Corporate America, too, periodically gets religion--in the form of workplace fads that inspire revivalist fervor, then fade away.
Mr. Cabrera said he respected Ms. Quinn for allowing a vote on the religion-in-schools resolution despite her opposition.
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We don't ask questions about ethnicity or religion -- it's not about saving Jews or Muslims, it's about saving people.
One of those values is the freedom to practice your religion -- a right that is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution.
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And it's what knit us together -- regardless of race, regardless of status, regardless of religion -- that idea, that's what pulled us together.
But here we can find the ability to bridge divides of race and region and religion -- by the ability to see yourself in other people.
Kenya is filled with young hopefuls for whom running is not just a sport but a religion -- and for a lucky few, a path out of poverty.
Change is confirming two Supreme Court justices who will defend our rights, including our First Amendment rights surrounding religion -- happen to be two women, by the way.
"For 5, 000 years, every culture and every religion -- not just Christianity -- has defined marriage as a contract between men and women, " Warren wrote in a newsletter to his congregation.
Because it's a human invention, science - just like religion - will always be used for all kinds of purposes, good and bad.
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And Richard Sosis, an anthropologist at the University of Connecticut, has already done some research which suggests that the long-term co-operative benefits of religion outweigh the short-term costs it imposes in the form of praying many times a day, avoiding certain foods, fasting and so on.
The Vatican Bank - known officially as the Institute for Works of Religion - has hitherto exempted itself from international banking regulations on the grounds that it is not a real bank in the normal sense of the word, our correspondent says.
The greatest example of off-season creep is the NFL, a near-religion which has successfully repositioned itself from a fall-to-winter pastime to a daily relationship, to be attended to constantly.
Okay, with these two meanings in mind, in fact, in the same document, there is also the stipulation which is - which has been in the past, the old defunct constitution about Islam being the religion - the religion of state and the principles of shariah being the main source of legislation.
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Black churchgoers, of course, often do the same thing at Sunday-morning services, and I suspect that the amenlike responses of black theatergoers are a not-so-distant echo of that old-time religion.
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Thus Obama's signal gaffe of the campaign so far--his San Francisco fundraiser comment about bitter small-town Americans clinging to guns, religion and racial intolerance--stuck because it fleshed in the Obama persona you already suspected was there.
Though he is called an Islamist, he insists his new party is not religion-based in any way.
According to them, the partition of India took place on the basis of religion - Hindus and Muslims.
Notice that there is no mission of pursuing the Catholic religion- only of pursuing the Catholic caring tradition.
Like the Amish, the Mennonites are Anabaptist, with strict religion-based values that keep them isolated in agricultural communities.
We are not yesterday's religion - we are supposed to relate to the context of whatever society we are in.
It also had the highest percentage of residents who did not state a religion - 8% (693, 000) did not answer.
Most Malians practise a popular form of Sufi Islam, often described as an open and intellectual interpretation of the religion - it involves mysticism, chanting and hypnotic prayers.
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This general preference for the Republicans over the Democrats has also translated into a preference for Mr McCain (for all his faults) over Mr Obama (for all his religion-friendly rhetoric).
But as several religion-watchers have noted, the church would risk sending an odd signal to the country and the world if it rejected him in favour of a safe, white pair of hands.
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Even religion-based GOP wedge issues like abortion and gay marriage, which should be home runs for McCain at town hall meetings, go unmentioned on the McCain road show, unless a voter brings them up.
However this is not being attributed to an upsurge in interest in religion - as the qualifications authority suggests that it reflects the growing interest in GCSE "short courses", which provide a qualification with less work than a conventional GCSE.
The success or failure of the two campaigns' attempts to remove these topics from the table could speak volumes this fall on how far the nation has come on divisive race and religion-based debates in the political sphere, political experts say.
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