HISTORY OF RELIGIONS

Meaning of HISTORY OF RELIGIONS in English

: the objective study of the origin and historical development of the religions of mankind — compare comparative religion

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

HISTORY — [c mediumvioletred] (as used in expressions) American Museum of Natural History art history history philosophy of {{link=social history">social history
Английский словарь Британика
HISTORY — I. ˈhist(ə)rē, -ri noun ( -es ) Etymology: Latin historia, from Greek historia inquiry, information, narrative, history, from historein to …
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RELIGIONS — plural of religion
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HISTORY — /his"teuh ree, his"tree/ , n. , pl. histories . 1. the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. 2. a …
Random House Webster's Unabridged English Dictionary
HISTORY — noun ( plural -ries ) Etymology: Middle English histoire, historie, from Anglo-French estoire, histoire, from Latin historia, from Greek, inquiry, …
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary
HISTORY — vt to narrate or record. 2. history ·noun a learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts and events, …
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HISTORY — by Prof. Adam Ferguson, L.L.D. Unlike the First Edition of the Encyclopdia Britannica, which defined the subject of history in …
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HISTORY — / ˈhɪstri; NAmE / noun ( pl. -ies ) 1. [ U ] all the events that happened in the …
Oxford Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HISTORY — his ‧ to ‧ ry S2 W1 /ˈhɪst ə ri/ BrE AmE noun ( plural histories ) [ Word Family: …
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
HISTORY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 a continuous, usu. chronological, record of important or public events. 2 a the study of past …
Английский основной разговорный словарь
HISTORY — n. (pl. -ies) 1 a continuous, usu. chronological, record of important or public events. 2 a the study of past …
Concise Oxford English Dictionary
HISTORY — n. (pl. -ies) 1. a continuous, usu. chronological, record of important or public events. 2 a the study of past …
Oxford English vocab
HISTORY — ( histories) Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English. 1. You can refer to …
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
HISTORY
Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary
HISTORY — n. American Museum of Natural History art history history play history philosophy of social history
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
HISTORY — noun 1 the past, esp. as a subject of study ADJECTIVE ▪ contemporary , early , recent ▪ the early …
Oxford Collocations English Dictionary
HISTORY — 1. < operating system > A record of previous user inputs (e.g. to a command interpreter ) which can be …
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RELIGIONS — adj. deeply, profoundly ~
The Bbi Combinatory Dictionary of English - A Guide to Word Combinations
HISTORY — n. 1 account, story, record, description, depiction, portrayal, representation, telling, retelling, recital, narration, narrative, relation, retailing Washington Irving's Knickerbocker's History …
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RELIGIONS — Религии
Большой Англо-Русский словарь
HISTORY — сущ. 1) история; историческая наука to make history ≈ создавать, делать историю to trace the history of smth. ≈ прослеживать …
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HISTORY — history.ogg ʹhıst(ə)rı n 1. история ( последовательность событий ); прошлое to make history - делать /творить/ историю history repeats itself …
Англо-Русско-Английский словарь общей лексики - Сборник из лучших словарей
HISTORY — 1) история; предыстория; изменение во времени; характер протекания, динамика ( процесса ) 2) архив ( данных ) • - actual …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь
HISTORY — 1) история; предыстория; изменение во времени; характер протекания, динамика (процесса) 2) архив (данных) • - actual production history - fatigue precracking history - flight history - …
Большой Англо-Русский политехнический словарь - РУССО
HISTORY — 1) история; предыстория 2) характер протекания (процесса) channel with past history — канал с предысторией history of a system — предыстория системы - history …
Англо-Русский научно-технический словарь
HISTORY — n 1. история ( последовательность событий ); прошлое to make history - делать /творить/ историю history repeats itself - история …
Большой новый Англо-Русский словарь
HISTORY — сущ. 1) история; историческая наука to make history — создавать, делать историю to trace the history of smth. — прослеживать …
Англо-Русский словарь по общей лексике
HISTORY — сущ. 1) история; историческая наука to make history — создавать, делать историю to trace the history of smth. — прослеживать историю чего-л. to distort …
Англо-Русский словарь общей лексики
HISTORY — 1) статистические данные 2) предыстория ( напр. станков определённого вида ) 3) архив данных • - breakage history - calibration …
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства 2
HISTORY — 1) статистические данные 2) предыстория (напр. станков определённого вида) 3) архив данных • - breakage history - calibration history - part history - time history - tool life …
Англо-Русский словарь по машиностроению и автоматизации производства
