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Many illuminated manuscripts were copies of religious or classical texts, and the bookmakers incorporated their own ideas and opinions in illustrations.
The fastest-growing religious movement is unaffiliated.
While religious authorities encouraged witch hunts, local secular governments usually carried out the detainment and punishment of accused witches.
If you live in this culture, whether you are religious or not, it is extremely difficult to avoid falling into the trap of believing that virtue and success go hand in hand.
This is a city that is built for a Hindu religious festival called Kumbh Mela, which occurs every 12 years, in smaller editions every four years, and takes place at the confluence of the Ganges and the Yamuna rivers in India.
But it's also the story that has accompanied almost every political and religious transformation going back millennia.
In fact, we could go as far as to say that without a powerful new restoration story, a political and religious transformation might not be able to happen.
While Hypatia was considered pagan— a term for traditional Roman belief before Christianity— she worshipped no particular deity or deities, and her ideas could be applied alongside multiple religious viewpoints.
The nonpartisan environment Hypatia fostered, where all students could feel comfortable, was especially remarkable given the religious and political turmoil that was fracturing the city of Alexandria at the time.
This means she conducts religious rites, but she also serves as a judge, healer, and scholar, teaching children and mediating conflict between Celtic tribes.
But Dante’s "Divine Comedy" is more than just religious allegory.
He particularly disliked its rampant nepotism and practice of simony, the buying and selling of religious favours such as pardons from sin.
This was a political and religious faction which sought to expand the pope’s political influence.
These are the Ayatollahs, mostly based in Qom, who have great clout in the religious community, have been quiet on politics and are going to be getting louder, because they see Iran going in an unhealthy direction, a direction contrary to what Khomeini had in mind.
She wrote dramas, comedies, and treatises on philosophy and mathematics, in addition to religious music and poetry.
These are different wars, with different religious factions, different political factions, and different socioeconomic problems.
Okay, religious mania: there's rapture, there's weeping, there's visions.
What is astonishing about this is, even though we don't know really how much of this was intended to be religious, or how much of it was intended to be therapeutic, what we can tell is that these patients lived!
Every week, religious extremists take another African village.
And because local religious beliefs prohibit eating beef, scavengers often consume cattle carcasses.
Other objects, like the Lindholm amulet, have inscriptions that could be incantations, riddles, or religious messages.
It was actually a very strange study, because the various religious leaders were using their scriptures as law books, and they couldn't find anything in them prohibiting making life, so it must be OK.
Female royalty traditionally served religious roles, and she was educated to read and write in both Sumerian and Akkadian, and make mathematical calculations.
To accomplish this, she wrote 42 religious hymns that combined both mythologies.
During this time, Baumfree found solace in her faith and became increasingly dedicated to religious reflection.
Back in the village, everyone is preparing to leave for a religious festival at a large temple inland.
For years I've been feeling frustrated, because as a religious historian, I've become acutely aware of the centrality of compassion in all the major world faiths.
But you know you'd never know it a lot of the time, that this was so central to the religious life.
Because with a few wonderful exceptions, very often when religious people come together, religious leaders come together, they're arguing about abstruse doctrines or uttering a council of hatred or inveighing against homosexuality or something of that sort.
I sometimes see when I'm speaking to a congregation of religious people a sort of mutinous expression crossing their faces because people often want to be right instead.
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