344:Marriage
8289:Cannabis
8279:Adoption
8258:violence
8221:polygyny
8216:polygamy
8171:pacifism
8156:morality
8119:identity
8109:HIV/AIDS
8079:gambling
7987:children
7972:business
7942:abortion
7887:Morality
7842:Cannabis
7764:Category
7728:Suriname
7718:Paraguay
7703:Colombia
7610:Kiribati
7537:Honduras
7507:Dominica
7482:Barbados
7447:Scotland
7407:Slovenia
7402:Slovakia
7377:Portugal
7247:Bulgaria
7169:Thailand
7119:Pakistan
7099:Mongolia
7094:Maldives
7089:Malaysia
6977:Cambodia
6924:Zimbabwe
6899:Tanzania
6749:Ethiopia
6744:Eswatini
6724:Djibouti
6689:Cameroon
6674:Botswana
6618:Timeline
6613:Scholars
6573:Founders
6433:Violence
6388:Politics
6258:Business
6221:Theology
5965:Prophecy
5955:Paganism
5843:Covenant
5810:Apostasy
5745:Scythian
5686:Rapa Nui
5640:Thracian
5635:Illyrian
5625:Albanian
5596:Sumerian
5539:Harappan
5475:Germanic
5470:Georgian
5463:Selk'nam
5448:Etruscan
5436:Egyptian
5414:Druidism
5377:Armenian
5300:Satanism
5280:Eckankar
5203:Estonian
5188:Romanian
5178:Ossetian
5158:Germanic
5107:Armenian
5096:African
5089:paganism
5018:Sant Mat
5008:Rajneesh
4983:Meivazhi
4978:Japanese
4935:Siberian
4868:Santería
4838:Convince
4704:Bushongo
4608:Kiratism
4535:Hmongism
4402:Wocekiye
4387:Jivaroan
4355:Iroquois
4350:Ho-Chunk
4311:Cherokee
4244:American
4215:Hawaiian
4128:Sarnaism
4098:Tungusic
4086:Tengrism
4076:Mongolic
4005:Sarnaism
3936:Nichiren
3913:Mahayana
3900:Buddhism
3878:Sant Mat
3868:Sauraism
3863:Smartism
3858:Shaktism
3851:Balinese
3836:Kaumaram
3831:Kapalika
3826:Kashmiri
3811:Shaivism
3751:Hinduism
3718:Caodaism
3662:Ryukyuan
3657:Tenrikyo
3652:Shugendō
3630:Japanese
3501:Yazidism
3486:Ishikism
3364:Quranism
3337:Khawarij
3286:Salafism
3281:Atharism
3170:Esoteric
3141:Holiness
3131:Lutheran
3092:Reformed
3072:Baptists
3045:Brethren
3009:Hussites
2997:Assyrian
2913:Haymanot
2867:Orthodox
2816:Religion
2466:"Myth",
2424:"Myth",
2272:Bratcher
2194:Eliade,
2149:Eliade,
2072:Muthuraj
2013:Eliade,
1991:Eliade,
1950:Eliade,
1715:Rue 2005
1703:Rue 2005
1584:See also
1574:religion
1461:writer,
1450:—
1415:Catholic
1277:academia
1261:Buddhist
1200:Paradise
1173:demigods
1129:Allegory
1095:politics
1066:Religion
1060:Religion
1017:theology
997:Buddhist
977:Muhammad
887:folktale
867:theology
863:morality
855:religion
801:Theology
769:Folklore
748:See also
608:National
598:Creation
523:Romanian
483:Ossetian
471:Selk'nam
439:Ho-Chunk
411:Iroquois
286:Malagasy
256:Japanese
194:Frankish
189:Germanic
184:Georgian
169:Etruscan
164:Estonian
154:Egyptian
132:Scottish
97:Buddhist
76:Prussian
49:Armenian
39:Albanian
8676:Destiny
8671:Deities
8599:suicide
8567:society
8562:science
8495:alcohol
8470:atheism
8419:Tobacco
8409:Slavery
8299:Economy
8263:warfare
8243:torture
8047:alcohol
8032:divorce
7892:Slavery
7882:Marxism
7733:Uruguay
7708:Ecuador
7688:Bolivia
7665:Vanuatu
7592:Oceania
7542:Jamaica
7522:Grenada
7477:Bahamas
7437:England
7427:Ukraine
7382:Romania
7342:Moldova
7302:Ireland
7297:Iceland
7292:Hungary
7282:Germany
7272:Finland
7267:Estonia
7262:Denmark
7257:Czechia
7252:Croatia
7237:Belgium
7232:Belarus
7227:Austria
7222:Andorra
7217:Albania
7194:Vietnam
7104:Myanmar
7079:Lebanon
6997:Georgia
6957:Bahrain
6947:Armenia
6909:Tunisia
6879:Somalia
6864:Senegal
6849:Nigeria
6839:Namibia
6829:Morocco
6794:Liberia
6789:Lesotho
6739:Eritrea
6709:Comoros
6684:Burundi
6659:Algeria
6603:Outline
6568:Deities
6495:Atheism
6408:Science
6326:Freedom
6184:History
6151:studies
6104:Dualism
6094:Animism
6059:Worship
6039:Symbols
5980:Liturgy
5893:Goddess
5853:Deities
5834:Laicism
5824:Beliefs
5803:Aspects
5775:Zapotec
5770:Vainakh
5738:Yahwism
