Encyclopedia - Monism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monism - Monism, Pantheism, And Panentheism
Following a long and still current tradition H.P. Owen (1971: 65) claimed that "Pantheists are ‘monists’...they believe that there i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monism - Monism Pantheism And Panentheism
Following a long and still current tradition H.P. Owen (1971: 65) claimed that "Pantheists are ‘monists’...they believe that there i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Pantheism And Panentheism
Though Ayyavazhi is mostly connected with the concept of Ekam, some followers advocates Ayyavazhi as Pantheistic, sticking to the concept...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia - Pantheism
Pantheism (Greek: pan = all and Theos = God) literally means "God is All" and "All is God". It is the view that everything is of an all-e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monism: Encyclopedia - Monism
Monism is the metaphysical and theological view that there is only one principle, essence, substance or energy in this Universe. Monism i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Classical Pantheism: Encyclopedia - Classical Pantheism
Classical pantheism equates existence with God without attempting to redefine or to minimize either term, and has an inclusive demeanor t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi
Ekam-The Ultimate Oneness Vethan-The Creator Thirumal-The Maintainer Sivan-The Destroyer Vaikundar-The Incarnation The Trinity Akilattira...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Panentheism: Encyclopedia - Panentheism
Panentheism (Greek words: pan=all, en=in and Theos=God; "God-in-all") is the view that God is immanent within all Creation or that God is...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vedanta: Encyclopedia - Vedanta
Vedanta (Vedānta, वेदान्त, pronounced as //vé: dα:n tə//) means the anta or culmination or essence of the Vedas. It is ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia - Animism
In religion, the term "Animism" is used in a number of ways. Animism (from animus, or anima, mind or soul), originally means the doctrin...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Theism: Encyclopedia - Theism
Theism is the belief in one or more gods or goddesses. More specifically, it may also mean the belief in God, a god, or gods, who is/are ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deism: Encyclopedia - Deism
Historical and modern Deism is defined by the view that reason, rather than revelation or tradition, should be the basis of belief in God...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immanence: Encyclopedia - Immanence
Immanence is the religious and philosophical concept of existing and acting within the physical world. It is derived from the Latin words...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia - Religion
Religion (see etymology below) —sometimes used interchangeably with faith or belief system—is commonly defined as belief concerning t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Pantheism And Panentheism
Though Ayyavazhi is mostly connected with the concept of Ekam, some followers advocates Ayyavazhi as Pantheistic, sticking to the concept...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monism - Philosophical Monism
Monism is often seen as partitioned into three basic types: Substantial Monism, (One thing) which holds that there is one substance. Att...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monism - Monism In Religion
Monism - Hinduism. Hinduism is monistic, as far back as the Rig Veda, in which hymnists speak of one being-non-being that 'breathed wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monism - Ancient Philosophers
The following pre-Socratic philosophers described reality as being: Thales: Water Anaximander: Apeiron (meaning 'the unknown'). Reality ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Panendeism: Encyclopedia Ii - Panendeism - Origin Of The Term
Traditionally, monotheism refers to belief in a god that is a separate entity within the universe, whereas pantheism (all is God) refers ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Inclusivistic And Exclusivistic Ideas
This formula of inclusivism and exclusivism was applied in the religio-cultural universe of Ayyavazhi is one that is not found anywhere e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Shamanism
In the prevailing ecstatic religious ambience, some followers of Ayyavazhi have performed some shamanic actions in the worship centers in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Mythology
(Main article: Ayyavazhi mythology) The mythology of Ayyavazhi makes explicit the fact that the essence of this vision is an account of a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Rituals
Main Article:Ayyavazhi religious practices In addition to the philosophical concepts and mythology, the rituals of Ayyavazhi proceed in t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - The Utopian Formula
Ayyavazhi proposes an emancipatory utopia under the banner of Dharma Yukam. The core of the proposal was that Ayya Vaikundar had come to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Identity Of Ayyavazhi
Ayyavazhi worship was marked by simplicity. The character of simplicity emerged in Ayyavazhi in contrast to the obscurantism and the 'fea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - New Religious Phenomenon
It may be concluded that Ayyavazhi emerged as a 'new and singular' religious phenomenon. Amidst the various traditions — the sanskritic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - History
The religious phenomenon of Ayyavazhi made its presence felt primarily by a movement of people accross the country, and their confluence ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Worship Centers
Pathis and Nizhal Thangals were centers of worship and religious learning established in different parts of the country by devout followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Beliefs
Adherents of Ayyavazhi believe in both reincarnation and the Dharma Yukam but condemn the caste system . They also reject the use of murt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Dharmic Definition
In the religious universe of Ayyavazhi, the teachings on Dharma has two levels of understanding: One, as a principle of 'righteousness', ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - God
