Religion can summate, epitomize, relate, and conserve all the highest ideals and values -- ethical, aesthetic, and religious -- of man formed in his culture.

: Man Is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion offers Heschel's views on how people can comprehend God.

Religion can support science by making suggestions for research and by offering a cultural " legitimation " for a theory or for science in general.

Religion can be, and often has been, untheological or even anti-theological.

The Edict can be said to mark the end of the Wars of Religion, though its apparent success was not assured at the time of its publication.

Religion can be so abused in the interests of power, especially on behalf of institutions and governments.

In the Dialogues On Metaphysics And Religion ( dialogue 1 ), Malebranche added that the same basic structure can also account for ( the mental as opposed to the physiological element in ) imagination, in this case where the idea only " lightly touches " the mind.

It can be said that it has integrated with Chinese Folk Religion and many gods from that religion are considered bodhisattvas, or enlightened beings who choose to remain among beings to relieve their suffering.

In their book Theory of Religion, Rodney Stark and William Sims Bainbridge propose that the formation of " cults " can be explained through a combination of four models:

Religion helps man to attain to virtue, which he can not reach of himself, as the Stoics hold.

According to a book entitled The Religion of the Iranian Peoples, " No one who has studied the Zoroastrian doctrine of the Saoshyants or the coming saviour-prophets can fail to see their resemblance to the future Maitreya.

The Genevan reformer John Calvin, writing his Institutes of the Christian Religion at the very time of the Reformation, wrote therein " beyond the pale of the Church no forgiveness of sins, no salvation, can be hoped for ".

In the essay " Capitalism as Religion " ( 1921 ), Walter Benjamin said that the idea of whether or not people treat capitalism as a religion was a moot subject, because " One can behold in capitalism a religion, that is to say, capitalism essentially serves to satisfy the same worries, anguish, and disquiet formerly answered by so-called religion.

The basic foundations of the beliefs of the church can be summarized in the Apostles ' Creed, and The Twenty Five Articles of Religion, held in common with other Methodist Episcopal congregations.

This can be seen in the first article of the original Humanist Manifesto which refers to " Religious Humanists " and by Charles and Clara Potter's influential 1930 book Humanism: A New Religion.

Their stance is somewhat similar to Averroism, in that there is one truth, but it can be arrived at through ( at least ) two different paths, namely Philosophy and Religion.

The name of the stele can also be translated as A Monument Commemorating the Propagation of the Ta-Chin Luminous Religion in the Middle Kingdom ( the church referred to itself as " The Luminous Religion of Daqin ", Daqin being the Chinese language term for the Roman Empire in the 1st and 2nd centuries AD, and in later eras also used to refer to the Syriac Christian churches ).

He has since become a critic of religious belief, appearing at Freedom From Religion Foundation's annual conventions and stating in its paper Freethought Today, " If, as the true believers claim, the word ' gospel ' means good news, then the good news for me is that there is no gospel, other than what I can define for myself, by observation and conscience.

( More on Stark's work can be found in the article on Sociology of Religion.

When asked at the time if he was worried that the song's success might alienate older fans, Buck told Rolling Stone, " The people that changed their minds because of ' Losing My Religion ' can just kiss my ass.

The morality and values of the Victorians can be classed under Religion, Morality, Elitism, Industrialism and Improvement.

In the same year Stephen Prothero, author and chairman of Boston University's Department of Religion, wrote in the Harvard Divinity Bulletin: " I am crazy for people who are crazy for God: people nearly as inscrutable to me as divinity, who leave wives and children to become forest-dwelling monks in Thailand, who wander naked across the belly of India in search of self-realization, who speak in tongues and take up serpents in Appalachia because the Bible says they can.

Starting in eleventh grade, students have more flexibility with their requirements and can choose from courses in Economics, Psychology, Classical History, Government, Religion, Political Philosophy, United States Legal History, Calculus, Statistics, Science and Public Policy, among other elective classes.

Religion at its best also offers the experience of spiritual fulfillment by inviting man into the highest realm of the spirit.

Religion usually also includes a principle of compensation, mainly in a promised perfect future state.

Early modern writers, such as Polydore Vergil and Matthew Parker, the Elizabethan Archbishop of Canterbury, also utilised the Historia, and his works were used by both Protestant and Catholic sides in the Wars of Religion.

The faculties of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York and of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts also includes a large number of Conservative rabbis.

Religion also plays a role in the ethnic conflicts that have taken place.

Other California punk bands on the independent label Epitaph, run by Bad Religion guitarist Brett Gurewitz, also began achieving mainstream popularity.

During this period, other related organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine ( 1970 ), the Institute of Parascience ( 1971 ), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute of Noetic Sciences ( 1973 ), the International Kirlian Research Association ( 1975 ), and the Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research Laboratory ( 1979 ).

Dutch republicanism also influenced on French Huguenots during the Wars of Religion.

* July 7 – The Treaty of Nemours forces King Henry III of France to capitulate to the demands of the Catholic League, triggering the Eighth War of Religion ( also known as the War of the Three Henrys ) to begin in France.

The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.

He is a founding member of the Society of Ordained Scientists and also of the International Society for Science and Religion, of which he was the first president.

The place also has a great view of the majestic, Tashi Chhoe Dzong ( Fortress of Glorious Religion ) and government cottages nearby.

Freedom of education ( Article 23 ), occasionally also termed Right to education, is an extension of Freedom of Religion.

* Heinsohn, Gunnar: “ The Rise of Blood Sacrifice and Priest Kingship in Mesopotamia: A Cosmic Decree ?” ( also published in Religion, Vol.

Mystic also released vinyl compilations featuring Suicidal Tendencies, New Regime, Black Flag, Government Issue, The Minutemen, Habeas Corpus, The Instigators, and Bad Religion.

She also asked Louisa Adams in a letter dated January 3, 1818, " When will Mankind be convinced that true Religion is from the Heart, between Man and his creator, and not the imposition of Man or creeds and tests?

He also edited a three volume series entitled The Jews: Their History ( vol 1 ), Their Religion and Culture ( vol 2 ), Their Role in Civilization ( vol 3 ).

The faculty of the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York and of the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College in Newton Centre, Massachusetts also includes a large number of Conservative rabbis.

Some Reform and Reconstructionist teachers also teach at non-denominational seminaries like the Academy for Jewish Religion in New York, the Academy for Jewish Religion in California, and the Rabbinical School of Hebrew College.

There is now not only psychology in the academic or college sense, but also a Psychology of Business, Psychology of Education, a Psychology of Salesmanship, a Psychology of Religion ... and a Psychology of Playing the Banjo.

He also worked as editor-in-chief of Macmillan Publishers ' Encyclopedia of Religion, and, in 1968, lectured in religious history at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

They've also toured with and opened for artists such as Bad Religion in 1988, GWAR in 1989, Nirvana and Alice in Chains in 1990, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Faith No More, Rollins Band and Beastie Boys in 1992, Pearl Jam in 1994 and Marilyn Manson and The Offspring in 1997.

During this time, other notable organizations were also formed, including the Academy of Parapsychology and Medicine ( 1970 ), the Institute of Parascience ( 1971 ), the Academy of Religion and Psychical Research, the Institute for Noetic Sciences ( 1973 ), and the International Kirlian Research Association ( 1975 ).