The Concise Oxford Dictionary of World Religions (1267 page)

(Heb., ‘the whole Jewish community’). The kinship of the Jewish community. See also
Keneset Yisrael
.

 
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Kemal, Mustafa
:

see
OTTOMAN EMPIRE
.

 
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(
c.
1373–after 1433).
Author of the
Book of Margery Kempe
. Born in Lynn, Norfolk, she married young and had fourteen children, but was increasingly drawn to a deeper religious experience. In 1413 she and her husband took vows of chastity. Sharply critical of contemporary religious corruption, she went on
pilgrimage
and also visited
Julian of Norwich
. Her life, as revealed in her
Book
, became one of an imaginatively close relationship to Christ, her heavenly spouse, expressed in visions and highly emotional (some say disordered) devotion, and also in auditions.

 
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Kempis
:

see
THOMAS À KEMPIS
.

 
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Kena Upani
ad
also Talavak
ra Upani
ad
.

One of the thirteen principal
Upani
ads
, belonging to the
S
ma Veda
. It deals with the longing of all living beings to transcend reason and become one with
Brahman
.