Main article:Ayyavazhi Trinity The theology of Ayyavazhi differs from other monistic religions. It speaks of Ekam, the ultimate Oneness f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - History
The religious phenomenon of Ayyavazhi made its presence felt primarily by a movement of people across the country, and their confluence a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Worship Centers
Pathis and Nizhal Thangals were centers of worship and religious learning established in different parts of the country by devout followe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Beliefs
Adherents of Ayyavazhi believe in both reincarnation and the Dharma Yukam but condemn the caste system . They also reject the use of murt...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Dharmic Definition
In the religious universe of Ayyavazhi, the teachings on Dharma has two levels of understanding: One, as a principle of 'righteousness', ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Inclusivistic And Exclusivistic Ideas
This formula of inclusivism and exclusivism was applied in the religio-cultural universe of Ayyavazhi is one that is not found anywhere e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Shamanism
In the prevailing ecstatic religious ambience, some followers of Ayyavazhi have performed some shamanic actions in the worship centers in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Mythology
The mythology of Ayyavazhi makes explicit the fact that the essence of this vision is an account of a history - a past, a present and a f...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - The Utopian Formula
Ayyavazhi proposes an emancipatory utopia under the banner of Dharma Yukam. The core of the proposal was that Ayya Vaikundar had come to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - Identity Of Ayyavazhi
Ayyavazhi worship was marked by simplicity. The character of simplicity emerged in Ayyavazhi in contrast to the obscurantism and the 'fea...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ayyavazhi: Encyclopedia Ii - Ayyavazhi - New Religious Phenomenon
It may be concluded that Ayyavazhi emerged as a 'new and singular' religious phenomenon. Amidst the various traditions — the sanskritic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Panentheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Panentheism - Panentheism In Hinduism
Some interpretations of Hinduism can be seen as panentheistic. Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami, said that "panentheism is the view that t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polydeism: Encyclopedia Ii - Polydeism - History Of The Term
Creighton University Philosophy professor William O. Stephens[1], who teaches this concept to his students, suggests that C.D. Broad proj...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Polydeism: Encyclopedia Ii - Polydeism - Etymologically Disjunctive Uses Of The Term
The term, polydeism, has occasionally been misused as a direct substitute for polytheism - a usage which fails to consider the distinctio...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Vedanta - Roots Of Vedanta
All forms of Vedanta are drawn primarily from the Upanishads, a set of philosophical and instructive Vedic scriptures which deal mainly w...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Vedanta - Transition From Vedic To Vedantic Religion
While the traditional Vedic 'karma kanda', or ritualistic components of religion, continued to be practiced through the Brahmins as medit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Vedanta - Major Vedantic Gurus
Pre-modern Vedantins: Adi Shankara Bhaskara Vallabha Caitanya Nimbarka Baladeva Vidyabhushana Vacaspati Misra Suresvara Vijnanabhiksu Ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Vedanta: Encyclopedia Ii - Vedanta - Major Vedantic Gurus
Pre-modern Vedantins: Adi Shankara Bhaskara Vallabha Caitanya Nimbarka Baladeva Vidyabhushana Vacaspati Misra Suresvara Vijnanabhiksu Ba...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deism: Encyclopedia Ii - Deism - Overview
Deism encompasses a range of views on the nature of God, particularly on whether God intervenes in the world. The classical view is that ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Deism: Encyclopedia Ii - Deism - 18th Century Popularity
Deist thinking has existed since ancient times and can be inferred from pre-Socratic philosophers such as Heraclitus. However, it was not...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Overview
In some animistic worldviews found in hunter-gatherer cultures, the human being is often regarded as on a roughly equal footing with anim...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Origins
Early ideas on the subject of the soul, and at the same time the origin of them, can be illustrated by analysis of the terms applied to t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Plant Souls
Just as human souls are assigned to animals, so too are trees and plants often credited with souls, both human and animal in form. All ov...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Object Souls
Some cultures do not make a distinction between animate and inanimate objects. Natural phenomenon, geographic features, everyday objects,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Animism And Death
In many parts of the world it is held that the human body is the seat of more than one soul. On the island of Nias four are distinguished...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Evil Spirits
Side by side with the doctrine of separable souls with which we have so far been concerned, exists the belief in a great host of unattach...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Differences Between Animism And Religion
Animism is commonly described as the most primitive form of religion, but properly speaking it is not a religion at all. Animism is in th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Animism: Encyclopedia Ii - Animism - Animism And The Origin Of Religion
Two animistic theories of the origin of religion have been put forward. The one, often termed the "ghost theory," mainly associated with ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pandeism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pandeism - Use Of The Term By Godfrey Higgins
Pandeism (or a Pandæan religion) was originally used by Godfrey Higgins, a historian of religions, [1] to describe a religious society t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pandeism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pandeism - Recent Usage
