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Watchtower Bible and Tract Society

Religion; General religion

The organisation founded by Charles Taze Russell which publishes the Watchtower and Awake! magazines, and whose followers are called Jehovah's Witnesses -- a high-demand Protestant Christian ...

A female demon who would visit men at night and engage in sexual activity. This belief was commonly held during the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. There were also male demons, called incubi who ...

Trichotomy

Religion; General religion

The belief that a person is composed of three parts: body, soul and spirit. An opposing belief, also justified by reference to biblical passages is Dichotomy: In the field of religion, this is the ...

Trickster

Religion; General religion

Within Native American spirituality, a trickster is a mythical hero who teaches culture, proper behaviour and provides sustenance to the tribe.

Soul sleep

Religion; General religion

The belief that, after death, one's soul sleeps -- and thus the person is unconscious -- until the day of resurrection.

Mystery religion

Religion; General religion

This term is most often used to refer to a group of religions in ancient Greece and Rome which existed in competition with the official state religions. They "...offered personal salvation through ...

Mind control

Religion; General religion

A spiritually abusive environment in which followers of a faith group are manipulated in order to reduce their ability to think critically. The goal is to turn the membership into near robots who are ...