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	Vision (religion) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In religion, visions comprise inspirational renderings, generally of a future state and/or of a mythical being, and are believed (by followers of the religion) to come from a deity, directly or indirectly via prophets, and serve to inspire or prod believers as part of a revelation or an epiphany.
		Artistic inspiration may provide a special category of the ecstatic vision: traditionally in such cases the semi-divine Muses may transmit the visioning to their loyal followers.
		Entheogens have traditionally assisted in the generation of visions among diverse cultures, as well as in modern western culture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vision_(religion) (209 words)

	Vision quest - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In traditional Lakota culture the Hanblecheyapi (vision quest, literally "crying for a vision") is one of seven main rites.
		Vision quest preparations involve a time of fasting, the guidance of a tribal Medicine Man and sometimes ingestion of natural entheogens; this quest is undertaken for the first time in the early teenage years.
		Generally a physical representation of the vision or message such as a feather, fur or a rock is collected and placed in the seeker's medicine bag to ensure the power of the vision will stay with the individual to remind, protect or guide him.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vision_quest_(mysticism) (535 words)

	Transmitting a Vision: Religion in Independent Schools
		The Council for Religion in Independent Schools works with some 500 schools across the country, kindergarten through grade 12, of varying denominations or of no denominational tradition, and of different educational philosophies, as they seek to develop the religious and ethical dimensions of education.
		Religion teachers in highly competitive, academically elite institutions, where students possess considerable knowledge of history, science and computers, find themselves doing remedial work in the study of religion.
		Whether it be ordained clergy on the staff or teachers who embody the life and vision of a school, adults in schools are engaging in a tremendous, pioneering ministry.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=833 (1981 words)

	The Case against Science (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Religion essentially is a system that insists on order and that fits in with property ownership, honesty, fairness and other values that became prominent when the practice of trade started to replace force as the means to success.
		Religion and science both offer explanations and predictions; but scientists admit that they can be wrong, they share data and conclusions, repeat each other's tests and jointly go over the findings; after all scientists are all supposed to be looking for the same truth.
		Religion claims to know the full truth; most scientists merely claim to know part of the truth and to be looking at facts to complete their knowledge.
	www.optionality.net /mag/jul96c.html (1538 words)

	Religion Quotes \| Religion Quotations \| Religion Sayings \| Wisdom Quotes
		Religion and science both profess peace (and the sincerity of the professors is not being doubted), but each always turns out to have a dominant part in any war that is going or contemplated.
		Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world and the soul of soulless conditions.
		Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.
	www.wisdomquotes.com /cat_religion.html (4052 words)

	A Religious Vision for the 21st Century
		A second strategy of religions is ameliorative action, such as charity to the poor, food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, and so on.
		A fourth action of religions is inaction -- withdrawing from the crucial issues of the world.
		The role of religion in addressing the global crises of the twenty-first century needs to be examined in the context of local and global communities.
	www.wnrf.org /cms/vision21.shtml (1970 words)

	Boston Review: WALLIS (Word5)
		Prophetic religion is an alternative to the dominant conservative and liberal forms of religion, which have both become culturally captive forces that merely cheer on the ideological camps with which they are now identified.
		At the core of prophetic religion is transformation -- a change of heart, a revolution of the spirit, a conversion of the soul that issues forth in new personal and social behavior.
		Social visions and dreams thus will be rooted in our core values, derived from our religious and cultural traditions, and based in the moral sensibilities we still possess and the memory of basic values still in our collective consciousness.
	www.bostonreview.net /BR20.1/wallis.html (3728 words)

	attente
		One is the eminent sociologist of religion Emile Durkheim (1858-1917).
		The religion of any clan contained everything that is generally associated with the notion of religion such as beliefs, rites, festivals, code of conduct, records of history (remembered or recorded) and a system of religious instruction.
		From religions in their primordial form which are actually religions exclusive to people of one race or region, we have now to pass on to those called "major religions" and which are spread out in many lands.
	perso.wanadoo.fr /jacques.abbatucci/fernando.htm (19923 words)

	Toward a Definition of Religion
		A normative definition of religion is not possible, since the very question of who or what has the authority to establish the nature of religion is at issue.
		Religion is a means of focusing attention on what is supremely valuable or of “transcendent importance” (Whitehead), so that one may find direction in confusion and stability in chaos.
		Religion is rooted in a strong sense of the vulnerability of human life, a vulnerability which can be experienced as moral condemnation, as well as anxiety about the fragility of life itself.
	www.coloradocollege.edu /Dept/RE/people/weddle/IntroRel01/Definition.htm (3072 words)

