Some articles on religious:
... All forms of Christianity, Islam and other religious practices were prohibited except for old non-institutional Pagan practices in the rural areas, which were seen as identifying with ... percentages are estimates there are no available current statistics on religious affiliation all mosques and churches were closed in 1967 and religious observances prohibited in November 1990, Albania began ... of foreign missionaries has brought more religious diversity with groups such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Mormons, Hindus, Bahá'í, a variety of Christian denominations and ...
... Hand-in-hand with the wool industry, this key religious centre experienced a Reformation significantly different to other parts of England ... Tudor Norwich unusually found ways of managing religious discord whilst maintaining civic harmony ... trade with mainland Europe, fostering a movement toward religious reform and radical politics in the city ...
... A religious festival is a time of special importance marked by adherents to that religion ... Religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar ... Hundreds of very different religious festivals are held around the world each year ...
... The other central aspect of the local culture is religious devotion ... a very Catholic and conservative town, and many of its inhabitants display a pride with their religious identity which comes close to fanaticism ... constitutes a form of social, rather than religious, gathering ...
... Robinson Crusoe is filled with religious aspects ... books on how to be a good Puritan Christian, such as The New Family Instructor (1727) and Religious Courtship (1722) ...
More definitions of "religious":
- (adj): Concerned with sacred matters or religion or the church.
Example: "Religious texts"; "a nenber if a religious order"
Synonyms: spiritual
- (adj): Having or showing belief in and reverence for a deity.
Example: "A religious man"; "religious attitude"
- (noun): A member of a religious order who is bound by vows of poverty and chastity and obedience.
Famous quotes containing the word religious:
“We think of religion as the symbolic expression of our highest moral ideals; we think of magic as a crude aggregate of superstitions. Religious belief seems to become mere superstitious credulity if we admit any relationship with magic. On the other hand our anthropological and ethnographical material makes it extremely difficult to separate the two fields.”
—Ernst Cassirer (1874–1945)
“Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I have been grateful to you from the day you turned your attention to the follies and fanaticisms of religious sects. Against those fools and impostors you employ the most appropriate weapons: to use others would be to imitate them. It is by ridicule that they must be attacked, and by scorn that they must be punished.”
—Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773)