Coulton, an expert on Mediaeval monasteries, included her theories in his work, Five Centuries of Religion, Volume One ( 1923 ), as did the novelist John Buchan, who included it into his Witch Wood ( 1927 ).

Whereas the late King James the Second by the Assistance of diverse evill Councellors Judges and Ministers imployed by him did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome ( list of grievances including ) ... by causing severall good Subjects being Protestants to be disarmed at the same time when Papists were both Armed and Imployed contrary to Law, ( Recital regarding the change of monarch ) ... thereupon the said Lords Spirituall and Temporall and Commons pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation takeing into their most serious Consideration the best meanes for attaining the Ends aforesaid Doe in the first place ( as their Auncestors in like Case have usually done ) for the Vindicating and Asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ( list of rights including ) ... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence suitable to their Conditions and as allowed by Law.

Arthur Berriedale Keith in “ The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads, Vol 2 ” has noted that Savitr is never mentioned as having part in the Soma sacrifice, " a fact which is doubtless fair evidence that the Rig veda did not know him as having a place in the rite, and that he was later brought in, perhaps because of his growing importance, perhaps as an Aditya.

Religion did not play a central role in his education.

l ' Hôpital's dismissal had been urged for some time by the papal legate Ippolito d ' Este, and during the beginning of the French Wars of Religion which were the inevitable result of the massacre of Huguenots in Wassy ( on 1 March 1562 ), he found it necessary to retire to his estate at Vignay ( near Étampes ), from which he did not return until after the pacification of Amboise ( 19 March 1563 ).

Over 26 % of the population in Wales did not note a religion in the 2001 census ( 18. 53 % stated ' no religion ' and 8. 07 % are noted as ' Religion not stated ').

# Piety – Religion was valued because unlike intellectual pursuits it did not take a woman away from her " proper sphere ," the home, and because it controlled women's longings

In 2001, Hartford Institute for Religion Research did a " Faith Communities Today " ( FACT ) study

" Whereas the late King James the Second, by the Assistance of divers evil Counsellors, Judges, and Ministers, employed by Him, did endeavour to subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion, and the Laws and Liberties of this Kingdom ..( b ) y assuming and exercising a Power of dispensing with and suspending of Laws, and the Execution of Laws, without Consent of Parliament ....( b ) y causing several good Subjects, being Protestants, to be disarmed, at the same Time when Papists were both armed and employed contrary to Law ...( a ) ll which are utterly and directly contrary to the known Laws and Statutes and Freedom of this Realm ..... the said Lords Spiritual and Temporal and Commons, pursuant to their respective Letters and Elections, being now assembled in a full and free Representative of this Nation, taking into their most serious Consideration the best Means for attaining the Ends aforesaid, do in the First Place ( as their Ancestors in like Case have usually done ), for the vindicating and asserting their ancient Rights and Liberties, Declare ,.... That the Subjects which are Protestants may have Arms for their Defence, suitable to their Condition, and as allowed by Law.

Mills said years later, " Without ' Losing My Religion ', Out of Time would have sold two or three million, instead of the ten copies or so it did.

Religion did not bring the community together —" religion and fears of a loss of religious belief came to be a major source of internal division.

Guitarist Brett Gurewitz claimed that Bad Religion re-recorded it because their then-label Atlantic Records said they did not " hear a single " in that album and thought the song was a hit so they asked the band to redo it.

This was the greatest act of d ' Ossat's diplomatic career, assuring as it did the definitive triumph of Henry IV over the House of Guise and the Catholic League, and the restoration of peace to France after more than thirty years of civil war ( see French Wars of Religion ).

In 1995 he was named visiting scholar at Boston University's Albert Danielsen Center for the Study of Religion and Psychology and did research comparing former members of a cultic group and of two mainstream religious groups regarding psychological distress and members ' perceptions of abusiveness.

Calvin, in the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion ( 1536 ), did the same, and it was not till the third edition ( 1559 ) and the Genevan Catechism that he fully presented the three offices.

