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Terms for subject Religion (3987 entries)

Gods Awesome Servants	GAS
Gods Book	GB
Gods Divine Cornerstone	GDC
Gods Love Openly Reaching Youth	GLORY
Gods Radical Identity Plan	GRIP
Gods Renewal In The Spirit	GRITS
Gods Riches At Christ Expense	GRACE
Gods Riches At Christs Expense	GRACE
Gods Water	GW
Gods Word	GW
Gohan matsuri	"Forced rice festival'. A type of festival enjoyed throughout Japan at Buddhist temples and Shinto shrines in which a participant victim is ceremonially and often comically "forced" to eat heaps of rice (gohan) large quantities of noodles (udon) potatoes etc. and drink sake from huge bowls. The festival seems to be a pantomime of the consequences of a good harvest. At the Kodomo gohan-shiki at Ubuoka jinja, Nikko, Tochigi on November 25th children dressed as force adults to eat. The Hakkoji-no-goriki ('luminous path forcing') of the jinja, Awano-machi, Tochigi is held at New Year on January 3rd. Gohan is also read kowameshi and means rice cooked with red beans
Goi, Masahisa	A successful postwar Shinto-related sect (formerly Byakko koseikai) founded by Goi, Masahisa (b.1916) a spiritualist and disciple of Taniguchi, Masaharu, founder of Seicho-no-ie. The sect emphasises the importance of miracles and the role of guardian angels (shugo-rei) and regards Japan as the spiritual centre of the world, from where peace will radiate. It has a special "white light'-producing ritual prayer for world peace and is responsible for erecting poles across the world inscribed with the words 'may peace prevail on earth"
Gokaku	Educational success. One of the most likely to be offered by temples and shrines and petitioned for by pre-university students in contemporary Japan, where employability and life prospects are, and are firmly believed to be, closely linked to academic achievement at school. and for educational success may be obtained, inscribed and prayers addressed to the kami, particularly who is the patron kami of scholarship
Gokoku jinja	'Nation-protecting shrine'. The name originally given to provincial branch shrines of the Jinja dedicated in the period to the enshrined spirits of the war dead. After the Russo-Japanese war (1904-6) gokoku jinja war memorial shrines were built in each prefecture. In 1945 under the Directive the shrines lost state support and many smaller war memorials in school grounds etc. were destroyed. There has been a number of legal cases in the post-war period fought over the use of local taxes to support gokoku jinja, and over the issue of local government officials and jietai (self-defence force) members taking part in shrine ceremonies at gokoku jinja in honour of the war dead.
Gongen	Avatar, incarnation, manifestation. Commonly dai-gongen "great gongen'. An incarnation or temporary manifestation of a "Buddha" or Formal designations of kami as gongen seem to have occurred mainly towards the end of the period, in the eleventh and twelfth centuries. Gongen were a focus of worship and devotion associated particularly with pre- Meiji yamabushi (mountain ascetics) but the yamabushi system was virtually destroyed and gongen given "Shinto" names as part of the bunri campaign. Examples of kami as gongen include dai-gongen and Akiba-gongen. Hachiman was regarded as a gongen of Amida Buddha and Tokugawa, Ieyasu as Tosho-dai-gongen (at Nikko) Other notable shrines designated as gongen were Atsuta, Yoshino and Kumano. See also
Gongen-zukuri	" style'. A style of shrine architecture which features extensive lacquer work and ornate carvings. The main shrine buildings are laid out in the shape of an 'H'. It is common in shrines closely associated with esoteric Buddhist centres and became popular after it was used for the 1636 Tosho-gu mausoleum of the gongen Tokugawa, Ieyasu at Nikko. Gongen-zukuri is used as a general term for styles incorporating gongen features. See
Good God Almighty	GGA
Good Hope Lutheran Church	GHLC
Good Little Evangelical	GLE
Good News Ministries	GNM