They will spend less and less time with their families and devote themselves to religious study and spiritual preparation.
Tens of thousands of able-bodied ultra-Orthodox men defer their conscription year after year on the pretext of devoting their lives to religious study.
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And this includes the need for Islamic philosophers and religious scholars to study how the Christian churches in the West have (largely though by no means completely) adapted to the findings of science and its implications for religious beliefs.
Yeshivas are schools devoted to the study of religious texts like the Talmud.
Following up on my earlier post about the (urgent) need of religious leaders and theologians to study science.
The study examined the religious identities of people living a year or longer in a country other than the one in which they were born as of 2010.
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For a lesson in marketing, religious leaders would do well to study the success of Bill Hybels and his Great Barrington, Ill.
Under the changes, religious institutions and universities engaged in academic study will be allowed to organize trips to Cuba without permission from the U.S. government first.
At Jewish religious schools, they sit at wooden tables to study Torah and Hebrew.
The U.S. is the top destination for the world's migrating Christians and Buddhists, as well as those with no particular religious affiliation, including atheists and agnostics, a new study shows.
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Partly because the state schools are horrible, partly because of community cohesion and religious commitment, 80 percent of Jewish children in South Africa study in Jewish schools.
But experts who study faith and healing have different explanations for better health outcomes among the religious.
They study every ingredient that goes into a product to make sure it conforms with religious law.
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One institution that emphasized a religious, even mystical, form of Zionism was the Mercaz Harav yeshiva, a center of study in Jerusalem that revolved around the rabbinical legacy of Avraham Kook and his son Tzvi Yehuda Kook.
For example, a Brazilian study published last year in the journal Explore, examined 28 other studies, found that religious and spiritual people had an 18% lower mortality rate, which represented an 18% reduction in mortality over the course of the study.
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