During the 7th century, Arab armies made their way into the region of Afghanistan from Khorasan with the new religion of Islam.

Muhammad did so to set examples that Islam equates slaves with free human and accepts no discrimination of any kind like race, gender, region, religion etc.

Like Mark ( but unlike Matthew ), the intended audience is the Greek-speaking populations of the region ; it assures readers that Christianity is an international religion, not an exclusively Jewish sect.

The Shia Fatimids conquered the region in the 10th century ; a breakaway sect, venerating the Fatimid caliph al-Hakim, formed the Druze religion, centred in and to north of, Galilee.

It arrived in the region gradually, and became the religion of the elite before it spread to the commoners.

Over the next few centuries, Islam replaced Christianity as the dominant religion of the region.

The Punjabi kingdom, ruled by members of the Sikh religion, was a political entity that governed the region of modern-day Punjab.

The lack of homogeneity in the Indian population causes division between different sections of the people based on religion, region, language, caste and race.

The Arcadian cults come from a more primitive religion, and evidently the religious beliefs of the first Greek-speaking people who entered the region, were mixed with the beliefs of the indigenous population.

Freedom of religion encompasses all religions acting within the law in a particular region, whether or not an individual religion accepts that other religions are legitimate or that freedom of religious choice and religious plurality in general are good things.

It marks the boundary between the islands to the west, which were influenced by religion and culture spreading from India, and the region to the east that was not so influenced.

The rulers across this region spoke a similar language, albeit with regional dialects, followed the same religion and were closely interrelated ; they were also highly competitive and frequently in conflict with one another for valuable territory and the castles that controlled them.

A Sikh ( or ;, ) is a follower of Sikhism, a religion that originated in the 15th century in the Punjab region of South Asia or a member of the Sikh people.

In the same centuries, however, the region also was an important center of intellectual life and religion.

Until the first centuries after Christ, the dominant religion in the region was Zoroastrianism, but Buddhism, Manichaeism, and Christianity also attracted large numbers of followers.

According to the Constitution, no political association may be formed if it is " based on differences in religion, language, race, gender, or region.

Population transfer is the movement of a large group of people from one region to another by state policy or international authority, most frequently on the basis of ethnicity or religion.

Islam is the principal religion professed in the region.

Although Tết is a national holiday among all Vietnamese, each region and religion has its own customs.

Mesopotamian religion refers to the religious beliefs and practices followed by the Sumerian and Akkadian ( Assyrian / Babylonian ) peoples living in Mesopotamia ( around the area of modern Iraq ) that dominated the region for a period of 4200 years from the fourth millennium BC to proximately the 3rd century AD.

What we know about Mesopotamian religion comes from archaeological evidence uncovered in the region, particularly literary sources, which are usually written in cuneiform on clay tablets and which describe both mythology and cultic practices.

Low-lying and largely flat, the region has Fula, Serer-Ndut people ( the original founders of Biffeche, the Mt Rolland etc., thousands of years ago, and strong adherents to Serer religion, even after the French and the Muslim communities of Senegal tried to kill them off ), Wolof and Moor ethnic groups engaged in pasturing animals ( mainly the Fulas ) and irrigation-based agriculture ( mostly the Serer-Ndut who are usually mixed-farmers ).

The remaining seven contain notes on the ceremonies and statutes for priests of the ancient pagan religion in the region.

The smaller villages were often settled by colonists of a common religion, who had come from the same area, so one town might be all Catholic, or all Lutheran, for instance ; the people often settled together from the same region of Germany and thus spoke the same German dialect.

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

It is both great writing and profound religion.

The place of religion in the simple, preliterate societies is quite definite ; ;

If the inner functions of religion are performed, the individual is a composed, ordered, motivated, and emotionally secure associate ; ;

In the last analysis, religion is the means of inducing, formulating, expressing, enhancing, implementing, and perpetuating man's deepest experience -- the religious.

In providing for these inner individual functions, religion undertakes in behalf of individual peace of mind and well-being services for which there is no other institution.

In America also all of our major religious bodies officially sanction a universalistic ethic which is reflective of our common religion.

The religion, in fact, is an expression of the unity of the group, small or large.

His view is that every religion pertains to a community, and, conversely, every community is in one aspect a religious unit.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin: The civil law is concerned with public crimes.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

" Many would agree with the Dalai Lama that Buddhism as a religion is kindness toward others.

Altruism is essential to the Sikh religion.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.