It is always a temptation for a religious organization, especially a powerful or dominant one, to impose through the clenched fist of the law its creedal viewpoint upon others.

The followers of Amlici resented the dominant political and religious parties and sought to reestablish the monarchy that the reign of the judges replaced.

He believed that his work so far had commended itself to the best minds and also to the dominant powers in the religious world.

" Other than incorporating the symbols and doctrine of dominant religious traditions, Manichaeism also incorporated the symbols and deities of indigenous traditions, in particular the Hindu deity Ganesha into its fold, demonstrated by the image available in the article, Manichaean art and calligraphy by Hans-Joachim Klimkeit.

Akkadian, came to be the dominant language during the Akkadian Empire and the Assyrian empires, but Sumerian was retained for administration, religious, literary, and scientific purposes.

Since the early 1970s, however, the dominant scholarship has noted dissimilarities between Persian Mithra-worship and the Roman Mithraic mysteries, and the mysteries of Mithras are now generally seen as a distinct product of the Roman Imperial religious world.

Ibadism became the dominant religious sect in Oman by the 8th century ; Oman is currently the only country in the Islamic world with a majority Ibadi population.

German influence was less obvious in the beginning, despite an early missionary attempt by Ansgar, but gradually emerged as the dominant religious force in the area, especially after the Norman conquest of England.

The Drukpa spread throughout Bhutan and eventually became a dominant form of religious practice.

Genocide by the U. N. definition is limited to national, ethnical, racial or religious groups and as this is the only accord to which nations have pledged allegiance, it stands as the dominant understanding of the term.

" Like many dissenting religions, the hippies were enormously hostile to the religious institutions of the dominant culture, and they tried to find new and adequate ways to do the tasks the dominant religions failed to perform.

He posits that S has been dominant in Western culture for over two millennia, often making bedfellows with religious doctrine, which united self-interest and morality.

In societies where God-centered religions are dominant, that understanding would be the consensus reality, while the religious worldview would remain the nonconsensus ( or alternative ) reality in a predominantly secular society where the consensus reality is grounded in science alone.

In the Marxist economic base and superstructure model of society, base denotes the relations of production, and superstructure denotes the dominant ideology ( religious, legal, political systems ).

While the dominant religious system of the Inuit today is Christianity, many Inuit do still hold to at least some element of their traditional religious beliefs.

Whilst Christianity is the dominant religion of the borough, several religious minorities are also active, and places of worship for Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus and Jews may be found.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the dominant religious denomination in Roosevelt, with three stakes centered in town ; but the community also includes Roman Catholic, Christian Assembly of God, Baptist, Jehovah's Witnesses, and other smaller denomination congregations.

While the range of religious subject matter included subjects from the Old Testament and images of saints whose cults date after the codification of the Bible, the Madonna remained a dominant subject in the iconography of the Renaissance.

He was a dominant public figure in Israel who was widely respected on matters of religious and national concern.

By the fourteenth century, Islam had become the dominant religious force in Bashkir society.

For example, Bwiti, the dominant religious doctrine of the country is a Mitshogo name and the Bwiti is based on the magic powers of " the sacred wood " or ibogha ( small shrub-Tabernanthe iboga ) which is also a Mitsogho word meaning healing-ibo and wood-gha.

The secular concept is substantially different from societies that adhere to religious law, wherein " religious education " connotes the dominant academic study, and in typically religious terms, teaches doctrines which define social customs as " laws " and the violations thereof as " crimes ", or else misdemeanors requiring punitive correction.

In western Europe Arianism, which had been taught by Ulfilas, the Arian missionary to the Germanic tribes, was dominant among the Goths and Lombards ( and, significantly for the late Empire, the Vandals ); but it ceased to be the mainstream belief by the 8th century.

In that way, both " myth " and " folklore " have become catch-all terms for all figurative narratives which do not correspond with the dominant belief structure.

The belief in a disk remained the dominant one in Indian cosmology until the early centuries AD, such as in the Puranas:

These actions were “ justified by a dominant belief among British colonial officials that land occupied by Native people was not being used efficiently and productively .”

" George Cotkin asserts Kierkegaard was against " the standardization and levelling of belief, both spiritual and political, in the nineteenth century he opposed tendencies in mass culture to reduce the individual to a cipher of conformity and deference to the dominant opinion.

Whereas this belief was only one of many beliefs held about the World to Come in Second Temple Judaism, and was notably rejected by the Sadducees, this belief became dominant within Early Christianity and soon included an insistence on the resurrection of the flesh, against gnostic teachings that flesh was evil.

Morality plays are the result of the dominant belief of the time period, that humans had a certain amount of control over their post-death fate while they were on earth.

Although the dominant strain in Judaism is that God is personal, there is an " alternate stream of tradition exemplified by ... Maimonides ," who, along with several other Jewish philosophers, rejected the idea of a personal God, a reflecting of his belief in negative theology, the idea that God can only be described by what God is not.

Marxism criticized the belief in eternal " laws of economics ", which it considered a product of the dominant ideology.

Others argue that belief in the ' absence ' of culture in NZ is a symptom of white privilege, allowing members of a dominant group to see their culture as ' normal ' or ' default ', rather than as a specific position of relative advantage.

A major issue in the study of secularization is the extent to which certain trends such as decreased attendance at places of worship indicate a decrease in religiosity or simply a privatization of religious belief, where religious beliefs no longer play a dominant role in public life or in other aspects of decision-making.

Because pellagra outbreaks occurred in regions where maize was a dominant food crop, the belief for centuries was that the maize either carried a toxic substance or was a carrier of disease.

There are very few, if any, people on the island who still subscribe to this religion, because of the many Westernizing influences on Nauruan lifestyle and the dominant belief of Christianity.

The belief system has absorbed the values of the dominant culture in a functional and creative way so that, in the name of life, complex processes of syncretism and cultural appropriation take place.

The car-free movement is a broad, informal, emergent network of individuals and organizations including social activists, urban planners and others brought together by a shared belief that cars are too dominant in most modern cities.

The belief that the terroir is the dominant influence in the wine is the basis behind French wine labels emphasizing the region, vineyard, or AOC more prominently than the varietal of grape, and often more prominently than the producer.

One of the features of humanity that the show does highlight, and to some degree contrast with the alien civilizations ( with the possible exception of the Narn who are also noted as having an extensive selection of religious beliefs ), is the existence of a large number of religions, none of which can claim to be the dominant belief system.

Ultimately, however, the king accepted Paschasius ' assertion, and the physical presence of Christ in the Eucharist became the dominant belief in the Roman Catholic faith.

* A national champion is a large company that is dominant in its field and favored by the government of the country in which it is based in the belief that it will be in that country's interests if the company is successful in foreign markets.

Montaillou was one of the last bastions of the Albigensian belief also known as Catharism, considered heresy by the dominant Roman Catholic powers.

Colonialism brought Christianity to Igbo people which challenged and sought to change this belief, but still remains a dominant traditional belief in Igbo people.

In Europe, as John Ruskin said, and Sir Kenneth Clark confirmed, landscape painting was the " chief artistic creation of the nineteenth century ", and " the dominant art ", with the result that in the following period people were " apt to assume that the appreciation of natural beauty and the painting of landscape is a normal and enduring part of our spiritual activity " In Clark's analysis, underlying European ways to convert the complexity of landscape to an idea were four fundamental approaches: the acceptance of descriptive symbols, a curiosity about the facts of nature, the creation of fantasy to allay deep-rooted fears of nature, and the belief in a Golden Age of harmony and order, which might be retrieved.