Caodaism (/ ˌ k aʊ d aɪ z m / Vietnamese: Đạo Cao Đài, Chữ Hán: 道高臺) is a monotheistic [disputed – discuss] syncretic new religious movement officially established in the city of Tây Ninh in southern Vietnam in 1926. The full name of the religion is Đại Đạo Tam Kỳ Phổ Độ (The Great Faith [for the] Third Universal Redemption). ...

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Faith, derived from Latin fides and Old French feid, is confidence or trust in a person, thing, or concept. In the context of religion, one can define faith as "belief in God or in the doctrines or teachings of religion". Religious people often think of faith as confidence based on a perceived degree of warrant, while others who are more skeptical of religion tend to think of faith as …

Manichaeism (/ ˌ m æ n ɪ ˈ k iː ɪ z əm /; in New Persian آیینِ مانی Āyīn-e Mānī; Chinese: 摩尼教; pinyin: Mó ní jiào) is a former major religion founded in the 3rd century CE by the Parthian prophet Mani (CE 216–274), in the Sasanian Empire.. Manichaeism teaches an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an ...

Calvinism (also called the Reformed Tradition, Reformed Protestantism or Reformed Christianity) is a major branch of Protestantism that follows the theological tradition and forms of Christian practice set down by John Calvin and other Reformation-era theologians.It emphasises the sovereignty of God and the authority of the Bible.. Calvinists broke from the Roman Catholic …

The Druze are a distinct monotheistic Abrahamic religion and ethno-religious group that developed in the 11th century CE originally as an offshoot of Ismāʿīlīsm. The Druze faith further split from Ismāʿīlīsm as it developed its own unique doctrines, and finally separated from both Ismāʿīlīsm and Islam altogether; [19] these include ...

Jethro, Moses' non-Hebrew father-in-law, is a central figure, particularly in the rites and pilgrimages, of the Druze religion. He is called Shuayb and viewed as the most important prophet for the Druze.. Nabi Shuʿayb is the site recognized by Druze as the tomb of Shuʿayb. It is located in Hittin in the Lower Galilee and is the holiest shrine and most important pilgrimage site for the …

Theophany (from Ancient Greek (ἡ) θεοφάνεια theophaneia, meaning "appearance of a deity") is a personal encounter with a deity, that is an event where the manifestation of a deity occurs in an observable way. Specifically, it "refers to the temporal and spatial manifestation of God in some tangible form." Where the deity does not take tangible form (outward manifestation), the ...

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Druze faith. Druze began migrating to the United States in the late 1800s from the Levant (Syria and Lebanon). Druze emigration to the Americas increased at the outset of the 20th century due to the famine during World War I that killed an estimated one third to one half of the population, the 1860 Mount Lebanon civil war, and the Lebanese ...