Religious toleration came from above.

In Martineau's earliest book, The Rationale of Religious Enquiry, published in 1836, he places the authority of reason above that of Scripture.

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

For this reason, it not infrequently happens that a Cause is entrusted to the postulator-general of an Institute of Religious Life, most of which have their headquarters in that city ( see note 3 above ).

The religious issue which had divided the country since Henry VIII was in a way put to rest by the Elizabethan Religious Settlement, which re-established the Church of England.

* Monastic Rule, the document giving the way of life to be led by the members of the varying Religious Orders in the Catholic Church and other Christian groups which follow a monastic way of life

Other Bishops, Priests, Religious men and women going up a steep mountain, at the top of which there was a big Cross of rough-hewn trunks as of a cork-tree with the bark ; before reaching there the Holy Father passed through a big city half in ruins and half trembling with halting step, afflicted with pain and sorrow, he prayed for the souls of the corpses he met on his way ; having reached the top of the mountain, on his knees at the foot of the big Cross he was killed by a group of soldiers who fired bullets and arrows at him, and in the same way there died one after another the other Bishops, Priests, Religious men and women, and various lay people of different ranks and positions.

Religious institutes and the like, to which grants of plenary indulgences, for instance for visiting a particular church or shrine, had been previously made, were given a year from the date of promulgation of Indulgentiarum doctrina to have them confirmed, and any that were not confirmed ( mostly in a more limited way than before ) within two years became null and void.

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 sects whose members live communally, such as the Hutterites, for example, are not usually called " utopian socialists ", although their way of living is a prime example.

In late 2010, Daniel C. Peterson, editor of the FARMS Review, announced the journal would be renamed Mormon Studies Review, to reflect " readjustments over the past several years in what is now known as the Neal A. Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship ; the old title, FARMS, no longer reflects the way we're organized.

While its subjects were wide-ranging, SatireWire is perhaps best remembered for its business humor, including the 2001 story " Sally Struthers Begs You to Save the Dot-Coms ", written in response to the collapse of Internet stocks, " Remaining U. S. CEOs Make a Break for It ", about a band of roving CEOs who plunder their way to the Mexican border, and " Religious Merger Creates 900 Million Hinjews ".

Religious indoctrination, the original sense of indoctrination, refers to a process of imparting doctrine in an authoritative way, as in catechism.

A Religious cosmology ( also mythological cosmology ) is a way of explaining the origin, the history and the evolution of the cosmos or universe based on the religious mythology of a specific tradition.

Hamer responded that the existence of such a gene would not be incompatible with the existence of a personal God: " Religious believers can point to the existence of God genes as one more sign of the creator's ingenuity — a clever way to help humans acknowledge and embrace a divine presence.

Habel defines religious experiences as the structured way in which a believer enters into a relationship with, or gains an awareness of, the sacred within the context of a particular religious tradition ( Habel, O ' Donoghue and Maddox: 1993 ). Religious experiences are by their very nature preternatural ; that is, out of the ordinary or beyond the natural order of things.

Keene worked his way through college and law school as a UPS driver, graduating from CSU, Chico in 1982 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree and a double major in Psychology and Religious Studies.

Religious naturalism is concerned about the meaning of life, but it is equally interested in living daily life in a rational, happy way.

Testimony to integrity and truth, refers to the way many members of the Religious Society of Friends ( Quakers ) testify or bear witness to their belief that one should live a life that is true to God, true to oneself, and true to others.

The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act ( RLUIPA ),, codified as et seq., is a United States federal law that prohibits the imposition of burdens on the ability of prisoners to worship as they please and gives churches and other religious institutions a way to avoid burdensome zoning law restrictions on their property use.

" Religious writer Michel Clasquin said the episode also demonstrates the way in which people " go through the right motions " in practicing religion by attending church, but disregard religion in their everyday lives ; he cites the example that when Stan asks his father where their copy of the Bible is, he says it's in the attic " with the old LPs ".

Religious innovation means inventing a new way of worshipping God that was not originally included in the message that Islamic tradition claims was revealed to Muhammad and opposes established forms.

Religious poetry was in this way reduced to mere trifling, for in the 11th century, which witnessed the decline of Greek hymnology and the revival of pagan humanism, Michael Psellus began parodying church hymns, a practice that took root in popular culture.

