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Terms for subject Religion (3987 entries)

Communication Heartful Interactive	CHI
Communicators For Christ	CFC
Community Bible Study	CBS
Compliments Compassion And Reassurance	CCR
Concerned About Reaching Everyone	CARE
Conference Of Christianity And Literature	CCL
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Confirmation On Wednesdays	COW
Confraternity Of Christian Doctrine	CCD
Confucianism and Shinto	Confucianism, though it has no institutional presence as a religion in Japan, has played a major role in the evolution of Japanese religion and in particular the character of modem Shinto. While Confucian philosophy, especially of the variety, became the state orthodoxy of Tokugawa Japan a nationwide Buddhist parish system (tera-uke) was simultaneously established to eradicate Christianity. Traditional tensions between Buddhism and Confucianism in China were thus set to be replicated in Japan. Confucian ideology seeks a return to the "golden age" of Confucius and emphasises the subordination of one's selfish desires to the requirements of social duty so that harmony in social relationships can be mirrored in cosmic harmony and prosperity. The selfless state can be achieved by methods of self-cultivation and training ranging from Zen-type meditation to unremitting self-discipline in one's allotted role in the hierarchy, activity construed in Confucian terms as the repayment of reciprocal obligations to superiors. In feudal Japan the relationship between ruler and subject came to outweigh the father-son relationship. Teachers such as Ishida, Baigan popularised such Confucian ideas in a manner which appealed to different social classes. Confucian scholarly investigations inspired the academic researches of scholars who sought Japanese equivalents of the ancient Chinese texts, and kokugaku-sha and Confucianists came to share resentment against Buddhism's privileged position under the shogunate. In the latter part of the Tokugawa period nationalist Confucians became favourable to the idea of the restoration of a sacred monarchy to replace the declining shogunate and lent their support to fukko shinto activists, who by now interpreted Shinto largely in Confucian terms. Most of the ethical content of modern Shinto founded on the emperor system (tennosei) can be traced to the Confucian ideology of the Tokugawa period, allied of course with modern nationalism and devotion to technological progress
Congregatio Sanctae Crucis	CSC
Conservative Christian Fellowship	CCF
Constitution of Japan	The current Japanese Constitution (in Japanese nihonkoku kempo) was drafted by the largely American occupation administration (SCAP) and promulgated in May 1947. It has several Articles which refer to religion. Article 14 prohibits discrimination on grounds of creed, Article 19 says that "freedom of thought and conscience shall not be violated' and article 89 forbids the use of public funds for any religious purposes not under public control. Article 20 guarantees both freedom of religion and separation of church and state. The Constitution's view that freedom of religion implies complete separation of religion and state was intended to eradicate any vestiges of 'state Shinto" (kokka shinto) and has given rise to complex legal debates about the involvement of public officials in postwar Shinto, mostly centred on the status of the Jinja See also the Hojin Ho and Constitution
Contemporary Christian Center	CCC
Continuously Being Thankful	CBT
Cooperative Baptist Fellowship	CBF
Corrupt The Righteous	CTR
Council Of Clerics	COC
Council Of Orthodox Rabbis	COR
Couples For Christ	CFC