The phrase "are explicitly religious" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe something that clearly and directly pertains to religion or religious beliefs.
Example: "The themes in this book are explicitly religious, addressing the nature of faith and spirituality."
Alternatives: "are clearly religious" or "are overtly religious".
Others are explicitly religious.
Some commissioned works are explicitly religious but many others are not.
Both films are explicitly religious, intensely poetic meditations, filled with recurrent symbols and suffused with a spirit of divine apprehension.
There are many groups that combine bad science with motivational messages ("Create your future from your future not your past"), and others that are explicitly religious.
But precisely because they are all contested it is vital that religious education teaches children how to live with others who inhabit entirely different imaginative worlds, whether these are explicitly religious or not.
The British Centre for Science Education, an independent group that defends science education in the UK, contends that the actual intentions of TiS are explicitly religious, as evidenced by its origins being traced to an appeal in 2004 to the readers of a NI evangelical magazine, Evangelical Times, by Take Heed Ministries (British Centre for Science Education 2007b; Williams 2008a).
Carter's perspective is explicitly religious.
Out goes the angst; in come song titles such as Only He Can Heal Me and an evangelical joyousness on the likes of The Good News (although frontman Kele Okereke has denied the new material is explicitly religious).
One recurring line of argument that Locke uses is explicitly religious.
The lawsuit alleges that Fox Sports told James he was fired "due to his beliefs about marriage, which were explicitly religious".
Other fascists in Romania, Croatia, Portugal and elsewhere were explicitly religious and allied themselves wholly with the counter-Enlightenment, harnessing fears of change and difference to unite their nations.