Religion in this context is defined as a set of beliefs concerning the cause, nature, and purpose of the universe, especially when considered as the creation of a superhuman agency or agencies, usually involving devotional and ritual observances, and often containing a moral code governing the conduct of human affairs.

Religion can also lead to societal pressures against cohabitation especially within large Evangelical Christian communities.

The most notable among the Middle Persian texts are the Dēnkard (" Acts of Religion "), dating from the 9th century ; the Bundahishn (" Primordial Creation "), finished in the 11th or 12th century, but containing older material ; the Mainog-i-Khirad (" Spirit of Wisdom "), a religious conference on questions of faith ; and the Arda Viraf Namak (" Book of Arda Viraf "), which is especially important for its views on death, salvation and life in the hereafter.

Greek Religion ( Cambridge: Harvard University Press ), especially section III. 3. 4

Angoulême suffered much during the French Wars of Religion, especially in 1568 after its capture by the Protestants under Coligny.

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

Since some of the most influential Protestant and Catholic theologians of the 20th century have been trained there, the University of Tübingen is especially renowned in the fields of Theology and Philosophy of Religion.

The word is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word Rtu, a fixed or appointed time, especially the proper time for sacrifice ( yajna ) or ritual in Vedic Religion ; this in turn comes from the word Rta ( ऋत ), as used in Vedic Sanskrit literally means the " order or course of things ".

Max Müller was the first Professor of Comparative Religion at Oxford University, a chair created especially for him.

* 1693-4-A Demonstration of the Messias, in which the Truth of the Christian Religion is proved, especially against the Jews, by Richard Kidder

Religion was considered as primordial aspect of a communities ' national ' identity, so the term Ethnarch has been applied to such religious leaders, especially the ( Greek Orthodox ) Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople ( i. e. in the Sultan's imperial capital, renamed Istanbul in 1930 but replaced by Ankara as republican capital in 1923 ).

The Pharsalia was especially popular in times of civil wars and similar troubles ; for example the editor of this 1592 edition, Theodor Pulmann, explains Lucan ’ s relevance by the French Wars of Religion ( 1562 – 98 ).

Religion in England was still going through a very discordant time, especially when King Charles I ascended the throne in 1623 and married a French Catholic Princess.

Religion is not taught as a subject, but is an important part of the school program, especially as it relates to behavior.

Religion, especially Hinduism and Jainism, played an influential role in shaping economic activities.

An English translation, whose full title was The History of the Conquest of China by the Tartars together with an Account of Several Remarkable things, Concerning the Religion, Manners, and Customs of Both Nation's, but especially the Latter, appeared in London in 1676.

Although few, if any, concessions were made to the Papacy or to Roman Catholic doctrine, a small number of changes were then made to the Articles of Religion and to the Prayer Book, especially in relation the Real Presence and to the continuation of worship in more traditional forms.

Ames ' struggles are illustrated by numerous quotations from the Bible, from theologians ( especially Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion ) and from philosophers, especially the atheist Feuerbach, whom Ames greatly respects.

As Massimo Introvigne of the Center for Studies on New Religion explains, Preacher was " among the popular comic book series which ... focused interest on the subject.

His later essay on Natural Religion, which denies that supernaturalism is essential to religion and maintains that the negations of science tend to purify rather than destroy Christianity satisfied no one and excited far less interest than his earlier work.

Generally the English took great interest in the French Wars of Religion ; their literature came into commonplace use in English political debate, and Amyas Paulet made immediate efforts to find the Six livres for Edward Dyer.

In an attempt to focus and clarify what was a growing interest in this field, in 1994 educator and businessman Laurence O. McKinney published the first book on the subject, titled " Neurotheology: Virtual Religion in the 21st Century ", written for a popular audience but also promoted in the theological journal Zygon.

