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- Polygamy (called plural marriage by Latter-day Saints in the 19th century or the Principle by modern fundamentalist practitioners of polygamy) was practiced...75 KB (8,283 words) - 03:41, 22 May 2024
- In many languages, the names given to the seven days of the week are derived from the names of the classical planets in Hellenistic astronomy, which were...119 KB (4,053 words) - 04:41, 19 June 2024
- Mourning is the expression of an experience that is the consequence of an event in life involving loss, causing grief. It typically occurs as a result...50 KB (6,257 words) - 06:34, 25 June 2024
- The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be...29 KB (3,483 words) - 23:05, 28 June 2024
- Liber AL vel Legis (Classical Latin: [ˈlɪbɛr aː.ɛɫ wɛl‿ˈleːgɪs]), commonly known as The Book of the Law, is the central sacred text of Thelema. The book...34 KB (4,835 words) - 23:24, 18 June 2024
- David Bernard Gaiman (10 June 1933 – 7 March 2009) was a British businessman and head of the UK branch of Church of Scientology. He and his wife Sheila...14 KB (1,436 words) - 06:48, 27 May 2023
- Tattooing has been practiced across the globe since at least Neolithic times, as evidenced by mummified preserved skin, ancient art and the archaeological...136 KB (16,460 words) - 07:00, 30 June 2024
- Heru-ra-ha (lit. 'Horus sun-flesh') is a composite deity related to ancient Egyptian mythology revered within Thelema, a religion that began in 1904 with...9 KB (1,050 words) - 17:17, 25 May 2024
- Hadi Sabzavari (Persian: ملا هادی سبزواری) or Hajj Molla Hadi Sabzavari (1797–1873 CE / 1212 - 1289 AH) was an Iranian philosopher, mystic theologian and...13 KB (1,710 words) - 11:06, 2 July 2023
- Martinism is a form of Christian mysticism and esoteric Christianity concerned with the fall of the first man, his materialistic state of being, deprived...26 KB (3,364 words) - 18:04, 3 May 2024
- In Islam, wasat (moderation) is one of the most basic terms and deliberately used topics. In the sense of shariah, it is a central characteristic of Islamic...11 KB (1,509 words) - 23:02, 15 January 2024
- Stanborough School is a coeducational independent day and boarding school in Watford, Hertfordshire, England. Situated in 40 acres of parkland in the village...11 KB (907 words) - 12:33, 16 January 2024
- The Pagal Panthis (lit. 'followers of the mad path') were a socio-religious order that emerged in the late 18th-century in the Mymensingh region of Bengal...10 KB (1,295 words) - 16:13, 1 June 2024
- The Old English poem Judith describes the beheading of Assyrian general Holofernes by Israelite Judith of Bethulia. It is found in the same manuscript...13 KB (1,833 words) - 20:34, 3 May 2023
- The Trinity Cathedral (Russian: Троицкий собор, Troitsky sobor; Russian: Троице-Измайловский соборTroitse-Izmailovsky sobor), sometimes called the Troitsky...11 KB (938 words) - 15:16, 14 May 2023
- The Archbishop of Hong Kong (香港聖公會大主教) is the senior bishop, and spiritual and moral leader of the Anglican Province of the Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui and...4 KB (277 words) - 12:00, 16 May 2023
- Quassim Cassam, FBA (born 31 January 1961) is professor of philosophy at the University of Warwick. He writes on self-knowledge, perception, epistemic...9 KB (743 words) - 18:07, 28 May 2023
- Giovanni Lami (8 November 1697 – 6 February 1770) was an Italian jurist, church historian, and antiquarian. He was born at Santa Croce sull'Arno (between...9 KB (1,025 words) - 02:34, 24 May 2023
- Hrishikesha (Sanskrit: हृषीकेश; IAST: Hṛṣīkēśa) lit. ''lord of the senses'' is an epithet of the Hindu preserver deity Vishnu. It is the 47th name in the...2 KB (109 words) - 00:18, 28 May 2023
- Vincent Cornell is an American scholar of Islam. From 2000 to 2006 he was a professor of history and director of the King Fahd Center for Middle East and...2 KB (228 words) - 14:36, 11 May 2023