Democrats were rarely invited to speak at the university, in part because they took political and social positions ( especially support for abortion rights ) opposed by the Religious Right.

Although the March 2007 issue of Foreign Policy listed BJU as one of " The World's Most Controversial Religious Sites " because of its past influence on American politics, BJU has seen little political controversy since Stephen Jones became president.

( See Religious or political censorship, below ).

* Mizrachi, and political parties such as Mafdal and National Union ( Israel ) all represent certain sectors within the Religious Zionist movement, both in diaspora and Israel.

" Journalist Ronald Bailey called the criticism " disturbing " and " dishonest ", writing, " The subhead of the review section, ' Science defends itself against The Skeptical Environmentalist, gives the show away: Religious and political views need to defend themselves against criticism, but science is supposed to be a process for determining the facts.

For instance, Ye Xiaowen, Director of the Bureau of Religious Affairs of the State Council ( government ), said at a news conference on 4 November 1999 " Falun Gong had brainwashed and bilked followers, caused more than 1, 400 deaths, and threatened both social and political stability ".

According to the indictment, the five ordered Calvi's murder to prevent the banker " from using blackmail power against his political and institutional sponsors from the world of Masonry, belonging to the P2 lodge, or to the Institute for Religious Works ( the Vatican Bank ) with whom he had managed investments and financing with conspicuous sums of money, some of it coming from Cosa Nostra and public agencies ".

Religious and political tensions in Paris initially exploded in the Day of the Barricades on 12 May 1588, when hard-line Catholics rose up in revolt against the relatively moderate Henry III.

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Robin Richardson, an original member of the Commission on British Muslims and Islamophobia, at a 2009 symposium on " Islamophobia and Religious Discrimination ", said that " the disadvantages of the term Islamophobia are significant " on seven different grounds, including that it implies it is merely a " severe mental illness " affecting " only a tiny minority of people "; that use of the term makes those to whom it is applied " defensive and defiant " and absolves the user of " the responsibility of trying to understand them " or trying to change their views ; that it implies that hostility to Muslims is divorced from factors such as skin color, immigrant status, fear of fundamentalism, or political or economic conflicts ; that it conflates prejudice against Muslims in one's own country with dislike of Muslims in countries with which the West is in conflict ; that it fails to distinguish between people who are against all religion from people who dislike Islam specifically ; and that the actual issue being described is hostility to Muslims, " an ethno-religious identity within European countries ", rather than hostility to Islam.

Kook tried to build and maintain channels of communication and political alliances between the various Jewish sectors, including the secular Jewish Zionist leadership, the Religious Zionists, and more traditional non-Zionist Orthodox Jews.

Beside his Urdu and Persian poetical work, The Reconstruction of Religious Thought in Islam is a milestone in the modern political philosophy of Islam.

Religious, legal, political, and moral objections were raised.

Religious or political education, or clubs that promote a specific religious or political group, are prohibited at public schools.

Religious and didactic poems become more frequent ; and his verses in praise of love turn at times to a protest against the laxer standards of an age demoralized by political unrest.

Throughout the 1980s, Flynt used his magazine as a podium with which to launch attacks on the Reagan Administration and the Religious Right, and even published a short-lived political magazine called Rebel.

His French language political pamphlets, Mémoire sur l ' empire d ' Autriche dans la question d ' Orient (" Account of the Austrian Empire in the Oriental Issue ", 1855 ), Réflexions sur la situation (" Musings on the Situation ", 1856 ), Mémoire sur la situation de la Moldavie depuis le traité de Paris (" Account on Moldavia's Situation After the Treaty of Paris ", 1857 ), and La Question religieuse en Roumanie (" The Religious Issue in Romania ", 1866 ), were all published in Paris.

As the unofficial title of a loose association of believers, it does provide a clear distinction from the more commonly known " Christian Right " or " Religious Right " and its key leaders and political views.

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A number of Christian socialist movements and political parties throughout the world group themselves into the International League of Religious Socialists.

Religious and political themes were widely explored within the Baroque artistic context, and both paintings and sculptures were characterised by a strong element of drama, emotion and theatricality.

The National Religious Party (, Miflaga Datit Leumit, commonly known in Israel by its Hebrew acronym Mafdal, ( Hebrew: מפד " ל )) was a political party in Israel representing the religious Zionist movement.

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Towards the end of 1976 his coalition government with the religious parties suffered a crisis: A motion of no confidence had been brought by Agudat Israel over a breach of the Sabbath on an Israeli Air Force base when four F-15 jets were delivered from the US and the National Religious Party had abstained.

After Mayor Gottlieb of the National Religious Party was defeated, Haredi parties grew in status and influence ; since then they have governed the city.

The two parties had run for the 1955 election on a joint list under the name of the National Religious Front.

