Sentence examples for religious trappings from inspiring English sources

A TRUE TEACHER doesn't have to have any religious trappings.

He did not want the usual religious trappings at his funeral, he said, but he did want music.

And Russian officials feel more comfortable dealing with Syrian Army commanders – many of them educated in Russia — than with the Shiite religious trappings of the militias.

Even as religious trappings linger in our rituals and attitudes around death, society is coming to adopt the humanist viewpoint on mortality, neither fearing nor denying it, but gracefully accepting it as an inevitable part of the human experience.

It's one of 27 sober depictions of this devotional object that the artist stripped of religious trappings, before photographing and then painting in his signature slightly blurred photorealist style.

The reaction of Reform and, to some extent, Conservative Jews to Orthodox resurgence is natural: having bet on the possibility of remaining ethnically Jewish while dropping most religious trappings, these movements now see that they have lost the bet.

Unlike Khan, however, he deemphasised religious or spiritual trappings and portrayed Sufism as a psychological technology, a method or science that could be used to achieve self-realisation.

His successor was Terence V. Powderly, and Stephens and Powderly clashed bitterly over the secrecy issue until in 1881 Powderly triumphed and the Knights repudiated the rule of secrecy and employed less ritual, stripping the union of the quasi-religious trappings in which Stephens believed so devoutly.

A three-judge panel of the 4th District Court of Appeal upheld a decision by the San Diego Superior Court that the yoga program in the Encinitas Union School District is "devoid of any religious, mystical or spiritual trappings". Under a three-year grant from the K.P. Jois Foundation, which promotes Ashtanga yoga, yoga exercises are taught in twice-weekly, 30-minute classes.

The Center for Compassion and Altruism Research and Education will study the biological roots of benevolent behavior and investigate whether mental exercises derived from the centuries-old tradition of Buddhist compassion meditation--but stripped of religious trappings--can foster compassion in nonbelievers.

Indeed, the atmosphere was redolent of the sometimes religious-seeming trappings of the culture of El Sistema, whose exponents speak of love and peace and remain involved for decades.