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Improved seminary training produced more educated and devout priests, who worked to inspire stricter observance among their flocks.

Many Mumbai Jews said they had limited interaction with Rabbi Holtzberg and Chabad House, whose activities were focused on Orthodox Jews visiting from abroad and encouraging greater religious observance among young Israeli backpackers.

While there are few statistics tracking religious observance among the young, there is near-universal agreement that young people are propelling an Islamic revival, one that has been years in the making but is intensifying as the youth bulge in the population is peaking.

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Most striking of all, sociologists and educators report that religious belief and observance, especially among the young, have slumped since the mullahs took power a quarter of a century ago.

Other factors may have included the rise of bourgeois individualism following the French Revolution of 1789, the decline of Roman Catholic observance (especially among the political left), and the lack of economic opportunity in the interwar years.

Nevertheless, religious leaders from the Muslim, Catholic, and Orthodox communities claimed that all forms of observance were increasing among young people as an expression of increased identification with their ethnic heritage, in large part due to the national religious revival that occurred as a result of the 1992-1995 Bosnian war.

The aim of the study was to examine the association of religious education and observance with dementia among participants in the Israeli Ischemic Heart Disease study.

Sabbath observance is broadly respected among Jews, not simply the Orthodox.

Today, piety increasingly correlates with education: college graduates are America's most faithful churchgoers, while religious observance has dropped precipitously among the less-educated.

Although Bosnia's three main groups are defined according to their faith — Bosniaks are Muslim, Serbs are Orthodox and Croats are Catholic — a 2006 State Department report noted that the "rate of religious observance remained relatively low" among all three major religions.