Mark J. Pelavin, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, objected to court stripping in regards to the Pledge of Allegiance, " Today's House adoption of the so-called " Pledge Protection Act " is a shameful effort to strip our federal courts of their ability to uphold the rights of all Americans.

* Israel Religious Action Center, November 23, 1999 IDF suspense officer who compared the conservative and reform movements to the Nazis

But it has started to initiate various church programs spearheaded by the Diocesan Commissions on Religious Formation, Social Action and Liturgy, to start on its mission to steer its parishioners towards maturity in the Christian faith.

Boards vary widely between youth groups and regions, but typically include positions such as: President, Programming Vice-President, Social Action Vice-President, Religious & Cultural Vice-President, Membership Vice-President, Communications Vice-President, Treasurer, and Secretary.

The board currently consists of a President, Programming Vice-President, Social Action Vice-President, Religious & Cultural Vice-President, and Membership & Communications Vice-President.

The political and legislative outreach of the URJ is performed by the Religious Action Center ( RAC ), operated in conjunction with CCAR.

* Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

During her rabbinate, Monmouth Reform Temple created a Social Action Committee which launched a nationally recognized gun safety campaign ( Please ASK, which was given an award in 2003 by the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism ), was a leader in the fight against drunk driving, created a permanent Fund for the Homeless to support the work of Interfaith Neighbors, sponsored an annual food drive for The Center in Asbury Park, continued to host an annual Monmouth County arts festival, and instituted an annual " Mitzvah Day " of charitable volunteerism.

* Rabbi David N. Saperstein, Director & Counsel, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, DC

For 37 years Dr. Walker was Senior Pastor at Canaan Baptist Church of Christ in Harlem, New York, where he also co-founded the Religious Action Network of Africa Action to oppose apartheid in South Africa, and chaired the Central Harlem Local Development Corporation.

In 1988 Walker was co-founder of the Religious Action Network ( RAN ) of the ACOA, together with Canon Frederick B. Williams of the Church of the Intercession in Harlem.

* Civil Rights – Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism

The fund's grantees include the Adva Center, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, the Green Environment Fund, the Israel Religious Action Center, the Israel Women's Network, the Masorti Movement, the Forum for Freedom of Choice in Marriage, Adalah, Breaking the Silence, B ' Tselem, the Coalition for Affordable Housing, Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, Yesh Din, Kav LaOved, + 972 online magazine, and the Israeli branch of Physicians for Human Rights.

" Later in his SIU tenure, Fuller was also a visiting professor at SIU Edwardsville, where he designed the dome for the campus Religious Center.

Originally constructed as a memorial to students and graduates who died in service during World War II, the Christian Center houses an auditorium and the departments of Performing Arts, History and Religious Studies.

Religious works by Botta, including the Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center were shown in London at the Royal Institute of British Architects in an exhibition entitled, Architetture del Sacro: Prayers in Stone.

A bogus email address, " miscaviage @ flag. sea. org " ( a misspelling of " David Miscavige ", the current head of Scientology's Religious Technology Center ), was inserted into the newsgroup creation message.

* David Miscavige ( born 1960 ), a chairman of RTC ( Religious Technology Center )

U. S. District Court Judge Leonie Brinkema cited a frequently quoted statement of L. Ron Hubbard on the subject in the case of Religious Technology Center vs.

* In Religious Technology Center v. Gerbode, 1994 WL 228607 ( C. D.

* Religious Technology Center v. Netcom On-Line Communication Services, Inc., 907 F. Supp.

* John Traphagan, author, associate professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology, and former director of the Center for East Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin

Shared academic departments include the Intercollegiate Women's Studies Center, the Intercollegiate Department of Chicano Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Asian American Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Black Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Religious Studies, the Intercollegiate Department of Media Studies, and the Five-College Theater Department.

This center includes the Little Theatre, the Harold C. Schott Dining Hall, the Inn Between, the Underground, recreational facilities, public conference rooms, and offices for student organizations ; it is also the location of the Fritzsche Religious Center containing the campus ministry offices and the Saint Francis Chapel.

