Their religious teachers, as well as others in the east, ( most notably, al-Ghazali in Persia and al-Tartushi in Egypt, who was himself an Iberian by birth, from Tortosa ), detested taifa rulers for their religious indifference.

Their domain in the religious sphere had been greatly diminished.

Their religious practices were efforts to sustain and placate these phenomena and turn them to human advantage.

Their shared religious work was at the heart of their life together, and they later collaborated on a great deal of the administration the Society required.

Their policy was sometimes summed up as Divide and Rule, taking advantage of the enmity festering between various princely states and social and religious groups.

" Their basic religious practices are enumerated in the Five Pillars of Islam, which, in addition to Shahadah, consist of daily prayers ( salat ), fasting during Ramadan ( sawm ), almsgiving ( zakat ), and the pilgrimage to Mecca ( hajj ) at least once in a lifetime.

Their rulers have limited authority to change laws, since they are based on sharia as it is interpreted by their religious scholars.

Their members are usually required to follow and believe in the particular religious tradition that established the utopia.

Their leadership came from the religious congregations of Brownist English Dissenters who had fled the volatile political environment in the East Midlands of England for the relative calm and tolerance of 16th – 17th century Holland in the Netherlands.

Their religious fervor died down over the winter, but when they heard of Ann Lee's preaching in May 1780, many of those New Lights traveled to Niskayuna, some forty miles away, to meet her.

Their opinions might be found valuable to their congregetion because of their knowledge on religious matters, but an imam's view of a religious matter is in no sense binding, infallible or absolute like the Catholic Church.

Their geographic and social isolation from the rest of the Jewish community over the course of many centuries allowed them to develop a liturgy and set of practices that are significantly distinct from those of other Oriental Jewish groups ; they themselves comprise three distinctly different groups, though the distinction is one of religious law and liturgy rather than of ethnicity.

Their rhythmic, raucous chants and dances, accompanied by the tympanon ( a wide, handheld drum ) and the clashing of bronze shields and cymbals, provoked a state of religious ecstasy.

Their number increased further in the upheavals brought by the French Revolution and subsequent Napoleonic invasions of other Catholic countries, depriving thousands of religious of the income that their communities held because of inheritances and forcing them to find a new way of living the religious life.

This law, titled De sanctimonialibus vel viduis et de successionibus earum (" Holy Maidens, Widows, and Their Succession "), imposed a minimum age to take vows of 40 years, considering that at this age the sexual drives of the initiated would be dormant ; the law also granted to women who had been forced to take religious vows, and were subsequently disinherited, the same rights on the legacy of parents as their brothers and sisters.

Their appearance indicate the Greek desire for health which was connected with the Greek cult of the body that was essentially a religious activity.

Their ritual obligations and religious integrity were central to the well being of the Roman state and all its citizens.

Their large earthworks, built for political and religious rituals and expressing their cosmology, still stand throughout the valleys of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, as well as their tributaries in the Southeast.

Their proposed solution was to create a religious community that would more closely adhere to Biblical commandments, along with a school for training Christian missionaries who would eventually spread throughout the American frontier.

Their central location in settlements and the work that evidently went into constructing them is indicative of their importance to the community, which gives credence to a religious or ceremonial function.

Their traditional craft is but one of several still practiced in the region, including tin smithing, wood carving, and making religious paintings.

Their beliefs and practices were often referred to as Bolshevism.

Their position is that further research needs to be done before banning practices such as chumming, which may alter natural behavior.

Their ability to influence and participate in the external policies that may exercise jurisdiction over their traditional lands and practices is very frequently limited.

Their efforts are the mythological basis for Egyptian embalming practices, which, by mummifying the body, sought to prevent and reverse the decay that follows death.

Their beliefs and practices were held to be incompatible with Judaism and, as such, rejected.

Their distributed activities may be partly integrated through practices of stigmergy.

Their fasts are more rigorous, and their other ascetic practices stricter.

tested the following hypothesis: “ If youth culture serves to help adolescents deal with problems of vulnerability and finiteness, then reminders of mortality should lead to increased allegiance to cultural practices and beliefs of the youth .” Their results supported their hypothesis and the results of previous studies, suggesting that youth culture is, in fact, a culture.

Their son, Douglas, a lawyer, practices with Stewart and is a member of the Oakland Planning Commission, having been appointed to that office by then-mayor Jerry Brown.

Their belief, put into action in their hiring practices and performances, is that graceful, exciting movement is not restricted by age or body type.

Their religious practices and use of astrology caused derivatives of the term Magi to be applied to the occult in general and led to the English term magic.

Their contact with the outside world is focused on monastery practices and annual festivals to which the public is invited, as well as the reading of sacred texts at funerals.

In 1928, “ a hurricane ravaged both coastal and inland areas of Florida, bringing torrential rains that broke the dikes of Lake Okeechobee .” Scholars of the African diaspora note the cultural practices common to the Caribbean, Africa, and the United States in Their Eyes.

Hurston wrote Their Eyes while on a Guggenheim Fellowship in Haiti to research Obeah practices in the West Indies.

This custom has been explained with reference to medieval practices of branding palms, However the practice is referred to in the Old Testament (" Their mouths speak untruth ; their right hands are raised in lying oaths ", Psalm 144: 8 ).

Their primary tasks are the publication and dissemination of institutional pedagogic literature, reports, analyses and case-studies, the promotion and activism in favour of progressive pedagogic practices, and the education of teachers, social workers and others in Institutional Pedagogic practices.

Their rival organization Fraternitas Rosae Crucis led by Dr. R. Swinburne Clymer engages in sexual practices for the sake of race regeneration.

Their earlier work is noted for genre-crossing stylings, distorted, morose, and at times alien lyrics, distinctive funk bass lines, and extensive use of lo-fi recording practices ( although it would be a stretch to call the style of the music as a whole " lo-fi ", in the more traditional sense ).

Their rule was not popular, and soon discontent arose, mainly because of the strange sexual behaviour and the eastern religious practices of Elagabalus.

Their resistance to the American use of the term model to describe their program reflects the continuing evolution of their ideas and practices.