• Ayyavazhi, a belief system originating from South India, is mentioned in a number of reports by Christian missionaries in the 19th century. In some of...
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    part of the gathering" See the LMS Reports gathered in the article Ayyavazhi in reports by Christian missionaries from the book Religion and Subaltern...
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    religious practices Ayyavazhi publications Ayyavazhi religious studies Anna Dharmam Ayyavazhi in reports by Christian missionaries Thirunamam Main teachings...
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    Tirunelveli and Thoothukkudi by the Tamil Nadu Government. Ayya Vaikundar Ayyavazhi in reports by Christian missionaries N. Amalan's, Ayya Vaikundar Punitha...
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    the Ayyavazhi faith. The Ayyavazhis believe him to be the first and foremost Purna avatar of Eka-Paran and the god Vishnu (Narayana). As per Ayyavazhi mythology...
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    religions. Ayyavazhi and Hinduism are two belief systems in India. Though Ayyavazhi continues to officially exist within Hinduism and is considered by some...
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    of the district are Christian-majority, while the eastern talukas are Hindu-majority. Some of the Hindu population follows Ayyavazhi. Protestants and Catholics...
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  • more effective when missionaries concurred with established cultural traditions and interlaced them into a fundamentally Christian synthesis. Sometimes...
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    large scale conversion lies in the efforts of three groups of people: mariners, merchants and missionaries. ... The missionaries, mostly Sufis, played a major...
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    Druze (category Ethnic groups in Syria)
    established a khān (hostel) in Sidon, the Florentines a consulate, and Christian missionaries were admitted into the country. Beirut and Sidon, which Fakhr-al-Din...
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    of Tanna. The rest of the island has been mostly converted by Christian missionaries based in Sulphur Bay.[better source needed] The religion centering...
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  • According to Taylor, by the early 19th century this Deism-mediated exclusive humanism developed as an alternative to Christian faith in a personal God and...
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  • possessions." Church members in Black Spiritual churches become possessed by spirits of deceased family members, the Holy Spirit, Christian saints, and other biblical...
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    Paul the Apostle and Jewish Christianity (category Mosaic law in Christian theology)
    fellow missionaries. Paul referred to himself as an observant Jew in the letter to the Philippians: If anyone else has reason to be confident in the flesh...
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    mythical figures. Equation between him and the Christian god is common among both missionaries and modern Christian Aboriginals. The Yolngu had extensive contact...
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    important pilgrim centers of Ayyavazhi. These are also considered as the primary Pathis and as worship centers of Ayyavazhi with primary status. The first...
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  • Aceh". The Jakarta Post. Retrieved 2022-08-04. "Missionaries Arrested in Northeast India". Worthy Christian News. 2003-08-15. Retrieved 2018-04-23. "National...
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    and considers friendship to be holy. Hindu reform movements, such as Ayyavazhi, Swaminarayan Faith and Ananda Marga, are examples of new religious movements...
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    worship for Christians or organizations incorporating such ones, the term state church is associated with Christianity as sanctioned by the government...
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    Baháʼí Faith (category Wikipedia articles in need of updating from July 2022)
    July 2022. compiled by Wagner, Ralph D. "NIGER". Synopsis of References to the Baháʼí Faith, in the US State Department's Reports on Human Rights 1991–2000...
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    same word in adjectival form (purgatorius -a -um, cleansing), which appears also in non-religious writing, was already used by Christians such as Augustine...
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  • B. Suneel Bhanu (category Indian Christian theologians)
    in West Bengal. Suneel Bhanu's major contribution was seeing through the publication of the Bibliography of Original Christian Writings in India in Telugu...
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    Tungus dialects as a corruption of this term, and then been told to Christian missionaries, explorers, soldiers and colonial administrators with whom the people...
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  • A. B. Masilamani (category Indian Christian theologians)
    Mar Thoma Syrian Church, one of the Saint Thomas Christian Churches founded by Thomas the Apostle in the first century which holds the annual Maramon...
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  • G. Devasahayam (category Indian Christian theologians)
    participated in the opening of the newly formed Andhra Christian Theological College then located in the same campus of the Lutheran Theological College in Rajahmundry...
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    Scott, Eugenie (1998). ""Science and Religion", "Christian Scholarship", and "Theistic Science"". Reports of the National Center for Science Education. 18...
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    languages in the early Christian era were Latin, Greek, and Syriac (a dialect of Aramaic). The phrase "Jesus, King of the Jews" is reported in the Gospel...
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  • describes the circumstances in which early impressions of Hinduism were reported by colonial era missionaries: "Missionary reports from India also reflected...
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    In such a context, the belief in Ayyavazhi, apart from being a religious system, served also as a reform movement in uplifting the downtrodden of society...
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