In 2000, the Religious Technology Center unsuccessfully attempted to gain the Web domain www. scientologie. org from the WIPO ( World Intellectual Property Organization ; one of the 16 specialized agencies of the United Nations ), in a legal action against the Free Zone.

The society has a legal arm, The Center for Law & Religious Freedom, for litigation purposes especially against restriction on legal rights of religious organizations.

CLS publications include The Christian Lawyer ( quarterly ), The Christian Lawyer Digest, CLS Bible Studies, CLS E-Devotionals ( bi-weekly ), and The Defender ( publication of CLS ' Center for Law and Religious Freedom ).

", Moscow, Russia, Center of Religious Studies, Ozernaya, Russia, October 25, 2006.

New Religions, Haft Asman ( Seven Heavens ), A Journal for the Center for Religious Studies, Vol.

Solar Temple: Tabachnik Acquitted, Center for New Religious Studies, ( June 25, 2001 )

Results from the Pew Research Center U. S. Religious Landscape Survey of 2008:

* Religious Congregations & Membership in the United States, Glenmary Research Center

The Religious Technology Center has prosecuted individual breakaway groups that have practiced Scientology outside the official Church without authorization.

The Religious Technology Center ( RTC ), the corporation that controls L. Ron Hubbard's copyrighted materials, sued to prevent a Post reporter from describing church teachings at the center of another lawsuit, claiming copyright infringement, trade secret misappropriation, and that the circulation of their " advanced technology " teachings would cause " devastating, cataclysmic spiritual harm " to those not prepared.

In the aftermath of the 2004 election in the United States Progressive Christian leaders started to form groups of their own to combat the Religious Right ; The Center for Progressive Christianity and The Christian Alliance For Progress are two such groups that have formed to promote the cause.

The versions of OT I to OT VII in the Fishman Affidavit are considered authentic as the church's Religious Technology Center ( RTC ) brought copyright lawsuits over their release on the Internet.

: Magic, Natural Philosophy, and Religious Reform in the Late Middle Ages.

* Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination.

* Abzug, Robert H. Cosmos Crumbling: American Reform and the Religious Imagination ( 1994 ) ( ISBN 0-195-04568-8 )

* Veitch, Kenneth, " Replanting Paradise: Alexander I and the Reform of Religious Life in Scotland ", in The Innes Review, 52, ( Autumn, 2001 ), pp. 136 – 166

* Ozment, Steven, The Age of Reform 1250 – 1550, An Intellectual and Religious History of Late Medieval and Reformation Europe, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1986, ISBN 978-0-300-02760-0

Religious buildings include the Catholic Church of St Edward the Confessor, the Anglican Church of St Barnabas, and North Western Reform Synagogue ( also known as Alyth Shul ).

The Education Reform Act 1988 requires that all state students be taught a Basic Curriculum of Religious Education and the National Curriculum.

* Reform of the Higher Institutes of Religious Sciences ( 2008 )

* William H. Deadwyler Cleaning House and Cleaning Hearts: Reform and Renewal in ISKCON // Edwin F. Bryant, Maria L. Ekstrand The Hare Krishna Movement: The Postcharismatic Fate of a Religious Transplant.

* Women, Reform and Community in Early Modern England: Katherine Willoughby, Duchess of Suffolk, and Lincolnshire's Godly Aristocracy, 1519-1580: 19 ( Studies in Modern British Religious History ) by Melissa Franklin Harkrider

François Biltgen ( born September 28, 1958 in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg ) is a Luxembourger politician, currently serving as Minister for Justice, Minister for Communications and the Media, and Minister for Religious Affairs, the Minister for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform, and the Minister for Higher Education and Research, in the government of Luxembourg.

After the elections which was held in June 2009, he was appointed the Minister of Justice, the Minister for the Civil Service and Administrative Reform, Minister for Higher Education and Research, Minister for Communications and Media as well as the Minister for Religious Affairs.

*' Rome, Reform and Reaction: Four Lectures on the Religious Situation '.

Religious Education in England is mandated by the Education Act 1944 as amended by the Education Reform Act 1988 and the School Standards and Framework Act 1998.