The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1794 page)

 
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Particular Baptists
.

Those
Baptists
committed to the
Calvinistic
doctrine of ‘particular’ redemption for the elect only. The term distinguishes them from the other main group of English Baptists with 17th-cent. origins, the
General Baptists
, who adhered to an
Arminian
theology.

 
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(Skt., ‘daughter of the mountain’). Also called
Um
or Gaur
. A beautiful benign Goddess in Hinduism, the wife of
iva
and daughter of the mountain
Him
laya
whose mythology is found in the
Mah
bh
rata
and the
Pur
as
. Their marriage is a model of male dominance with P
rvat
docilely serving her husband, though this is also a model of the way a mortal should serve the god. Although at one level subservient, there is behind P
rvat
the power of the Goddess (
Dev
) who is thought to be beyond the gods.