	Vision - Psychology Central (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Vision statement, A corporate long-term goal - not to be confused with a mission statement (extending the religious metaphor).
		Vision (York), one of the student newspapers of the University of York.
		Visions (Libera), the fourth album released by the singing group, Libera.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Vision (230 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Religion is not some isolated affectation of the personality nor is it a limited set of beliefs, doctrines or codes about some discrete phenomenon such as the existence of God, the divinity of Jesus or the possibility of miracles.
		Religion is, instead, that whole, integral, comprehensive vision we have of ourselves in relation to that which we recognize as the basic condition, the fundamental bedrock, of our own existence.
		Culture is the inescapable basis and matrix of religion; religion is the unavoidable synthesis or integral vision without which a culture would dissolve and its members would lose all sense of purpose and meaning.
	smith2.sewanee.edu /courses/391/LecEarlySouth/ReligionAndCulture.html (487 words)

	Journal of Religion & Film: The Rapture: A Challenging Vision of Horror by Carl Greiner
		Religion traditionally has served an important role against such fears, by providing comfort and solace in times of loss.
		Tolkin’s vision would be closer to the ancient Greek notions of either the chthonic deities (the gods of the underworld) or the Fates (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos).
		Using religion as a way to horrify is a particularly effective because of the elements of permanence and surprise.
	www.unomaha.edu /jrf/greiner.htm (2735 words)

	Native Americans
		Even for those who do seek the wisdom of this pantheism, a true understanding of Indian religion and philosophy will always remain far from our grasp, as much is a mystery.
		Extensive reading about any Indian culture's religion or philosophy will no doubt bring forward differing views, to the extent that one elder or holy man may directly contradict another on any given topic.
		The following writings are intended as a brief introduction to some traditional concepts of Lakota belief and religion and are based largely in the sources named above and focus on the 19th and early 20th century teachings, rather than any contemporary writings.
	www.thewildwest.org /native_american/religion (351 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Religion for James is experiential: "the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine (p.
		If we all witness the vision and the photographic and tape evidence corroborates it -- we will be pressed to prove to others that what we collectively witnessed was extra-natural.
		If only one of us witnesses the vision -- Norm say -- and Norm relates his "genuine experience" to us--as much as we respect Norm's honesty; and as much as he believed in the actuality of the vision; none of us could corroborate what Norm saw.
	www.mala.bc.ca /~mcneil/lec/jamesw2.txt (1341 words)

	Religion in Bergonia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		It is a "psychological" religion, like Buddhism, holding that human psychology is defective, easily becoming warped and weak through bad living, and that humans can achieve real vision through good living, prayer and devotion.
		Miradi is the simplest of religions, eschewing doctrine and ritual in favor of prayer and meditation.
		In modern capitalist societies religion is irrelevant to dominant marketing priorities, and even inimical to them, and thus corporate-controlled media has virtually banned all mention of God and all religious themes.
	www.bergonia.org /Religion.htm (837 words)

	Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Chiu, Frances A. "Religion and Romantic (Re)Vision — A Special Issue of Romanticism on the Net." Romanticism On the Net 25 (February 2002): 11 pars.
		When drafting his essay, "Romanticism and Classicism," in the early 1900s, T. Hulme referred to Romanticism as "spilt religion," that is, an outlet for religious instincts when "you don't believe in a God" (118).
		In "Healing the Spirit: William Blake and Magnetic Religion," Robert Rix probes Blake's ambivalence towards Swedenborgianism, from interest in the 1780s to rejection in the early 1790s and, finally, to qualified acceptance toward 1800.
	www.erudit.org /revue/ron/2002/v/n25/008599ar.html (1433 words)

	From Justice Scalia, a Chilling Vision of Religion’s Authority in America
		Justice Scalia's remarks show bitterness against democracy, strong dislike for the Constitution's approach to religion and eager advocacy for the submission of the individual to the state.
		The only extended discussion of religion in the Federalist Papers has James Madison listing zeal in religious opinion as one of "the latent causes of faction" that cause men "to vex and oppress each other" and that need institutional checks.
		In 1781 a Massachusetts minister, Jonas Clark, preached that religion is "the source of liberty, the soul of government and the life of a people." But ever since the Revolution, this has been a minority view, even an eccentric one, among Americans.
	www.commondreams.org /views02/0708-03.htm (1413 words)

	GLOBAL VISION : SCIENCE & THE SACRED : DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		A neutral space for religious leaders, representatives, teachers and students from world religions and other spiritual traditions to meet with leading scientists, intellectuals and activists, for mutual learning and discussion.
		Participation of world-class thinkers in comparative religion and mythology, anthropology, cultural history, psychology, psychiatry, neuroscience, epistemology, quantum physics, astronomy, astrophysics, biology, ecology, systems theory, economics and international development.
		The right of Global Vision to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents acts, 1988, United Kingdom.
	www.global-vision.org /sacred/design.html (500 words)

	News and Reports - The Rule of Law Must Be Upheld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The failure to observe this distinction leads to the absurd presumption that all government action in matters of religion is somehow inherently a contravention of individual freedom.
		Though it may be argued that matters of religion ought to be left entirely to individuals for decision, this has the effect of establishing in the public realm a regime of indifference to religion.
		When, by their careless and contradictory abuse of the Fourteenth amendment, the Federal judges and justices arrogate to themselves the power, which, by the first and tenth amendments the Constitution reserves to the states, they deprive the nation of this prudent and logically balanced approach to the issue of religious establishment.
	www.visionforumministries.org /sections/hotcon/ht/interposition/2003-08-25_allen_keyes.asp (3581 words)

