Religious persecution intensified during this period, because religion was seen as being opposed to Marxist-Leninist and Maoist thinking.

Religious philosophy is philosophical thinking that is inspired and directed by religion.

Religious belief in God, and Christian belief ... may seem strange to common-sense thinking.

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

Religious violence often tends to place great emphasis on the symbolic aspect of the act.

Religious faith can be considered a necessary condition of membership in a congregation, since the decision to join a worshiping group requires some motive force, but faith is not a sufficient condition for joining ; ;

Religious beliefs were deeply instilled in the people of the time, which gave much influence to the clergy, and the prosecution of poets who made statements contradictory to religious messages were prevalent, as was the case with Hafiz ( whose house was raided several times, and was forced to burn some of his more liberal poems ) and Ferdowsi ( who was branded a heretic and was not permitted to be buried in the Muslims graveyard ).

Religious pluralism can be defined as " respecting the otherness of others " and accepting the given uniqueness endowed to each one of us.

The Religious Preference provisions of the Tennessee Constitution ( section 3 of article 1 ) stated, " no preference shall ever be given, by law, to any religious establishment or mode of worship.

Ephrata was incorporated as the German Religious Society of Seventh Day Baptists in 1814, and the site where their community was founded came to be known at the Ephrata Cloister.

" 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.

Religious utopias can be intra-religious or inter-religious.

The book is titled Understanding the Bible: An Introduction for Skeptics, Seekers, and Religious Liberals, and is meant as a kind of handbook to be read alongside the Bible itself.

Religious clothing might be considered a special case of occupational clothing.

Religious freedom demanded that church and state be separated.

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.

It may also be used to reflect the Latin usage for houses of friars, more commonly called a " friary ", or for communities of teaching or nursing Religious Sisters.

Defoe was a Puritan moralist and normally worked in the guide tradition, writing books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor ( 1727 ) and Religious Courtship ( 1722 ).

The writer and director, Leslie Stevens, concerned that the Mission authorities would not allow the film to be shot there because of the subject matter, concocted a cover story that the film was called Religious Leaders of Old Monterey, and presented a script that was about monks and farmers.

The Christian right is also " also known as the New Christian Right ( NCR ) or the Religious Right ", although some consider the religious right to be " a slightly broader category than Christian Right ".

Religious figures such as Domingo de Soto, Pius XII, Saint Anthony Mary Claret, Saint John of the Cross have their place within the city urban sculpture, the first work of Ortega and the rest of José María García Moro, sculptor prosperous Segovia who must also be a Monument to the Youth located in the Plaza del Conde de Cheste.

Religious superiors met their bishops ' pressure with the response that the austere and cloistered ideal was no longer acceptable to more than a tiny minority of regular clergy, and that any attempt on their part to enforce their order's stricter rules could be overturned in counter-actions in the secular courts, were aggrieved monks and nuns to obtain a writ of praemunire.

Religious scholar Saul M. Olyan ( author of Asherah and the Cult of Yahweh in Israel ), calls the representation on the Qudshu-Astarte-Anat plaque " a triple-fusion hypostasis ", and considers Qudshu to be an epithet of Athirat by a process of elimination, for Astarte and Anat appear after Qudshu in the inscription.

* Religious sisters may be styled as Reverend Sister, though this is more common in Italy than in, for example, the United States.

" " Religious order " and " religious institute " tend indeed to be used now as synonyms, and canon lawyer Nicholas Cafardi, commenting on the fact that the canonical term is " religious institute ", can write that " religious order " is a colloquialism.

Religious who are not clergy tend to be called " Brother " or " Sister ", while the term " friar " properly refers to a member of a male mendicant order.

; Grey + Emphasis + Racial / Ethnic / Religious Bias: Largely truthful, containing no information that can be proven wrong ; the source is not identified.

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

There are an estimated 2, 400 celibate Anglican Religious ( 1080 men and 1320 women ) in the Anglican Communion as a whole, some of whom have adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.

Religious, historical and socio-cultural factors have helped define the bounds of endogamy for Muslims in some parts of Pakistan.

Religious beliefs, however, have also been associated with some left-wing movements, such as the American abolitionist movement and the anti-capital punishment movement.

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 freedom did not exist at all in many Communist countries such as Albania and the Stalinist Soviet Union, where the state prevented the public expression of religious belief and even persecuted some or all religions.

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

Chief Justice Morrison Waite, who consulted the historian George Bancroft, also discussed at some length the Memorial and Remonstrance against Religious Assessments by James Madison, who drafted the First Amendment ; Madison used the metaphor of a " great barrier.

In July 2003, the Italian prosecutors concluded that the Mafia acted not only in its own interests, but also to ensure that Calvi could not blackmail " politico-institutional figures and of freemasonry, the P2 lodge, and the Institute of Religious Works with whom he had invested substantial sums of money, some of it from Cosa Nostra and Italian public corporations ".

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 minorities include followers of various sects of Sunni Islam, Mystic Islam, Zoroastrianism, Judaism, Christianity ( including the adherents of the Assyrian Church of the East, Armenian Apostolic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Chaldean Catholic Church, Iranian Protestant churches like Jama ' at-e Rabbani ( Assemblies of God ), Armenian Evangelical Church, Armenian Brotherhood Church, Russian Orthodox Church, and the Presbyterian Church ) and some from the Bahá ' í Faith.

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.

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 significance-at some sites paintings depict aspects of particular ceremonies

Religious groups, including representatives of the Catholic Church and some Jewish rabbis have objected to the display of human remains, stating that it is inconsistent with reverence towards the human body.

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.

Religious rules may prescribe a specific zone, e. g. some Christian traditions hold that Christians must be buried in " consecrated ground ", usually a cemetery ; an earlier practice, burial in or very near the church ( hence the word churchyard ), was generally abandoned with individual exceptions as a high posthumous honour ; also many existing funeral monuments and crypts remain in use.

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 fanaticism-considered by some to be the most extreme form of religious fundamentalism.

After three o ' clock in the afternoon of Good Friday ( the time at which Jesus is traditionally believed to have died ), noise is discouraged, some radio stations and television stations sign off ( while others remain signed-on, broadcasting Religious Programming ), businesses automatically close, and the faithful are urged to keep a solemn and prayerful disposition through to Easter Sunday.

Religious connotations are associated with mist in some cultures ; it is used as a metaphor in 2 Peter 2: 17.

Examples are Religious Naturalism, Scientific Pantheism, Religious Humanism and some liberal Unitarians, Quakers, Rastafarians and Jews.