The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1087 page)

 
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Independence Day
(Israel)
:

see
YOM HAATZMA’UT
.

 
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Independents
.

Another name for the English
Congregationalists
.

 
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Index
(type of sign in Pierce's analysis)
:

see
SYMBOLS
.

 
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(Lat., ‘list of prohibited books’). The ‘Index’, the official list of books which Roman Catholics were, in general, forbidden to read or possess. The first Index was issued by the Congregation of the
Inquisition
in 1557. Its last edn. was in 1948, and in 1966 it was finally abolished.

 
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Indian Ecumenical Conference
.

A movement for spiritual renewal among N. American Indians. The meetings began on the Crow Reservation, Montana, in 1970, with those attending coming from Alaska to Florida, and from many religions (
Catholic
,
Protestant
,
Bah
’
, traditional and the new religions of Handsome Lake, and the Native American Church). Attitudes have ranged from emphasis on ‘Red Power’ and anti-white, anti-Christian feelings, to more positive and forward-looking relationships with Christianity and W. culture.

 
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