In the Czech Republic, four decades of official atheism successfully broke down the religious fabric over whose composition the seventeenth-century Czechs had spilled so much blood.
That's exactly where my conservative, evangelical faith left me in college, when it collided with the extraordinarily complex and vibrant religious fabric of New York City: stranded on dry land.
The percentage of Americans who think of themselves as Muslims first is no different than that of their Christian counterparts, even though 6 in 10 Muslims are first generation immigrants to the U.S. Islam is no more or any less compatible with American values than any other faith that is part of America's pluralistic religious fabric.
The Guardian once lampooned the passing of a revered Hindu guru, who probably did more to uphold India's secular, multi-religious fabric than any intellectual or activist ever did, and derided his teachings as simplistic "peace, love and vegetarianism".
Mr. Pilati put a lot into those collections — fabric research, religious symbolism, art references — and in a way they suffered for it.
FROM THE DISSENT By Justice Breyer I believe that the Establishment Clause's concern for protecting the Nation's social fabric from religious conflict poses an overriding obstacle to the implementation of this well-intentioned school voucher program.
The volume presents the sixteenth-century jurist as a "prismatic agent" through whose works a vast inherited juridical, philosophical, religious, political and anthropological fabric of learning of the West was disseminated in a revitalised form into world ripe for modernity.
Large silk banners carried in war line one wall of the show and are complemented by examples of fabrics with religious meaning and hangings from daily life.
The Shawshank Redemption gives you hope; you can go on; you can go forward.' For those who want to find them, there are indeed ample religious motifs woven into the fabric of The Shawshank Redemption.
There was one that I called the Baz Luhurman room because it wouldn't have been out of place on the set of Romeo + Juliet, covered with electric candles, ornaments, fabric flowers and religious iconography.
Neither Roman Catholicism nor Judaism were, in essence, "democratic," but American versions of both of those traditions became part of the fabric of American religious life, as will American Islam.
