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Religious terminology are the specialized terms used within the context of a particular religion as largely self-contained language system. Most terms are tied to or else distinguished by cultural differences, and methods for maintaining the meaning of its collective terms over time. Particular terms may express concepts which may be largely unique to that religion, or may otherwise be translatable to concepts present in other religious systems, as well as secular terms.
Aspects of control may include removing inconsistencies and redundancies, as well as suppressing any new or foreign concepts which are deemed out of the religious framework.
Christianese
Christianese (or Bible-speak) refers to the contained and systematic terms and jargon used within the main branches and denominations of Christianity. The term Christianese is an exonym from secular culture to refer to the language of terms used in Christianity as contained and, in some cases, deliberately or effectively uncooperative with secular and foreign terms.
In the developed Christian context, particular terms (inc. names) like God and Christ (or Jesus) as well as more common terms such as faith, truth, and spirit have a rich history of meaning to refer to concepts in spirituality, which Christians may consider to be particular to Christianity, and not available to dissimilar or distantly foreign belief systems. While particular terms may have some functional translatability to concepts in other systems (for example in Buddhism), such translations may typically be controversial outside of the forum of comparative religion. Because terms interoperate in a closed system, Christians may consider the use of such terms outside of Christianity or their particular branch (or denomination) as a distortion.
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