Religious orders who regularly deal with the congregation often have their own designated postulator generals.

Originally constructed as a memorial to students and graduates who died in service during World War II, the Christian Center houses an auditorium and the departments of Performing Arts, History and Religious Studies.

James Welch, the BBC Director of Religious Broadcasting, who had read his 1940 book, The Problem of Pain.

The term " Puritan " in the sense of this article was not coined until the 1560s, when it appears as a term of abuse for those who found the Elizabethan Religious Settlement of 1559 inadequate.

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 leaders, who had gained influence under Habibullah Khan, were unhappy with Amānullāh's extensive religious reforms.

Important early 20th century writers who studied the phenomenon of spirituality, and their works, include William James, The Varieties of Religious Experience ( 1902 ), and Rudolph Otto, especially The Idea of the Holy ( 1917 ).

The Adventist Society for Religious Studies ( ASRS ) was formed to foster a community among Adventist theologians who attend the Society of Biblical Literature ( SBL ) and the American Academy of Religion.

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.

Robinson of the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Crowley adopted this line from François Rabelais, who in 1534 wrote, " DO AS THOU WILT because men that are free, of gentle birth, well bred and at home in civilizor ".

Religious leadership resided in priests who were associated with sanctuaries, and also in prophets, who were bearers of divine oracles.

Category: Religious workers who died in Nazi concentration camps

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.

* Israel Religious Action Center, November 23, 1999 IDF suspense officer who compared the conservative and reform movements to the Nazis

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 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:

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.

The report of the " Swedish Government's Commission on New Religious Movements " ( 1998 ) states that the great majority of members of new religious movements derive positive experiences from their subscription to ideas or doctrines which correspond to their personal needs, and that withdrawal from these movements is usually quite undramatic, as these people leave feeling enriched by a predominantly positive experience.

Yearly Meetings derive their name from annual gatherings of members and attendees of the Religious Society of Friends — from constituent meetings — in order to transact the business of the Yearly Meeting.

Out of their co-operative endeavor, the Movement for Religious Renewal, now generally known as The Christian Community, was born.

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

Ritual dances are usually called " Religious dances " because of their purpose.

Religious conflicts therefore resumed under Louis XIII when Richelieu forced Protestants to disarm their army and fortresses.

Religious figures later responded by saying that Jones did not seem to understand the meaning of the crucifix symbol or its significance to Christians as a reminder of the suffering and death Christ endured for their sake.

Religious Studies professors Paul Nathanson and Katherine Young made similar comparisons in their 2001, three-book series Beyond the Fall of Man, which treats misandry as a form of prejudice and discrimination that has become institutionalized in North American society.

In his book ‪ The Varieties of Religious Experience ‬, the psychologist William James defined religion as " the feelings, acts, and experiences of individual men in their solitude, so far as they apprehend themselves to stand in relation to whatever they may consider the divine ".

Religious minorities were also free to do whatever they wished in their own homes, provided they did not publicly engage in illicit sexual activity in ways that could threaten public morals.

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.

* The Indian Religious Code is created which forbids Native Americans to practice their religions.

A Practical Reference to Religious Diversity for Operational Police and Emergency Services was a publication of the Australasian Police Multicultural Advisory Bureau designed to offer guidance to police and emergency services personnel on how religious affiliation can affect their contact with the public.

The advocacy group Freedom House produced a report entitled " Religious Freedom in the World " in 2000 which ranked countries according to their religious freedom.

Many members of the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers, made their homes in western New York state, near Seneca Falls.

Religious fundamentalists frequently feel that governments should enact laws supporting their religious tenets.

Mark J. Pelavin, Associate Director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, objected to court stripping in regards to the Pledge of Allegiance, " Today's House adoption of the so-called " Pledge Protection Act " is a shameful effort to strip our federal courts of their ability to uphold the rights of all Americans.

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.

Catholic Church canon law states: " Religious are to wear the habit of the institute, made according to the norm of proper law, as a sign of their consecration and as a witness of poverty.

The Boone family belonged to the Religious Society of Friends, disparagingly called " Quakers " and persecuted in England for their dissenting beliefs.

His share in the Religious Settlement of 1559 was considerable, and it coincided fairly with his own Anglican religious views.

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 ".

Religious sects and resistance groups formed their own militias.

In The Structure of Religious Knowing: Encountering the Sacred in Eliade and Lonergan, John Daniel Dadosky argues that, by making this statement, Eliade was acknowledging " indebtedness to Greek philosophy in general, and to Plato's theory of forms specifically, for his own theory of archetypes and repetition ".

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.

Religious focus was kept on the Great Pyramid, but added its own layers to the work.

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.

In the aftermath of the 2004 election in the United States Progressive Christian leaders started to form groups of their own to combat the Religious Right ; The Center for Progressive Christianity and The Christian Alliance For Progress are two such groups that have formed to promote the cause.

" Begzot Kadyrov, specialist of the State's Religious Affairs Committee, commenting on the program, said, " Turning away from the religion of one's ancestors is not only one's own mistake but could also lead to very bad situations between brothers, sisters and between parents and their children.

As the Ottoman Empire proposed international mediation, Cuza took the initiative, and, on October 23, 1863, deposed the Kretzulescu cabinet, nominating instead his own selection of men: Kogălniceanu as Premier and Interior Minister, Dimitrie Bolintineanu as Minister of Religious Affairs.

To build good relations with supporters of religion, the party has its own Religious Commission.

Before his death Nishida wrote The Logic of Place and the Religious Worldview, developing more fully the religious implications of his work and philosophy through " Absolute Nothingness ," which " contains its own absolute self-negation within itself.

In setting up the University of Virginia, Jefferson encouraged all the separate sects to have preachers of their own, though there was a constitutional ban on the State supporting a Professorship of Divinity, arising from his own Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

Jesuits founded their own schools and offered free training in Latin grammar, Philosophy, Theology, Geography, Religious Doctrine and History for boys.

Religious forms are willed by God and each religion corresponds to a particular and homogenous cosmos, characterized by its own perspective of the Absolute.

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.

Ernest Holmes was especially strongly influenced by Emma Curtis Hopkins, especially her " Scientific Christian Mental Practice ", a direct precursor to Holmes ' " Spiritual Mind Treatment ", and by the writings of Judge Thomas Troward and Ralph Waldo Emerson, as he developed his own synthesis, which became known as Religious Science or Science of Mind.

Religious organizations are not permitted to own print or electronic media outlets, governmental permission is required to broadcast religious ceremonies, and ministers are prohibited from being political candidates or holding public office.

Always himself on the unpopular side and an able but thoroughly fair critic of the majority, he habitually underestimated his own worth ; he was not only an anti-slavery leader when abolition was not popular even in New England, and a radical and rationalist when it was impossible for him to stay conveniently in the Unitarian Church, but he was the first president of the National Free Religious Association ( 1867 ) and an early and ardent disciple of Darwin and Spencer.

Religious profession can be temporary or perpetual: " Temporary profession is to be made for the period defined by the institute's own law.

Pupils follow the National Curriculum, except that faith schools may teach Religious Education according to their own faith.