Dorothy in Heysham gave us a sense of how important observing Sunday's religious history is to some people.
Religious history is replete with stories of floods, from Noah to Gilgamesh.
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We have to move away from easy-to-repeat campaign slogans and promises of easy solutions, because we're a country with more than 300 million people, a complicated racial and religious history and the world's largest GDP.
His enjoyable and informative canter through three millennia of intellectual and religious history highlights the many ways, ingenious, beautiful, wrongheaded or mad, in which humans have tried to define paradise, seek it or, latterly, create it.
With Rome's extensive history, religious celebrations and rich culture, spending the holiday in the ancient imperial city is an almost unrivalled experience.
Mr. Loconte, a professor of history at The Kings College, is writing a book on the history of religious toleration.
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This former hospice for pilgrims and, until relatively recently, a working hospital, contains almost a millennium of history, religious art and ruins.
In the light of the West's awful history of religious warfare, if nothing else, that is a hard won and admirable principle.
The app, released in several languages, allows users to scroll over a high-definition image of the shroud and find out more about its history and religious significance.
"It would be an enormous gesture to name a Latin American pope, " said Virginia Garrard-Burnett, a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
Despite the country's history of religious violence, Abiola says she's still surprised that a young Nigerian Muslim would be accused of trying to commit mass murder against American citizens.
Specific marks are being allocated for good spelling, punctuation and grammar - a change that affects exams in English literature, geography, history and religious studies taken since January this year.
One main reason: The company had a history of religious devotion to proprietary file formats, and took years to release a digital audio player that could handle the ever-popular MP3 format.
"It would be an enormous gesture to name a Latin American pope, " Virginia Garrard-Burnett, a professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin, said earlier this week.
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"He's got a very strong social-justice position that will be much appreciated by the more progressive forces in the church, " said Virginia Garrard-Burnett, professor of history and religious studies at the University of Texas at Austin.
The BBC's Zaffar Abbas in Islamabad says Karachi in particular has a long history of religious and ethnic violence, but the month of May was the worst in recent years - with more than 50 people killed in different incidents of violence.
The Hindu leader, who has a history of exploiting religious and cultural issues for his political ends, was unfazed.
To work really well, a grand history of a religious tradition has to blend an account of the faith itself with the ways this faith has influenced behaviour and the various historic conditions in which it has been articulated.
It is a peculiarity of the current political moment that a politician with a history of pushing sectarian religious beliefs in government has become a hero to a libertarian movement.
To be sure, there have always been religious backlashes against science, all throughout history and in virtually every faith.
Although valuable and quite extensive contributions to pupils' understanding of spiritual values are made in religious education, Welsh, English, history and art, the provision for collective worship does not provide a context in which pupils' own spiritual awareness can be consistently nurtured.
The religious left has a distinguished past in American history.
The music transmits history, culture, ethical and religious fundamentals.
In a political age when biography is destiny, Bush has not exactly clammed up on personal matters, detailing over time his history as a drinker, his religious conversion, his fidelity to his wife Laura.
But that is an exception: in a nation where many like history and beauty but few are formally religious, cathedrals must rank as one of the church's success stories.
This elevation of a uniquely shameful event in the history of Europe into a source of religious inspiration and even of national pride for Americans has happened as a result of successive surges of interest.
Look at history, and you can see the religious left at the heart of America's great social-reform movements, from the fight against slavery to the New Deal to the civil-rights movement (for some reason, Prohibition is usually left off the list).
Such strains would have tested any country, let alone a small one with a violent history, a population made up of 18 jealous religious minorities and a weak central state built on power-sharing between them.
My response to Ranakpur led me to examine the limitations of my approach to architecture and, for the first time, the history of the interaction of narrative and architecture in Western religious buildings.
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