* Mizrachi, and political parties such as Mafdal and National Union ( Israel ) all represent certain sectors within the Religious Zionist movement, both in diaspora and Israel.

Between Haredi Judaism and National Religious or Religious Zionist Judaism, there is also a category of Orthodox Jews known as ' Hardalim ', who combine Religious Zionism with a stricter adherence to Halacha.

Rabbinical consensus in the post-1967 period in the Religious Zionist stream of Orthodox Judaism held that it is forbidden for Jews to enter any part of the Temple Mount, and in January 2005 a declaration was signed confirming the 1967 decision.

; May 2007: Right-wing Jews ascend the Mount: A group of right-wing Religious Zionist rabbis entered the Temple Mount.

An editorial in the newspaper Haaretz accused the rabbis of ' knowingly and irresponsibly bringing a burning torch closer to the most flammable hill in the Middle East ,' and noted that rabbinical consensus in both the Haredi and the Religious Zionist worlds forbids Jews from entering the Temple Mount.

Category: Religious Zionist political parties in Israel

This community tends to be involved with Religious Zionist causes and offers strong support of Israel.

Abraham Isaac Kook ( 1865 – 1935 ) was the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine, the founder of the Religious Zionist Yeshiva Merkaz HaRav, Jewish thinker, Halachist, Kabbalist and a renowned Torah scholar.

Kook tried to build and maintain channels of communication and political alliances between the various Jewish sectors, including the secular Jewish Zionist leadership, the Religious Zionists, and more traditional non-Zionist Orthodox Jews.

His sympathy towards the Zionist movement can be seen as a major stepping-stone to the Religious Zionist movement gaining momentum and legitimacy after his death.

Rav Kook's writings and philosophy eventually gave birth to the Hardal Religious Zionist movement which is today led by rabbis who studied under Rav Kook's son at Mercaz HaRav.

Category: Religious Zionist Orthodox rabbis

In later years, when Kook's name became associated with the Mizrachi, part of the Religious Zionist Movement, Hutner, an eventual member of the non-Zionist Haredi Agudath Israel of America's Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah (" Council of Torah Sages "), sought to downplay his former association with Kook, even though he maintained cordial relations with Kook's son and heir Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook and other prominent students such as Rabbi Moshe-Zvi Neria.

It has remained for the Religious Zionist teacher, Neria to republish the approbation that Kook had written and some correspondence between Kook and Hutner about it.

* Confessions of a Confused Religious Zionist

Category: Religious Zionist organizations

# Emunah of America: Chapters and divisions around the United States support Israel ’ s largest Religious Zionist educational and social welfare organizations.

In the 1930s, the pioneering founders of Kibbutz Yavneh from the Religious Zionist movement immigrated to the British Mandate of Palestine, settling near Petah Tikva on land purchased by a Jewish-owned German company.

Arutz Sheva, the right wing Religious Zionist Israeli media network operates an internet radio studio in Petah Tikva, where Arutz Sheva internet TV is located as well as the printing press for its B ' Sheva newspaper.

Yeshivat Hesder Petah Tikva, a modern-orthodox Hesder Yeshiva affiliated with the Religious Zionist movement, directed by Rabbi Yuval Cherlow, is also located in Petah Tikva.

* Zvi Yehuda Kook ( 1891-1982 ), son of the above, prominent Religious Zionist rabbi.

Until the 1970s, the Bnei Brak municipality was headed by Religious Zionist mayors.

Religious thought among the Japanese people is generally a blend of Shintō and Buddhist beliefs.

Religious and philosophical thought privileging the immaterial or supernatural over the material and natural is ubiquitous and ancient.

The United Society of Believers in Christ ’ s Second Appearing, known as the Shakers, is a religious sect originally thought to be a development of the Religious Society of Friends.

In chapter 4 (" The Terror of History ") of The Myth of the Eternal Return and chapter 9 (" Religious Symbolism and the Modern Man's Anxiety ") of Myths, Dreams, and Mysteries, Eliade argues at length that the rejection of religious thought is a primary cause of modern man's anxieties.

Religious leaders were thought to be uncompromising in their beliefs and therefore a much bigger threat than political leaders.

The article has been cited as a reference used for background on Scientology in books which take a critical look at cults such as Larson's Book of World Religions and Alternative Spirituality and Insane Therapy: Portrait of a Psychotherapy Cult, those that analyze new religious movements including Understanding New Religious Movements and The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements, and in a work that includes researchers from both schools of thought, Misunderstanding Cults: Searching for Objectivity in a Controversial Field.

Berry also contributed two introductory essays (' Economics: Its Effects on the Life Systems of the World ' and ' The Earth: A New Context for Religious Unity ') to the volume Thomas Berry and the New Cosmology, in which Brian Swimme, Caroline Richards, Gregory Baum and others discuss the implications of Berry's thought for a range of disciplines and paradigms.

