Main article: Heresy in JudaismOrthodox JudaismMain article: Heresy in Orthodox JudaismOrthodox Judaism considers views on the part of Jews who depart from traditional Jewish principles of faith heret ...
Main article: Bid‘ahMehdiana Sahib: the martyrdom of Bhai Dayala, a Sikh, by Indian Muslims at Chandni Chowk, India in 1675The Baha'i Faith is considered an Islamic heresy in Iran. To Mughal Emperor ...
Main article: Heresy in ChristianityAccording to Titus 3:10 a divisive person should be warned two times before separating from him. The Greek for the phrase "divisive person" became a technical term ...
The term heresy is from Greek α?ρεσι? originally meant "choice" or "thing chosen", but it came to mean the "party or school of a man's choice" and also referred to that process whereby a young ...
Heresy is any provocative belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. A heretic is a proponent of such claims or beliefs. Heresy is distinct from both apostasy, ...
Exorcism has been a popular subject in fiction, especially horror.Tulasi Dalam (1980 Telugu serial)The Dybbuk (1914 play by S. Ansky)The Exorcist (1971 novel by William Peter Blatty, adapted into the ...
An October 2007 mākutu lifting in the Wellington, New Zealand suburb of Wainuiomata led to the death by drowning of a woman and the hospitalization of a teen. After a long trial, five family members ...
For centuries exorcisms have been controversially argued due to the moral beliefs of an individual. Neurosurgical Exorcisms, otherwise known as psychosurgeries, have in the past offered treatments for ...
Demonic possession is not a valid psychiatric or medical diagnosis recognized by either the DSM-V or the ICD-10. Those who profess a belief in demonic possession have sometimes ascribed to possession ...
Josephus reports exorcisms performed by administering poisonous root extracts and others by making sacrifices. The Dead Sea Scrolls mention that exorcisms were done by the Essene branch of Judaism.In ...
Main article: Exorcism in IslamIn Islam, exorcism is called ruqya. It is used to repair the damage caused by sihr or black magic. Exorcisms today are part of a wider body of contemporary Islamic alter ...
Beliefs and practices pertaining to the practice of exorcism are prominently connected with Hindus. Of the four Vedas (holy books of the Hindus), the Atharva Veda is said to contain the secrets relate ...
Main articles: Exorcism in Christianity and Exorcism in the Catholic ChurchIn Catholic Christianity, exorcisms are performed in the name of Jesus Christ. A distinction is made between a formal exorcis ...
Exorcism (from Greek ?ξορκισμ??, exorkismos - binding by oath) is the practice of evicting demons or other spiritual entities from a person or an area they are believed to have possessed. De ...
Several religious authors throughout history have advanced the notion that the god of the Abrahamic Bible and its sequels is consistent in character with the Devil. They make the case that the Biblica ...
