Multifaith Glossary Terms

A temple is a house of worship, a sacred space housing the deity or central symbol of the tradition. The Temple in Jerusalem was the holy place of the Jewish people until its destruction by the Romans in 70 CE; now the term “temple” is used by the Reform...

Transgender is a term that refers to a range of unconventional relationships to gender. Transgender people do not identify with the sex and gender roles they were assigned at birth, and they may feel that their psychological gender and physical bodies are...

The World Conference on Religion and Peace (WCRP) was launched in 1968 by religious leaders in the United States, Japan, and India seeking to affirm together their religious commitments to peace, and to find ways of translating that commitment into shared...

(also: 1893 World's Parliament of Religions) The World's Parliament of Religions was held in Chicago in 1893 as part of the World's Columbian Exposition, which celebrated the four-hundreth anniversary of Columbus' discovery of America. At the Parliament...