Religious in sentence

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That was a religious honorific.

Under Roger II, the kingdom became a beacon of multicultural tolerance in a world torn apart by religious and civil wars.

You could make guesses about my ethnicity, my political affiliation, my religious beliefs.

I cite the definition given by the Algerian sociologist Marieme Helie Lucas, and she says that fundamentalisms, note the "s," so within all of the world's great religious traditions, "fundamentalisms are political movements of the extreme right which in a context of globalization manipulate religion in order to achieve their political aims."

These movements as a whole purvey discrimination against religious minorities and sexual minorities.

Genocide is a systematic and deliberate destruction of a racial, political, religious or ethnic group.

Now, Lawrence thinks he's an atheist, but he's still in thrall to a religious worldview.

Regardless of religious belief or cultural background, there's a need for forgiveness.

It's usually presided over by religious leaders and village elders, and jirgas are often used in rural countries like Afghanistan, where there's deep-seated resentment against the formal system.

And so in order for that to happen, we needed to get the village elders together, we needed to get the tribal leaders together, the religious leaders.

It's almost a religious belief in transparency, a belief that if you shine a light on something, it will be better.

Even people took off their jewelry, their little crosses and religious things, and put them in these floating balls that we sent down the rivers so that they could be picked up at night.

I think it all started growing up in a fairly religious, moral family, eldest son of a rabbi, going off to university where I smoked some marijuana and I liked it.

Look here in Brazil, and some other countries, where a remarkable psychoactive substance, ayahuasca, can be legally bought and consumed provided it's done so within a religious context.

In February, the Kansas House of Representatives brought up a bill for vote that would have essentially allowed businesses to use religious freedom as a reason to deny gays services.

This question has inspired numerous myths, religious practices, and scientific inquiries.

Asma was referring to the rise of religious fundamentalism in the region, which is another obstacle to women in particular.

Religious iconography.

In 2014, I had the chance to travel with a respected religious leader from the Zuni tribe named Octavius Seowtewa to visit five museums in Europe with War Gods.

First of all is the misinterpretation of religious scriptures, holy scriptures, in the Bible, Old Testament, New Testament, Quran and so forth, and these have been misinterpreted by men who are now in the ascendant positions in the synagogues and the churches and in the mosques.

Beyond abortion, pro-voice works on hard issues that we've struggled with globally for years, issues like immigration, religious tolerance, violence against women.

Now, some of our volunteers are religious, but this particular one was not.

The misrepresentation and misuse and manipulation of religious scripture has influenced our social and cultural norms, our laws, our daily lives, to a point where we sometimes don't recognize it.

Religious institutions are dominated by men and driven by male leadership, and they create policies in their likeness, and until we can change the system entirely, then we can't realistically expect to have full economic and political participation of women.

It only took a few weeks before the women that I had previously worked with were returning back to their previous roles, and most of them were driven by words of encouragement from religious and political leaders, most of whom cited religious scripture as their defense.

In certain communities, we actually had to go as far as saying the International Human Rights Declaration, which you opposed because it wasn't written by religious scholars, well, those same principles are in our book.

It is not easy, challenging distorted religious messaging.

Now you may find it acceptable that yes, in the religious field, humans cooperate by believing in the same fictions.

But what I want to emphasize is that exactly the same mechanism underlies all other forms of mass-scale human cooperation, not only in the religious field.

America's Promise Ministries, the religious arm of Aryan Nations, happened to have a three-day retreat during my visit.

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