• Ayyavazhi, a belief system originating from South India, is mentioned in a number of reports by Christian missionaries in the 19th century. In some of...
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    part of the gathering" See the LMS Reports gathered in the article Ayyavazhi in reports by Christian missionaries from the book Religion and Subaltern...
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    religious practices Ayyavazhi publications Ayyavazhi religious studies Anna Dharmam Ayyavazhi in reports by Christian missionaries Thirunamam Main teachings...
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    religions. Ayyavazhi and Hinduism are two belief systems in India. Though Ayyavazhi continues to officially exist within Hinduism and is considered by some...
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    Tirunelveli and Thoothukkudi by the Tamil Nadu Government. Ayya Vaikundar Ayyavazhi in reports by Christian missionaries N. Amalan's, Ayya Vaikundar Punitha...
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    the Ayyavazhi faith. The Ayyavazhis believe him to be the first and foremost Purna avatar of Eka-Paran and the god Vishnu (Narayana). As per Ayyavazhi mythology...
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  • Western Christian tradition which developed from the practices, liturgy, and identity of the Church of England following the English Reformation, in the context...
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  • Christian theology is the theology – the systematic study of the divine and religion – of Christian belief and practice. It concentrates primarily upon...
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  • more effective when missionaries concurred with established cultural traditions and interlaced them into a fundamentally Christian synthesis. Sometimes...
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    established a khān (hostel) in Sidon, the Florentines a consulate, and Christian missionaries were admitted into the country. Beirut and Sidon, which Fakhr-al-Din...
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    large scale conversion lies in the efforts of three groups of people: mariners, merchants and missionaries. ... The missionaries, mostly Sufis, played a major...
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    Baháʼí Faith (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2022)
    July 2022. compiled by Wagner, Ralph D. "NIGER". Synopsis of References to the Baháʼí Faith, in the US State Department's Reports on Human Rights 1991–2000...
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    Tamil Nadu state. The district is the birthplace of Ayyavazhi, the henotheistic belief initiated by Hari Gopalan Seedar, one among the 5 prime disciples...
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    important pilgrim centers of Ayyavazhi. These are also considered as the primary Pathis and as worship centers of Ayyavazhi with primary status. The first...
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  • B. Suneel Bhanu (category Indian Christian theologians)
    in West Bengal. Suneel Bhanu's major contribution was seeing through the publication of the Bibliography of Original Christian Writings in India in Telugu...
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  • possessions." Church members in Black Spiritual churches become possessed by spirits of deceased family members, the Holy Spirit, Christian saints, and other biblical...
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    Paul the Apostle and Jewish Christianity (category Mosaic law in Christian theology)
    fellow missionaries. Paul referred to himself as an observant Jew in the letter to the Philippians: If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh...
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    mythical figures. Equation between him and the Christian god is common among both missionaries and modern Christian Aboriginals. The Yolngu had extensive contact...
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  • Aceh". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2022-08-04. "Missionaries Arrested in Northeast India". Worthy Christian News. 2003-08-15. Retrieved 2018-04-23. "National...
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    Tungus dialects as a corruption of this term, and then been told to Christian missionaries, explorers, soldiers and colonial administrators with whom the people...
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    of World War II, the teachings of Christian missionaries and the increasing liberalisation of colonial authorities in Melanesia would have on local islanders...
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    same word in adjectival form (purgatorius -a -um, cleansing), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine...
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    In such a context, the belief in Ayyavazhi, apart from being a religious system, served also as a reform movement in uplifting the downtrodden of society...
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  • A. B. Masilamani (category Indian Christian theologians)
    Mar Thoma Syrian Church, one of the Saint Thomas Christian Churches founded by Thomas the Apostle in the first century which holds the annual Maramon...
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  • G. Devasahayam (category Indian Christian theologians)
    participated in the opening of the newly formed Andhra Christian Theological College then located in the same campus of the Lutheran Theological College in Rajahmundry...
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    by the ancient Latin scholar Marcus Terentius Varro, under the term of theologia civilis (lit. 'civic theology'). The first state-sponsored Christian...
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    languages in the early Christian era were Latin, Greek, and Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic). The phrase "Jesus, King of the Jews" is reported in the Gospel...
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    scientific revolution were achieved by societies organized by religious traditions. Ancient pagan, Islamic, and Christian scholars pioneered individual elements...
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    Yiguandao (category All Wikipedia articles written in American English)
    named "stove meetings" (lu hui) to train missionaries in Tianjin. Hundreds of missionaries were trained in these workshops, and they were sent all over...
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  • describes the circumstances in which early impressions of Hinduism were reported by colonial era missionaries: "Missionary reports from India also reflected...
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