Sentence examples for intensely religious from inspiring English sources

Intense religion closely overlaps with white evangelicalism, but people in other groups can be intensely religious as well (e.g, certain single-issue voting Catholics with an intense focus on abortion).

And like his protagonists, Mr. Wood's family was intensely religious.

Mr. Ahmadinejad is intensely religious, but he has clashed with Iran's traditional clergy.

These early settlements were unstable and full of intensely religious individualists.

It's long been a cultural cliche to describe the US as an intensely religious country.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews increasingly question the Jewishness of those outside their own intensely religious communities.

The other painted intensely naturalistic religious scenes and animated portraits.

She had, the judge said, gone from being the male head of a family in an intensely structured religious community to living as a single woman in wider society.

When they failed to sell, he retreated to his house and concentrated on intensely personal religious paintings and brightly colored, joyous renderings of social rituals like the Junkanoo festival.

As a result of this development, since the ancient Mesopotamians were intensely conservative in religious matters and unwilling to discard anything of a hallowed past, the religious data of any period, and particularly that of the later periods, is a condensed version of earlier millennia that must be carefully analyzed and placed in proper perspective before it can be evaluated.

For those involved, these funerals were intensely pious, essentially religious rituals.