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(Buddhist) :
    see BALA .
     
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Five precepts (Buddhist) :
    see LA .
     
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Five Ranks (school of Ch’an/Zen Buddhism) :
    see TS’AO-TUNG .
     
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Five Scrolls (books of Hebrew scriptures) :
    see SCROLLS .
     
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Five species .
    Varieties of cereals or grains which are indigenous to the land of Israel, and are therefore subject to biblical and rabbinic laws governing such produce.
     
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Five virtues (Hindu virtues) :
    see APARIGRAHA .
     
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Five virtues (in Confucianism) :
    see WU-CH’ANG .
     
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Five vows (Jain) :
    see FIVE GREAT VOWS .
     
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Five ways (arguments pointing to the existence of God) :
    see QUINQUE VIAE .
     
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Fletcher, J. (exponent of Situation Ethics):
    see ETHICS (CHRISTIANITY).
     
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Flight of the alone to the Alone :
    see NEOPLATONISM .
     
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Flirty fishing (conversion technique of The Family) :
    see CHILDREN OF GOD .
     
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Flood .
    Deluge described in Genesis 6. 1–9. 18. For the flood of Manu in India, see PRALAYA .
     
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Florenz, Karl A.
    (1865–1939).
German scholar in the early 20th cent. who translated the ancient Shinto texts into German and wrote extensively on Shinto and Japanese religion and literature.
     
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Flower contemplation (‘arrangement’, Japanese religious practice) :
    see IKEBANA .
     
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Fo .
    Chin. for buddha .
     
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Folk religion .
    1 Religion which occurs in small, local communities which does not adhere to the norms of large systems. Folk-urban typology was developed by Robert Redfield as a basis for the comparison of societies, and for the study of urbanization.

2 In a wider sense, folk religion is the appropriation of religious beliefs and practices at a popular level. This may occur as much in urban as in rural environments, and may also be the way in which individuals or groups belonging to mainstream religions practise their religion: it may be at considerable variance from what is officially supposed to be the case, and is thus also referred to as non-official religion.
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Fools :
    see HOLY FOOLS .
     
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Footprint of the Buddha :
    see PILGRIMAGE (BUDDHIST).
     
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Forgiveness :
    see ATONEMENT .
     
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Formgeschichte (form criticism) :
    see FORM CRITICISM .
     
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Forty hours devotion .
    A Christian (mainly Roman Catholic) adoration of the blessed sacrament in a monstrance (i.e. exposed to view).
     
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Forty Martyrs of England and Wales .
    Forty Roman Catholics from England and Wales put to death between 1535 and 1680. The group is representative of a larger number of martyrs. They were canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970: feast day, 25 Oct.
     
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Foucauld, C. de (founder of Little Brothers) :
    see DE FOUCAULD, C.
     
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Four certainties (Hindu) :
    see VAIARADYA .
     
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Four Foundations (Buddhist) :
    see SATIPAHNA .
     
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Four goals of life (among Hindus) :
    see PURURTHA .
     
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Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse .
    Biblical figures signalling the beginning of the messianic age. They occur in Revelation 6.
     
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Four Kings/Guardians (four world protectors in Buddhism) :
    see CELESTIAL KINGS .
     
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Four last things .
    The Christian awareness of the ultimate realities awaiting humanity and the cosmos. They are the second coming of Christ, the day of judgement, heaven, and hell,