How To Use Religious In A Sentence

The tax assessor determined that the property was subject to taxation based on its infrequent use for religious purposes. Christianity Today
For except it be treacle and mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie themselves to no receipts severely and religiously. The Advancement of Learning
They are also less likely to get support from strong religious or spiritual beliefs.
It was also a noteworthy echo of a speech Sarkozy himself made last December, when he called for a "positive laicity" and suggested that the state could ultimately grant subsidies to religious groups. The Earth Times Online Newspaper
Monks from the various orders in Europe had flocked to England to set up religious houses.

Most work places have a huge manual of lists of organizations, religious, animal charities, local characteries. Latest Articles
When my sister taught at a junior school they celebrated all the religious festivals.
Words regarding the necessity to change the souls of human beings to effect real change in the world should not be interpreted to mean that black religious leaders were adopting a quietistic approach to civil rights.
It's one of America's least "churched" cities, but the religious community fashioned Neighbors in Need as a response to the 1970's Boeing recession. Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Local News
Until his death, on November 16th, 1272, the King continued to rule and to conduct his customary religious devotions.
From the first, these universal histories represented both scientific advances and political and religious challenges.
It's easy to see how their pictures might have some sort of religious significance. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
Let's try using the laws on incitement to racial or religious hatred. The Sun
Such classifications are required and are secular more than religious.
In those days, religious dissent was not tolerated.
Theories of mental diseases commixed with philosophy and religious beliefs.
The mostly German-speaking cantons, or provinces, are divided nearly equally between the two religious affiliations.
[116] A chaplaincy is a pious foundation made by any religious person, and elected into a benefice by the ecclesiastical ordinary, with the annexed obligation of saying a certain number of masses, or with the obligation of other analogous spiritual duties. The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 28 of 55 1637-38 Explorations by Early Navigators, Descriptions of the Islands and Their Peoples, Their History and Records of the Catholic Missions, as Related in Contemporaneous Books and Manuscripts, Showing t
The WSJ recently had an article about an antitheist ‘preacher’ as it were, who was giving anti-religious sermons to large crowds in France. Matthew Yglesias » The New Atheism
His poetry conveys a great sense of religious devotion.
There has been terrorism in the world, more or less nonstop, since twelfth-century Syria, when a persecuted Persian religious sect called the Assassins knifed people to death in crowds. The Fiddler in the Subway
Nothing wrong with that especially when the resulting outcome is something bordering on a religious experience of aural ecstatic proportions.
Their proposal to the Jewish council of religious leaders also called the Sanhedrin that they cooperate in getting rid of this troublemaker was met with enthusiasm. Puzzlements & Predicaments of the Bible
Many people find it socially and morally advantageous to hypocritically profess their religious beliefs, and to use religion to justify what they want to believe and do. Dr T.P.Chia
As such, you could look at religious tracts and systems as being blue-prints for consciousness.
They were animated by religious zeal.
When you hear the terms imam and ayatollah, these refer to Shiite religious leaders. CNN Transcript Nov 24, 2006
Working, as I do, in the Shires, there are going to be patients who have strong religious views, and think ‘this is of the devil’ or whatever.
Religious publications also appear to have weathered the downturn in religious practice.
It is easy to see religious motivations here in terms of imperatives to care for the unfortunate; 'almsgiving' is undoubtedly a strong theme in most faith traditions. New Perspectives on Faith and Development
This process of clarification may not have pleased the ruling classes or the officials of the religious parties.
It's actually a Hindu religious symbol meaning `let good prevail. CIRCLE OF THREE: BOOK 8: THE FIVE PATHS
To say the word god in American public discourse is to conjure up a number of images and ideas that serve to undermine democracy in name of religious freedom. Rev. Osagyefo Uhuru Sekou: 'Gods, Gays and Guns' (EXCERPT)
He should fight against oppression and to establish justice and the broadest principles of religious toleration.
For example, while acknowledging that Whitney wants us to worship religious monuments and funerary traditions, we may wonder which Church he is referring to.
