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Terms for subject Religion (3987 entries)

Anti Apostle	AA
Anti Christ	AC
Antilles Episcopal Conference	AEC
Anzen	Safety. Safety at work is a major benefit (riyaku) sought from the kami by business people who attend shrines at new Year and other significant times as official representatives of their company. It is common for large and small Japanese enterprises to identify a tutelary shrine to which corporate donations are made and from which a priest may be summoned to perform ceremonies in the business premises. See also
Aoi-matsuri	'Hollyhock Festival'. A festival of prayer for abundant grain harvests, elements of which date back to the 7th century. It is held every May 15 in Kyoto at the two Kamo shrines, the Shimogamo (or Kamo-wake-ikazuchi) jinja and the Kamigamo (or Kamo-mi-oya) jinja. A court messenger's procession (roto-no-gi) of ox-drawn carts (gissha) a palanquin carrying the horses with golden saddles and around 600 participants (omiya-bito) dressed in Heian period costume all adorned with hollyhock (aoi or katsura) travels from the Kyoto palace through the main streets of Kyoto via Shimagamo jinja to Kamigamo jinja. The costumes include those of The origins of the rite are unclear but it is popularly traced to the time of the legendary emperor Kimmei (reigned 539-571) when in order to appease the two kami whose had taken the form of torrential rains, men wearing the masks of wild boars rode horses with tiny bells attached up and down the shrine area
Apostolic Council Of Prophetic Elders	ACPE
Apostolic Statement Of Faith	ASF
Apostolic United Brethren	AUB
Apple Valley Baptist Church	AVBC
Aquarian Tabernacle Church	ATC
Araburu kami	"Savage" or unruly kami referred to in the who can be pacified and transformed by Shinto See
Arai, Hakuseki	Confucian scholar, statesman and adviser of the sixth Tokugawa shogun Ienobu. He experienced considerable hardship in his attempts to gain some kind of official position through study. At the age of about thirty he became a pupil of the Neo-Confucian Kinoshita, Jun'an and in 1693 became lecturer on Confucianism to Ienobu, then a daimyo, who became shogun sixteen years later. Arai played a key role in the shogunate for seven years, abolishing the severe laws against cruelty to dogs and other animals promulgated by the eccentric Tokugawa, Tsunayoshi and reprieving offenders. He recommended that the shogun should be referred to as o, "King'. In relation to "Shinto" his rationalistic view that kami were essentially human reflected a typically Confucian indifference to other-worldly "religious" concepts and a desire to see ancient Japanese myths as well as Western science bent to the requirements of practical moral leadership. His influence was greater after Ienobu's death because the successor was a child. Arai's time is traditionally known as shotoku no chi 'the rule of upright virtue'. He retired to devote his time to research and writing when Tokugawa, Yoshimune acceded to the shogunate in 1716
Arch Angel	AA
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women	ACCW
Area Bible Studies	ABS
Area Bible Study	ABS
Area Worship Experience	AWE
Army Of Divine Rights	ADR
Army Of God	AOG
Arts And Music At Zion Evangelical	AMAZE