In 2004 the U. S. State Department declared Eritrea a Country of Particular Concern ( CPC ) for its alleged record of religious persecution.

* In Neal Stephenson's 2004 novel The Confusion, a group of characters are detained and subjected to torture by Spanish religious authorities in 1600's Mexico, prompting one of them to exclaim, " I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition!

In a 2004 interview with The New York Times, playwright Tony Kushner used the term " Moonies " to refer to religious converts who lacked " spiritual liveliness or freedom of thought ".

* 2004 – The Holy Trinity Cathedral of Tbilisi, the largest religious building in Georgia, is consecrated.

Bern: Peter Lang Publ., 2004 ( Sapheneia, Beiträge zur Klassischen Philologie ; 9 ) VII, 247 p. ISBN: 3-03910-247-8 ( very useful in order to understand what kind of difficulties Ausonius felt towards Paulinus religious conversion.

In 1996, the Special Rapporteur for the Commission on Human Rights on freedom of religion or belief, Abdelfattah Amor ( Tunisia, 1993 – 2004 ), visited India in order to compose a report on religious discrimination.

Dominated by fundamentalist religious figures, it has tried to ban a candidate in the 2004 presidential election for questioning polygamy laws, and limited the rights of women, as well as overstepped its constitutional authority by issuing rulings on subjects not yet brought before the court.

Ultimately, Hamtramck amended its noise ordinance in July 2004 regulating all religious sounds.

investigation into religious freedom in Greece ( 2004 )

According to a 2004 CBC report on Hinn, his newfound religious devotion during this period became so intense that his family became concerned that he was turning into a religious fanatic.

Wearing the burqa has not been allowed in French public schools since 2004 when it was judged to be a religious symbol like the Christian cross.

Until 2004, the church was the location for a nationally syndicated religious broadcast known as The Old-Time Gospel Hour.

" Writing in 2004, authors Michael Shermer and Dennis McFarland saw Rudolph's story as an example of " religious extremism in America ," warning that the phenomenon he represented was " particularly potent when gathered together under the umbrella of militia groups ," whom they believe to have protected Rudolph while he was a fugitive.

One of the show's more popular episodes, " The Passion of the Jew " ( season eight, 2004 ), deals largely with Kyle's religious anxiety.

In 2004, the Kerala State Government sanctioned criminal prosecution of Patthathanam, the owner of the publishing company and the printer of the book on grounds that religious sentiments had been offended.

He visited Pakistan in 2004 and met with political and religious leaders there as a part of his efforts to promote global peace.

* FFRF v. Montana Faith-Health Cooperative-In October 2004, the Federal District Court for the District of Montana held that the state's " direct and preferential funding of inherently and pervasively religious parish nursing programs was undertaken for the impermissible purpose, and has the impermissible effect, of favoring and advancing the integration of religion into the provision of secular health care services.

LO has gained critique for their position on the 2004 French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools.

The doll is expected to sell well in Saudi Arabia, where the doll also debuted in 2004, because Saudi Arabian religious police have banned Barbie there, citing it as a threat to Muslim values.

In 2004 the U. S. Secretary of State designated Eritrea as a Country of Particular Concern ( CPC ) under the International Religious Freedom Act for particularly severe violations of religious freedom.

He nevertheless supported the 1905 Law on the Separation of Church and State, but, when testifying before the Commission Stasi on secularism, he opposed the 2004 law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools.

On February 14, 2004, the Associated Press reported that " Thousands of people, many of them women wearing headscarves, marched in France ... to protest a law banning the Islamic coverings and other religious apparel in public schools.

Such a ban came into effect in France in 2004 ; see French law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools.

While the definitive studies are lacking, the former view received support from a 2004 meta-analysis of 13 small studies.

* Loic Wacquant-USA studies the construction of the " pugilistic habitus " in a boxing gym of the black ghetto of Chicago in Body and Soul: Notebooks of an Apprentice Boxer ( 2004 ) and in " Habitus as Topic and Tool " ( 2009 ).

