Prof. Stephen Prothero, chairman of the religion department at Boston University, said large numbers of Americans leaving organized religion and large numbers still embracing the fervor of evangelical Christianity pointed to the same desires.
Leyla Yunus, the director of the Institute of Peace and Democracy, an organization that monitors human rights abuses in Azerbaijan, said that political repression by the Aliyev government was benefiting Iran, and that the lack of economic opportunities, especially for young people in rural areas, could push them to embrace the religious fervor of Tehran's theocratic authorities.
It's the day with the most gift-giving, the most family get-togethers, the most religious activities, and the most colorful fairy tales that children and adults almost universally embrace with sacred fervor.
But now, the quest to sharply shrink government that all the Republican candidates embrace, driven by the fervor of the Tea Party, has brought a sweeping anti-federal government stance to the fore on education, as in many other areas.
Rather than embrace the new nationalist fervor, Mr. Rikic said he wanted Serbia to align itself irreversibly with the European Union so that the economy would improve and then every Serb could afford his flags.
Working the room, the evening's hosts, John Petry and Joel Greenblatt, who are partners in the hedge fund Gotham Capital, had an agenda: to identify new candidates to join their Success Charter Network, a cause they embrace with all the fervor of social reformers.
Brazil embraced those policieswith fervor.
But recently the low-carb principles have been embraced with new fervor.
He was also following a script established by the books about ancient Rome that he and his contemporaries had read as youths, and that he had embraced with particular fervor.
In a series of phone conversations and e-mail exchanges last week, he said that no other forecaster was likely to accept his reasoning, which is based on his version of the Elliott Wave theory — a technical approach to market analysis that he embraces with evangelical fervor.
Set in a surreal 1980's Britain where Wales is a Soviet republic and literature is embraced with religious fervor, this spirited first novel features a literary detective named Thursday Next who is hot on the trail of an extortionist who is kidnapping characters from Victorian novels.
