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E. Michael Pye
Professor of Comparative Religion, Philipps University of Marburg, Germany. Author of Skilful Means: A Concept in Mahayana Buddhism and others.
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James Dickie
Lecturer in Islāmic Studies, University of Lancaster, England, 1969–74. Editor of Dīwān Ibn Shuhaid al-Andalusi.
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religious dress, any attire, accoutrements, and markings used in religious rituals that may be corporate, domestic, or personal in nature. Such dress may comprise types of coverings all the way from the highly symbolic and ornamented eucharistic vestments of Eastern Orthodox Christianity to tattooing, scarification, or body painting of members of nonliterate and contemporary tribal societies. Some types of religious dress may be used to distinguish the priestly from the lay members of a religious group or to signify various orders or ranks within a priesthood. Some religious communities may require that religious personages (e.g., priests, monks, nuns, shamans, priestesses, ...(100 of 7078 words)

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