This imperial patronage had disappeared since the fall of the Empire and its resurgence corresponds to a very precise religious objective: the new releases of Gospels in connection with the liturgical reform undertaken, based on the Roman models.
"Any reasonable, objective observer would conclude... that the stated secular purpose of the Executive Order is, at the very least, secondary to a religious objective of temporarily suspending the entry of Muslims," Watson wrote.
Both, Stern adds, have twin political and religious objectives and both use selective readings of religious texts and of history to justify violence over territory.
"The plurality opinion foreshadows the approval of direct monetary subsidies to religious organizations, even when they use the money to advance their religious objectives," Justice O'Connor said.
In his opinion in the Texas case, Breyer wrote, "the short (and stormy) history of the [Kentucky] courthouse Commandments' displays demonstrates the substantially religious objectives of those who mounted them".
Its antiroyalist and anti-Russian program mingled patriotic and conservative overtones with religious objectives (namely, the defense of the privileged status of Roman Catholicism vis-à-vis the religious and political equality for non-Catholics advocated by Russia).
This study thus uses objective religious beliefs and religious practices to measure the business owner's religious beliefs.
From the mentalizing perspective, as introduced in "Literature overview" section [43], praying is a mentalizing activity that transcends the self-other dichotomy between the Self and the God-image, and an interaction between the more personal, subjective experiences of the individual and the more objective religious, dogmatic reality that is found in religious texts and such.
Or, as Carl Jung and others have suggested in studies of unconscious elements in religious symbolism, both objective and subjective aspects may be fused in the ritual act.
Likewise, the goal of illumination in a single lifetime, rather than at the end of an indefinite succession of future existences, was analogous to the religious Daoist's objective of immortality as the culmination of his present life.
CSIS' own legal mandate forbids it from monitoring "lawful advocacy, protest or dissent," unless it has reasonable grounds to suspect that those activities may constitute "serious violence against persons or property for the purpose of achieving a political, religious or ideological objective".
