#religious_belief__religiousbelief__religion__faith  a strong belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny; "he lost his faith but not his morality"
  supertype:  #belief  any cognitive content held as true
  subtype:  #religious_cult__religiouscult__cult  a system of religious beliefs and rituals
     subtype:  #macumba  a Brazilian religious cult of African origin; combines voodoo elements with singing a chanting and dancing
     subtype:  #obeah__obi  a religious belief of African origin involving witchcraft and sorcery; practiced in parts of the West Indies and tropical Americas
     subtype:  #Rastafarianism  belief in Ras Tafari (Haile Selassie of Ethiopia) as the Messiah and that Africa (especially Ethiopia) is the Promised Land
     subtype:  #vodoun__voodoo__voodooism__hoodooism  a religious cult practiced chiefly in Caribbean countries (especially Haiti); involves witchcraft and animistic deities
  subtype:  #ecclesiasticism.religious_belief  religion appropriate to a church and to ecclesiastical principles and practices
  subtype:  #religious_mysticism__religiousmysticism__mysticism  a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality
     subtype:  #quietism  a form of religious mysticism requiring withdrawal from all human effort and passive contemplation of God
  subtype:  #nature_worship  a system of religion that deifies and worships natural forces and phenomena
  subtype:  #revealed_religion  a religion founded primarily on the revelations of God to humankind
  subtype:  #theism  the doctrine or belief in the existence of a God or gods
     subtype:  #monotheism  belief in a single God
        subtype:  #Judaism  the monotheistic religion of the Jews; based on the Old Testament and the Talmud
           subtype:  #Orthodox_Judaism  beliefs and practices of a Judaic sect that strictly observes Mosaic Law
              subtype:  #Hasidism__Hassidism  beliefs and practices of a sect of Orthodox Jews
           subtype:  #Conservative_Judaism  beliefs and practices of Conservative Jews
           subtype:  #Reform_Judaism  beliefs and practices of Reform Jews
        subtype:  #Muhammadanism__Islam__Islamism__Mohammedanism__Muslimism  the monotheistic religion of Muslims based on the Koran
     subtype:  #polytheism__pantheism  belief in multiple Gods
  subtype:  #paganism__pagan_religion__paganreligion__heathenism  any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism
  subtype:  #Christianity__Christian_religion  the system of Christian beliefs and practices
     subtype:  #Second_Adventism__Adventism  any Christian religion that believes the second coming of Christ is imminent
        subtype:  #Seventh-Day_Adventism  Adventism that is strongly Protestant and observes Saturday as the Sabbath
     subtype:  #Catholicism__Catholicity  the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church
        subtype:  #Romanism__Roman_Catholicism  the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome
        subtype:  #Eastern_Catholicism  the beliefs and practices of any of the Eastern Catholic Churches based in Constantinople
     subtype:  #Protestantism  the theological system of any of the churches of Western Christendom that separated from the Roman Catholic Church during the Reformation
        subtype:  #Anglicanism  the faith and doctrine and practice of the Anglican Church
           subtype:  #Anglo-Catholicism__High_Anglicanism  a doctrine and practice within the Church of England emphasizing the Catholic tradition
        subtype:  #Arminianism  doctrines of Jacobus Arminius (1610) rejecting absolute predestination or strict Calvinism
        subtype:  #Calvinism  the theological system of John Calvin and his followers emphasizing omnipotence of God and salvation by grace alone
        subtype:  #Christian_Science  religious system based on teachings of Mary Baker Eddy emphasizing spiritual healing
        subtype:  #Lutheranism  teachings of Martin Luther emphasizing the cardinal doctrine of justification by faith alone
        subtype:  #Unitarianism  Christian doctrine that stresses individual freedom of belief and rejects the Trinity
        subtype:  #Trinitarianism  Christian doctrine stressing belief in the Trinity
        subtype:  #Congregationalism  system of beliefs and church government of a Protestant denomination in which each member church is self-governing
        subtype:  #Mennonitism  system of beliefs and practices including belief in Scriptural authority; plain dress; adult baptism; foot washing; restriction of marriage to members of the group
        subtype:  #evangelicalism  stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation
