In his autobiography, he says that the only religious ideas that appealed to him were those to be found in Hindu philosophical thought.

In his autobiography given to the Nobel Prize Committee, he recalled, " The first stirrings of interest in science that I remember occurred during a moment of boredom at religious school, when, looking out of the window at twilight through a hand curled to simulate a telescope, I noticed something peculiar about the light ; it was the phenomenon of diffraction.

In his later years, he did accumulate a bit of money from the sales of his autobiography and religious writings.

In 1977, Susan Atkins published her autobiography, Child of Satan, Child of God, in which she recounted the time she spent with Manson and the family, her religious conversion, and her prison experiences.

Bob Jones, Jr. published two religious novels, several books of sermons, and an autobiography.

In his personal autobiography, Arriaga recounted how he hoped that he would not be another factor to divide Republicans, especially in a time where there existed a need to work together ; it was a difficult period historically, due to the exasperation of the " religious question ", constant social agitation and political party instability ( associated with " Machiavellian strategies " of some politicians ) that fermented during the infancy of the First Republic.

Of all other works of the author, the Zaad al-Musafirin ( or Travelling Provisions of Pilgrims ) and the Wajh-i-Din ( or The Face of Religion ) are theoretical descriptions of his religious and philosophical principles ; the rest of them can be dismissed as being probably just as apocryphal as Nasir's famous autobiography ( found in several Persian tadhkiras or biographies of poets ), a mere forgery of the most extravagant description, which is mainly responsible for the confusion in names and dates in older accounts of our author.

In 1849 appeared The Soul, her Sorrows and Aspirations, and in 1850, Phases of Faith, or Passages from the History of my Creed, the former a tender but searching analysis of the relations of the spirit of man with the Creator ; the latter a religious autobiography detailing the author's passage from Calvinism to pure theism.

After his departure from politics, he became involved with the Christian housing provider Habitat for Humanity and wrote an autobiography about his religious views and political life within the National and Christian Democrat parties, as well as his ongoing political stance.

According to Comfort's autobiography, his parents put " Methodist " on his birth certificate because his mother feared the possibility of " another Hitler ", but he was given no religious instruction as a child.

In his autobiography I Me Mine, Harrison writes that the song was inspired by a letter from Juan Mascaró, a Sanskrit scholar at Cambridge University, who sent him a copy of his book Lamps of Fire ( a wide-ranging anthology of religious writings, including some from the Tao Te Ching ) and asked him if "... might it not be interesting to put into your music a few words of Tao, for example number 48, page 66 of the book.

In addition to his work as a gay religious leader and human rights activist, Perry has written an autobiography, The Lord is My Shepherd and He Knows I'm Gay.

Sveinbjörn Beinteinsson summarized his religious convictions in his autobiography, saying that he had not a simple religious conviction but a " somewhat unquiet faith ".

Her niece Angélique de Saint-Jean and her nephew Antoine Le Maistre persuaded Arnauld to write an autobiography, which was mostly the story of her community's heroic resistance in the face of its religious tribulations.

Bob Jones III has argued that the university is not so much anti-Catholic or anti-Mormon as it is opposed to the idea that all men, regardless of religious beliefs, will eventually get to heaven: " Our shame would be in telling people a lie, and thereby letting them go to hell without Christ because we loved their goodwill more than we loved them and their souls ….

* October 30 – Bob Jones Sr, American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster, and founder and first president of Bob Jones University ( d. 1968 )

In South Carolina, the Moral Majority had no presence because Bob Jones University ’ s religious network had already organized the state ’ s independent Baptists.

Jones organized a mammoth religious convention to take place June 11 through June 15, 1956, in a cavernous Indianapolis hall called Cadle Tabernacle.

Despite the Temple's fear that the IRS was investigating its religious tax exemption, by 1977 Marceline Jones admitted to the New York Times that, as early as age 18 when he watched his then idol Mao Zedong overthrow the Chinese government, Jim Jones realized that the way to achieve social change through Marxism in the United States was to mobilize people through religion.

