Sentence examples for key religions from inspiring English sources

That explains why diverse India, with three major ethnic groups, four key religions, and 15 official languages, had no choice other than democracy-led growth.What makes ethnically diverse but autocratic China different, given it has enjoyed rapid growth for the past two decades?

Among the topics: religion in the presidential race; the influences of faith on the budget debates and immigration policy; key religion cases before the Supreme Court; and mainline denominations and their views of homosexuality.

The new paper should be "a call to arms for people who want to study history from a scientific perspective to start developing the tools we would need to do that," says Slingerland, who is part of a team working on a database that aims to catalog the key features of religions around the world.

Feuerbach begins The Essence of Christianity by proposing that, since human beings have religion and animals don't, the key to understanding religion must be directly related to whatever it is that most essentially distinguishes human beings from animals.

Grace Davie, the sociologist of religion, sees the key feature of English religion as vicariousness – a profound sense of belonging without believing sustained over hundreds of years by clergy "saying one for me".

This two-layer psychology is the key to understanding religion, warfare, team sports and last week's celebrations.

He found it horrifying: "nearly naked figures, viewed by the light of blazing fires, all moving in hideous harmony…"Whatever Darwin's personal sensibilities, Mr Wade is convinced that a Darwinian approach offers the key to understanding religion.

Religious coping is thought to play a key role in religion's effects.

They play key roles in religion and mythology and even now snakebites kill an estimated 100,000 people annually.

The key is not religion per se, but the use of emotionally powerful cultural symbols to sell particular moral codes and management systems".

("Law firm in Hobby Lobby win is playing key role in religion cases," July 19).