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FA HSIEN (late 4th or early 5th century):
 
FABIANS:
 
FACT:
 
FAITH:
 
FALL OF MAN:
 
FALLACY:
 
FALSIFIABILITY:
 
FALWELL, Jerry (1934):
 
FAMILY OF LOVE:
 
FANON, Franz (1925-1961):
 
FARABI, Abu Nasr Muhammad (d. 950 aged about 80):
 
FAREL, Guillaume (1489-1565):
 
FARRER, Austin Marsden (1904-1969):
 
FARRER, Frederick William (1831-1903):
 
FATE:
 
FATHERHOOD OF GOD:
 
FTIHAH:
 
FATIMA (7th century):
 
FATWA:
 
FERGUSON, Marilyn Grasso (1938-):
 
FESTIVALS:
 
FETISH:
 
FEUERBACH, Ludwig Andreas (1804-1872):
 
FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb (1762-1814):
 
FIDEISM:
 
FILIAL PIETY:
 
FILIOQUE CLAUSE:
 
FINAL CAUSE:
 
FINITE:
 
FINNEY, Charles Grandison (1792-1875):
 
FIQH:
 
FISH:
 
FITNAH:
 
FIVE PILLARS OF ISLAM:
 
FLAGELLATION:
 
FLEW, Anthony (1923-):
 
FLOOD:
 
FLORENCE, COUNCIL OF:
 
FLUX:
 
FOLK RELIGION:
 
FOOD:
 
FORD, Henry (1863-1947):
 
FOREKNOWLEDGE:
 
FORM:
 
FORM CRITICISM:
 
FORM-MATTER GROUNDMOTIVE:
 
FORMAL:
 
FORMGESCHICHTE:
 
FORMLESS:
 
FOSDICK, Harry, Emerson (1878-1969):
 
FOUCAULT, Michel (1926-1988):
 
FOUR HOLY TRUTHS:
 
FOUR NOBEL TRUTHS:
 
FOX, George (1624-1691):
 
FOX, Matthew (1940-):
 
FOXE, John (1516-1587):
 
FRANCIS OF ASSISI (1181?-1226):
 
FRANCIS OF SALES (1567-1622):
 
FRANCISCANS:
 
FRAZER, Sir James George (1854-1941):
 
FREE THINKERS:
 
FREEDOM:
 
FREEMASONRY:
 
FREUD, Sigmund (1856-1940):
 
FRIENDS, SOCIETY OF:
 
FROEBEL, Friedrick Wilhelm August (1782-1852):
 
FROMM, Eric (1900-1980):
 
FRY, Elizabeth (1780-1845):
 
FUNDAMENTALISM:
 
FUNDAMENTALIST:
 
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HALO:

a circle of light surrounding the head or even the entire body. The use of halos in art is found in Greek RELIGION and was taken over by the Romans. In the third century it was adopted by CHRISTIANS in representations of CHRIST and the SAINTS.

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