Jones was keen to exert her opinions on religious and social topics that feature in Black Uhurus work.

Peg's neighbors are impressed by Edward's adept hedge-trimming and hair-cutting skills ( both of which he does with his scissor-hands ), but two of the townspeople, a religious fanatic named Esmeralda ( O-Lan Jones ) and Kim's boyfriend, Jim ( Anthony Michael Hall ), immediately dislike him.

Jones ' narration for the film lambasted the protesters ' actions and motivations from a religious standpoint.

At the beginning of 1791, Jones started holding religious services at FAS.

Born Again, Colson's personal memoir reflecting on his religious conversion and prison term, was made into a 1978 dramatic film starring Dean Jones as Colson, Anne Francis as his wife Patty, and Harold Hughes as himself.

Jones went on to study at the Royal Academy of Music and the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School, before beginning his adult recording career, with a largely religious / inspirational repertoire.

* James F. Jones ( minister ) ( 1907-1971 ), African American religious leader and founder of the Church of Universal Triumph, Dominion of God, Inc.

" Jones said he was not going to be " beaten down " by religious activists and signed copies for a small group of people in the street, arguing " There shouldn't be censorship of this sort.

Robert Reynolds Jones, Sr. ( October 30, 1883 — January 16, 1968 ) was an American evangelist, pioneer religious broadcaster and the founder and first president of Bob Jones University.

During the early 1920s Jones was one of the first religious figures to broadcast on radio.

The 1925 Bob Jones evangelistic meetings in Pittsburgh were perhaps the first remote-controlled religious broadcasts in the world, as well as the first broadcasts to originate from an evangelistic crusade.

( In the same year, Jones also made a religious film, which because of its graphic — for the era — portrayal of certain sins, was slashed into an " unrecognizable mess " by the Pennsylvania State Censorship Board.

Although Jones rejected lawlessness and lynching, he sympathized with the Klan's professed endorsement of religious orthodoxy, Prohibition, and opposition to the teaching of evolution as fact.

The museum is the largest collection of religious art in the Western Hemisphere and remained Jones ' hobby for the remainder of his life.

Jones could be a demanding superior with strong, hyperbolically expressed, views about matters political and religious.

Although Jones enjoyed playing villains in Shakespeare plays and religious films — he founded the BJU cinema department in 1950 — he genuinely enjoyed a life of ideas and the fine arts.

Other research has observed that the United States is a highly religious country compared to most advanced industrial countries.

It includes the Thyatian Empire, which could be compared to Byzantine Empire ; the Grand Duchy of Karameikos ( which includes the town of Threshold, the default setting of many classic D & D adventures ), comparable to medieval southeastern Europe ; the Principalities of Glantri, which is similar to medieval western Europe, ruled by wizard-princes ; the Ethengar Khanate, a Mongol-like society ; the merchant-run Republic of Darokin, which is based somewhat loosely on the mercantile states of Medieval Italy ; the Emirates of Ylaruam which have an Arabic flavor ; the Heldannic Territories, ruled by an order of religious Knights devoted to the Immortal Vanya, similar to the Teutonic Knights ; the Atruaghin Clans, which have an Amerindian feel ; the nation of Sind, based on India during the rule of the Mughals ; the Northern Reaches Kingdoms of Ostland, Vestland, the Soderfjord Jarldoms, based on Scandinavian kingdoms at various periods of history ; the Dwarven nation of Rockhome ; the elven Kingdom of Alfheim ; the Halfling lands of the Five Shires ; and the Alphatian Empire, ruled by wizards and other spellcasters.

To a large extent this letter ( or agreement ) provided a framework for religious affairs in Israel ( e. g. no civil marriages, just as in Mandate times ) and is often a benchmark to which the status is compared.

He explored Mannerism, Exoticism, Pittura Metafisica, and great historical and religious painting, covering a vast area that can be compared with his keen interest in the theatrical and literary world of Luigi Pirandello, Massimo Bontempelli and Enrico Pea, which led him to found the Viareggio Prize in 1929.

