Indeed, what is striking in Bouchard's catalogue is the predominance of linguistic and religious entries and, conversely, the complete absence of universalist and more political values or principles, such as freedom or equality, which are central to most other country's pluralism-containing core commitments.
But now, as the Boy Scouts face growing calls to reverse their policy of excluding openly gay leaders and members, the predominance of Mormon and other religious sponsors is a complicating factor.
"You have to take part in building a better future and a new life for Egypt, away from religious tyranny, greed for power and the predominance of the individual's interest over that of the nation".
(Braudel 1992; Wallerstein 1974-1989, 2004; Weber 1904) The basis for this predominance was – according to Max Weber – the religious value system of North Western Europe, its protestant ethics (Weber 1978).
The triumph of Sultan Mehmed I in 1413 was at least in part because of the support of the Turkish notables and Muslim religious orders of Anatolia, who strongly resented the Christian predominance in Bayezid's court and attributed his abandonment of the ghazi tradition and attacks in Turkish Muslim Anatolia as well as the defeat at the hands of Timur to Christian influence.
The first item of awareness, for those concerned about the condition of our planet as a human habitat, is to discover the continuing predominance of regarding the Afterlife central, and life on Earth peripheral, in global religious doctrine.
The union moved away from the religious settlement embodied in the Pacification of Ghent of two years before and toward a predominance of the Calvinists and their monopoly of public practice of religion in the key provinces of Holland and Zeeland.
Diversity and the rise of science have chipped away at the cultural and political predominance of white Protestantism from the Civil War to the Civil Rights era, but this religious culture remained firmly entrenched in the corridors of power and as the primary arbiter of moral distinctions between right and wrong.
Michigan's religious history differs somewhat from that of many of the other states of the Midwest in its early predominance of Roman Catholicism.
Since Watt, the novel's eventual cultural predominance has often been read as inseparable from the ascendance of secularism and the demise of religious thought.