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Along with its sister organization Janadava, the Women's Zionist Organization of America, and the Labor Zionist Po ' ale Zion parties, and the Religious Zionist Mizrachi, the ZOA served as one of the key voices in early American Zionism.

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The International League of Religious Socialists is an umbrella organization of religious socialist movements in political parties throughout the world.

There were Zionist parties ( themselves divided into Revisionist, General, Religious or Labour parties ), there was Agudat Israel ( an Orthodox religious party ), the Bund ( Marxist ) and the Folkspartei ( liberal ).

The main objective of this party, banned two times by President Pervez Musharraf's government, is to protect Shias rights and give them a voice in Parliament, they do not advocate a Shia state and have cordial relations with Sunni which is why they joined coalition of Religious political parties Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal that won 53 out of 272 elected members in legislative elections held on 20 October 2002.

Alongside three other religious parties, Hapoel HaMizrachi ran on a joint list called the United Religious Front for the first Knesset elections in 1949.

In 1999, on a track sung in Hebrew " Ad Matay " ( heb. עד מתי ) written by Chaim Walder, Werdyger took on tensions between Israeli Secular and Religious parties.

Religious nationalist parties include the Shiromani Akali Dal, which is closely identified with the creation of a Sikh-majority state in Punjab and includes many Sikh religious leaders in its organization.

Included are the following: Baptist Student Movement, Canterbury Club ( Episcopal ), Christian Science Organization, Friends' Meeting for Worship, Hillel ( Jewish ), Liberal Religious Fellowship, Lutheran Student Association, Newman Club ( Roman Catholic ), Presbyterian Student Fellowship, United Student Fellowship ( Congregational-Baptist ), and Wesley Fellowship ( Methodist ).

Student religious organizations are co-ordinated under the Religious Activities Committee, a standing committee of the Carleton Student Association.

Religious who derive their own sense of purpose through identification with the religious community rather than the academic community are prone to underestimate both the layman's reservoir of idealism and his need for this identification.

There are an estimated 2, 400 celibate Anglican Religious ( 1080 men and 1320 women ) in the Anglican Communion as a whole, some of whom have adopted the Rule of St. Benedict.

In the Roman Catholic Church according to the norms of the Code of Canon Law 1983 a Benedictine abbey is a " religious institute ", and its professed members are therefore members of the " Consecrated Life ", commonly referred to as " Religious ".

However, for Young Religious Unitarian Universalists ( YRUU ) programming in Canada, the " Central " and " Eastern " regions are combined to form a youth region known as " QuOM " ( Quebec, Ontario and the Maritimes ), giving the youth only three regions for their activities.

Spiritual Deists are likely to label themselves “ Spiritual But Not Religious ”.

Ritual dances are usually called " Religious dances " because of their purpose.

Religious or sectarian attacks in situations where Islamists are active have been particularly serious following 2004.

* 1415 – Religious reformers John Wycliffe and Jan Hus are condemned as heretics at the Council of Constance.

Religious activities in the tradition of Theravada Buddhism are also carried out, a tradition which all of these cultures share.

There are several English spoken Religious meetings in Nijmegen.

Religious Science, Divine Science, and the Unity Church are religious denominations which represent a panentheistic worldview within the Christian New Thought movement.

Among them are Secretum (" My Secret Book "), an intensely personal, guilt-ridden imaginary dialogue with Augustine of Hippo ; De Viris Illustribus (" On Famous Men "), a series of moral biographies ; Rerum Memorandarum Libri, an incomplete treatise on the cardinal virtues ; De Otio Religiosorum (" On Religious Leisure ") and De Vita Solitaria (" On the Solitary Life "), which praise the contemplative life ; De Remediis Utriusque Fortunae (" Remedies for Fortune Fair and Foul "), a self-help book which remained popular for hundreds of years ; Itinerarium (" Petrarch's Guide to the Holy Land "); a number of invectives against opponents such as doctors, scholastics, and the French ; the Carmen Bucolicum, a collection of 12 pastoral poems ; and the unfinished epic Africa.

Religious beliefs, myths, dogmas and legends are the representations that express the nature of these sacred things, and the virtues and powers which are attributed to them.

Religious people are generally skeptical about claims of other religions, at least when the two denominations conflict in some stated belief.

One common typology among sociologists, religious groups are classified as ecclesias, denominations, sects, or cults ( now more commonly referred to in scholarship as New Religious Movements ).

Religious congregations are required to register with the government, and individual parishes must have at least 500 members to register.

Unity, Religious Science, Divine Science are denominations within the New Thought movement.

Religious services are usually held on Sundays and most closely resemble the form and format of Protestant worship in the Reformed tradition.

Robinson of the Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance, Crowley adopted this line from François Rabelais, who in 1534 wrote, " DO AS THOU WILT because men that are free, of gentle birth, well bred and at home in civilizor ".

* Religious buildings are dissolved by Henry VIII, including

Religious reasons are a primary factor cited by people for the opposition of cohabitation.