Wikipedia:Portal:Religion
From Global Warming Art
The following article is a local copy of the Wikipedia article at Portal:Religion. (more info)
Wikipedia portals: Culture · Geography · Health · History · Mathematics · Natural sciences · Philosophy · Religion · Society · Technology
Religion: Adventism · Anglicanism · Atheism · Ayyavazhi · Bahá'í Faith · Baptist · Bible · Book of Mormon · Buddhism · Calvinism · Catholicism · Christadelphians · Christianity · Christianity in China · Indian Christianity · Confucianism · Creationism · Eastern Christianity · Falun Gong · Heathenism · Hellenismos · Hinduism · Hindu Mythology · Islam · Jainism · Judaism · Kabbalah · Latter‑day Saints · Lutheranism · Mahayana Buddhism · Mythology · Nontheism · Occult · Oriental Orthodoxy · Saints · Scientology · Shinto · Sikhism · Spirituality · Sufism · Taoism · Tibetan Buddhism · Vajrayana Buddhism · Wicca · Zoroastrianism
- For a topic outline on this subject, see List of basic topics of religion
| Main page | Categories, Topics & Featured content | WikiProjects & Things you can do |
The Religion Portal In the larger sense, religion is a communal system for the coherence of belief—typically focused on a system of thought, unseen being, person, or object, that is considered to be supernatural, sacred, divine, or of the highest truth. Moral codes, practices, values, institutions, traditions, and rituals are often traditionally associated with the core belief, and these may have some overlap with concepts in secular philosophy. Religion can also be described as a way of life. The development of religion has taken many forms in various cultures. "Organized religion" generally refers to an organization of people supporting the exercise of some religion with a prescribed set of beliefs, often taking the form of a legal entity (see religion-supporting organization). Other religions believe in personal revelation and responsibility. "Religion" is sometimes used interchangeably with "faith" or "belief system," but is more socially defined than that of personal convictions.
Selected article Yoga as a means of spiritual attainment is central to Hinduism (including Vedanta), Buddhism and Jainism and has influenced other religious and spiritual practices throughout the world. Hindu texts establishing the basis for yoga include the Upanishads, the Bhagavad Gita, the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika and many others. The four main paths of Yoga are Karma yoga, Jnana yoga, Bhakti yoga and Raja yoga. In all branches of yoga, the ultimate goal is the attainment of liberation from worldly suffering and the cycle of birth and death (Samsara). Yoga entails mastery over the body, mind, and emotional self, and transcendence of desire. According to the followers, the yogi (masculine) or yogini (feminine) eventually reaches the enlightened state (Moksha) where there is a cessation of thought and an experience of blissful union. This union may be of the individual soul (Atman) with the supreme Reality (Brahman), as in Advaita Vedanta, or with a specific god or goddess, as in Dvaita or dualistic forms of Hinduism and some forms of Buddhism. Selected picture
The Cistercian Abbey of Senanque, home of a Roman Catholic order of enclosed monks looking to cultivate a monastic community in which they could carry out their lives in stricter observance of The Rules of Saint Benedict. Selected religious figure Sikh tradition states that at the age of thirty, Nanak went missing and was presumed to have drowned after going for one of his morning baths to a local stream called the Kali Bein. Three days later he reappeared and would give the same answer to any question posed to him: "There is no Hindu, there is no Muslim" (in Punjabi, "nā kō hindū nā kō musalmān"). It was from this moment that Nanak would begin to spread the teachings of what was then the beginning of Sikhism. Did you know...NewsLatest religion/spirituality Wikinews
On this day...November 4:
Selected quote
Selected scripture The Kojiki was presented by Ō no Yasumaro to Emperor Temmu in CE 680, based upon the events which had been memorized from the previous book, the Kujiki, and by those whom held the stories which had been passed down over generations, as well as stories which had been memorized by Hieda no Are in 712. Despite the fact that many note a difference in some precepts of the Kojiki and similar Chinese stories, it is thought that these may have been stories which had traveled and become known in areas of Japan and China. Nevertheless, the idea that the Kojiki mimics deities descending from China to Japan, is incorrect due to the fact that the Kojiki is a story detailing the creation of deities, and throughout Chamberlain's translation in 1882, the area in which the events were said to have unfolded is not explained, and is thought to occur upon the "island" or land-mass created by Izanami and Izanagi. Related portals
Associated Wikimedia |
