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In addition, Jews had a religious culture that promoted universal adult literacy – at least for men – and a culture that respected book learning.
Those attitudes and dispositions were transferred from religious texts to secular forms of education.
Even political and religious leaders hostile to change and industrialization are not uncommon.
A curriculum fostering inclusion must go beyond optimistic appeals to universal religious dictums such as “love thy neighbor” and the Golden Rule.
Across Africa, political, religious, and civil-society leaders are doing what they can.
In the 1990’s, military-backed secularist governments struck back, attempting to purge religious bureaucrats and military leaders: those who did not consume alcohol, or whose family members wore headscarves, were immediately suspected.
Within the territories it controls, ISIS persecutes and kills individuals on religious and cultural grounds, with a recent USHMM report concluding that the group has committed acts of genocide against the Yazidi minority population under its control.
The religious right's backward-looking agenda - and the Manichaean worldview that underlies it - is doomed.
Reform in Saudi Arabia is in every sense a bizarre compromise between the opposing forces of the al-Saud’s prominent wings and the forces of the official Wahhabi religious establishment.
For religious believers, as earlier with Plato, beauty is a foretaste of what survives death.
This attitude has a necessary religious dimension - and one that legitimized society.
This was surely true of the twelfth-century Syrian religious leader Rashid al-Din Sinan.
We emphasize that societies are divided by two potential cleavages: an identity split that separates a minority from the ethnic, religious, or ideological majority, and a wealth gap that pits the rich against the rest of society.
"Evil" is a religious term, not a foreign policy principle.
If wars are fought on moral or religious grounds, no basis for restraint exists.
The greater the repression that religious parties face in secular police states, the more extreme their politics are likely to become.
Religious politics, or politics based on religious faith, are not invariably violent, even in the Islamic world.
Religious organizations can mobilize people in opposition to corrupt, oppressive rulers.
True, once religious institutions take over political power, they are never democratic.
They cannot be, because religious authority demands obedience to divine power, which by definition is not open to rational challenge.
But this does not mean that political parties whose programs are based on religious faith cannot be democratic.
These feelings can inspire religious faith, or even horrific violence perpetrated in the name of faith.
But we have seen what can happen when democratic aspirations are thwarted out of fear of religious radicalism.
So far, the crowds in Cairo, Alexandria, and Suez have been neither violent, nor inflamed by religious fervor.
Denying them that freedom would almost certainly make things worse, possibly leading to precisely the kind of religious extremism that many people rightly fear.
The regulation was supported by religious groups for moral reasons, but also by bootleggers, because they had the market to themselves on Sundays.
These groups are characterized by economic nativism, anti-immigration and protectionist leanings, religious fanaticism, and geopolitical isolationism.
In all of these cases, economic failure and a lack of opportunities and hope for the poor and young are fueling political and religious extremism, resentment of the West and, in some cases, outright terrorism.
Indian leaders such as Modi and Swaraj often tout India’s religious, cultural, and spiritual attachment to the environment.
Nigerians living with HIV must do more than just fight the infection; they also must brave social stigma, weather discrimination by secular and religious institutions, and now, potentially, face threats from the legal system.
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