It has religious symbols, it has a God, it has a book - but it's not a religion.
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But precisely because his appeal isn't strictly religious, it may fail to stir excitement on the campaign trail.
To reflect its religious background it houses a chapel and a "contemplation terrace".
Reform is coming but in a country with a strong religious establishment it will be a gradual and slow process.
The Wales we live in right now is a lot less religious than it was a decade ago and a lot less bilingual too. 2011 turned out to be the Year of Sharp Decreases.
And al-Maliki, who is a member of the Dawa Party, which is a very religious organization, it calls for the Shia religious leadership to direct the government.
And if it continues to make progress on religious tolerance, it can point the way for other majority Muslim countries.
In a report released today, the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom criticized what it calls a lack of religious freedom in Saudi society overall and the promotion of religious extremism in Saudi schools.
Although it is a religious festival, the state supports it by providing amenities, from security to sanitation.
When Obama offered to soften the rule last year, religious groups said it wasn't enough.
Most big decisions are based in faith, be it religious faith or faith in ourselves.
Honda has an almost religious fervor when it comes to not doing an eight-cylinder car.
Despite being canned briefly during the 1970s for having no religious significance, it has returned full-throttle every year.
But right-to-life groups and religious leaders see it as the first step down a slippery slope to full human cloning.
If we are going to have interfaith cooperation rather than religious violence, it will be a movement built by people.
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In 1966, he bought the property near Kazan, the region's capital, and built the bunker as a religious school, it said.
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We ought to have religious organizations doing it.
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But there is also a prevalent attitude call it religious correctness with which genuine toleration is easily confused: a polite and well-meaning reluctance to engage believers in the sort of robust clash of ideas that might discomfit them.
Although his report was triggered by tales of televangelists running lucrative things such as recording studios and selling oil and gas under cover of the religious exemption, it highlights a serious regulatory failure at the heart of America's charitable sector.
Despite promising early sales, "Mormon" still faces some built-in challenges: It's not a show for the whole family, and religious theatergoers may find it offensive.
Indeed, in America the constitution expressly bans the involvement of the state in religious matters, so it would be especially outrageous if the constitution were now to be used for religious ends.
Sometimes it makes American religious belief look unsophisticated and jejune - in fact it merely represents, it seems to me, a truth about the nation: the search for God is not just a search in the lazy passive European way: it is a search with an end in sight.
It seems that even intelligent Greeks failed to realise this was a secular not a religious ritual and interpreted it as hubris: treating a mortal man as if he were a god.
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In some important ways, the religious right is not right-wing any more: it is the religious centre.
It is at the center of family, social and religious events, and enjoying it is truly a social experience.
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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.
It said its initial view was religious bodies should be permitted to introduce it, if they wished.
In Mecca, Cairo and Istanbul attempts were made to ban it by religious authorities.
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One of the coalition partners, the National Religious Party, said it might pull out of the government.
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