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 also Hod (Kabbalah)
• Glory, a term in Christian art for a halo surrounding the whole body of a person.
• 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, term for the canonization of a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church

In music:

• "Glory" (single), a single by KMFDM
• "Glory", a 1978 single by Television
• "Glory! Glory!", an early single by Underworld
• Glory (singer), a reggaeton singer
• "The Glory", single from Kanye West's 3rd album Graduation
• "Glory," a song by Audio Adrenaline from their 2001 album Lift

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 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

See also:

• Glory hole