This would be the blueprint for all schooling: I'd promote anti-racism and religious tolerance so pupils knew what it was.
Its people are overburdened by religious riot, ethnic strife, corruption and the absence of social infrastructure.
Certainly there have been powerful nonviolent movements in which strikes, work stoppages, non-cooperation, and massive civil disobedience have been effective without any religious or moral reference.
Millner, keenly aware that an aromatic savarin au rhum was describing an arc behind his head previous to being rushed back to the pantry under young Draper's indifferent eye, stiffened himself against this last assault of the enemy, and read out firmly: "What relation do you consider that a man's business conduct should bear to his religious and domestic life? The Blond Beast
It is unlikely that the Irish needed explanation of the concept of three persons in one, as triads were central to pre-Christian Celtic religious tradition.
First, we may try to assume, or tediously enucleate a consensus of religious truth as a basis of will training, e.g., Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
They wanted us to take out every single word that was even vaguely religious or spiritual.
Vocab from The Varieties of Religious Experience aseity the property by which a being exists of and from itself; usually used in connection to God apodictic Necessarily or demonstrably true; incontrovertible.concatenated To connect or link in a series or chain.decide Of course, I already knew the definition; it's hardly an unusual word. Archive 2005-08-01
Religious bigotries hold sway over individuals and communities. Times, Sunday Times
The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations, and the minimum age is 15 years.
What did Woodsmall think about this denial of basic human rights on the basis of religious observances?
The bestseller lists are full of books highly critical of religion, countered by pundits whose heated rhetoric decries a public square made “naked” by the absence of religion.2 Yet the fault line between those who are religious and those who are not hardly exhausts the ways in which religion can be divisive. American Grace
In the New World, Spain coupled religious orthodoxy with political conquest. Marilyn Mellowes: 'God in America:' A Question of Religious Liberty (VIDEO)
The Friday sermon is said by a khatib, many of whom are trained in religious institutes.
But at least one religious leader believes the ability to use dedifferentiation to create human stem cells would eliminate the controversy. Cells That Go Back in Time
The capel needs your money, boys bach, that the light -- the grand, religious light -- shall shine in the pulpit. My Neighbors Stories of the Welsh People
He distanced himself from the strictly religious aspects of the music.
It would surely be progress if significant discourse on tolerance were incorporated into educational curricula, religious sermons, and public speech.
But para 3 of the article imposes religious restrictions making the provision applicable only to those who profess Hindu religion.
a rapid sort of first "intellection," an error that made all departments of education so trivial, assumptive and dogmatic for centuries before Comenius, Basedow and Pestalozzi, has been banished everywhere save from moral and religious training, where it still persists in full force. Youth: Its Education, Regimen, and Hygiene
WASHINGTON (RNS) As Democrats conduct a grim postmortem on Tuesday's (Nov. 2) elections, some liberal leaders say one diagnosis is already clear: the party's outreach to religious voters was lifeless from the start. Have Democrats Lost Faith In Faith-Based Outreach?
Baudelaire said of him that he was the only artist who ‘in our faithless generation conceived religious pictures’.
While we can credit him for some degree of intellectual honesty in confronting the hypocrisies and irrationalities that govern so much of public life, religious and non-religious, Christopher Hitchens, in the end, could not offer a vision of true humanness because he dwelled in the cynical faculties of the mind without being adequately informed by the positive wisdom of the heart. Kabir Helminski: Christopher Hitchens is "Not Great"
Scientific discoveries have discredited religious belief.
The director hopes to excite the faithful and (cynically speaking), get religious bums in cinema seats.
His arrest for lewd behaviour seriously damaged his credibility as a religious leader.
Although it is often used in a religious context, it is entirely appropriate to apply it to secular experiences.
Another tradition, more religiously approved, is the artistic development of calligraphy.
