... smallest offering. Offering symbolizes giving up ignorance to the deity for spiritual enlightenment; it is blessed with knowledge, then eaten, through which knowledge enters the body and makes attendees more divine. When offerings are shared, knowledge is shared. During the Prasad ritual, the members sang prayers, which were described by the prayer leader as, "Representations of daily activities that revolve ... ...

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... " relationships with the land and the inherent sacredness they realized through their understanding and dependency in their traditional physical connection to the land. The unity between people, nature, and the divine is a prominent theme of Japanese religion. The religious character of the family is also an important theme, considering the home is the center of religious devotion, and the family is ... ...

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... Calvinism, church and religion was for the exceptional, those of high class with worthier education. Also threatening the Enlightenment were the doctrines of Arminians, preaching that individual free will, not divine decree, was what determined a person's eternal fate, which the Puritans began to intermittently turn towards. The period of Enlightenment accentuated knowledge through human logic and reason, basing religion on the ... ...

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