Chapter 21, Of Religious Worship, and the Sabbath Day, sections 7-8 read: The confession holds that not only is work forbidden in Sunday, but also " works, words, and thoughts " about " worldly employments and recreations.

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 ).

PASSIA works to achieve its goals through the implementation of the following regular programs: Research, Dialogue, Training and Education in International Affairs, Civil Society Empowerment, Religious Studies, the Question of Jerusalem, and the annual PASSIA Diary.

The American Friends Service Committee ( AFSC ) is a Religious Society of Friends ( Quaker ) affiliated organization which works for peace and social justice in the United States and around the world.

Religious altarpieces, fresco cycles, and small works for private devotion were very popular.

Religious works dominated his output, in keeping with the tenor of the time ; but de Worde also printed volumes ranging from romantic novels to poetry ( he published the work of John Skelton and Stephen Hawes ), and from children's books to volumes on household practice and animal husbandry.

* Religious works, e. g. « Иже херувимы » and « Вечери Твоея тайныя » (" Of Thy Mystical Supper ")

The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements notes that Revolt in the Stars remains one of Hubbard's unpublished science fiction works but unofficial copies circulate on the Internet, and this is confirmed in The Encyclopedic Sourcebook of UFO Religions by James R. Lewis, and New Religions: A Guide, edited by Christopher Partridge.

Some characterize Graetz's main elements of Jewish experience through the ages to be ' suffering and spiritual scholarship ', while later Jewish scholarly works like Salo W. Baron's 1937 A Social and Religious History of the Jews, opposed the view of Jewish history as being'all darkness and no light ' and sought to restore balance, by writing a social history.

Her most important pedagogical works are Letters on Education, Essays on the Human Mind ( 1796 ), Letters on the Elementary Principles of Education ( 1801 ), Letters addressed to the Daughter of a Nobleman, on the Formation of Religious and Moral Principle ( 1806 ), and Hints addressed to the Patrons and Directors of Schools ( 1815 ).

Among his thirteen works in Arabic and other languages were Imam Shāfi ‘ ī and the Founding of Medieval Ideology and The Critique of Religious Discourse.

For religiously inspired works which are not considered scripture see: Category: Religious literature

His works were nearly all published after his death and include Select Notions of B. Whichcote ( 1685 ), Select Sermons ( 1689 ), Discourses ( 1701 ), and Moral and Religious Aphorisms ( 1703 ).

Often, the text comes from a portion of Monsignor Luigi Giussani's trilogy of works ( known as the Per Corso Trilogy ): The Religious Sense, At The Origin Of The Christian Claim, Why The Church ?, and currently Giussani's posthumous work " Is It Possible To Live This Way?

Dionne's published works include the influential 1991 bestseller Why Americans Hate Politics, which argued that several decades of political polarization was alienating a silent centrist majority, as well as They Only Look Dead: Why Progressives Will Dominate the Next Political Era ( 1996 ), Stand up Fight Back: Republican Toughs, Democratic Wimps, and Politics of Revenge ( 2004 ), Souled Out: Reclaiming Faith and Politics After the Religious Right ( 2008 ), and " Our Divided Political Heart: The Battle for the American Idea in an Age of Discontent ( 2012 ).

He is the author of many works on the Qur ' an and its interpretation, as well as the widely respected Muslims-Their Religious Beliefs and Practices, now in its third edition ( 2005 ).

His painting " The Procession " is one of relatively few works by contemporary artists to be selected for the Vatican Museums ’ Collection of Modern Religious Art.

The profits of his literary works he gave to the Religious Tract Society.

The most conspicuous of his earlier works were: A History of Civilization in the First Five Centuries of Christianity, Recollections of Italy, Life of Lord Byron, The History of the Republican Movement in Europe, The Redemption of Slaves, The Religious Revolution, Historical Essays on the Middle Ages, The Eastern Question, Fra Filippo Lippi, History of the Discovery of America, and some historical novels.

