Sentence examples for prevailing religion from inspiring English sources

Islam is the prevailing religion.

For him, it was an expression of the hacker ethic common in Silicon Valley, where Joseph Schumpeter's idea of "creative destruction" is the prevailing religion.

Chart of the inhabited world, exhibiting the prevailing religion,form of government, degree of civilization, & population of each country / engraved by A. Willard & J.W. Barber.

Any effort to group regions for comparative study will most logically be based on such factors as the traditional retained sources, the prevailing religion, the nature of the related sophisticated culture, and the environmental conditions that affect materials and activities.

The prevailing religion puts its stamp on the consciousness of every group, providing common elements in areas that share the same religion, even though the groups are not in contact.

But in my day Tolerance was decidedly the prevailing religion, always with a puritanical slant.

According to some authorities in the 20th century (as well as early Christian polemicists), the alleged demons noted by the prevailing religions of the world are the former gods or spiritual beings that succumbed to or were overpowered by the dominant doctrinal views of a conquering people.

Second, the prevailing service religion underestimates the problem of disorder.

This epic is a major work in Tamil literature, describing the historical events of its time and also of then-prevailing religions, Jainism, Buddhism and Shaivism.

What he's writing about -- while Merrick holds the attention -- is the widespread belief during the Victorian era that science should replace religion as the prevailing force.

Even in a self-proclaimed Islamic republic, however, all citizens, Muslims as well as non-Muslims, must be free to debate the role of religion and to question prevailing orthodoxies without fear of being subjected to trials, prison or death.