Religion

Religion is a social-cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that relates humanity to supernatural, transcendental, and spiritual elements. However, there is no scholarly consensus over what precisely constitutes a religion.Different religions may or may not contain various elements ranging from the divine, sacred things, faith, a supernatural being or supernatural beings or "some sort of ultimacy and transcendence that will provide norms and power for the rest of life". Religious practices may include rituals, sermons, commemoration or veneration (of deities and/or saints), sacrifices, festivals, feasts, trances, initiations, funerary services, matrimonial …

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4 May 2022 English

State leaders in Eastern Europe, Berlin Mayors, United Kingdom Prime Ministers and Foreign Secretaries, Politicians and Statesmen, Ambassadors, Other Eastern European Figures

East European Figures Miscellaneous Military Religion Writers, artists, and intellectuals Alfred Dartsch


4 May 2022 English

Editorial description of the content of Cold War Eastern Europe

Culture ● Military ● Populations and Social Policy ● Religion ● Science and Technology ● Second World War Aftermath


4 May 2022 English

Cold War Eastern Europe provides access to thousands of files from the political departments of the U.K. Foreign Office responsible for dealing with and reporting on the Soviet Union and …

agreements; scientific progress to minority populations; religion to sporting events; and state-run media to popular


UEA: University of East Anglia · 1 January 2018 English

When my students read the story “Careless Talk,” they often see the discussion of food as a sort of deceptively innocuous backdrop for the more serious matters in the story …

can’t say – they are actually about death, or religion). These interpretations aren’t wrong, per se,


1 January 2017 English

Soon after the Allies defeated Germany in World War II, the country became the central battleground of the Cold War between the communist East and democratic, capitalist West. To prevent …

like the F.R.G. – freedom of speech, assembly, religion, press, etc. – lived in buildings that were falling


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English



The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

A file of documents concerning political asylum cases in Czechoslovakia. Subjects discussed in the file include requests to Britain for asylum by Ethiopian students in Czechoslovakia; the removal of an …

well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social Occupation . , P t a S e i t f . . . , 0 . R.C. | Religion I * V „ • Children * - .. K/a .. ...


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English

in May of a new dissident religious magazine "Religion in the Contemporary World". CONFIDENTIAL Chronology dissidents. New underground religious magazine "Religion in the Contemporary World" launched. 30 Western


The National Archives · 1 January 1982 English


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