Other varieties in style may have distinguished between arbitrary groups within a culture, perhaps defining status, gender, clan or guild affiliation, religious belief or cultural alliances.

According to encyclopaedia Iranica, AFGHAN ( afḡān ) in current political usage means any citizen of Afghanistan, whatever their ethnic, tribal, or religious affiliation is.

Acadia University, established at Wolfville, Nova Scotia in 1838 has a strong Baptist religious affiliation.

Brown was the first college in the nation to accept students regardless of religious affiliation.

Newspapers, taxpayer-funded entities with some religious affiliation, and political parties can obtain fairly clear guidance on the boundaries within which their freedom of expression rights apply.

Statistics Canada in 2001 reported a " religion " total of 145, 525 for Cape Breton, including 5, 245 with " no religious affiliation.

The term " creed " can also refer to a person's political or social beliefs or is sometimes used to mean religious affiliation.

There is a preference for endogamous marriages based on the clan-oriented nature of the society, which values and actively seeks similarities in social group identity based on several factors, including religious, sectarian, ethnic, and tribal / clan affiliation.

Religious affiliation is itself multi-layered and includes religious considerations other than being Muslim, such as sectarian identity ( e. g. Shia or Sunni, etc.

One of the two identity discs issued by the South African Navy during WW2 with rank, surname, initials, force number and religious affiliation

For those with no religious affiliation and those who chose not to list an affiliation, either the space for religion was left blank or the words " NO PREFERENCE " or " NO RELIGIOUS PREF " were included.

Ironically, although the ID tags include religion as a way of ensuring that religious needs will be met, some personnel have them reissued without religious affiliation listed — or keep two sets, one with the designation and one without — out of fear that identification as a member of a particular religion could increase the danger to their welfare or their lives if they fell into enemy hands.

The last vestiges of cultural affiliation in a diaspora is often found in community resistance to language change and in maintenance of traditional religious practice.

Some Progressive Christian congregations offer communion to any individual who wishes to commemorate the life and teachings of Christ, regardless of religious affiliation.

This included Jews, Gypsies, communists, and those persons of any other cultural, racial, political, or religious affiliation deemed by the Nazis to be Untermensch ( sub-human ).

Until this revelation, little had been known of his religious affiliation.

They also prohibit public expression that insults a person or a group on account of national, ethnic, racial, or religious affiliation or the lack of a religious affiliation.

* Symbolism ( to show membership or status or religious affiliation )

Modern Kyrgyz religious affiliation is eclectically Muslim for a majority of the population.

Kosovo censuses do not ask questions on religious affiliation ; it is therefore not clear how many maintain a Muslim affiliation.

In this book Heschel discusses the nature of religious thought, how thought becomes faith, and how faith creates responses in the believer.

Her seminal works among laypeople are her memoir An Unquiet Mind, which details her experience with severe mania and depression, and Night Falls Fast: Understanding Suicide, providing historical, religious, and cultural responses to suicide, as well as the relationship between mental illness and suicide.

The book produced a wide range of religious responses at a time of changing ideas and increasing secularisation.

Often marks of human origin produced profound and genuine religious responses.

Some religious responses have been positive.

Challenges and responses were physical, as when the Sumerians exploited the intractable swamps of southern Iraq by organizing the Neolithic inhabitants into a society capable of carrying out large-scale irrigation projects ; or social, as when the Catholic Church resolved the chaos of post-Roman Europe by enrolling the new Germanic kingdoms in a single religious community.

When the Jewish community was granted social rights after the Enlightenment, they developed their own religious and philosophical responses to Modern thought.

The great religious traditions of the World, including Judaism, have formulated many different responses to this question.

Some religious responses have been positive.

In the varied responses to modernity, Jewish philosophical ideas were developed across the range of emerging religious denominations.

The most common responses for religious affiliation for persons usually resident were No Religion 20. 7 %, Catholic 18. 5 %, Anglican 10. 0 %, Judaism 8. 0 %, and Eastern Orthodox 2. 0 %.

The most common responses for religious affiliation were Catholic 28. 6 %, Orthodox 12. 8 % and Anglican 11. 3 %.

