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Terms for subject Religion (3944 entries)

Montclair Jewish Workshop	MJW
Montezuma Castle National Monument	MZM
Montezuma United Methodist Church	MUMC
More Light Presbyterians	MLP
Morgan Hill Presbyterian Church	MHPC
Mormonism Research Ministry	MRM
Morristown Unitarian Fellowship	MUF
Most Divine	MD
Most Holy Redeemer	MHR
Most Holy Trinity	MHT
Most Righteous	MR
Motoda, Eifu (or Nagazane)	A brilliant Confucian scholar from Kumamoto in Kyushu. Appointed to the Imperial Household Agency in 1871 he became the trusted close personal tutor of the emperor. By 1888 he had risen to become an advisor to the privy council. At the request of the emperor he provided a commentary on the proposals for the constitution In his own draft constitution he rejected the principle of religious freedom, arguing that Confucianism should be established as the patriotic state religion with the power of divine rule vested in the emperor. He also wrote ethics textbooks for young people and worked with Inoue, Kowashi to draft the Imperial Rescript on Education (kyOiku chokugo) whose aim was to provide a basis for public morality
Motoori, Norinaga	The pre-eminent scholar in his own time and highly regarded by successive generations down to this day. Born near the jingu and educated locally and then in Kyoto, he began his studies with period literature but following a single inspirational meeting in 1763 with the kokugaku scholar no Mabuchi he turned his attention to pre-Heian texts, subsequently conducting philological studies of ancient Japanese sources particularly the Kokiji which he sought to have recognised as a reliable source of knowledge about pre-Buddhist Japan and the "age of the gods'. Undismayed by finding little in the way of systematic theology in the ancient texts he asserted that although revelations about the kami went manifestly beyond reason, the truth of things was set out straightforwardly in the ancient texts and could intuitively be grasped by the sincere Japanese heart which is able to set aside intellectual doubts. He venerated the imperial line as divine and eternally inviolable and his view of the wider world was Japanocentric and frankly jingoistic, setting the tone for mainstream developments in Shinto thought through the restoration and into the twentieth century. As well as reviving interest and faith in the Kojiki and other ancient sources Motoori's studies, conveyed to a wide audience in a lifelong rigorous lecturing schedule emphasised particularly the non-rational, emotional character of Japanese literature in contrast to the formal, and in his view inauthentic, doctrinalism and moralism of Chinese and Buddhist approaches. As a result of Motoori's influence the classic Japanese work The Tale of Genji (Genji monogatari) for example was reappraised and newly valued for its evocation of the sensitive and emotional aspect of life rather than as a literary expression of Buddhist or Confucian dogma, and he encouraged poetic expression as an essential element in the scholarly life. Within the kokugaku "lineage" he is claimed as the third great kokugaku thinker after no Azumamaro and no Mabuchi His greatest work, thirty-four years in the writing, was a 44-volume detailed study of the entitled kojiki-den (1798) A great deal of modern Shinto theology depends heavily on the writings and ideas of Motoori, developed by Hirata, Atsutane
Mount Hollywood Congregational Church	MHCC
Movement of Spiritual Inner Awareness	MSIA
Mt. Zion Baptist Church	MZB
Mt. Zion Ministries	MZM
Multiply Your Life for Christ	MYL
Munakata-no-kami	A group of three important female kami (tagori-hime, tagitsu-hime and ichikishima-hime) They are worshipped in the Munakata-taisha, Fukuoka, which consists of three shrines, one on the mainland and two on the islands of Okino-shima and Oshima, as well as in the Itsukushima -jinja, the Ichikishima-jinja on Miyajima and many thousands of other related shrines established by the of the main shrine. Hachiman in his role as a sea kami is closely associated with Munakata
Muneage	"Raising the ridgepole" (of a roof, which completes the framework of a new house) The term equally refers to the accompanying ritual, performed by the carpenters and the owners of the house. Small monetary gifts may be given to the carpenters on this occasion. A gohei inscribed with the owner's name and the date, with an from an appropriate shrine attached to the bottom and an o-tafuku at the top, is placed behind the rafters for protection. Offerings and symbols of purification including items such as fruit, rice and salt are made, and those present clap their hands twice and bow in the manner of devotees at a shrine. Sand from the precincts of a shrine is scattered on the ground and poured in the unlucky north-east (kimon; demon-gate) corner of the house. The ceremony is also known as jotosai. It is performed in addition to the or ground-purification ceremony carried out at the start of construction which is more likely to involve a Shinto priest