Numerous scientific studies — such as a 2004 report published in Nature, and papers authored by the 10, 000 scientists who contribute to the IUCN's annual Red List of threatened species — have since reinforced this conviction.

* The Dilemma Posed by Japan's Population Decline, discussion paper by Julian Chapple in the electronic journal of contemporary japanese studies, 18 October 2004.

In 2004, the first peer-reviewed, academic journal devoted to Pagan studies began publication.

Probably the most famous examples of depicting proverbs are the different versions of the paintings Netherlandish Proverbs by the father and son Pieter Bruegel the Elder and Pieter Brueghel the Younger, the proverbial meanings of these paintings being the subject of a 2004 conference, which led to a published volume of studies ( Mieder 2004a ).

Historical studies reveal that policing agents have undertaken a variety of cross-border police missions for many years ( Deflem, 2004 ).

* ( 2004 ): Piper: A model genus for studies of evolution, chemical ecology, and trophic interactions.

In 2004, UCCB undertook several studies on how to better position the institution locally, regionally and nationally.

" Cultural Studies ' Misfit: White Trash Studies ", Mississippi Quarterly 2004 57 ( 3 ): 369-387, traces the emergence of ' white trash studies ' as a scholarly field by placing representative 20th-century popular images of ' white trash ' in their Southern economic and cultural contexts.

For instance, positron emission tomography ( PET ) studies report increases in dopamine release in the dorsal striatum ( as measured by displacement of endogenous dopamine by radioligands ) when participants are presented with potential rewards, such as the opportunity to gain money ( Koepp et al., 1998 ; Zald et al., 2004 ) or even when presented with food stimuli while in a state of hunger ( Volkow et al., 2002 ).

The deer family has roughly 62 species ; The list is based on the studies of Randi, Mucci, Claro-Hergueta, Bonnet and Douzery ( 2001 ); Pitraa, Fickela, Meijaard, Groves ( 2004 ); Ludt, Schroeder, Rottmann and Kuehn ( 2004 ); Hernandez-Fernandez and Vrba ( 2005 ); Groves ( 2006 ); Ruiz-Garcia, M., Randi, E., Martinez-Aguero, M. and Alvarez D. ( 2007 ); Duarte, J. M. B., Gonzalez, S. and Maldonado, J. E.

Population studies have found that in 2004 and 2008, liberal-voting states have lower rates of divorce than conservative-voting states, possibly because people in liberal states tend to wait longer before getting married.

), Carmel in Britain: studies on the early history of the Carmelite Order ( 1992 – 2004 ).

While the debate remains hotly disputed, it is therefore not surprising that a comprehensive review of published studies of gun control, released in November 2004 by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, was unable to determine any reliable statistically significant effect resulting from such laws, although the authors suggest that further study may provide more conclusive information.

The academic discipline offers wide-ranging studies integrating ecological social sciences with political economy ( Peet and Watts 1996, p. 6 ) in topics such as degradation and marginalization, environmental conflict, conservation and control, and environmental identities and social movements ( Robbins, 2004, p. 14 ).

The variations found in the different studies are mainly attributable to variations in non-invasive methods used for screening and the types of lesions that they can characterize ( Ho et al., 2004 ).

Unencumbered by the prejudice that the EU is sui generis and incomparable, federalism scholars now regularly treat the EU as a case in their comparative studies ( Friedman-Goldstein, 2001 ; Fillippov, Ordeshook, Shevtsova, 2004 ; Roden, 2005 ; Bednar, 2006 ).

* Benko, Stephen, The virgin goddess: studies in the pagan and Christian roots of mariology, BRILL, 2004.

In 2004 Sternberg and Grigerenko stated that there were no validating studies for multiple intelligences, and in 2004 Gardner asserted that he would be " delighted were such evidence to accrue " ( p. 214 ), and he admitted that " MI theory has few enthusiasts among psychometricians or others of a traditional psychological background " because they require " psychometric or experimental evidence that allows one to prove the existence of the several intelligences " ( 2004, p.