In their letter to the President, the Danbury Baptists affirmed that " Our Sentiments are uniformly on the side of Religious Liberty — That Religion is at all times and places a matter between God and individuals — That no man ought to suffer in name, person, or effects on account of his religious Opinions — That the legitimate Power of civil government extends no further than to punish the man who works ill to his neighbor ..." This doctrine, known as the " wall of separation " or " strict separationism ," would later become highly influential in 20th century Supreme Court understandings of the relationship between church and state.

Bogatzky's chief works are Güldenes Schatzkästlein der Kinder Gottes ( Little Golden Treasure Chest of God's Children, 1718 ) and Übung der Gottseligkeit in allerlei geistlichen Liedern ( Exercises Regarding God's Blessedness in All Forms of Religious Songs, 1750 ).

The Southern Baptist Convention — the largest Protestant denomination in the United States — has formed an Ethics & Religious Liberty Commission ( ERLC ), which works to equip more CPCs with ultrasound machines through a venture called the " Psalm 139 Project ".

His chief works are Lettre à un ami, ou Considérations philosophiques et religieuses sur la révolution française ( Letter to a Friend, or Philosophical and Religious Considerations on the French Revolution ), Éclair sur l ' Association humaine, L ' Esprit des choses ou Coup d ' œil philosophique sur la nature des êtres et sur l ' objet de leur existence, and Le Ministère de l ' Homme-Esprit.

In fact, the Kemalist state's support for Islam was demonstrated by the establishment of Directorate for Religious Affairs (), created " to execute the works concerning the beliefs, worship, and ethics of Islam, enlighten the public about their religion, and administer the sacred worshipping places ".

A court case allowing the União do Vegetal to import and use the tea for religious purposes in the United States, Gonzales v. O Centro Espirita Beneficente Uniao do Vegetal, was heard by the U. S. Supreme Court on November 1, 2005 ; the decision, released February 21, 2006, allows the UDV to use the tea in its ceremonies pursuant to the Religious Freedom Restoration Act.

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.

* A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice: Official work on Jewish law, by Isaac Klein, 1992

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.

Dualism was first seen implicitly in Egyptian Religious beliefs by the contrast of the Gods Set ( disorder, death ) and Osiris ( order, life ).

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

* On Religious Tolerance, by Khalid Baig

* Psychological Issues of Former Members of Restrictive Religious Groups by Jim Moyers

New Thought as a movement had no single origin, but was rather propelled along by a number of spiritual thinkers and philosophers and emerged through a variety of religious denominations and churches, particularly the Unity Church, Religious Science, and Church of Divine Science.

* " The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge " by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck.

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.

* Temimei Haderech (" A Guide To Jewish Religious Practice ") by Rabbi Isaac Klein with contributions from the Committee on Jewish Law and Standards of the Rabbinical Assembly.

Devoted to his family, he dedicated his major work, A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice to his children, sons-in-law and 13 grandchildren listing each by name.

In 1979 he assembled this into A Guide to Jewish Religious Practice, which is used widely by laypeople and rabbis within Conservative Judaism.

* 1786 – Virginia enacted the Statute for Religious Freedom authored by Thomas Jefferson.

" pp. 98 – 116 in The Craft of Religious Studies, edited by Jon R. Stone.

In 2001, his book Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism led to Dupuis being investigated by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, a department of the Roman Curia, which noted ambiguities regarding agreement between what he called a " Christian theology of religious pluralism " and the teaching of the Second Vatican Council and the popes of the council and later.

* See Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, " Notification on the book Toward a Christian Theology of Religious Pluralism ( Orbis Books: Maryknoll, New York 1997 ) by Father Jacques Dupuis, S. J.

In 1976 he was awarded the Faith and Freedom Award by the Religious Heritage of America for his portrayal of the Prodigal Son in ABC Directories series Round Trip.

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.

Organised by the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Lancaster, North-West England, it was entitled " Nature Religion Today: Western Paganism, Shamanism and Esotericism in the 1990s ", and led to the publication of an academic anthology, entitled Nature Religion Today: Paganism in the Modern World.

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.

Little information on Steiner is available, but a broadside for a lecture given by him identifies him as " National Sec ' y Rationalist Association " ( presumably the American Rationalist Association, which published his Religious Treason in the American Republic c. 1927 ).