Faith Healing claims have been made by many religions and the sick have visited their shrines in hopes of recovery.I have visited Lourdes in France and Fatima in Portugal, healing shrines of the Chris ...
He had little education, though probably much more than he and his friends pretended. In 1843 he heard lectures in Poughkeepsie on animal magnetism, as the phenomena of hypnotism was then termed, and ...
A tendency emerged amongst British magnetizers to call their clinical techniques mesmerism; they wanted to distance themselves from the theoretical orientation of animal magnetism that was based on th ...
In 1774, Mesmer produced an "artificial tide" in a patient, Francisca ?sterlin, who suffered from hysteria, by having her swallow a preparation containing iron, and then attaching magnets to various ...
Anabaptists ("re-baptizers") and Baptists promote adult baptism, or "believer's baptism". Baptism is seen as an act identifying one as having accepted Jesus Christ as Savior.Early Anabaptists were giv ...
The English word "baptism" is derived indirectly through Latin from the neuter Greek concept noun baptisma (Greek β?πτισμα, "washing-ism"), which is a neologism in the New Testament derived fr ...
The second Great Awakening occurred in several episodes and over different denominations; however, the revivals were very similar. As the most effective form of evangelizing during this period, reviva ...
Mormonism originated in the 1820s in western New York during a period of religious excitement known as the Second Great Awakening. Founded by Joseph Smith, the faith drew its first converts while Smit ...
Miller was a prosperous farmer, a Baptist lay preacher and student of the Bible, living in northern New York, in the region of that state which has come to be known as the Burned-over district.Miller' ...
There is no clear or official boundary between Upstate New York and Downstate New York. Latitude is generally a consideration in whether or not a place is "upstate", as well as elevation and being awa ...
Western New York was still a frontier during the early Erie Canal boom, and professional and established clergy were scarce. Many of the self-taught people were susceptible to enthusiasms of folk reli ...
The term Wicca first achieved widespread acceptance when referring to the religion in the 1960s and 70s. Prior to that, the term Witchcraft had been more widely used. Whilst being based upon the Old E ...
Influences on Golden Dawn concepts and work include: Christian mysticism, Qabalah, Hermeticism, Ancient Egyptian religion, Theurgy, Freemasonry, Alchemy, Theosophy, Astrology, Eliphas Levi, Papus, Joh ...
In modern philosophical use, the term 'phenomena' has come to mean 'what is experienced is the basis of reality'. In Immanuel Kant's Inaugural Dissertation, On the Form and Principles of the Sensible ...
There are six countries with a majority of native speakers of English: the United Kingdom (97%, 64 million), the Republic of Ireland (94%, 4.3 million), Australia (87%, 17 million), New Zealand (82%, ...