In order to solve this same problem of the decline of the Roman population, in particular compared with the growth of the barbarians allocated within the imperial boundaries, Majorian addressed the problem of young women widowed and without children who never married because of the influence of religious clergy, to whom they destined their goods in their will.

The French crown's refusal to allow non-Catholics to settle in New France may help to explain that colony's slow rate of population growth compared to that of the neighbouring British colonies, which opened settlement to religious dissenters.

Strong religious partisanship was largely a reflection of the seriousness with which the Pennsylvania Dutch took their faith, while only differing in seemingly minor points from each other, at least compared to a more worldwide view of religions and their differences.

Forest gardens have been loosely compared to the religious concept of the Garden of Eden.

" Consequently, over the years Burke " evolved a fervently demonstrative stage act ", that were often compared with religious revival meetings.

This Christian religious ground motive is a fundamentally different posture toward things, compared to say, the " Form / Matter " scheme of the Greeks, the " Nature / Grace " synthesis of Medieval Christianity, or the " Nature / Freedom " approach of the Enlightenment, all of which are orientations divided against themselves by their reliance upon two contradictory principles.

The incident has been compared to the 2012 trial of Pussy Riot for hooliganism and incitement of religious hatred in Moscow after their protest at the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

One of the film's most celebrated examples of this technique is a baroque image of Jesus that is compared, through a series of shots, to Hindu deities, the Buddha, Aztec gods, and finally a primitive idol in order to suggest the sameness of all religions ; the idol is then compared with military regalia to suggest the linking of patriotism and religious fervour by the state.

It should be noted that the Counter-Reformation in Poland, influenced by the Commonwealth tradition of religious tolerance, was based mostly on Jesuit propaganda, and was very peaceful when compared to excesses such as the Thirty Years ' War elsewhere in Europe.

In September 2005, the Ministry of Education reported that only 12 students showed up with distinctive religious signs in the first week of classes, compared to 639 in the preceding year.

* Oprahism, the beliefs espoused by Oprah Winfrey which have been compared to a religion by numerous religious scholars and was suggested as a future religion on the TV show Futurama.

Despite a high level of religious adherence, only 9 % of Americans in a 2008 poll said religion was the most important thing in their life, compared with 45 % who said family was paramount in their life and 17 % who said money and career was paramount.

The first Rogation, the Greater Litanies, has been compared to the ancient Roman religious festival of the Robigalia, a ritual involving prayer and sacrifice for crops held on April 25.

It was Gütersloh's emphasis on the techniques of the Old Masters that gave the fantastic realist painters a grounding in realism ( expressed with a clarity and detail some have compared to early Flemish painting ) combined with religious and esoteric symbolism.

In the 2001 census, 82. 2 % of people in Strathfield identified with a religious tradition, compared to 72. 86 % of the total population of Australia at that time.

In this division, the North, at the time of independence in 1960, was by far the most underdeveloped area in Nigeria, with a literacy rate of 2 % as compared to 19. 2 % in the East ( literacy in Arabic script, learned in connection with religious education, was higher ).

Acceptance is fundamental to the core dogma of most Abrahamic religions, the word " Islam " can be translated as " acceptance ", " surrender " or " voluntary submission " and Christianity is based upon the " acceptance " of Jesus of Nazareth as the " Christ " and could be compared to some Eastern religious concepts such as Buddhist mindfulness.

As a result of this, many of the Norwegians remaining in Norway were religiously moderate ; subsequently, church attendance declined throughout the 20th century, as reflected by 78 % of the population stating that religious is unimportant in a Gallup poll and low weekly church attendance, at 2 %, particularly when compared to that of North Dakota, the state in which Norwegians constitute approximately 30. 4 % of the population.

The album artwork was by Matsuzaki, and its grandiose tone and religious connotations echoed the musical bombast ( often compared to The Who ), as well as the lyrical theme of resurrection.