The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (688 page)

Douai
.

Town in N. France. In the 16th cent., when it formed part of the Spanish Netherlands, Douai was a gathering place for English
recusants
. William Allen established a college there in 1568 to train clergy for the English
mission
, and a translation of the Bible, still known as the Douai version (though much of the work was done at Rheims where the college was from 1578 to 1593, hence Douai-Rheims), was begun there.

 
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Double predestination
(of both condemnation and salvation)
:

see
PREDESTINATION
.

 
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Double truth
(levels of truth appropriate for the capacity of different people)
:

see
IBN RUSHD
.

 
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Douglas, Mary
(anthropologist)
:

see
SACRED AND PROFANE
.

 
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(Russ.). ‘Spirit-fighters’, a Russian sect of unknown origin, which seems to have appeared among peasants in the district of Kharkov, moving later to the Caucasus. They called themselves ‘the People of God’, and were called by their opponents ‘doukhobors’, i.e. spirit wrestlers. Its members believe in one God manifested in the human soul in memory (Father), reason (Son), and will (
Holy Spirit
), have an adoptionist (
adoptionism
) understanding of
Christ
, believe in
transmigration
of the human soul, and adopt an allegorical understanding of the
scriptures
and Christian
dogmas
. They found sympathy from
Tolstoy
, who, with the
Quakers
, arranged for most of them (
c.
8,000) to emigrate to Cyprus and Canada at the end of the 19th cent., where most survive—few only in Russia.

 
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Do ut des
(reciprocal understanding of sacrifice)
:

see
SACRIFICE
.

 
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