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Terms for subject Religion (3987 entries)

B'Siyata D'shmaya	BSD
Badly Behaved Christian	BBC
Baha'i Era	BE
Bahai Era	BE
Bahai Faith	BF
Bakemono	Spirits possessed of evil powers. The term covers various spirits such as mono-no-ke (evil spirits) tengu (a bird-like spirit of the forest) and yamanba or yama-uba
Bakufu	Literally "tent-government'. The name of the feudal regime established at in 1185. It followed the epic "gempei" civil wars between the early samurai warriors of the Minamoto (Genji) and Taira (Heike) clans. To restrict the power of the sohei or monk-soldiers the emperor Go-shirakawa, who ruled from 1155-1158 but exercised power over a much longer period as an insei or 'retired monarch', had made alliances at different times with the provincial Taira and Minamoto clans. Their consequent battles for supremacy led to Minamoto, Yoritomo's establishment of the first bakufu government at Kamakura in 1185. In practice bakufu rule came to be exercised by the Hojo family as hereditary regents or deputies (shikken) to the shoguns, just as the had deputized for the emperors. The move to Kamakura (and subsequently to Edo, Tokyo) though it preserved many of the features of the system, effectively ended the government of the Kyoto emperors, apart from a two-year "restoration" achieved by emperor Go-Daigo in 1334-36 which preceded the Ashikaga shogunate. Many centuries later or fukko shinto scholars and activists sought to restore ritsuryo imperial rule; hence the "Restoration"
Ban, Nobutomo	A scholar and disciple of Motoori, Norinaga's son and successor Motoori, Ohira. He is respected as a scrupulous philologist in the tradition of Norinaga. he wrote a number of historical works and made a special study of the
Baptism Assimilation Group	BAG
Baptism Eucharist Ministry	BEM
Baptist Christian Ministries	BCM
Baptist Church	BC
Baptist Collegiate Ministry	BCM
Baptist Stuff	BS
Baptist World Aid	BWA
baptizee	one who undergoes baptism	Michae­lBurov
Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth	BIBLE
Basic Interplanetary Bible Learning Expedition	BIBLE
Battle Plan Ministries	BPM
Be Evangelically Effervescing Religious	BEER