Hess, who is from a Mormon community, blends local color with celestial inspiration to create a forthright and original religious vision matched by few films, whether dramatic or comic.

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Mahatma Gandhi undertook 17 public hunger-strikes during his lifetime, using them to advance his vision of tolerance and religious diversity.

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Their rhetoric also reinforces a vision of a divided society as Myanmar tries to integrate its many ethnic and religious minorities after decades of internal conflict.

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But they are hardly the vision of Mr Netanyahu's Likud Party loyalists or of the other rightist and religious parties allied to the Likud in the present coalition.

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