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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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TEMPLARS:

a MONASTIC Order of medieval knights founded in 1118 by Hugh de Payens to protect PILGRIMS visiting the HOLY LAND. They became very influential and wealthy and this led to rivalry with other Orders and eventually to charges of immorality and heresy and eventually suppression by King Phillip of France and the POPE in 1312.