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tithe
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tithe (from Old English teogothian, tenth”), a custom dating back to Old Testament times and adopted
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Excommunication
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excommunication, defin in canon law as “a censure by which someone is excluded from the communion of
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Morris dance
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Morris dance, ritual folk dance performed in rural England by groups of specially chosen and trained
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Collectivism
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Collectivism, any of several types of social organization in which the individual is seen as being subordinate
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Moses
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Moses, Hebrew MOSHE (fi. c. 14th— 13th century nc), Hebrew prophet, teacher, and leader who delivered
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Tonsure
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tonsure, in various religions, a ceremony of initiation in which some of the hair is clipped from the
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Mosque
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Mosque, Arabic MASJID, place of prayer in IslAm, serving primarily as the centre of community worship
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Hilarion
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Hilarion, Saint (b. c. AD 291, Tabatha, near modern Gaza, Israeli-occupied Egypt—d. 371, Cyprus), monk
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Hindi
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Hindi language, official and most widely spoken language in India, with about 153,729,100 speakers; it
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Caste
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Commensality, caste, an important criterion of the extent of a caste in India and its relative ranking
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Faith
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Faith, Greek PISTIS, Latin FIDES, a religious term for an inner attitude, conviction, or trust relating
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Seder
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Seder (Hebrew: “order”), a religious meal served in Jewish homes on the 15th and 16th of the month of
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Last Judgment
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Last Judgment, a belief in a general, or sometimes individual, judging of the thoughts, words, and deeds
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Holy order
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Holy orders, grades in the ordained ministry of some of the Christian churches, comprising at various
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Homestead Movement
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Homestead Movement, promoted the free ownership of land, mostly in the 18th- and 19th-century U.S., culminating
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Holy Spirit
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Holy Spirit, also called HOLY GHOST (“ghost” being derived from old Germanic words meaning “spirit”),
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Holy Sepulchre
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Holy Sepulchre, the tomb in which Jesus was buried and the name of the church built on the traditional
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