Sentence examples for christian practices from inspiring English sources

Thus, converted Muslims often maintained certain Christian practices, leading to religious syncretism.

There subsequently arose a new music related to Christian practices but not connected with the liturgy.

It discards Hindu rituals and adopts some Christian practices in its worship.

True, "the temples were also crammed with animal gods and sacred phalluses," but these surely reflected exotic local Christian practices.

The Bektashis in the Balkans adapted such Christian practices as the ritual sharing of bread and the confession of sins.

Youngsters are threatened with divine judgment, and they are initiated into the world of charismatic Christian practices.

In other words, the terms are used in a different sense from the one they have in original Christianity, because they have been dissociated from Christian practice.

In Turkey, some had continued to practice in secret as "crypto-Christians," and in many cases later returned to Christianity; while in Greece, converts to Islam retained aspects of Christian practice in their Muslim ritual.

In the marginally more open sheikhdoms, Christian practice is strictly controlled.

The early Christian practice of lay participation in episcopal elections never disappeared completely in the East.

This is an increasingly common but worrisome mistake in the usage of the word "Christian" when a particular brand of conservative Christian practice is meant.