Pakistan's constitution invites the enforcement of religious norms at home.
"During the Suharto years, films were censored for just about anything -- politics, sex, social values and religious norms," he said.
As a Jew, a feminist and a future rabbi, I share the Ethicist's contempt for discriminatory religious norms and practices (Oct.27).
"In recommending equal opportunities...this study does not intend to render a judgment of countries' broadly accepted cultural and religious norms," the IMF analysts added.
The more a religion stresses ecstasy, the less it seems hidebound by rules especially rules of public behaviour, as opposed to purely religious norms.
The culture is also more secular, with prayer in schools and the closing of businesses on Sundays fading along with traditional religious norms on marriage and sex.
The Rinpoche hopes to enroll girls too, but given religious norms that forbid monks from mixing with women, that means building another dorm and a suite of classrooms.
Why was it, she asked, that supposed liberals always give 'precedence to cultural and religious norms, however reactionary, over the human being and her rights'?
His surveys of 78 countries show strong links between widespread public values and beliefs, or political culture, and motivation to work, sexual and religious norms and the presence or absence of democratic institutions.
"We conjecture that for highly religious women modernising factors raise the risk and temptation in women's environments that imperil their reputation for modesty: veiling would then be a strategic response, a form either of commitment to prevent the breach of religious norms or of signalling women's piety to their communities.
The high demand of female Bangladeshi workers in these countries is due to common religious norms.
