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Southern Baptist Convention with 16.2M members. 2nd largest is United Methodist Church with 7.8M members.
Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar
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~ Bar Mitzvah.
It's not actually the ceremony; nor does it indicate "full membership" in Judaism. As soon as a Jewish baby is born, it is a full-fledged Jew. When a boy turns 13 years old, he is called a "bar mitzvah" meaning "son of mitzvah". When a Jewish boy becomes a bar mitzvah, it means that he is old enough to be obligated with the religious responsibilities of an adult and this includes being called up to read from the Torah.
presbyterian
The Presbyterian church is the major denomination that can be traced to Calvin, but all churches of a Reformed heritage connect with Calvin (Church of Scotland, Dutch Reformed, etc.)
Shintoism is most concerned with the things that happen in this world.
the Golden Age of Poetry
the superfluous man
The candelabra used during Hanukkah actually holds 9 candles and is called a Hannukiah (Hanukkah-menorah).
about 200 BC until the beginning of the twentieth century....
heredity
Eastern Catholic Churches.
Catholic.
congregationalist
The focus of the yin and yang is to find a balance in nature.
Shavuot "sha-VOO-ote" in Hebrew. The word means "Weeks", probably because of
the holiday's timing: It's the only holiday in the Torah without a date of its own,
defined only as commencing seven weeks after the beginning of Passover.
In 2011, Shavuot begins at sunset on Tuesday, June 7.
