Sentence examples for contested religion from inspiring English sources

Nigeria is on edge, with upcoming elections that will be fiercely contested, religion and ethnicity increasingly politicized, and Boko Haram committing mass murders and abductions.

No intolerant tyranny menaced it, no other religion contested its right to grow and prosper and develop in different ways.

In early 2008 parliament passed an amendment that lifted a ban on the wearing of head scarves a sign of religion long contested in Turkey on university campuses.

The AKP and its secular opponents clashed again in early 2008, when parliament passed an amendment that lifted a ban on head scarves an outward sign of religion long contested in Turkey on university campuses.

However educated someone might be, and however broadminded and tolerant they are, as soon as their religion is contested, they will lose their temper and fiercely defend their beliefs.

Even during Müller's lifetime his ideas were strongly contested by scholars of religions.

Its possession was contested during the Wars of Religion.

They argue that a single national story is not a sound base for a common culture because it has always been contested by class, region and religion.

For example, picking partner(s) to work with in a fiercely contested issue area such as religion introduces a host of potential problems.

The community center proposal has led to a national uproar over Islam, 9/11 and freedom of religion during a hotly contested midterm election season.

In the 16th-century Wars of Religion, Quercy was savagely contested between Roman Catholics and Huguenots; in the 1620s Montauban, one of Quercy's chief towns, became a major centre of Huguenot resistance.