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.

In 1999, in an attempt to address some of this controversy, the International Catholic-Jewish Historical Commission ( Historical Commission ), a group of three Catholic and three Jewish scholars was appointed, respectively, by the Holy See's Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews ( Holy See's Commission ) and the International Jewish Committee for Interreligious Consultations ( IJCIC ), to whom a preliminary report was issued in October 2000.

Religious controversy surrounding the Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone along with the rest of the Harry Potter series have stemmed mainly from assertions that the novel contains occult or Satanic subtexts.

The controversy surrounding prehistoric or " primal " matriarchy began in reaction to the book by Johann Jakob Bachofen Mother Right: An Investigation of the Religious and Juridical Character of Matriarchy in the Ancient World in 1861.

Her book Messianic Judaism: A Rabbi's Journey through Religious Change in America has been the focus of a controversy because of misunderstandings of her final point.

He promoted doctrines that embroiled him in controversy that led to the first major schism within the Religious Society of Friends.

Religious controversy was soon diverted by the publication of Essays and Reviews and debate over the higher criticism.

In reaction to what has often been called the Elizabethan Religious Settlement despite its failure to achieve a true consensus, Crowley led the anti-vestiarian faction in resuming the vestments controversy which had taken place during the reign of Edward VI.

John Wilbur ( July 17, 1774 – May 1, 1856 ) was a prominent American Quaker minister and religious thinker who was at the forefront of a controversy that led to " the second split " in the Religious Society of Friends in the United States.

Religious practices surrounding Nehalennia were at their peak in the 2nd and 3rd centuries AD, at which time there were at least two to possibly three temples located in the area of what is now Zeeland.

He invited the Congregation of Notre-Dame to set up a primary school in Kingston, and in September 1845 arranged for the creation of a hospital staffed by Religious Hospitallers of St Joseph from the Hôtel-Dieu at Montreal which serviced the town and surrounding district.

The 2006 documentary Jesus Camp, which depicts the life of young children attending Becky Fischer's Pentecostal summer camp, shows Fischer condemning the Harry Potter novels and telling the students that " Warlocks are enemies of God " ( see also Religious debates over the Harry Potter series ).

His Ph. D. thesis, " Religious revival and ethnic mobilization in Yugoslavia, 1965-1991: A history of the Yugoslav religious question from the reform era to the civil war ", won him awards from both the United States Institute of Peace and the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation.

He is a member of the boards of the Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation, the Ethics and Public Policy Center, the Institute for American Values, the American Enterprise Institute, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, and several other organizations.

For a time the UDA looked to this spirit of Ulster nationalism for its own policy, with Glenn Barr, Andy Tyrie, Tommy Lyttle and Harry Chicken spearheaded an initiative in this direction which culminated in the production of the 1979 New Ulster Political Research Group document Beyond the Religious Divide, which drew up a blueprint for a negotiated independence for Northern Ireland, as well as a framework constitution for the new state.

* Harry Oldmeadow ( 2004 ) Journeys East: 20th Century Western Encounters with Eastern Religious Traditions ISBN 0-941532-57-7

Since at least the 18th century Freemasonry has incorporated Templar symbols and rituals in a number of Masonic bodies, most notably, the " Order of the Temple " the final order joined in " The United Religious, Military and Masonic Orders of the Temple and of St John of Jerusalem, Palestine, Rhodes and Malta " commonly known as the Knights Templar.

“ Shaker Gift and Shaker Order: A Study of Religious Tension in Nineteenth-Century America .” Communal Societies.

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Some religious orders, for example the Franciscans or the Dominicans, have " Third Orders " of associated religious members who live in community and follow a rule ( called Third Order Religious or TOR ), or lay members who, without living in formal community with the order, have made a private vow or promise to it, such as of perseverance in pious life, hence are not " religious ", that is to say, not members of the Consecrated life ( often called Third Order Secular, or TOS ).

Among their corporations, the Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses cares for matters specific to Jehovah's Witnesses special full-time servants.

* Religious Order of Jehovah's Witnesses, New York.

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.

Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, a Hasidic-trained rabbi ordained in the Lubavitch movement, broke with Orthodox Judaism beginning in the 1960s, and founded his own organization, The B ' nai Or Religious Fellowship, which he described in an article entitled " Toward an Order of B ' nai Or.

* A Psycho-social Study of Religious Cults From the Perspective of Self Psychology ( University Microfilms International, 1980 ), can be found here ( Order No. 8024199 ).

* Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy, an order of Catholic women

* Juana had to choose between staying in Portugal and entering a Religious Order or marry Prince Juan, Son of the Catholic Monarchs-she chose the first.

) Religious services for the whole Order are held quadrennially ; new Knights and Dames Grand Cross are installed at these services.

* Order of Saint Clare, a Religious Order founded by Clare of Assisi, also known as the Poor Clares, whose members use the post-nominal letters OSC

There are several examples from recent history, however, including the pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, the Shakers, the Harmony Society, Hutterites, some groups within the Religious Society of Friends, and the United Order.

