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Concise Dictionary of Religion

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DEAD SEA SCROLLS:

DEATH OF GOD THEOLOGY:

DELPHIC ORACLE:

DEMYTHOLOGIZATION:

DEUTERO-ISAIAH:

DIALECTICAL MATERIALISM:

DIALECTICAL THEOLOGY:

DISPENSATIONALISM:

DIVINE KINGSHIP:

DIVINE LIGHT MISSION:

DIVINE RIGHT OF KINGS:

DOME OF THE ROCK:

DONATION OF CONSTANTINE:

DORT, SYNOD OF:

DOUBLE PROCESSION:

DUKKHA (Pali) or DUHKHA (Sanskrit):

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MARTIN, David (1939-):

English SOCIOLOGIST who was one of the first writers to challenge the SECULARIZATION THESIS of the 1960s. His work includes A Sociology of English Religion (1967), The Religious and the Secular (1969), and A General Theory of Secularization (1978).