Religious scholars will recognize immediately that talk of "The Christ" or World Teacher his nothing to do with the Christian Messiah but a different chap called Maitreya or Djwahl Kuhl who, in the Christian religion has another name and who the Rolling Stones had sympathy for. Archive 2008-02-01
( "Emblematic of this anticlerical mindset was the tendency to" laicize "the names of locations with two words of religious significance, by contracting them into one. Cristero Rebellion: part 1 - toward the abyss
In the late nineteenth century these movements developed into forms of religious nationalism.
There's actually what I call a sucking sound of people coming into the country and the insurgents who have political and religious motivations. CNN Transcript Oct 4, 2004
So the starting point of the law is an essentially agnostic view of religious beliefs and a tolerant indulgence to religious and cultural diversity.
It is true that some former Levellers retreated into religious passivity, internalising their revolutionary ideology and seeking a godly republic within.
But while it may have had some of the earmarks of a religious revival, this movement was rooted firmly in the material world.
jiddu Krishnamurti, lndia-born religious philosop Aman who does not know what passion is will never knowlove because love can come into being only when there is total self aban -donment .
She was motivated by deep religious conviction.
Attempts to reconcile religious differences have been going on for years. Times, Sunday Times
We routinely portray them as grim, doctrinaire, religious killjoys who lived in a didactic world of the Saved and the Unregenerate.
And the third, a lapsed neopagan, revived her religious practice online and was the only one of the three who stayed there.
He mistakenly characterizes spirituality as a pallid Platonic flight from the world or some kind of interiorized religious stirrings.
Opponents would claim that the sight of placard-wielding pickets outside various religious functions presents the Gospel in a poor light.
As reported at ThinkProgress, Joe the Deacon, had this to say about replacing baby Jesus with a lump of Christmas coal in Silent Night: "I'll put my years as a Sunday school teacher, church deacon and church musician up against just about anybody else when it comes to understanding hymnology and respect for religious traditions. Justin Callaway: Joe the Deacon and the Church of Clean Coal Carolers: How to Faith-wash Green-washing
This continues into adulthood, when we wear the colours of our football team and observe the customs of a religious group. Times, Sunday Times
If we condemn Ahmadinejad and other patrons of terrorism, we must, with equal force, commend those Muslim intellectuals and religious leaders who have the courage to speak out publicly against the continued fomentation of Holocaust denial and other manifestations of Judaeophobia in their midst. Menachem Rosensaft: Finding Common Ground
Marx may be described as a humanist, and in this century humanism has been given expression, in both secular and religious forms, in the philosophy of existentialism.
Most of them emerged from rural pesantrems (religious schools), are fluent in Arabic and are trained in fiqh.
For matter of Religion it would require a particular volume, if I should set downe how irreligiously they couer their greedy and ambicious pretenses, with that veile of pietie. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
Public religious education has been an increasingly contentious topic in Britain. Christianity Today
Some religious groups are persecuted in some countries
It just feeds the religious right's feeling of righteous besiegement while gaining almost nothing in practical terms.
He received a religious history book as a parting gift; she was sent to an aunt in Tiverton. Times, Sunday Times
The religious dimension that undeniably is to be found in his writings adheres, however, to no particular creed. Nobel Prize in Literature 1987 - Presentation Speech
But ascetics, nuns, and unordained members of religious associations of men were not originally in the ranks of the clergy, and, strictly speaking, are not so even to-day, though, on account of their closer and more special dependence on ecclesiastical authority, they have long been included under the title clergy in its wider sense (see RELIGIOUS). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
Religion is vulnerable to religious fanaticism and political extremism-history is full of religious oppression, violence, terrorism and wars. Dr T.P.Chia
Early modern patronage came as before from courts, churches, aristocratic, and merchant families, from religious orders and confraternities.
To manipulate religious conviction into a political commodity is a contemporary form of simony.
Religion cannot protect itself from religious hypocrites, including priests who sexually abuse teenagers and altar boys. Dr T.P.Chia
The notion of forthcoming godhood is a religious and spiritual notion. Movie Review: Akira
The year is filled with important religious events, and all localities are identified with patron saints who are celebrated, somewhat competitively, with fireworks and festa pageantry, including processions.