           subtype:  #revivalism  an attempt to reawaken the evangelical faith
        subtype:  #fundamentalism  the interpretation of every word in the Bible as literal truth
        subtype:  #Methodism  the religious beliefs and practices of Methodists characterized by concern with social welfare and public morals
        subtype:  #Wesleyanism__Wesleyism  evangelical principles taught by John Wesley
        subtype:  #Anabaptism  belief in: the primacy of the Bible; baptism of believers not infants; complete separation of church and state
        subtype:  #Baptistic_doctrine  any of various doctrines closely related to Anabaptism
        subtype:  #Mormonism  the doctrines and practices of the Mormon Church based on the Book of Mormon
        subtype:  #pentecostalism  the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues
        subtype:  #Presbyterianism  the doctrines and practices of the Presbyterian Church: based in Calvinism
        subtype:  #Puritanism.Protestantism__puritanism  the beliefs and practices characteristic of Puritans (most of whom were Calvinists who wished to purify the Church of England of its Catholic aspects)
     subtype:  #Tractarianism__Puseyism  principles of the founders of the Oxford movement; expounded in pamphlets called "Tracts for the Times"
  subtype:  #Hinduism__Hindooism  a complex of beliefs and values and customs including worship of many gods especially the Trimurti composed of Brahma the Creator; Vishnu the preserver; and Shiva the destroyer
     subtype:  #Krishnaism  worship of Krishna the 8th avatar of Vishnu
     subtype:  #Shivaism__Sivaism  worship of Shiva one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon
     subtype:  #Shaktism__Saktism  worship of Shakti as the wife of Shiva
     subtype:  #Vishnuism__Vaishnavism__Vaisnavism  worship of Vishnu one of the 3 chief gods of the Hindu pantheon
     subtype:  #Yoga  a Hindu theistic philosophy; union of self and the Supreme Being is sought through a state of complete awareness and tranquillity attained by certain physical exercises
  subtype:  #Brahmanism__Brahminism  the religious beliefs of ancient India as prescribed in the sacred Vedas and Brahmanas and Upanishads
  subtype:  #Jainism  religion founded in the 6th century as a revolt against Hinduism; emphasizes asceticism and immortality and transmigration of the soul; denies existence of a perfect or supreme being
  subtype:  #Sikhism  a radically monotheistic religion founded in Punjab in the 16th Century
  subtype:  #Buddhism  the ethical philosophy of Buddha; emphasizes physical and spiritual discipline as a means of liberation from the physical world
     subtype:  #Mahayana  one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone; chiefly in China; Tibet; Japan
     subtype:  #Hinayana  one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing personal salvation through one's own efforts; chiefly in Sri Lanka (Ceylon); Myanmar (Burma); Thailand; Cambodia
     subtype:  #Lamaism  Tibetan Buddhist doctrine including non-Buddhist Indian elements and elements of preexisting shamanism
     subtype:  #Zen_Buddhism__Zen  doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight
     subtype:  #Shingon  a Japanese Buddhism emphasizing mystical symbolism of mantras and mudras and the Buddha's ideal which is inexpressible
     subtype:  #Tantra__Tantrism  doctrine of enlightenment as the realization of the oneness of one's self and the visible world; combines elements of Hinduism and paganism including magical and mystical elements like mantras and mudras and erotic rites; especially influential in Tibet
  subtype:  #Hsuan_Chiao__Taoism  popular Chinese philosophical system based in teachings of Lao-tzu but characterized by a pantheism of many gods and the practices of alchemy and divination and magic
  subtype:  #Shintoism__Shinto  the indigenous polytheistic religion of Japan lacking organized teachings; primarily nature and ancestor worship including a chief deity from whom the emperor is believed to be descended
  subtype:  #Mithraism__Mithraicism  ancient Persian religion; popular among Romans during first three centuries a.d.
  subtype:  #Zoroastrianism__Mazdaism  system founded in Persia in the 6th century b.c. by Zoroaster; set forth in the Zend-Avesta; based on concept of struggle between light (good) and dark (evil)
     subtype:  #Parsiism__Parseeism  Zoroastrian sect in India
  subtype:  #shamanism  an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans
  subtype:  #shamanism.religious_belief  any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes

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