Non-Christian religious sites are being torn down, too, they said, including a smaller folk religion temple near the church.
In the older religions, the temple was not always designed for communal use.
Most of Christianity calls its places of worship churches; many religions use temple, a word derived in English from the Latin word for time, because of the importance to the Romans of the proper time of sacrifices.
The term Jew (Ioudaios in New Testament Greek), in the contemporary context may refer to religion (Second Temple Judaism), ethnicity (of Judea), or both.
"Any suggestions?" I proposed that despite her disinterest in organized religion, the temple up the road was a good place to start.
The local nucleus of the new culture led to a large range of religious expression, from the powerful temple religion of Brahmanism to a widespread popular bhakti religion and even more widespread fertility cults.
Despite the importance of temples and their architectural dominance, the evidence for cult does not point to mass participation in temple religion.
As a religion, the Satanic Temple argues, its adherents could claim that state laws restricting access to abortions are undue burdens on their religious beliefs.
Rabbi Prosnit, who explained that in the Jewish religion both a temple and one's home are referred to as sanctuaries, said that this mitzvah is a concrete, hands-on way of doing good.
The episode introduces the Robot Devil, Reverend Lionel Preacherbot and the religion of the Temple of Robotology, a spoof on the Church of Scientology.
