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Wahhābī
Wahhābī, any adherent of the Islamic reform movement founded by Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd al-Wahhāb in the 18th century......
Waldenses
Waldenses, members of a Christian movement that originated in 12th-century France, the devotees of which sought......
Wales, Church in
Church in Wales, independent Anglican church in Wales that changed from the Roman Catholic faith during the Protestant......
Wesleyan Church
Wesleyan Church, U.S. Protestant church, organized in 1968 by the merger of the Wesleyan Methodist Church of America......
Western Schism
Western Schism, in the history of the Roman Catholic Church, the period from 1378 to 1417, when there were two,......
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, conservative Lutheran church in the United States, formed in 1892 as a federation......
Worldwide Church of God
Worldwide Church of God, Adventist church founded in 1933 as the Radio Church of God by Herbert W. Armstrong (1892–1986),......
Worms, Concordat of
Concordat of Worms, compromise arranged in 1122 between Pope Calixtus II (1119–24) and the Holy Roman emperor Henry......
Xi’an monument
Xi’an monument, inscribed stone monument that records the early missionary activity of Nestorian Christians in......
Yazīdī
Yazīdī, member of a Kurdish religious minority found primarily in northern Iraq, southeastern Turkey, northern......
Yoshida Shintō
Yoshida Shintō, school of Shintō that upheld Shintō as a basic faith while teaching its unity with Buddhism and......
Young Christian Workers
Young Christian Workers, Roman Catholic movement begun in Belgium in 1912 by Father (later Cardinal) Joseph Cardijn;......
Zaydiyyah
Zaydiyyah, sect of Shiʿi Muslims owing allegiance to Zayd ibn ʿAlī, grandson of al-Ḥusayn ibn ʿAlī. Zayd was a......
Zen
Zen, important school of East Asian Buddhism that constitutes the mainstream monastic form of Mahayana Buddhism......
Zionist church
Zionist church, any of several prophet-healing groups in southern Africa; they correspond to the independent churches......
Zoe
Zoe, in Eastern Orthodoxy, a semimonastic Greek association patterned on Western religious orders. Founded in 1907......
Ōbaku
Ōbaku, one of the three Zen sects in Japan, founded in 1654 by the Chinese priest Yin-yüan (Japanese Ingen); it......

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