CULTS

Meaning of CULTS in English

plural of cult

Webster's New International English Dictionary. Новый международный словарь английского языка Webster. 2012

CULTS — County: Dumfries and Galloway Post Code: DG8
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CULTS — Культы
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CULTS — Религиозный культ
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CULTS — Культы
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MYSTERY CULTS — [Other] In ancient Rome, cults were certain elements of eastern religions were combined with elements of Greek and Roman religions. …
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DEATH CULTS — [Other] The veneration of the dead plays an important role in mythology and (nature) religions. It is inspired by fear …
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MYSTERY RELIGION — Any of various secret cults of the Greco-Roman world. Derived from primitive tribal ceremonies, mystery religions reached their peak of …
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DEUTERONOMIC REFORM — Religious reformation in Judah during the reign of King Josiah (с 640–609 BC). As Assyria's hold on Israel weakened, Josiah …
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CULT — ˈkəlt noun ( -s ) Etymology: French & Latin; French culte, from Latin cultus care, cultivation, culture, adoration, from cultus, …
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SACRED KINGSHIP — religio-political concept that views a ruler as an incarnation, manifestation, mediator, or agent of the sacred or holy (the transcendent …
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RELIGION, STUDY OF — attempt to understand the various aspects of religion, especially through the use of other intellectual disciplines. The history of mankind …
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MYSTERY RELIGION — any of various secret cults of the Greco-Roman world that offered to individual initiates a mode of religious experience not …
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HEALING CULT — religious group or movement that places major, or even exclusive, emphasis on the treatment or prevention by nonmedical means of …
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DRUG CULT
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CARGO CULT — any of the religious movements chiefly, but not solely, in Melanesia that exhibit belief in the imminence of a new …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1998: DISASTERS — Disasters The loss of life and property from disaster in 1997 included the following: Aviation January 9, Near Detroit. A …
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SOUTHEAST ASIAN ARTS — the literary, performing, and visual arts of Southeast Asia. Although the cultural development of the area was once dominated by …
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RIZALIST CULT — any of numerous ethnic religious groups in the Philippines that believe in the divinity of Jos Rizal, the national hero …
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OCEANIC ARTS
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MELANESIA — one of the traditional ethnogeographic groupings of the Pacific Islands, including (generally from west to east) the island of New …
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KABIR — born 1440, Varanasi, Jaunpur, India died 1518, Maghar Indian mystic and poet who attempted to bridge or unite Hindu and …
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JOSIAH — also spelled Josias, king of Judah (c. 640609 BC), who set in motion a reformation that bears his name and …
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INDIA, FLAG OF — horizontally striped orange-white-green national flag with a 24-spoked blue chakra(wheel) in the centre. The flag's width-to-length ratio is 2 to …
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HINDUISM — the beliefs, practices, and socioreligious institutions of the Hindus (originally, the inhabitants of the land of the Indus River). Introduced …
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HELLENISTIC RELIGION — any of the various systems of beliefs and practices of eastern Mediterranean peoples from 300 BC to AD 300. The …
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GREEK RELIGION — the complex of beliefs and practices that constituted the interrelation of the ancient Greeks and their gods. Lasting over a …
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GHOST DANCE — either of two distinct cults in a complex of late 19th-century religious movements that represented an attempt of Indians in …
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EGYPTIAN RELIGION
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BUDDHISM
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ARTEMIS — in Greek religion, the goddess of wild animals, the hunt, and vegetation, and of chastity and childbirth; she was identified …
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CULT — I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a cult hero (= someone who a particular group of people admire ) ▪ …
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