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In both popular and scholarly literature, jihad is primarily assumed to be a monovalent concept referring to militaryarmed combat, and martyrdom shahada is inevitably understood to be of the military kind. It contains entries on all the major and many minor religions, including christianity, judaism, buddhism, hinduism, islam, jainism, shinto, sikhism, and taoism. Culture religion in the us religion in the us the largest christian church in the us is the roman catholic church, followed by the southern baptist convention. There are many different christian churches in the us and the majority of religious americans are protestant christians. A definition of religion, and its uses 203 new king succeeded to the headship of the state, he had to make the offering of a series of rams to the spirit of his predecessor. Central to all religions is a belief that there is a reality that is greater than all the parts of the universe and, in many cases, exists outside the universe.
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