5723:Semitic
5652:Iranian
5554:Hurrian
5544:Hittite
5534:Guanche
5527:Orphism
5458:Fuegian
5453:Finnish
5441:Atenism
5387:Latvian
5372:Arabian
5315:Raëlism
5295:Jediism
5290:Goddess
5263:De novo
5151:Druidry
5045:Thelema
4998:New Age
4883:Umbanda
4774:Tumbuka
4759:Odinala
4744:Lugbara
4664:African
4630:African
4578:Bimoism
4568:Burmese
4414:Mapuche
4380:Wyandot
4340:Guarani
4321:Choctaw
4316:Chilote
4257:Alaskan
4252:Abenaki
4203:Tagalog
4176:Kejawèn
4025:Sikhism
3988:Jainism
3948:Tibetan
3931:Amidism
3799:Warkari
3713:Đạo Mẫu
3563:Chinese
3545:Eastern
3522:Roshani
3441:Iranian
3349:Alevism
3342:Ibadism
3315:Zaydism
2992:Ancient
2963:Eastern
2923:Renewal
2908:Karaite
2889:Zionist
2877:Hasidic
2859:Judaism
2841:Western
2428:("OED")
2335:Sources
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1520:Dov Noy
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1350:Father
1253:deities
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8238:terror
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7693:Brazil
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7492:Canada
7487:Belize
7417:Sweden
7397:Serbia
7387:Russia
7372:Poland
7367:Norway
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7312:Kosovo
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7277:France
7209:Europe
7174:Turkey
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7027:Israel
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6919:Zambia
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6854:Rwanda
6809:Malawi
6769:Guinea
6759:Gambia
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6651:Africa
6460:Wealth
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5087:Modern
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4848:Kumina
4789:Yoruba
4779:Urhobo
4749:Maasai
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4682:Baluba
4672:Akamba
4645:Berber
4603:Heraka
4593:Dongba
4471:Pueblo
4466:Pawnee
4456:Navajo
4446:Muisca
4409:Lenape
4397:Lakota
4375:Seneca
4365:Mohawk
4299:Ohlone
4274:Apache
4267:Ojibwe
4242:Native
4108:Manchu
4103:Evenki
4064:Altaic
4055:Ethnic
4030:Khalsa
3983:Kalash
3873:Śrauta
3742:Indian
3672:Korean
3638:Shinto
3608:Taoism
3581:Luoism
3407:Baháʼí
3402:Bábism
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2975:Church
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940:saints
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565:Turkic
543:Talysh
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533:Slavic
488:Papuan
449:Pawnee
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344:Lenape
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281:Maasai
266:Korean
214:Gothic
179:French
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8552:peace
8547:music
8490:drugs
8485:death
8444:Women
8434:Water
8377:Olmec
8352:Aztec
8042:drugs
8017:crime
7917:Women
7897:Subud
7877:Magic
7698:Chile
7655:Tonga
7645:Samoa
7635:Palau
7625:Nauru
7532:Haiti
7452:Wales
7412:Spain
7337:Malta
7307:Italy
7199:Yemen
7154:Syria
7134:Qatar
7109:Nepal
7084:Macau
7047:Korea
7032:Japan
7007:India
6982:China
6894:Sudan
6844:Niger
6799:Libya
6784:Kenya
6764:Ghana
6754:Gabon
6729:Egypt
6669:Benin
6578:Index
6549:lists
6413:State
6231:Women
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6074:Place
6054:Water
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4709:Dinka
4692:Kongo
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4503:Yaqui
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4424:Aztec
4345:Haida
4294:Miwok
4289:Kuksu
4220:Māori
4151:Dayak
4072:Turko
4035:Sects
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