| See Each Leaf Fall |
SELF |
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| Seeing The Bible Live |
SBL |
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| Seek A Loving Saviour Always |
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| Seekers After Truth |
SAT |
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| Seekers Of Truth |
SOT |
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| Seeking Employment And Renewing Christian Hope |
SEARCH |
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| Seeking New Dimensions |
SND |
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| Seeking Our Awesome Redeemer |
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| Seijin shiki |
Adulthood rite; coming-of-age ceremony. A rite performed at the shrine on the assumption of (modern) adulthood at age 20 |
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| Seikyo bunri |
"Separation of Government (sei) and religion (kyo) A policy declaration of 1882 intended to clarify the position of religions in relation to government, in the context of debate about the nature of "religion" in modernising Japan. It paved the way for the redefinition of Shinto as 'not a religion' (hi-shukyo) It led to the recognition of religious "sects" of Shinto |
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| Seimei |
'Purity and brightness'. A synonym of In contemporary Shinto theology it means purity and cheerfulness of heart (a condition also described as akaki kiyoki kokoro) and refers to the spiritual or mental virtue corresponding to purification |
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| Seishoku matsuri |
Fertility festivals, sex festivals. Many shrine festivals (hadaka matsuri, mikoshi contests etc.) are evidently meant in part as displays of manhood by those of marriageable age. In some festivals sexual and fertility symbolism predominates. At the Asuka-niimasu jinja, Nara on the first Sunday in February actors representing a form of couple wearing otafuku and masks enact sexual intercourse. At the Sugawara jinja, Niigata, the tsuburo-sashi performed on June 15th unites a male divinity holding a giant phallus with a female kami playing a sasara (a percussion instrument consisting of two blocks of wood) The honen ('abundant-year') matsuri of the Tagata jinja, Aichi on March 15th features a parade of large (4-5 metre) and extremely lifelike wooden phalluses carried on The michi-no-kami (kami of the roads) are worshipped in numerous "phallic" shrines such as ebishima jinja and dosojin jinja |
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| Sekai Kyusei-kyo |
Religion for the Salvation of the World. A religious movement originally founded by a former Omoto member Okada, Mokichi (1882-1955) following a revelation from In 1928 he set up the Great Japan Association for the Worship of the Bodhisattva Kannon (Dainihon Kannon-kai) which emphasised healing and communion with divinities. The movement was forced by the government to focus only on the healing aspect and the movement was renamed Japanese association for therapy through purification (Nihon joka reiho) After the war the Kannon-worship element was revived in the 'Japan organisation for the worship of Kannon'. In 1950 following a schism Okada formed Sekai Meshiya kyo 'Religion of World Messiah-ship', a name later changed to Sekai Kyusei-kyo. The movement regards Okada as a living kami (ikigami) and combines the performance of Shinto-style rites with a reverence for the uplifting power of works of art. Members are suspicious of modern drugs, practise spiritual light-healing (jorei) and promote a chemical-free diet. The organisation is usually known in the West under the initials MOA |
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| Select Religious Broadcasting |
SRB |
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| Selected Programs For Improving Catholic Education |
SPICE |
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| Self Help Alternative Program For Enlightenment |
SHAPE |
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| Self Help Magazine |
SHM |
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| Self Realization Fellowship |
SRF |
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| Self- Help Group |
SHG |
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| Seminary Computing Services |
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