The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1094 page)

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INRI
.
The initial letters of the Latin words
Iesus Nazarenus Rex Judaeorum
(‘Jesus of Nazareth the King of the Jews’). These words, according to John 19. 19 f.), were written over the cross of Jesus in Hebrew, Latin and Greek.
Ins
n al-K
mil
(the Perfect Man)
:
Insang
.
Korean for
mudra
.
Insh’Allah
(‘if God wills it’)
:
see
QADAR
.
Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary
.
Christian religious order for women, founded by Mary Ward (1585–1645) in 1611. She believed that the vocation of women cannot be confined to enclosed orders, and she therefore adopted the constitutions of the
Jesuits
(Society of Jesus) as the basis for her Institute. It was known also as the Institute of the English Ladies, les Dames anglaises, or more dismissively as the Galloping Girls. They were strongly opposed by the papacy and were eventually suppressed. They did not receive papal approval until 1877.

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