	Religion and Liberty: From Vision to Politics
		Novak held the George Frederick Jewett chair in religion and public policy at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C. at the time this article was written.
		But their alternative to a society with an established religion was neither a society with no religion at all nor a secular society.
		When religion is saddled with direct political responsibilities its judgments necessarily become political as well as religious.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=955 (2219 words)

	Vision - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Visions (Magic: The Gathering) an expansion to the Magic: The Gathering collectible card game
		Visions-A Tribute to Burzum, a tribute album to the band Burzum
		This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Vision (141 words)

	www.Vision-Divine.com :: Egreetings, Ecards, Parsi New Year, Navroze, Saal Mubarak, Khordad Saal, Ahura Mazda, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Zoroastrianism was the dominant religion of the Persian Empires based on the scriptures, the Avestas, and dealing with devotion to Ahura Mazda, the one god.
		Zoroastrianism was the dominant world religion during the Persian empires (559 BC to 651 AC), and was thus the most powerful world religion at the time of Jesus.
		It was the dominant religion there until the seventh century A.D., when Arab forces took control of the land.
	www.vision-divine.com (254 words)

	AAR/SBL Joint Ventures :: MEETING
		In this paper, I propose to explore the advantages and disadvantages of Nishida's non-dualistic philosophy of religion in a comparative discourse and through the lens of the second generation of the Kyoto school philosophers such as Nishitani Keiji and Miki Kiyoshi.
		I shall attempt to prove that Nishida arrived at his vision of dialectical world independent of the Huayan thought; I will also discuss similarities and differences between Nishida's dialectical vision and the Huayan doctrine of jijimuge.
		Nishida's insight into reality, shaped by his knowledge of Zen Buddhism, led him to a universally Mahayanin position, which views concrete happenings in the world as radically interdependent, while these happenings arise independently of one another, and freely, of which worldview the Huayan doctrine is yet another articulation.
	www.ssjr.unc.edu /aara118.htm (628 words)

	Bruce Eisner's Vision Thing: Religion
		Virus was originally created to compete with the traditional (irrational) religions in the human ideosphere with the idea that it would introduce and propagate memes which would ensure the survival and evolution of our species.
		The paper, published in the Journal of Religion and Society, a US academic journal, reports: “Many Americans agree that their churchgoing nation is an exceptional, God-blessed, shining city on the hill that stands as an impressive example for an increasingly skeptical world.
		These visions of the rational instrumental consciousness are still far from a four dimensional, space-free and time-free existence, and are quite at odds with Gebser's sense of the integral.
	bruceeisner.typepad.com /new_culture/religion (8829 words)

	spirit
		Religion does not have to be just about judgement and fear, but about hope and self-acceptance and envisioning a better world.
		The ultimate aim of the journal is to promote the reconceptualization of the study of Judaism, by acknowledging and incorporating the roles played by women, and by encouraging the development of alternative research paradigms.
		Priests for Equality is "a movement of women and men throughout the world---laity, religious and clergy---who work for the full participation of women and men in the church and in society." Their site is part of the Quixote Center for Social Justice, which is also worth a look....
	chicanas.com /spirit.html (1792 words)

	Jan-Aage Torp :: Pastor's Olympic 'vision' spurs debate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		An Oslo pastor from an evangelical Christian movement claims he had a vision in May that the upcoming Summer Olympics in Athens would result in a "bloodbath." The pastor's remarks have sparked criticism from other Christian leaders and even a local bishop.
		The pastor, Jan-Aage Torp of the movement called "Oslochurch Apostolic Generation" (Oslokirken), claims he initially kept quiet about the vision he had that there would be a "bloodbath" at the Olympics.
		He says his vision came during a prayer session with 11 others one day in May, and he regretted not speaking up about it at once.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /8199-Pastor_s_Olympic__vision__spurs_debate.html (519 words)

	HDS - Press Release - 2005-2006 WSRP Associates (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		They are Gannit Ankori of Hebrew University, in religion and society; Rosemary Carbine of the College of the Holy Cross, in theology; Constance Furey of Indiana University, in history of Christianity; Shahla Haeri of Boston University, in religion and society; and Jia Jinhua of the City University of Hong Kong, in world religion.
		Ankori's project, "A Faith of Their Own: Women Artists Re-vision Religion," is a comparative investigation of the vital role played by religious symbols, images, and rituals in the work of several influential twentieth-century women artists.
		Haeri will assess the changing relationship between the state, religion, and women in Iran in "Religion, Politics, and Women in Iran: Edging Toward Democracy?" And in "The Roles and Images of Taoist Priestesses in Medieval China," Ja Jinhua will study the society and literature of the Tang dynasty (618-907) in China.
	www.hds.harvard.edu /news/pr/wsrp_2005-06.html (633 words)

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