One may search these "Salt Water Ballads" through from the opening line of "Consecration" to "The Song At Parting" and find no faint suggestion of that deep religious glory of "The Everlasting Mercy. Giant Hours with Poet Preachers
In terms of plant species selection, plant configuration, and plant landscape artistic conception creating, religious garden landscape specially showed its uniqueness in religion space organization.
Paintings representing religious themes were common in medieval times.
There was a mounting enthusiasm for change, fanned by effective use of secular and religious press.
The school is based on the ideals of Torah U'madda , a tenant of modern Orthodox Judaism that recognizes the values of both religious and secular knowledge. Essay Sparks Campus Uproar
Their whole society was built around their religious beliefs.
All good, noble things are religious and moral in nature, but have nothing to do with religion. Dr T.P.Chia
They took a quasi-religious attitude to Confucius, worshipping him as ‘the uncrowned king’ rather than respecting him simply as the greatest of teachers.
How much of your religious activity is about pursuing something other than intimacy with him? Christianity Today
The accusation that religious groups are exploiting parlous economic conditions to add numbers to their flock is a common one. Times, Sunday Times
The cathedral is now a vibrant and living component of the cultural and religious life of Waterford city and is one of our most treasured architectural gems.
These English colonists were a pious, self - disciplined people who wanted to escape religious persecution.
A life of poverty, tradition and religious dread suffuses songs steeped in misery and learnt by word of mouth.
Their whole society was built around their religious beliefs.
Even the term 'self-determination' has to be modified as religious people may understand the movement of their life not as self-determined but rather as co-determined with God's will. Wolfgang Danspeckgruber: Defining One's Own Destiny: Self-Determination, Religion And The 'Arab Spring'
Several religious leaders have interceded with the authorities on behalf of the condemned prisoner.
Religious faith expresses itself in a variety of ways.
Neither do I have a problem in general with people who wish to follow religious beliefs.
If any one hated papistry Mrs. Bolton did so; but from a similar action of religious fanaticism she had fallen into worse that papistical self-persecution. John Caldigate
But their conduct was equally constrained by codes - a mixture of religious strictures and the social cant that went with it. Times, Sunday Times
Communism has been replaced by equally totalistic and militant forms of nationalism and religious fundamentalism.
This rivalry had involved civil wars, peasant uprisings, and religious strife of every description.
Although religious imagery was excluded from the churches, the Elizabethan government did not prohibit its use elsewhere. The Times Literary Supplement
She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
There is biography, hagiography and social, religious and political history. Times, Sunday Times
The print revolution undoubtedly had an important impact on folk culture, through, for example, the mass printing of chapbooks, ballads, almanacs, and cheap abbreviated novels, not to mention religious literature.
Though meditation is the main religious discipline practiced by convert Buddhists, chanted liturgies are an important part of many meditations.
In return, local authorities were empowered to appoint the teachers in such schools for all subjects other than religious instruction.
We oppose segregation on religious grounds.
She was sustained by the strength of her religious faith.
We should not rake the current religious bias regnant in America today as necessarily universal for all cultures.
One died presumably to satisfy some ideological or religious prompting or to get revenge, and the other while trying, somehow, simply to get by.
The King's religious policies, strictly applied by Archbishop Laud, gave offence to the Puritan merchants and artisans.
The Jerusalem Rabbinate also works each year to ensure restaurants and hotels receiving kosher certification from the Jerusalem Religious Council do not put up Christian symbols. Matthew Yglesias » War on Christmas Just Got More Fierce
To put it in religious language, the scientist is answerable to a very stern and peremptory magisterium, the magisterium of Nature herself.
It is shared by religious believers and non-believers of very different social backgrounds and in very different countries.
These latter included wills, churches and churchyards, religious obligations, tithes, marriage, slander, and sorcery.
The blast yesterday ripped through crowds of pilgrims and vendors of food and religious paraphernalia. Times, Sunday Times
He formed an order of ascetics devoted to develop a sense of community with the help of religious injunctions and instructions.
Religious bigots have branded her an example of popish excess - a whore and perhaps a murderess.
