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Charles Sprague Pearce: Religion
Detail of Religion, mural in lunette from the Family and Education series...
Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. (Digital File Number: LC-DIG-highsm-02028)
William James
William James.
Courtesy of the Harvard University News Service
St. Augustine
St. Augustine, fresco by Sandro Botticelli, 1480; in the Church of Ognissanti, Florence.
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Karl Jaspers
Karl Jaspers, 1968.
Horst Tappe/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Agni
Agni with characteristic symbol of the ram, wood carving; in the Guimet Museum, Paris
Giraudon/Art Resource, New York
Amida
Great bronze Amida (Daibutsu), the Buddha of the Pure Land, 1252; at Kamakura, Japan.
Asuka-en, Japan
Isis and Osiris
Isis (right) and Osiris.
Judie Anderson/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
the gods on Olympus
The gods on Olympus: Athena, Zeus, Dionysus, Hera, and Aphrodite. Detail of a painting...
Alinari/Art Resource, New York
Vishnu and Lakshmi
Vishnu with his consort Lakshmi, from the temple dedicated to Parsvanatha in the...
© Anthony Cassidy
Ahura Mazdā
Ahura Mazdā, symbol from Persepolis, Iran.
© radiokafka/stock.adobe.com
Ludwig Feuerbach
Ludwig Feuerbach.
© adoc-photos—Corbis/Getty Images
Cairo: Blue Mosque
Blue Mosque in Cairo.
© Khaled El-Adawi/stock.adobe.com
Ahmedabad: Jāmiʿ Masjid
Worshippers praying at the Jāmiʿ Masjid (Great Mosque), Ahmedabad, Gujarat state,...
© sabirmallick—E+/Getty Images