Sentence examples for a former religious from inspiring English sources

A former religious centre of Gallic society, Lugdunum (Lyon) became the capital of Roman Gaul.

But I'm also writing as a former religious education (RE) teacher who found no contradiction in teaching a number of world faiths.

Needless to say, Hodsock Priory, a former religious structure that once played host to Henry VIII, has a full-time gardener.

Kaifeng Jew, Wade-Giles romanization K'ai-feng Jew, member of a former religious community in Henan province, China, whose careful observance of Jewish precepts over many centuries has long intrigued scholars.

The title is based on a former religious chant about the Buddha preaching on Yŏngsan (Mount Yŏng), but the pieces attached to this general name have since lost their vocal tradition.

The German police are examining the activities of a former religious leader at a small mosque here who preached murderous hatred of the United States to Mohamed Atta and others who planned and executed the attacks on Sept. 11.

By 1994 Bungie had grown to a staff of six and had moved into a rundown Chicago office —a converted former religious school located in front of a crack house.

The place Cockcroft got to was the place he now lives, a magical former religious retreat in 12 acres on the edge of a lake.

The 2001 census in Scotland, unlike the exercises in England and Wales, included a question on current and former religious beliefs.

The Clergy Project is an online support group that exists for former religious professionals who have found a better fit for their spiritual selves with Atheism.

Blahyi also claims that he headed "the coastal line division of the Black Witches of West Africa"; I suspect this is a polemical attempt to link his former religious identity with African traditional religion more generally, painted in conspiratorial terms.