If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

He worked as a `` clothier '' in London, but was greatly concerned with religion.

The younger men, Vere, and Pembroke, who was also Edward's cousin and whose Lusignan blood gave him the swarthy complexion that caused Edward of Carnarvon's irreverent friend, Piers Gaveston, to nickname him `` Joseph the Jew '', were relatively new to the game of diplomacy, but Pontissara had been on missions to Rome before, and Hotham, a man of great learning, `` jocund in speech, agreeable to meet, of honest religion, and pleasing in the eyes of all '', and an archbishop to boot, was as reliable and experienced as Othon himself.

In the final analysis his contribution to American historiography was founded on almost intuitive insights into religion, economics, and Darwinism, the three factors which conditioned his search for a law of history.

Students of anthropology and comparative religion had long been aware that there was, indeed, a direct connection.

But Adams was one of the first to suggest that this human incompetence was the only motivating factor behind religion.

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 spread to most of the audience and was often viewed by visiting whites who snickered behind handkerchief and afterward discussed Negro religion.

Not until the group was satisfied in this area were they willing to venture further to ( 2 ), Specific adjustment areas, such as sex, in-laws, religion, finance, and so on.

`` I want to show respect for my parents' religion '' was the way in which a boy justified his inhabiting a halfway house of Judaism.

The American Constitution was historic at this point in providing that `` Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof ''.

The Mahayana that developed in the north was a religion of idolatry and coarse magic, that made the world into a huge magical garden.

In the supernatural atmosphere of cosmic government, only the ruling elite was ever concerned with a kingdom-wide ordering of nature: popular religion aimed at more personal benefits from magical powers.

It was a good thing that she clung to her religion, he thought.

His interest in the formal study of religion waned when he was sixteen and he substituted for it an interest in Asian affairs.

The skiff was headed for the very center of the nebula -- toward that place which, Jack knew now, could hold nothing less important than the very core of the Angel's life and religion.

In classical Greece he was the god of light and of music, but in popular religion he had a strong function to keep away evil.

In classical times, his strong function in popular religion was to keep away evil, and was therefore called " apotropaios " ( αποτρέπω: to divert ) and " alexikakos " ( αλέξω-κακό: defend, throw away the evil ).

Python was the good daemon ( αγαθός δαίμων ) of the temple as it appears in Minoan religion, but she was represented as a dragon, as often happens in Northern European folklore as well as in the East.

The story indicates that Epimenides was probably heir to the shamanic religions of Asia, and proves together with the Homeric hymn, that Crete had a resisting religion up to the historical times.

The ambiguity in his belief in religion mirrored the dichotomies between his public and private lives: Stephen Ingle wrote that it was as if the writer George Orwell " vaunted " his atheism while Eric Blair the individual retained " a deeply ingrained religiosity ".

The explanation generally given for this anomaly is that, following the demise of State Shinto, modern Shinto has reverted to its more traditional position as a traditional religion which is culturally ingrained, rather than enforced.

Klug defines classical antisemitism as " an ingrained European fantasy about Jews as Jews ," arguing that whether Jews are seen as a race, religion, or ethnicity, and whether antisemitism comes from the right or the left, the antisemite's image of the Jew is always as " a people set apart, not merely by their customs but by their collective character.

Weila has criticised the ingrained nature of slavery in the region and questioned the role of religion " Islam assisted in the indoctrination of slaves through the use of religion, by saying for example if you disobey your master, you will not access paradise, hence your paradise is in the hands of your master ," though Islam says no muslim can be a slave.

Although Hinduism is now a minority religion in the country, some of its beliefs still pervade the national psyche ; it is socially and culturally ingrained in Filipinos, most of whom are either part of the Christian majority ( Roman Catholic and Protestant ), or part of a significant Muslim minority.

Peter Berger writes that " It seems plausible that folly and fools, like religion and magic, meet some deeply rooted needs in human society ".

* His skepticism about the validity of natural religion cuts equally against deism and deism's opponents, who were also deeply involved in natural theology.

They will be deeply impressed with the truth, that Popery is a political as well as a religious system ; that in this respect it differs totally from all other sects, from all other forms of religion in the country .”

A leader in the Enlightenment, Jefferson was a polymath who spoke five languages and was deeply interested in science, invention, architecture, religion and philosophy, interests that led him to the founding of the University of Virginia after his presidency.

Despite smoking in some of his films, Eastwood is a lifelong non-smoker, has been conscious of his health and fitness since he was a teenager, and as a Vegan practices healthy eating and daily Transcendental Meditation. While promoting his film, Hereafter, Eastwood spoke about his views on religion and meditation by saying " I was always respectful of people who were deeply religious because I always felt that if they gave themselves to it, then it had to be important to them.

Not satisfied with his knowledge of philosophy, he wondered if God and religion could be made a part of one's growing experiences and deeply internalised.

This brought them into contact with the Gardnerian tradition of magical religion ( or religious magic ), and deeply influenced that tradition in return.

Hopi is a concept deeply rooted in the culture's religion, spirituality, and its view of morality and ethics.

Unlike the Kingdom of Sine which is ethnically Serer and deeply rooted in " Serer-conservatism ", such as the preservation of Serer religion, culture, traditions, etc., Saloum is more cosmopolitan and multi-religious.

The New Model Army was raised partly from among veteran soldiers who already had deeply held Puritan religious convictions, and partly from conscripts who brought with them many commonly held beliefs about religion or society.

He was deeply interested in psychical phenomena, but his energies were primarily devoted to the study of religion and philosophy.

He also became deeply interested in religion, writing small private religious volumes for his family

When provincial legislation intrudes deeply into fundamental freedoms of speech, religion, association or assembly, the provincial legislature is creating criminal legislation, which under the distribution of powers is reserved exclusively to the Parliament of Canada by section 91 ( 27 ) of the Constitution Act, 1867.

Young grieved long and deeply when his daughter Martha Ann died of consumption on 14 July 1797 at the age of fourteen, and the loss is said to have turned his mind to religion.

Ethnic identities are often deeply intertwined with religion, a legacy of the Ottoman Millet system.

This extreme form of discrimination was deeply embedded over centuries in the Indian society starting from the time of Portuguese Colonialism during which Christianity / Roman Catholicism became a major religion in Kerala.

Some believe that a country which is deeply divided, whether by ethnic group, religion, or language, have difficulty establishing a working democracy.

" John O ' Connor, the Cardinal of New York, said, " one must ask if it is an attack on religion itself ," and the president of America's biggest group of Orthodox Jews, Mandell Ganchrow, called it " deeply offensive ".

But she is the only member of Deptford society that Dunstan views as truly ‘ religious ’ in her attitude because she lives according to a light that arises from within ( which he contrasts with her husband ’ s ‘ deeply religious ’ attitude, which ‘ meant that he imposed religion as he understood it on everything he knew or encountered ’ ( 46 )).

Following this historical event that was carved deeply into the history of Rome, which suffered great losses in army, Illyrians were gradually Romanized and by the 4th century they spoke Latin language and their pagan religion was replaced by corresponding Roman myths and later they became Christians.

The contest between the two men was just one element of a long-running rivalry that encompassed business, politics, and religion, and was apparently deeply personal.

He was " a Confucian thinker and was deeply opposed to Buddhism, a religion that was then popular in the court.

Unlike Emerson and other Transcendentalists, however, Parker believed the movement was rooted in deeply religious ideas and did not believe it should retreat from religion.

It throws down a gauntlet to religion, especially in tonight's conclusion, and something happens at the end which is probably deeply blasphemous ...