In 2012, President Abdullah Gül visited the institution and said “ It is undoubtedly one of the most important duties of the Religious Affairs Directorate to teach our religion to our people in the most correct, clear and concise way and steer them away from superstition ”

Religious, military, and cultural propaganda fostered a cult of personality, and by nominating himself perpetual censor, he sought to control public and private morals.

Religious, military and cultural propaganda fostered a cult of personality.

Although his family had been Quakers for four generations, he was expelled from the Religious Society of Friends because his involvement with a military force contradicted his faith's pacifistic nature.

Religious officials and shepherds in charge of flocks were exempt from military duty.

In December 2008, the program attracted criticism from the Military Religious Freedom Foundation ( MRFF ), a watchdog group that looks for acts of religious discrimination in the United States military.

As with military usage, the Religious Superior of the division is referred to as the Commissary.

Additional lawsuits by Weinstein's organization, the Military Religious Freedom Foundation, have named The Navigators in similar complaints of alleged proselytizing in the military.

# REDIRECT Religious symbolism in the United States military

They are libertarian in other aspects, such as being pro-choice, supporting gays in the military and gay marriage, opposing the influence of the Religious Right on American politics, opposing the Iraq War, opposing funds for public transportation, and opposing tax increases.

He ended his military career when he was promoted to the post of General Secretary of the Department of Religious Affairs and later was appointed as a minister in the Cabinet.

Hesder ( in Hebrew: " arrangement "; or Yeshivat Hesder ישיבת הסדר ) is an Israeli yeshiva program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework.

In September 2007, the Central Java division and Jepara branch of the Indonesian organisation Nahdlatul Ulama ( the Awakening of the Religious Scholars ) declared the government's proposal to build a nuclear power station nearby at Balong on the Muria peninsula haram or forbidden.

Religious elements also were antagonized by Dorji's efforts to reduce the power of the state-supported religious institutions.

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 ".

Religious knowledge was secret, and the prevalent religion, called Chinigchinich, placed village chiefs in the position of religious leaders, an arrangement that gave the chiefs broad power over their people.

In the 1997 case of City of Boerne v. Flores, the Court again took a narrow view of the Congressional power of enforcement, striking down a provision of the Religious Freedom Restoration Act ( RFRA ) that sought to forbid the states from placing burdens on religious practice in the absence of a compelling state interest in doing so.

* 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.

Still more fundamental principles include ahimsa ( non-violence ), the primacy of the Guru, the Divine Word of Aum and the power of mantras, love of Truth in many manifestations as gods and goddesses, and an understanding that the essential spark of the Divine ( Atman ) is in every human and living being, thus allowing for many spiritual paths leading to the One Unitary Religious Truth ( which Hindus call Brahman ).

It signaled the new electoral power of the suburbs and the Sun Belt, with the Religious Right for the first time a major factor.

The party used its bargaining power to close down the Religious Affairs ministry.

** " Free labor, wage labor, and the slave power: republicanism and the Republican party in the 1850s ", in Melvyn Stokes and Stephen Conway ( eds ), The Market Revolution in America: Social, Political and Religious Expressions, 1800 – 1880, pp. 128 – 46.

Modeling the provisions concerning religion within the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, the framers of the Constitution rejected any religious test for office, and the First Amendment specifically denied the federal government any power to enact any law respecting either an establishment of religion or prohibiting its free exercise, thus protecting any religious organization, institution, or denomination from government interference.

A 1995 San Francisco Chronicle article titled " Japan Fears Another Religious Sect " outlined charges in Japan that Sōka Gakkai was " heavy-handed fund raising and proselytizing, as well as intimidating its foes and trying to grab political power ".

Religious belief is belief in a supernatural power or powers that control human destiny.

She later reorganized it, giving the Worker Caste ( which had previously been caught in the middle of the power struggle between the Warrior and Religious castes ) a substantial increase of power and influence.

" Religious bigotry, the combination of graft and political power, the corruption of justice, the mob spirit ( being " the social group gone mad ") and mob action, militarism, and class contempt -- " every student of history will recognize that these sum up constitutional forces in the Kingdom of Evil.

* External Crisis-The appearance of a power hostile to Religious conquest, and with Atomics as well as Imperial backing for those same weapons -- the Republic of Korell.