The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1190 page)

 
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Jujutsu
:

see
MARTIAL ARTS
.

 
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Jukai
.

Receiving and granting the precepts (
kai
), the formal initiation into the Zen Buddhist way.

 
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Chin. for
tath
gata
.

 
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(332–63).
Roman emperor from 361, known in Christian tradition as ‘the Apostate’. His religious policy was to oppose Christianity and promote paganism. He also wrote
Against the Christians
(now lost). The story that he died with the words ‘Vicisti, Galilaee‘ (Thou hast conquered, Galilean!’) is a late invention.

 
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(
c.
1342–after 1413).
English mystic. Little is known of her life, except that she probably lived as an anchoress close to St Julian's church in Norwich. On 8 or 13 May 1373, while she was suffering from a severe heart attack, she had a series of fifteen visions relating to the Passion of Christ, followed the next day by a final vision. This she recorded in the shorter text of her
Showings
. More than fifteen years later she had a further revelation, after which she recorded a longer version in which she develops more deeply their significance. From her come the familiar words of consequent trust, ‘All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well’. She also laid great stress on the motherly nature and love of God: ‘God is really our Mother as he is Father’ (cf. FEMINIST THEOLOGY).

 
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