Today, a small number of philosophers and religious scholars use this term in essays, blogs and internet forums to describe various belie...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Monotheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Monotheism - In Hinduism
In Hinduism, views are broad and range from monism, dualism, pantheism, panentheism, alternatively called monistic theism by some scholar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Immanence: Encyclopedia Ii - Immanence - Of This Entire World
The term "immanence" is usually understood to mean that the divine force, or the divine being, pervades through all things that exist, an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Neopaganism - Concepts Of Divinity
While today's Neopaganism does continue many beliefs and practices of previous forms of Paganism, including many gods and goddesses, it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Neopaganism: Encyclopedia Ii - Neopaganism - Concepts Of Divinity
While today's Neopaganism does continue many beliefs and practices of previous forms of Paganism, including many gods and goddesses, it i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion - Etymology
The origins of the word "religion" have been debated for centuries. Some explanations for the origin of the word are: re-reading--from L...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion - Approaches To The Study Of Individual Religions
Religion - Methods of studying religion subjectively in relation to one's own beliefs. These include efforts to determine the meaning a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion - Development Of Religion
There are several models for understanding how religions develop. Models which view religion as untrue include: The "Dogma Selection Mo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion - Approaches To Relating To The Beliefs Of Others
Adherents of particular religions deal with the differing doctrines and practices espoused by other religions in a variety ways. All stra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion - Religion And Other Approaches To Forming Beliefs About The Nature Of The Universe
Humans have many different methods which attempt to answer fundamental questions about the nature of the universe and our place in it (co...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Religion: Encyclopedia Ii - Religion - Etymology
The origins of the word "religion" have been debated for centuries. Some explanations for the origin of the word are: re-reading--from L...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panentheism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Panentheism
Panentheism The belief that God is all that exists. God is at once the entire universe, and transcends the universe as well. Subtly di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panentheism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Panentheism
Panentheism The belief that God is all that exists. God is at once the entire universe, and transcends the universe as well. Subtly di...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Panentheism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Panentheism
panentheism: "All-in-God doctrine."   The view that the universe is part of the being of God, as distinguished from pa...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pantheism: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Pantheism
pantheism: "All-is-God doctrine."   A term applied to a variety of philosophical position in which God and the world a...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Process Theology: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Process Theology
Process Theology Built on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, process theology is a treaching within liberal Christianity that h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Process Theology: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Process Theology
Process Theology Built on the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead, process theology is a treaching within liberal Christianity that h...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pantheism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Pantheism
Pantheism The belief that all that exists is God and all that exists is God. This God is an all-encompassing, impersonal principle or ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Pantheism: New Age Spirituality Dictionary On Pantheism
Pantheism The belief that all that exists is God and all that exists is God. This God is an all-encompassing, impersonal principle or ...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedanta: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Vedanta
Vedanta: (Sanskrit) "Ultimate wisdom" or "final conclusions of the Vedas." Vedanta is the system of thought embodi...   » Read the article

Dictionary - Vedanta: Hindu - Hinduism Dictionary On Vedanta
Vedanta: (Sanskrit) "Ultimate wisdom" or "final conclusions of the Vedas."   Vedanta is the system of though...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Pantheistic Concepts In Religion
Pantheism - Hinduism. In Hindu theology Moksha and achieving godness is the ultimate, both transcendent and immanent, the absolute infi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Related Concepts
Pantheism - Panentheism. Pantheism has features in common with panentheism, such as the idea that the universe is part of God. Technica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Varieties Of Pantheism
This article distinguishes between two divergent groups of pantheists: Classical pantheism, which is expressed in the immanent God of Ka...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Islam
Islamic Sufism is regarded by some as being influenced by eastern philosophies (Indian and Persian) and has Pantheistic doctrines within ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Debate
Some critics argue that pantheism is little more than a redefinition of the word "God" to mean "existence" "life"or "reality". Many panth...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Pantheism: Encyclopedia Ii - Pantheism - Methods Of Explanation
An oft-cited feature of pantheism is that each individual human, being part of the universe or nature, is part of God. One issue discusse...   » Read the article

Article - Hindu Hinduism Sitemap I - P
This is a sitemap for topic pages related to Hinduism. Click on a link and you will find multiple articles related to the topic:  ...   » Read the article