People prayed on Easter Sunday and tried to find comfort in religion.

VOA: standard.2009.04.12

and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

But in many regards, it is a matter of space, a matter of supplies, a matter of security where issues come out which don't really matter whether you believe in religion or not.

但是就各种方面来说，是关乎空间，关乎资源供应，关乎安全,这些问题并不一定和你,是否有宗教信仰有关。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

These are to bury the old man deep in the ground, and to bring religion to his uncle's mentally sick child.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

There is no basis for individual rights, or for a critique of existing ideas and institutions, if there is no base either in religion or in reason.

如果没有宗教和理性,人权以及对现有思想和制度的批判,也就没有了保障

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

In the eighteen twenties, in the state of New York, a man named Joseph Smith started the Mormon religion.

VOA: special.2009.06.04

It brought Judean religion closer to monotheism because you have the insistence of worshiping one god in his one central sanctuary.

它使犹太人的宗教更接近于一神崇拜因为,对只崇拜一个神并且以他为祭祀中心的坚持。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

So what makes him feel close to home, in a way, has to make him feel close to the religion he's trying to reject.

所以，要想让一个人对亲近家，在某种意义上，先得让他亲近他试图抗拒的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Jefferson:"Northerners are cool, sober, laborious, persevering, independent, jealous of their own liberties, chicaning, superstitious, and hypocritical in their religion."

杰斐逊说,"北方人冷静,稳重,勤劳,坚毅,独立,珍惜自身的自由,奸诈,迷信,还假装是虔诚宗教信徒"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

Regina Spektor says she has always been interested in faith and religion and she is always thinking about them in different ways.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

The association of Catholicism as the dominant religion in both of the enemy countries, France and Spain, is extremely important.

作为这两个敌国的国教,天主教会和法国及西班牙的联系举足轻重

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life did a study in two thousand seven on major religious traditions in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There are no signs or fruit of religion," he says, " "but in man only," he says in chapter 12.

他在第十二章中说，“由于除开人类以外，便没有任何宗教的迹象或其成果。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In addition,the book criticizes collectivism and religion in a way that many people have found insulting.

VOA: special.2010.06.06

In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Even though there is no state religion in America,there is a large, beautiful religious center in the nation's capital called the Washington National Cathedral.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

It's a doctrine that can be found in every religion and in most philosophical systems throughout history.

你能够在有史以来的所有宗教,和绝大多数哲学体系中找到这个假说

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Candice wants to know if there is a state religion in the United States.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

In other words, poetry is capable of doing now what religion used to do.

也就是说，今天的诗歌具有从前的宗教的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

I think it's probably really the most important holiday in the United States because it is a day that is not tied to a particular religion.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

And finally, and probably for Milton most important, ; Milton wrote a theology, inventing in effect his own religion; and Milton's Protestantism looks like no one else's, before or since.

最终，或许这对米尔顿来说是最重要的，他写了一部神学，相当于创建了自己的宗教;,米尔顿的新教教义是前无古人后无来者的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"The Book of Mormon" also deals with organized religion in a humorous way.

VOA: special.2011.06.10

That's like something personal, something that you can practice on your own in your own home or like me practicing my religion is not going to affect the next person.

宗教是个人的事情，可以自己在家里进行,就像我的宗教信仰不会影响旁人一样。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

He composed several symphonies that demonstrate his deep interest in his Jewish religion.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

We can talk about "religion-ex" since everybody is spiritually equal, but women and men actually in practice are not equal.

我们可以说说“宗教性别“,在精神层面上，人人都是平等的，而实际上女人和男人是不平等的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

And we will answer a question about religion and government in America .

VOA: special.2009.05.22

These are movements away from true spirit-filled religion in his view.

他的观点也有些活动，远离崇尚精神的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

I think the question purely of religion in conflict with human rights is a new avenue as we talked about changes and the new big dialogue in human rights.

我认为，单纯就宗教和人权,之间的冲突来说,这是个新出现的问题,也开启了有关人权问题的新对话。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选