Perhaps most intriguingly, the more religious a liberal teenager claimed to be, the more he was willing to confront his parents with dissenting beliefs.
And what Islamicate means is that just because Islam teaches, let's say X, Y, and Z, but as a culture, a Muslim need not necessarily be a religious or a pious Muslim to start doing these things.
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He was a religious moderate in a nation that had become infected with religious fundamentalism.
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MPs can take a religious oath or a secular affirmation of loyalty to the Crown.
Or Kwanzaa for that matter, which in fact is not a religious holiday but a cultural celebration, created in 1966.
So, it is a huge stretch of comparison, but I guess the point is a religious preference which a law is over-turning.
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The Church's position on female ordination has been seen as both a religious matter and a wider statement on the rights of women in society.
The question of how or whether these criteria apply when owners of for-profit businesses have a religious objection to a government policy hasn't been fully tested.
Or it is a religious act, say others: to which the answer is, yes, you may believe that, but if so it is no business of the state to impose a religious choice.
In his view, human happiness derives neither from external validation nor solely from within, but from "between": through the relationships created by love, work, and "something larger than yourself" -- whether it's a religious group, a volunteer organization, or a political campaign.
Streep, who has been nominated for a Best Actress award at this year's Academy Awards for her role, stars as fiercely caustic nun, Sister Aloysius, the iron-gloved principal of a religious school in a working class New York neighborhood in the 1960s.
One recent victim of that campaign is Necmettin Erbakan, the country's first prime minister from an Islamic party, who had to step down three years ago amid vague accusations that he had sought to transform Turkey into a religious dictatorship during a turbulent year in office.
This in turn might lead the Sudanese government to renew its support for the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), a bizarre cross between a religious cult and a rebel movement based across the border in northern Uganda, which abducts children and makes them attack Ugandan government forces and civilians.
Brandeis was born in 1856, into a family of non-religious Jews a few years after they emigrated from Germany to the United States.
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In the United States there are two bodies with a mandate to monitor global religious liberty: the State Department and a Commission on International Religious Freedom, which often takes a more rigorous view.
Many observers fear that Syria, a mosaic of different religious sects and ethnic groups, could devolve into a religious conflict.
' They want to show that this is a religious idea and not a scientific one.
Being a religious minority rather than a racial one, Muslims are easier to stereotype.
Some say it is because if you die during a religious observance you acquire a special status.
We were Catholic, Episcopalian, Lutheran, Evangelical and non-religious (as wide a religious swath as you might find in Mankato) and both budding liberals and conservatives.
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Of course, Robert Byrd was a deeply religious man, a Christian.
The current building has been a vicarage, home to a Catholic religious order, a family house and most recently a youth hostel between 1960 and 2006.
For example, a STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) major at MIT would yield a higher score and loan compared to a religious studies major at a lesser ranked school.
The midmorning blast in a farming village near Mian Channu, in Punjab province, appeared to have been caused by explosives stored in the house of a teacher who had set up a small religious school, a police official said.
But Mr Netanyahu, who at 59 still looks forward to a long career, is rightly loth to risk betraying the religious, a fast-growing constituency.
Marriage, after all, is a religious institution as well as a legal union regulated by the government.
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The first I have called "fundamentalism, " and it represents both a form of religious faith and a new variety of politics to represent it.
"If you accept the interpretation that this is a hate crime, then any dispute within a religious group could be called a hate crime, " Feldman said.
The fact that there was a substantial religious-moral vote is not by itself evidence of a political breakthrough by religious conservatives.
Lord Pannick argued that there was no danger of a successful challenge under human rights law, because the European Court of Human Rights precedent was firmly against the idea that people had a human right to a particular kind of religious marriage - so if a marriage was refused for religious reasons, the courts would uphold that decision.
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