This is much further developed in Erasmus of Rotterdam's humanist idea of a possible religious unity based on a reduced core faith, trying to avoid religious strife about what Erasmus saw as non-essential questions of faith (adiaphora).
The temple dates from the 11th century, was rebuilt after an earthquake in 1917, and has always been known as a place of religious unity - the marriage of Buddhist Balinese king Udayana and Hindu Javanese princess Mahendradatta are woven into the legend of its origins.
Egypt's president, Abdel-Fatah al-Sisi, the former military chief who led Morsi's removal, has vowed to fight extremism and launch a new era of religious unity.
His youthful "Turkish Speech" of 1529, a vigorous call to the Holy Roman emperor Ferdinand I to undertake a war against the Turks, was a patriotic hymn to Germany and a call to political and religious unity.
The principle of cuius regio, eius religio provided for internal religious unity within a state: The religion of the prince became the religion of the state and all its inhabitants.
Their impromptu reunion came as she helped launch a walk by faith leaders promoting religious unity ahead of the anniversary of the attacks.
He made a host of enemies along the way — orthodox Hindus who believed him overly sympathetic to Muslims, Muslims who saw his calls for religious unity as part of a Hindu plot, Britons who thought him a charlatan, radical revolutionaries who believed him a reactionary.
She believed that religious unity was necessary for a peaceful public life and explicitly rejected the idea of religious toleration.
On the eve of my departure for the UN Climate Summit in Paris, I am wondering if this religious unity will serve as a model for the 192 nations gathered in France.
For them, the preservation of political sovereignty took primacy over the preservation of religious unity, and toleration was recommended as a superior policy in a situation of religious plurality and strife.
