Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

( See Religious or political censorship, below ).

Religious political parties are not allowed as it would not respect the principle of non-interference of religion in politics and that religion has to remain in the private sphere to respect all beliefs.

* 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.

" Journalist Ronald Bailey called the criticism " disturbing " and " dishonest ", writing, " The subhead of the review section, ' Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist, gives the show away: Religious and political views need to defend themselves against criticism, but science is supposed to be a process for determining the facts.

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 ".

According to the indictment, the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker " from using blackmail power against his political and institutional sponsors from the world of Masonry, belonging to the P2 lodge, or to the Institute for Religious Works ( the Vatican Bank ) with whom he had managed investments and financing with conspicuous sums of money, some of it coming from Cosa Nostra and public agencies ".

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Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

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.

Beside his Urdu and Persian poetical work, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a milestone in the modern political philosophy of Islam.

Religious, legal, political, and moral objections were raised.

Religious or political education, or clubs that promote a specific religious or political group, are prohibited at public schools.

Religious and didactic poems become more frequent ; and his verses in praise of love turn at times to a protest against the laxer standards of an age demoralized by political unrest.

Throughout the 1980s, Flynt used his magazine as a podium with which to launch attacks on the Reagan Administration and the Religious Right, and even published a short-lived political magazine called Rebel.

His French language political pamphlets, Mémoire sur l ' empire d ' Autriche dans la question d ' Orient (" Account of the Austrian Empire in the Oriental Issue ", 1855 ), Réflexions sur la situation (" Musings on the Situation ", 1856 ), Mémoire sur la situation de la Moldavie depuis le traité de Paris (" Account on Moldavia's Situation After the Treaty of Paris ", 1857 ), and La Question religieuse en Roumanie (" The Religious Issue in Romania ", 1866 ), were all published in Paris.

As the unofficial title of a loose association of believers, it does provide a clear distinction from the more commonly known " Christian Right " or " Religious Right " and its key leaders and political views.

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A number of Christian socialist movements and political parties throughout the world group themselves into the International League of Religious Socialists.

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 National Religious Party (, Miflaga Datit Leumit, commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym Mafdal, ( Hebrew: מפד " ל )) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement.

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Religious tensions remained strong throughout the second half of the 16th century.

Religious tensions broke into violence in the German free city of Donauwörth in 1606.

( Religious tensions occurred in the 1930s, but were the norm only in Northern Ireland ).

Religious tensions continued to affect politics for many years to come, though never to the same degree, and Henry IV faced many attempts on his life ; the last — a Catholic who believed the king had failed in his Christian duty — succeeding in May 1610.

Religious differences between Muslim and Christian natives of Borneo has led, at various times, to communal tensions.

Religious tensions in England during the 16th and 17th centuries resulted in the introduction of serious penalties for witchcraft.

Religious tensions over the Thurgau were an important background to the First War of Villmergen ( 1656 ), during which Zurich briefly occupied the Thurgau.

Religious tensions between Hindus and Muslims erupt into nation-wide violence.

Religious tension over the Kotel and the escalation of the tensions between the Arab and Jewish populations led to the 1929 Palestine riots.

His large-scale Religious Procession in the Province of Kursk is sometimes considered an archetype of the " Russian national style ," as it displays various social classes and the tensions among them, set within the context of a traditional religious practice and united by a slow but relentless forward movement.

Religious tensions heightened after Theo van Gogh was killed in 2004 by Mohammed Bouyeri, a conservative Muslim.

Religious tensions are virtually non-existent.

In 1999, on a track sung in Hebrew " Ad Matay " ( heb. עד מתי ) written by Chaim Walder, Werdyger took on tensions between Israeli Secular and Religious parties.

In 1898 he went back to Paris to write a PhD dissertation on The Religious Philosophy of Kant at the Sorbonne, and to study in earnest with Widor.

( ed ) New Religious Movements and Rapid Social Change, Paris: UNESCO / London, Beverly Hills & New Delhi: SAGE Publications, 1986.

He holds a doctorate in Religious Sciences from the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes ( EPHE ), Paris, France.

Various Roman Catholic societies and orders were formed for the specific purpose of perpetual adoration prior to the 19th century, e. g. the Perpetual Adorers of the Blessed Sacrament ( 1659 in Marsaille ), Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and of the Perpetual Adoration ( formed in 1768 in Paris ), and the Religious of the Perpetual Adoration ( 1789, Switzerland ).

The 19th century thus witnessed a rapid growth in perpetual adoration societies, and some existing orders ( e. g. the Dominicans and the Poor Clares ) e. g. Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration ( 1845 in Brittany ), Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration ( also in 1854 ), Religious of Perpetual Adoration ( Brussels, 1857 ), Servants of the Most Blessed Sacrament ( 1858, Paris ), Sisters of St. Francis of Perpetual Adoration ( 1863, Olpe, Germany ), Holy Spirit Adoration Sisters ( Holland, 1896 ),

A doctoral thesis presented to the Department of Religious Anthropology Universite de Paris IV Sorbonne, 1992, online text, published by wisdomsgoldenrod

In 1886, he was appointed as the inaugural President of the new " Fifth Section " for Religious Sciences at the École Pratique des Hautes Études in Paris.

The BOS performs regularly at the National Auditorium in Madrid and the Musical Fortnight in Donostia, in addition to engagements at the Santander International Festival, Paris Festival, and the Religious Music Festival in Cuenca.