The most common responses for religious affiliation were Catholic 30. 5 %, Anglican 24. 6 % and Orthodox 4. 3 %.

The most common responses for religious affiliation were No Religion ( 35. 6 %), Catholic 15. 0 %, Buddhism 10. 0 % and Orthodox 7. 5 %.

Religion: According to the 2006 census, the most common responses for religious affiliation for persons usually resident in Arncliffe were Islam 24. 9 %, Catholic 20. 3 %, Orthodox 17. 0 %, No Religion 9. 3 % and Anglican 7. 9 %.

By presenting subjects with neutral, sexually arousing and religious words while measuring GSR, Ramachandran was able to show that patients with TLE showed enhanced emotional responses to the religious words, diminished responses to the sexually charged words, and normal responses to the neutral words.

The most common responses for religious affiliation were Catholic 28. 0 %, Anglican 27. 1 % and Uniting Church 7. 4 %.

The most common responses for religious affiliation were Catholic 32. 0 %, Anglican 28. 0 % and Uniting Church 5. 0 %.

In the 2006 Census, the most common responses for religious affiliation for persons usually resident in Craigieburn were Catholic 37. 8 %, No Religion 16. 8 %, Anglican 10. 9 %, Eastern Orthodox 4. 9 % and Islam 4. 7 %.

Upon second thought we were forced to realize that we have very few reliable historical benchmarks against which we might compare the present situation, and that conclusions that present-day students are `` more '' or `` less '' religious could not be defended on the basis of our data.

Two of the principal addresses were delivered by prominent Protestants, and when the speaker was a Catholic, one `` discussant '' on the dais tended to be of another religious persuasion.

The O'Dwyers were real religious people except for Kate.

And the monastic communities were supposed to be made up of volunteers selected only after a novitiate which would test their religious aptitude for monastic rigors, their spiritual athleticism.

Immediately, the religious groups of the city were embroiled in an angry dispute over the alleged invasion of a man's right to freedom of religious belief and conscience.

Six of these were proposed by religious groups.

Until that first dedication service, he and Lois felt their children were too young to take part in any religious life at home.

At Oxford one hundred years ago there were very few Catholics, partly because religious tests were removed only in 1854.

There were many letters of strong protest against the portrait of the Anglican clergyman, who was indeed portrayed as a man not particularly concerned with religious matters and without really very much to do as clergyman.

During the years when Israel was passing from crisis to crisis -- the Sinai campaign, the infusion of multitudes of penniless immigrants -- it was felt that the purpose of national unity could be best served if the secular majority were to yield to the religious parties.

and the daily duties of individuals were basically religious in nature.

They were good-living religious people, and I can truthfully say I never heard them spread any gossip about anybody.

A lot of religious elements including the were transmitted from the Hittites to the Greeks and then to the west.

This theme was greater strengthened by Christie ’ s time spent in the Middle East where she was consistently surrounded by the religious temples and spiritual history of the towns and cities they were excavating in Mallowan ’ s archaeological work.

This evidence suggests that the religious structures were deliberately abandoned slowly over time.

For the reception of the sacraments, and for other religious offices, the abbot and his monks were commanded to attend the nearest church.

The cost argument advanced by ACSI and others prevailed in keeping religious institutions from being labeled as " public accommodations ", and thus churches were permitted to remain inaccessible if they choose.

He grew up without any particular religious conviction, but his life's path was formed by a variety of twists and coincidences that were often put into motion by his recalcitrant insubordination.

The greatest influences in the 19th century that propelled " Amazing Grace " to spread across the U. S. and become a staple of religious services in many denominations and regions were the Second Great Awakening and the development of shape note singing communities.

Contemporary hymnbooks did not contain music and were simply small books of religious poetry.

During this time the Ainu were forced to learn Japanese, required to adopt Japanese names and ordered to cease religious practices such as animal sacrifice and the custom of tattooing.

The case of Thurgot's would-be successor Eadmer shows that Alexander's wishes were not always accepted by the religious community, perhaps because Eadmer had the backing of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Ralph d ' Escures, rather than Thurstan of York.

At times between the 3rd and mid-15th century, antipopes were supported by a fairly significant faction of religious cardinals and secular kings and kingdoms.