Sentence examples for religious competition from inspiring English sources

And the Christian-Muslim split is only one form of religious competition in northern Nigeria.

Religious competition of any kind, they believed, can breed bigotry, repression and hatred.

How much of the Southern hostility towards Romney is driven by religious tribalism and Evangelical resentment of their religious competition?

And some European sociologists argue that there is much more religious competition in Europe than the supply-siders acknowledge.

One stock answer is that America, colonised by religious dissenters and lacking an officially sanctioned creed, has always been a cauldron of religious competition and, therefore, innovation.

The civil war itself fostered religious competition, each side enlisting its divine support, and it would be thought in no way unusual that Constantine should have sought divine help for his claim for power and divine justification for his acquisition of it.

In millennia past, their feathers were used in ceremonial headdresses, during religious athletic competitions like the ubiquitous pok-ta-pok.

The religious and political competition between Christianity and Islam led to the Crusades, which influenced the self-consciousness of Western Christianity in the Middle Ages and later centuries.

But in the actual vote in June of that year, which took place in the twin shadows of the MPs' expenses crisis and the great recession, there was also strong support for various other rightwing and religious fringe parties, competition that has now disappeared.

But the combination of increasing religious freedom and competition is also fueling a Catholic renewal movement, and equipping the church with the community-based revival necessary to meet challenges from the prosperity gospel movement to the secularization of many Latin American nations, analysts say.

Competition between religious and public radio stations is not always acrimonious.