HISTORY — картина изменения во времени; характер протекания (процесса) - actual production history - history of oil-and-gas reservoirs - life history - load-time history - maintenance history - …
Большой Англо-Русский словарь по нефти и газу
HISTORY — 1) история 2) изменение во времени 3) досье; данные - agrarian history - case history - credit history - economic …
Англо-Русский словарь по экономике и финансам
HISTORY — история; прошлое; совокупность имеющихся фактов - case history - criminal history - employment history - file history - history of criminality - history of delinquency - legal …
Англо-Русский юридический словарь
RELIGIONS — Религии
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
HISTORY — сущ. 1) история; историческая наука to make history ≈ создавать, делать историю to trace the history of smth. ≈ прослеживать …
Новый большой Англо-Русский словарь
RELIGIONS, CLASSIFICATION OF — the attempt to systematize and bring order to a vast range of knowledge about religious beliefs, practices, and institutions. It …
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CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES
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AFRICAN RELIGIONS — Indigenous religions of the African continent. The introduced religions of Islam (in northern Africa) and Christianity (in southern Africa) are …
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
RELIGION — I Relation of human beings to God or the gods or to whatever they consider sacred or, in some cases, …
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THEOLOGY — discipline of religious thought that is restricted in its narrower sense, because of origination and format, to Christianity, but in …
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SALVATION — also called redemption in religion, the deliverance of mankind from such fundamentally negative or disabling conditions as suffering, evil, finitude, …
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SACRIFICE — a religious rite in which an object is offered to a divinity in order to establish, maintain, or restore a …
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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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MONOTHEISM — belief in the existence of one god, or in the oneness of God. As such, monotheism is distinguished from polytheism, …
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MONASTICISM — an institutionalized religious movement whose members attempt to practice works that are above and beyond those required of both the …
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FEAST — also called festival day or period of time set aside to commemorate, ritually celebrate or reenact, or anticipate events or …
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ESCHATOLOGY — the doctrine of last things. It was originally a Western term, referring to Jewish and Christian beliefs about the end …
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DUALISM — in religion, the doctrine that the world (or reality) consists of two basic, opposed, and irreducible principles that account for …
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CREED — an officially authorized, usually brief statement of the essential articles of faith of a religious community, often used liturgically in …
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ANGEL AND DEMON — demon also spelled daemon respectively, any benevolent or malevolent spiritual being that mediates between the transcendent and temporal realms. Throughout …
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ANGEL — primarily in Western religions (i.e., Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity, and Islam), any of numerous benevolent spiritual beings, powers, or principles that …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1999: RELIGION
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1998: RELIGION
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1997: RELIGION: PROTESTANT CHURCHES
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: WORLD-AFFAIRS: SPOTLIGHT — Spotlight: Mexico, the Painful Changes Rarely had a country turned from a showcase into a basket case in such a …
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: RELIGION: PROTESTANT CHURCHES
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YEAR IN REVIEW 1996: RELIGION — BUDDHISM (For figures on Adherents of All Religions by Continent, see Table I; for Adherents in the U.S., see Table …
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LAST JUDGMENT
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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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CHRISTIANITY — major religion, stemming from the life, teachings, and death of Jesus of Nazareth (the Christ, or the Anointed One of …
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ARABIAN RELIGION — beliefs of Arabia comprising the polytheistic beliefs and practices that existed before the rise of Islam in the 7th century …
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YOUR
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WORK — I. verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a business/working lunch (= a lunch during which you also do business ) ▪ …
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