The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1757 page)

see
S
J
-JI
.

 
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Our Lady
.

Christian reference to Mary, the mother of Jesus, equally familiar in French, Notre Dame.

 
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Outcastes
.

The gravest punishment for a member of any one of the four
var
a
was to be declared an outcaste, and, in former times, this outcasting would be ritually performed against anyone who seriously offended against caste laws. This effectively cut the offender off from social intercourse, religious ritual, economic gain, even home and family. This almost amounted to a sentence of death in some cases. For other categories of outcaste, and for Harijans, see
UNTOUCHABLES
. For those sometimes called ‘the untouchables of Japan’, see
BURAKU(MIN)
.

 
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: see
NEI-TAN
.

 
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