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Terms for subject Religion (3987 entries)

Forgiveness Available Impossible Turn And Heaven	FAITH
Former Catholics for Christ	FCC
Forsaking All I Take Him	FAITH
Forsaking All I Trust Him	FAITH
Forward Through Faith	FTF
Foundations For Intimate Relationship Encounters	FIRE
Friends In Christ	FIC
Friends In Service To Him	FISH
Friends Of Christ Unite To Serve	FOCUS
Friends Of Refugees Of Eastern Europe	FREE
Friends Religion And Other Great Stuff	FROGS
Friendship Charity Benevolence	FCB
From Nature To Nature	FNTN
Fudoki	Literally 'Records of Wind and Earth'; descriptions of the natural features of an area. Regional government records submitted to the imperial court after an order of 713. They include details of names, products and legends associated with the area, thus providing some of the earliest written information on religious practices. The complete Izumo fudoki and partial records from Hizen, Hitachi, Harima and Bungo have survived. There are also Tokugawa period documents with the same name
Fuji sengen jinja	The inner sanctuary (oku-miya) at the top of Mt Fuji, dedicated to or sengen. The temple has around 1500 throughout Japan and there are numerous sengen temples located around Mt. Fuji. Sengen is the traditional name of the deity of Fuji
Fuji-ko	A sect, popular in the Tokugawa period, devoted to the climbing of Mt. Fuji. It was founded in the early sixteenth century by Hasegawa, Takematsu (known as Kakugyo) It was one of more than 800 Fuji sects. See e.g. Fuso-kyo,
Fuji-no-yamabiraki	'Opening Mt. Fuji'. A festival of the Komitake jinja, Yamanashi, held on July 1st at the beginning of the Fuji-climbing season to pray for the safety of the two million or so people who will visit or climb Mt. Fuji that year
Fuji-san	Mount Fuji. Its cone shape makes the mountain a suitable yorishiro or vessel suitable for the residence of a kami. The mountain is inhabited by the deity Kono-hana-saku-ya-hime also known as Sengen and Asama (Mt Asama is about eighty miles north of Fuji) It is believed to have appeared some time after the creation of the land of Japan by and Izanami Fuji remains the archetype of the sacred mountain for many Japanese people. The ascent is divided into ritual stages in style and a constant stream of visitors now makes the eight-hour ascent during the short summer climbing season, many with the intention of seeing the sun rise from the top. Until the restoration when pollution restrictions were relaxed in a number of areas of religious life the mountain was out of bounds to women. As it happens the first to reach the summit was Lady Parkes, wife of the British Ambassador, in October 1867. See
Fuji-san Hongu sengen jinja	A shrine in Shizuoka prefecture located at the foot of Mt. Fuji. It is the main shrine for the mountain and has an exceptional two-storied building which enshrines the kami of the mountain. See also its oku-miya, the sengen jinja
Fujiwara	The clan comprising the descendants of Fujiwara, Kamatari (614-669) who rose to power in the mid-seventh century assisting the imperial prince to make reforms which eventuated in the system. The Fujiwara family remained intertwined through marriage and government positions with the imperial line. Fujiwara, Yoshifusa (804-872) became "regent" (sessho) when a child emperor was enthroned in the mid-ninth century and his adopted son became both regent and chief counsellor (kanpaku) of the imperial family. By virtue of these hereditary appointments which continued regardless of the age of subsequent emperors the Fujiwara became effectively the rulers of medieval Japan until the mid-eleventh century