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Concise Dictionary of Religion

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RABINIC JUDAISM:

RABI'AH al-ADAWYYA (717-801):

RAD, Gerhard von (1901-1971):

RADCLIFFE-BROWN, Alfred Reginald (1881-1955):

RADHA SOAMI MOVEMENT:

RADHAKRISHNAN, Sarvepalli (1888-1975):

RAHNER, Karl (1904-1984):

RAHULABHADRA [Rhula] (6th century B.C.):

RAIKES, Robert (1735-1811):

RAMAKRISHNA, (1836-1886):

RAMANANDA (13th century):

RAMANUJA (1017-1130?):

RAMANA, Maharshi (1879-1951):

RAND, Ayn (1903-1981):

RATIONALIZATION:

RAUSCHENBUSCH, Walter (1861-1918):

REDUCTIO AD ABSURDUM:

REFORMED CHURCH:

REFORMED JUDAISM:

REID, Thomas (1710-1796):

REIMARUS, Herman Samuel (1694-1768):

RELIGION AND MODERNITY:

RELIGION, TYPOLOGIES OF REACTION TO MODERNITY:

RELIGIONSGESCHICHTED:

RENAN, Joseph Ernest (1823-1892):

RESURRECTION OF CHRIST:

REVITALIZATION MOVEMENTS:

RICCI, Matteo (1552-1610):

RITSCHL, Albrecht (1822-1889):

ROBINSON, John A. T. (1919-1983):

ROMAN CATHOLICISM:

ROUSSEAU, Jean-Jacques (1712-1778):

ROY, RAM MOHAN (1774-1833):

RUSHDOONY, Rousas John (1916-):

RUSKIN, John (1819-1900):

RUSSELL, Bertrand Arthur William Earl (1872-1970):

RUSSELL, Charles Taze (1852-1916):

RUTHERFORD, Joseph Franklin, "Judge" (1869-1941):

RUTHERFORD, Samuel (1600-1661):

RYLE, Gilbert (1900-1976):

RYLE, John Charles, "J. C." (1816-1900):

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RAMANUJA (1017-1130?):

HINDU philosopher and leading opponent of AKARA whom he attacked for moral laxity and intellectual confusion. He taught a modified version of MONISM which acknowledged GOD and the separate SPIRITS of men as well as the material world or non-spirit. The spirits of men he regarded as essentially different from GOD who is both the CREATOR and material out of which the world is formed. He taught that periodically human spirits are reabsorbed into God and distinguished five ways or stages of WORSHIP each being higher than the other.