However, the radical centrist politician might spurn any influence or pressure coming from the Religious Right and other socially conservative groups ( pro-life advocates, school prayer advocates, etc.

" People for the American Way, which is critical of the organization, describes IWF as " a secular counterpart to Religious Right women ’ s groups like Eagle Forum and Concerned Women for America ", although the latter two are antifeminist groups whereas IWF advocates equity feminism.

Religious who derive their own sense of purpose through identification with the religious community rather than the academic community are prone to underestimate both the layman's reservoir of idealism and his need for this identification.

Religious governments probably began to criminalize drugs ' possession and trade in the Middle Ages, and such legislation has continued until the present day, by both religious and non-religious governments.

For instance, Ye Xiaowen, Director of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of the State Council ( government ), said at a news conference on 4 November 1999 " Falun Gong had brainwashed and bilked followers, caused more than 1, 400 deaths, and threatened both social and political stability ".

In Thy Kingdom Come, Randall Balmer recounts comments that Paul M. Weyrich, who he describes as " one of the architects of the Religious Right in the late 1970s ", made at a conference, sponsored by a Religious Right organization, that they both attended in Washington in 1990:

In response both to televangelist Jimmy Swaggart's June 1987 book Religious Rock ' N ' Roll: A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing, which had criticized the music of Norman and other Christian rock artists, and Swaggart's February 1988 admission of adultery with a prostitute, Norman wrote the song " Selah ", which had its last verse censored by Benson, which was: " My songs are spiritual fornication ,/ that's what this television preacher said ./ I guess he knows a lot about fornication ,/ I heard he wrote some sermons in a prostitute's bed.

It was titled L ' Histoire des ordres monastiques, religieux et militaires, et des congregations séculières de l ' un et de l ' autre sexe, qui ont été établis jusqu ' à présent ( The History of the Religious and Military Monastic Orders, and of the Secular Congregations of both Sexes, which have been established up to the Present Day ).

a ) Religious institutes, both male and female, formally aggregated to the Order by a decree of the Prior General ( this would include the Augustinians of the Assumption, the Sisters of St Rita, etc.

In 1968 Marymount and St. Joseph Colleges merged under the Marymount name with an agreement that the traditions and heritage of both the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange would be carried in the Marymount name.

As part of the Marymount College Agreement, Marymount College was administered " co-equally " by the Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange as members of both communities partnered in the governing, staffing, and teaching of Marymount College.

Richard King, Professor of Religious Studies, thinks it is unlikely that Gauḍapāda could have authored both texts, given the differences between the two philosophies.

Religious and political themes were widely explored within the Baroque artistic context, and both paintings and sculptures were characterised by a strong element of drama, emotion and theatricality.

The Religious Zionist Movement is an Orthodox faction within the Zionist movement which combines a belief in the importance of establishing a Jewish state in the land of Israel following a religious way of life, in contrast to both secular Zionism and Haredi Orthodox movements.

Religious symbolism is effective when it appeals to both the intellect and the emotions.

His publication in 1885 of The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, and in 1892 of The Spirit of Modern Philosophy, both based on Harvard lectures, secured his place in the philosophical world.

Having made it clear that idealism depends upon postulates and proceeds hypothetically, Royce defends the necessity of objective reference of our ideas to a universal whole within which they belong, for without these postulates, “ both practical life and the commonest results of theory, from the simplest impressions to the most valuable beliefs, would be for most if not all of us utterly impossible .” ( see The Religious Aspect of Philosophy, p. 324 ) The justification for idealistic postulates is practical ( a point Royce made repeatedly in his maturity, accepting the label of " pragmatist " for himself, to the extent that it embraced practical life as the guide and determiner of the value of philosophical ideas.

Religious images are used to some extent by all major religions, including both Indian and Abrahamic faiths, and often contain highly complex iconography, which reflects centuries of accumulated tradition.

Religious education was prohibited in both primary and secondary school.

In the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, Congress states in its findings that a religiously neutral law can burden a religion just as much as one that was intended to interfere with religion ; therefore the Act states that the “ Government shall not substantially burden a person ’ s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability .” The law provided an exception if two conditions are both met.

Some groups of Christians, such as the Religious Society of Friends and the Mennonites, object to the taking of both oaths and affirmations, basing their objections upon a commandment given in the Sermon on the Mount, and regard all promises to be witnessed by God.

The Company was founded by Samuel Tuke and Joseph Rowntree, both Quakers, in 1832 in Bradford as the Friends Provident Institution, a friendly society for members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ).

He participated actively in the work of The Elijah Interfaith Institute by writing Christian position papers — both on his own and with his students as co-authors — for the meetings of the its Board of Religious Leaders and by participating in its meeting.