Religious studies scholar Richard T. Hughes argues that " New World Order " rhetoric libels the Christian faith since the " New World Order ", as defined by Christian conspiracy theorists, has no basis in the Bible whatsoever and that, in fact, this idea is not only unbiblical ; it is anti-biblical and fundamentally anti-Christian because, by misinterpreting key passages in the Book of Revelation, it turns a comforting message about the coming kingdom of God into one of fear, panic and despair in the face of an allegedly approaching one-world government.

* Order of the Holy Spirit, also known as the Cordon Bleu Religious Order

The term historic peace churches refers specifically only to three church groups among pacifist churches — Church of the Brethren ; Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ); and Mennonites, including the Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Conservative Mennonites — and has been used since the first conference of the peace churches in Kansas in 1935.

* 1972 Religious Change and Social Order in Soeharto's Indonesia.

This is for the English musical group, not " The Religious Order of the Sisters of Mercy ( RSM )

a fellowship of Bishops, Clergy, Laity, Parishes and Religious Orders, who embrace the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who uphold the Evangelical Faith and Catholic Order which is the inheritance of the Anglican Way, and who work, pray and give for the reform and renewal of the Church with ' no compromise of truth and no limitation of love ' FiF / NA members include faithful Anglicans both within and outside ECUSA.

Their third album, ' Totally Religious '— jointly produced by Howard Gray and Robert Stevens — was recorded in Miami Sound Studios and Criteria Studios in Miami, Alaska Studios in Waterloo, London and Sheffield Recording in Phoenix, Maryland and released in 1989.

* The church has opened its broadcasting facilities ( Bonneville International ) to other Christian groups, and has participated in the VISN Religious Interfaith Cable Television Network.

Religious conservatives principally seek to apply the teachings of particular religions to politics, sometimes by merely proclaiming the value of those teachings, at other times by having those teachings influence laws.

Religious affiliation is itself multi-layered and includes religious considerations other than being Muslim, such as sectarian identity ( e. g. Shia or Sunni, etc.

Religious skepticism, on the other hand is " doubt concerning basic religious principles ( such as immortality, providence, and revelation )".

Religious people are generally skeptical about claims of other religions, at least when the two denominations conflict in some stated belief.

The " borrowing " of religious rituals from other faith traditions by Unitarian Universalists was discussed at the UU General Assembly in 2001 during a seminar titled Cultural Appropriation: Reckless Borrowing or Appropriate Cultural Sharing by the Religious Education Dept, UUA.

* Roman Catholic Church's views on other faiths, as seen by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

Religious pluralism existed in classical Islamic ethics and Sharia law, as the religious laws and courts of other religions, including Christianity, Judaism and Hinduism, were usually accommodated within the Islamic legal framework, as seen in the early Caliphate, Al-Andalus, Indian subcontinent, and the Ottoman Millet system.

Religious opposition has also surfaced in other nations.

In Victoria, Australia the Racial and Religious Tolerance Act 2001 makes illegal " conduct that incites hatred against, serious contempt for, or revulsion or severe ridicule of, that other person or class of persons " on the grounds of religious belief.

Yet Religious Sisters can also do this form of ministry, e. g., the Maryknoll Missionary Sisters have small houses of contemplative Sisters, some in mission locations, who pray for the work of the priests, brothers and other Sisters of their Congregation ; the Sister Disciples of the Divine Master are also cloistered Sisters who pray in support of their sister congregation, the Daughters of St. Paul in their media ministry.

* Religious, Ethnic, and secessionist groups-Viewing these aspects of the sub-unit level has explanatory power with regards to ethnic conflicts, religious wars, transnational diaspora ( diaspora politics ) and other actors which do not consider themselves to fit with the defined state boundaries.

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.

Religious institutes are distinct from secular institutes and other lay ecclesial movements.

Religious groups that perform Humanitarian service may be registered as charitable organizations, although religious and other organizations may perform Humanitarian service without registration.

; The Boston Eight: included other priests and Religious Sisters.

Religious opposition to the series has also occurred in other nations.

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.

This was done in their election address or at two conferences in 1852, one held by the Tenants League and the other about Religious Equality.

Religious persecution may be triggered by religious bigotry ( i. e. the denigration of practitioners ' religions other than those of the oppressors ) or by the State when it views a particular religious group as a threat to its interests or security.

Religious pluralism is a set of religious world views that hold that one's religion is not the sole and exclusive source of truth, and thus recognizes that some level of truth and value exists in other religions.

Religious Life organizations include: Student Christian Fellowship, Fellowship of Christian Athletes, Campus Crusade for Christ, Catholic Student Fellowship, Presbyterian Campus Ministry, Episcopal Campus Ministry, Hillel Jewish Fellowship, and other denominational groups.

State Religious Education is non-proselytising and covers a variety of faiths, although the legislation still requires it to include more Christian content than on other faiths.

" The invidious distinction it drew between Presbyterians on the one hand, and Catholics, members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ), other nonconformists, unbelievers, and Jews on the other, who were compelled to support a ministry they conscientiously disapproved, offended his conscience.