Most recent incidents have been sparked by religious conversion and interfaith relationships. Times, Sunday Times
Apologists wishing to exploit a revisionist history of science invariably stress the profoundly religious orientation of many prominent scientists.
The questions at issue in the administrative hearing are whether an adult teacher in the course of his classroom behavior (a) willfully or neglectfully injured a child, (b) was insubordinate toward the administration, (c) violated the guidelnes for his behavior in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, and/or (d) violated the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment in his display of religious items and posters, including multiple instances of the Ten Commandments, in his classroom. Freshwater: Playing fast and loose with the truth - The Panda's Thumb
In our religiously mixed household, it's an uncontentious celebration. Times, Sunday Times
In much of today's Western culture, virtuousness is primarily associated with exaggerated propriety, but in past centuries virtue was of immense importance as a pivotal principle of religious, ethical and political thought.
The former Archbishop of Canterbury hit out yesterday at extreme atheists who are intolerant of religious views and attempt to deny Christians a voice in public debate.
They are less active religiously than those they leave behind in other churches and synagogues. Sociology and Religion: A Collection of Readings
These aren't tied to a clear religious structure - they are more like hoodoo, perhaps?
For ever and ever the trendies, the sophisticates and the beautiful people have painted us on the right side of politics as boring squares, joyless fanatics, religious nutcases, and monoethnic bigots.
Not an overly religious woman, Maggie had some vague notion of a grand plan.
Among the Catholic institutions surveyed (including congregations of religious women and men, healthcare systems, and archdioceses and dioceses), the archdiocesan and diocesan responses were the weakest.
Is there a post-graduate degree course in obscure extremist political or religious sects?
But no amount of framing could escape America's religious conservatism. Times, Sunday Times
His work thus has the tendency to reproduce the elisions of the religious and political polemics of the sixteenth century while seeking to explain them.
The majority of people questioned affiliated themselves with a religious group.
A religious person thus may be unheedful of a higher morality or civic sense, or may not even sense the morality involved in the situation.
Since Hinduism is a religion without dogmas and has a wide theological spectrum, its real objective is assimilation - religious and cultural.
He took an extreme position on religious matters.
This inclination was supported by his decision in 1909, to join the Theosophical Society, where the religious mysticism encouraged him to turn inward to spiritual life.
A great many (not all) liberals adopted embryonic stem cells as a cause for the same reason that they have embraced Global Warming: because they like the policy implications and automatically oppose the Bush Administration, the “neocons” and the “Religious Right”, not because they are willing to follow science whithersoever it leadeth. Stromata Blog:
Both allowed the very young a certain exemption from the adult rules of religious belief and behavior; spiritually speaking, for rationalist Unitarians and evangelicals, children were a different order of moral being than adults.
When the call to religious life and priesthood made itself known to me, I moved directly to a Roman Catholic seminary.
People really do still feel societal pressure to marry, and this is quite separate from religious pressure to marry.
Religious syncretism is manifest in almost every aspect of the majority of Javanese rites.
The natives so embraced the pageantry and the promise of the new faith; and centuries later, testament to that Christian hegemony is the ubiquity of an iconolatry, none as dispersed into the bowels of urban and rural religious life as the icon of the Santo Nino.
She gave religious attention to the doctor's orders.
Perhaps they are afraid of being ‘politically incorrect’ or offending religious susceptibilities.
The criticism that atheists are less moral and honest has been disproved by study after study. Atheists believe that morality is man-made, and follow their moral ideas which are more or less compatible with those of religious believers. Dr T.P.Chia
When we worship in the spirit, we are opposed to religious rituals and ceremonial posturing, and to the showiness of the symbols of office, and external worship.
Sex and violence become rites of passage and initiation which, like the new religious practices, produce a historicity of dissidence and dissent.
All crimes great and small could be traced to postcapitalist avarice, egoism, sloth, parasitism, drunkenness, religious prejudices or inherited depravity. Gorky Park
His poetry conveys a great sense of religious devotion.
A most wonderful lady of sterling qualities, she was deeply religious.
