Sentence examples for declarations of religious from inspiring English sources
While Pegram builds his book up from the experiences of ordinary Klansmen, she builds out from the Klan's official declarations of religious devotion drawn from K.K.K. newspapers and magazines.
The wood-shingled meetinghouse, preserved under a bower of trees on a commercial strip in Flushing, Queens, was once the most influential seat of American Quakerism, a place of worship for those who wrote one of the country's first declarations of religious freedom in the 1600s.
The country's census, which as elsewhere in Central Europe asks for a declaration of religious preference, suggests that secularism has made deep inroads.
Does a public declaration of religious allegiance always come across as self-serving — a sales technique custom-made for the age of identity politics?
Adult leaders in the Boy Scouts must sign a Declaration of Religious Principles, and Scouts must take an oath "to do my duty to God".
I see it less as a declaration of religious faith than the expression of a universal fascination with the origins of life and the persistence of creation myths in the absence of any credible scientific explanation.
Take his discussion of "A Love Supreme," John Coltrane's album-length declaration of religious faith, which Blanning cites in addressing the transformation of jazz after World War II from entertainment to something "more ambitious, both in theory and in practice".
His declaration of "religious war" and "cultural war for the soul of America" delighted the hard-core anti-abortion lobby but soured the nation on the G.O.P. -- defeating Bush and bringing us Bill Clinton.
The predominantly Muslim but officially secular country enforces a strict ban on Islamic-style scarves in public offices and universities, where they are viewed as a declaration of religious fundamentalism.
For years, those who are anti-gay have been emboldened by the often hateful declarations of homophobic religious leaders and by the attacks by groups like the National Organization for Marriage, which have demeaned gays.
