Glory
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Glory may refer to:
In religion
- Glory (religion), in Judeo-Christian religious tradition, the manifestation of God's presence; see Hod (Hebrew)
- Glory Be to the Father, also known as Gloria Patri, a Christian prayer, a doxology or short hymn of praise to God in various Christian liturgies
- Glorification, is the progressive character perfection of the elect "from glory to glory" and, the receiving of immortal or perfect bodies at the Second Coming of Christ in Christian theology.
- Glorification, the canonization of a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church
In music:
- "Glory" (single), a single by KMFDM
- "Glory" (song), a 1978 single by Television
- "Glory! Glory!", an early single by Underworld
- Glory (singer), a reggaeton singer
- "The Glory (song)", single from Kanye West's 3rd album Graduation_(album)
In film and television:
- Glory (film), a 1989 film depicting the story of a regiment of African-American soldiers in the American Civil War
- Glorificus or Glory, a goddess from a hell dimension on Buffy the Vampire Slayer
In sport:
- Perth Glory FC, an Australian football (soccer) team
Other uses:
- Glory (optical phenomenon), an optical phenomenon produced by light reflected toward its source by a cloud of uniformly-sized water droplets
- Glory, in board wargaming, the Pacific War counterpart to the Europa (wargame) series of games, and also the name of the first module in GMT Games' Gameplayers series of American Civil War games
- HMS Glory, the name of various ships of the Royal Navy
- Glory (comics), a comic book character in the Image Comics universe
- Glory (satellite), an earth science satellite with a proposed 2009 launch date
- Glory (board game), a board game designed by Richard Berg published by GMT Games
- Glory (novel), a 1932 novel by Vladimir Nabokov
- The Glory or the Farr, a king's divine right to rule in Persian mythology
Imperial Glory, a Computer Game about the Napoleonic Wars.