Case in point: Openly anxious about grass-roots disaffection from the Republican Party, conservative Christian organizers are reaching for ways to turn out voters this November, including arguing that recognizing same-sex marriage could also limit religious freedom. September 2006
The socially acceptable reason is usually based on religious or moral beliefs.
Are the people who experience ecstatic religious states just having a really good trip?
He reacted strongly against his religious upbringing.
While we respect religious creeds, spiritual leaders and church councils, none of these can bind our consciences or force us to believe or observe anything outside of Bible truth.
Religious values can often differ greatly from humanistic morals.
Aboriginal society had mechanisms, even though unformulated and largely unconscious to its practitioners, of dealing with religious flexibility.
In 2007, the U.S. released him to Saudi Arabia, where he underwent a much-trumpeted religious "deradicalization" program for jihadists that clearly didn't take. Macleans.ca
It was the single greatest revelation of his religious life.
But the main difficulty is that the great Hindu and Moslem religious communities which play such a vital part in the social and political life of India have not yet been able to compose their differences and to agree on a Constitution which would divide authority equitably between them and protect the rights of minorities. The Empire In These Days
For example, there appears to be no field or professor of religious symbology at Harvard.
It's been suggested that this otherwise inexplicable aspect of chimp life is a little bit like a religious service. Times, Sunday Times
However, the poticians in most souther states including mine are dominated by the religious conservatives who wouldn't tolerate anyone who doesn't think or look like them!! Voinovich: The GOP's 'being taken over by Southerners'
The article describes the religious mania which is sweeping the US.
There's no reason now why a foreign policy hawk should make common cause with a religious conservative. Times, Sunday Times
Mencken argues that the Constitution does not permit the government to use its authority and resources to endorse or spread particular religious beliefs.
Their great old houses overflow with rough medieval furniture, threadbare tapestries and religious relics worn smooth by the touch of generations.
Arab Belly Dance is a religious ceremony from the beginning. It is the expression of nature and human to celebrate fertile women and the mysterious nature.
Religious scholars and students were moved by it as a piece of Jewish and Israeli literature that functioned neither as a traditional religious text nor as a profanity of sacred ideas.
Pope Benedict lauded himself for the respect and solidarity he gives to the minority groups, the emarginated and religious believers of other denominations while at the same juncture he was encouraging the Maltese majority to continue with its ongoing suppressive attitude towards the minorities. Timesofmalta.com
I write as a white, Anglo-Saxon male, brought up in the Christian tradition, but currently espousing no religious belief.
He said that the Roman Catholic Church is a greater threat to relationships than Facebook: "Religious bigotry has fuelled the fragmentation of societies, the increase in prejudice and reactionary thinking". The End of Civilization As We Know It
The report that documents their findings includes an appendix with 108 anecdotes by Princeton students of racial or religious harassment or discrimination.
Liddell believes the institutes were a watershed moment for nonreligious participation in the interfaith movement. Chris Stedman: Atheist Students Find Their Place in the Interfaith Movement
His challenge to Doerflinger was to defend, in a nonarbitrary way and without reference to religious principles, the notion that society should recognize moral value and legal rights at any particular point along that line. The Democrats and the Abortion Wars
In it Hansen presents a delicately balanced narrative of a teenaged postulant who receives the stigmata, to the consternation and even embarrassment of her religious community.
The Ferry Laws, the legislation of 1886 affecting teachers, the Law of Associations in 1901, and ultimately the Law of 1904, excluding religious from teaching, laicized a pre-existing educational system.
It began as a religious organization, but these days it is purely secular.
The authority had also accused him of encouraging homosexuality in his religious education lessons.
In South America the sacred use of the psychedelic ayahuasca has moved from the native populations of the Amazon Basin into the urban centers where it is the central sacrament in their religious praxis.
Hearing the Lord's voice takes us beyond mere religious profession or formal observances.
The ostensible reason was Mr Moussa's supposedly unauthorised dialogue with representatives of the main radical religious group, the Jamaat Islamiya.

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