Born in Rome on June 14, 1955, Massimo Introvigne reported in a partially autobiographical paper presented at the 2008 yearly conference of the American Academy of Religion in Chicago how his interest in non-Christian religions dates back to his reading as a young boy of the novels of Emilio Salgari, Rudyard Kipling, and Luigi Ugolini ( 1891 – 1980, the author of the 1950 Italian novel L ' isola non trovata ), which included references to Hinduism, Islam and other religions not generally well-known at that time in Italy.

Calvin was particularly outraged when Servetus sent him a copy of the Institutes of the Christian Religion heavily annotated with arguments pointing to errors in the book.

The story is often told that in 1755, Nathaniel Gilbert, while convalescing, read a treatise of John Wesley, " An Appeal to men of Reason and Religion " sent to him by his brother Francis.

As Walter Burkert points out in his book, Greek Religion, " Even the gods who are not his natural children address him as Father, and all the gods rise in his presence.

Several other songs on the album, " Vanlose Stairway ", " She Gives Me Religion ", and the instrumental, " Scandinavia " show the presence of a new personal muse in his life: a Danish public relations agent, who would share Morrison's spiritual interests and serve as a steadying influence on him throughout most of the 1980s.

Bad Religion slowly reformed in 1986 out of the Back to the Known line-up when Graffin called Bentley and asked him to return.

" Religion seemed to him wholly different in Tréguier and in Paris.

Calvin was a dogmatician ( systematic theology ), as exhibited in his Institutes of the Christian Religion, and an exegete who over time translated the Bible from the " original languages " in the form of his grand series of Commentaries on all but one of its books ( the Book of Revelation, which provided a problem to him in its metaphory, not yielding robustly to his binomial formula of letter and spirit: either literal, or figurative ).

Religion assails him both with her blandishments and terrours.

Saladin is shown as an educated and peaceable man – at one point he is asked to give clandestine medical help to Richard ( the Lion Heart ), shot by an arrow, and later he tells him: " Religion is God ’ s and the Earth is for all ...

Gurewitz was replaced by Brian Baker during the Stranger Than Fiction tour and Bad Religion recorded two albums without him.

For a brief overview of the extensive teachings Swedenborg claimed were revealed to him by Jesus Christ, see the Table of Contents of his book, The True Christian Religion, Containing the Universal Theology of the New Church.

During the French Wars of Religion in 1567, he joined the army of Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé, but a fall from his horse prevented him from taking an active part in the campaign.

He was imprisoned in Paris in 1569 / 70 during the Third war of Religion, in what may have been a form of protective custody to escape the persecution of Catholic zealots who considered him a secret supporter of the Reformation.

Conti, who belonged to the older faith, appears to have taken no part in the French Wars of Religion until 1587, when his distrust of Henri of Lorraine, Duke of Guise caused him to declare against the League and to support his cousin Henri of Navarre, afterwards King Henri IV.

The lower house of Convocation elected him prolocutor, in which capacity he drew up, in 1711, the often-cited Representation of the State of Religion ; and in August 1711, the queen, who had selected him as her chief adviser in ecclesiastical matters, appointed him dean of Christ Church on the death of his old friend and patron Aldrich.

Religion was then an important part of junior education in Scotland, and the school gave him a good knowledge of the Bible, which stayed with him for the rest of his life.

Some have thought Sir Isaac Newton was intended, but such a reading is disproved by this passage, which appears toward the end of the book: " Query 58: Whether it be really an effect of Thinking, that the same Men admire the great author for his Fluxions, and deride him for his Religion?

In 1601 he published his Catalogue of the Bishops of England since the first planting of the Christian Religion in this Island, a work which procured him in the same year the diocese of Llandaff.

Because the Government of the French Revolution was extremely cruel to the members of the Roman Catholic Church and anyone that opposed them, which was any form of the former authority including the King whom they beheaded after stripping him of his power, so the people of Vendee felt it was their duty to revolt against this extremely harsh new government that had killed their King and taken away their Religion.