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Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - mrbigstuff - 09-30-2007
I was asked about religious holidays and my curiosity was piqued since I do not know much about the subject. I found information on school holidays (allowable absences) but the question is really which religion recognizes the most days per calendar year in some official capacity (Gregorian calendar, I guess).
Any theology majors who can chime in?
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - Ombligo - 09-30-2007
The Church of the Civil Servent...
I'm pretty sure they have 366 days per year (367 in leap years)
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - rgG - 09-30-2007
My guess would be the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," but that would just be a guess on my part.
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - Chupa Chupa - 09-30-2007
I don't know world-wide, but around the DC area the Order of the Blessed Terrapinians take off every Th-Sun and half of Monday.
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - lafinfil - 09-30-2007
[quote rgG]My guess would be the "Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster," but that would just be a guess on my part.
I think you're right because every Wednesday is Prince Spaghetti Day !
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - Craig - 09-30-2007
Seems to me that Hindus always have something to party about. I guess when you have a lot of gods, there are a lot of birthdays to celebrate.
Craig
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - MacMagus - 09-30-2007
Christianity certainly makes a run for it.
There's a holiday for every significant event attributed to Jesus, plus holidays for every saint and every significant event in every saint's life, historical celebrations, seasonal holidays like Advent and pre-holiday holidays like Lent.
I subscribed to an iCal calendar of Christian holidays and there's at least 3 each week. 'Next one is the second "Feast of the Guardian Angels" on Tuesday (I guess the first feast on Sept 27th wasn't such a hit?).
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - mrbigstuff - 09-30-2007
MacMagus, thanks. Do you have a link to the iCal widget or what-have-you?
Craig, that was also my first reaction, but maybe not true..?
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - MacMagus - 09-30-2007
> Do you have a link to the iCal widget or what-have-you?
I don't think that it's available anymore. I just tried to get to the site and it's giving me a "server unavailable" message. I had auto-refresh off, so I don't know how long it's been like that.
Apple's Christian holidays calendar only has about a third of the entries, but it seems like a nice start.
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/ical/library/holidays.html
This Wikipedia article hits the big holidays...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgical_year
This Wikipedia article on Eastern Orthodox Christian feasts...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_liturgical_calendar
...led me to this calendar, which is even more populated than the iCal calendar:
http://www.goarch.org/access/calendar/calendar.asp
Re: Religious Holidays - which religion has the most? - Carnos Jax - 09-30-2007
Yeah, I was about to say the Orthodox Church as well, seems that some of my relatives are always absorving some kind of lent or other.