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•  Religion
  Atheism
• Creationism
• Mythology
• Nontheism
• Occult
• Spirituality
  African (Serer)
•  Bábism (Bahá'í Faith) 
•   Buddhism (Mahayana
• Tibetan
• Vajrayana) 
•  Chinese (Confucianism
• Falun Gong
• Taoism) 
•   Christianity (in China
• in India)
• Seventh-day Adventism
• Anabaptism
•  Anglicanism
• Arminianism
• Baptist
• Calvinism
• Christadelphianism
• Eastern (Oriental Orthodoxy
• Syriac)
• Latter Day Saints (Book of Mormon
• LDS Church
• Community of Christ)
• Lutheranism
• Methodism
• Roman Catholicism (Pope
• Bible
• Saints) 
•  Heathenism 
•  Hellenismos (Greek mythology) 
•  Indian (Ayyavazhi)
•  Hinduism (mythology
• Ravidassia) 
• Jainism
• Sikhism
•   Islam (in China
• in Russia
• Shia
• Ahmadiyya
• Sufism
• Quran) 
•  Judaism (Kabbalah) 
•   Scientology 
•  Shinto 
•  Wicca 
•  Zoroastrianism 

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edit   The religions portal Religion is the adherence to codified beliefs and rituals that generally involve a faith in a spiritual nature and a study of inherited ancestral traditions, knowledge and wisdom related to understanding human life. The term "religion" refers to both the personal practices related to faith as well as to the larger shared systems of belief. In the larger sense, religion is a communal system for the coherence of belief—typically focused on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, traditions, and rituals are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion can also be described as a way of life. The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. "Organized religion" generally refers to an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion with a prescribed set of beliefs, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization). Other religions believe in personal revelation and responsibility. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system," but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions. More about religion... edit   Selected article The Bahá'í Faith is a religion founded by Bahá'u'lláh in 19th century Persia. Bahá'ís number around 6 million in more than 200 countries around the world. According to Bahá'í teachings, religious history is seen as an evolving educational process for mankind, through God's messengers, which are termed Manifestations of God. Bahá'u'lláh is seen as the most recent, pivotal, but not final of these individuals. He claimed to be the expected redeemer and teacher prophesied in Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, and other religions, and that his mission was to establish a firm basis for unity throughout the world, and inaugurate an age of peace and justice, which Bahá'ís expect will inevitably arise. "Bahá'í" (/baˈhaːʔiː/) can be an adjective referring to the Bahá'í Faith, or the term for a follower of Bahá'u'lláh (Bahá'í is not a noun meaning the religion as a whole). The term comes from the Arabic word Bahá’ (بهاء), meaning "glory" or "splendor". edit   Selected picture Joan of Arc, also known as Jeanne d'Arc, was a national heroine of France and is a canonized saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She asserted that she had visions from God which told her to recover her homeland from English domination late in the Hundred Years' War. edit   Selected religious figure or deity Muhammad (Arabic محمد muḥammad; also Mohammed, Mohamet, and other variants), (570-632 CE), was an Arab religious, political, and military leader who established Islam and the Muslim community (Ummah, Arabic: أمة). He united the tribes of the Arabian Peninsula into a federation of allied tribes with its capital at Medina. For the last 23 years of his life, beginning at the age of forty (around 610), Muhammad claimed that he was receiving revelations from God delivered through the angel Gabriel. The content of these revelations, known as the Qur'an, was memorized and recorded by his followers and compiled into a single volume shortly after his death. The Qur'an, along with the details of Muhammad’s life as recounted by his biographers and his contemporaries, forms the basis of Islamic theology. Within Islam, he is considered the last and most important prophet of God (Arabic Allah). Muslims do not regard him as the founder of a new religion but as the restorer of the original monotheistic faith of Adam, Abraham and other prophets whose messages had become misinterpreted or corrupted over time. edit   Did you know... ...that as per Akilam the human race originated somewhere near Kanyakumari? ...that one key Confucian concept is that in order to govern others one must first govern oneself? ...that the Qur'an is the only book that has been completely memorized by Muslims (hafiz) all around the world for nearly 14 centuries? ...that in Shinto, the family is seen as the main mechanism by which traditions are preserved? Their main celebrations relate to birth and marriage. ...that Gerald Gardner is credited with re-introducing the word 'Wicca' into the English Language? edit   News Latest religion/spirituality Wikinews May 12: Italian parliament votes to back same-sex civil unions January 2: Saudi Arabia executes 47 people as 'terrorists' December 28: Boko Haram attack in Nigerian city kills at least fifteen December 9: Petition calls for Trump UK ban November 27: At least 52, including six Shia Muslim activists, to be executed in Saudi Arabia edit   On this day... June 29: 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario. edit   Selected quote edit   Selected scripture The Book of the Law is the central sacred text of Thelema, written (or received) by Aleister Crowley in Cairo, Egypt in the year 1904. It contains three chapters, each of which was written down in one hour, beginning at noon, on April 8, April 9, and April 10. Crowley claims that the author was an entity named Aiwass, whom he later referred to as his personal Holy Guardian Angel (or "Secret Self"). Biographer Lawrence Sutin quotes private diaries that fit this story, and writes that "if ever Crowley uttered the truth of his relation to the Book," his public account accurately describes what he remembered on this point. The teachings within this small book are expressed as the Law of Thelema, usually encapsulated by these two phrases: "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law" (AL I:40) and "Love is the law, love under will" (AL I:57) Its full title is Liber AL vel Legis, sub figura CCXX, The Book of the Law, as delivered by XCIII=418 to DCLXVI. It is often abbreviated as Liber Legis, Liber AL, or even just AL. edit   Related portals Ahmadiyya Anglicanism Atheism Ayyavazhi Bábism Bahá'í Faith Buddhism Catholicism Christianity Confucianism Community of Christ Creationism Eastern Christianity Hellenismos Hinduism Islam Jainism Judaism Kabbalah Latter Day Saints LDS Church Mythology Occult Shia Islam Oriental Orthodoxy Pope Ravidassia Saints Scientology Shinto Spirituality Sikhism Taoism Theosophy Wicca Zoroastrianism edit   Associated Wikimedia What are portals? List of portals Featured portals