Sentence examples for religious experiment from inspiring English sources
They later abandoned the religious experiment and officially deeded their communal lands to God.
But some 20 years ago, Xerém also began a big religious experiment: some of the first evangelical churches in Brazil set up shop there.
We lie on the cusp of a great religious experiment, one similar to the upheaval that led to the decline of paganism and the rise of reformers and prophets during the so-called Axial Age (800 B.C.-200 B.C ., when the most important thoughts worth thinking were first thought.
Her strong religious convictions were at odds with the established Puritan clergy in the Boston area, and her popularity and charisma helped create a theological schism that threatened to destroy the Puritans' religious experiment in New England.
From these various religious experiments, Josephus had emerged as a Pharisee.
No official permission is required to create a church in the United States, an incubator of religious experiments where the government does not license clergy members or tax congregations, as the governments of many other nations do.
Finding the real explanations to the events in Iran and the rest of the Muslim world, where political-religious experiments unfold in dozens of contexts daily, requires first interrogating our own myths and superstitions.
Mr. Shafik, 70, and Mr. Morsi, 60, offer a rematch of the struggle that has driven Egyptian politics for six decades, between secular authoritarians and Islamists who promise a novel experiment in religious democracy.
We are a unique experiment in religious liberty.
His concerns about the religious ramifications of our experiment also proved to be way off-base.
