The phrase "religious underpinning" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the foundation or basis of a belief or system that is rooted in religion. Example: The country's laws have a strong religious underpinning, with many of them being based on biblical principles.
This religious underpinning was the work's connection to Bach, whose instrumental pieces are often as suffused with a sense of the sacred as his church works.
Although he had lost the religious underpinning of the vocation that took him there, he retained the commitment to making the world a better place as a humanist.
For the right, this increased immorality is attributed to the loss of conventional religious underpinning to social norms and an individualistic relativism; for the left, it is about the rise of neoliberalism and its ruthless pursuit of profit and efficiency.
Cultural critics noted that the film's religious underpinning — there's even a cameo by the Prophet Muhammad predicting that Constantinople will be conquered by believers — had made it popular with the growing Islamic bourgeoisie in a country that has increasingly turned its back on the crisis-ridden Europe and instead looks increasingly eastward.
It is easy to see how his interest in social capital and religion fit together, but he is quick to acknowledge that religion can also have detrimental consequences, and it is possible to have social capital that has no religious underpinning.
What strategists call the "religion gap" between Democrats and Republicans may be widening, despite efforts by Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (Nev ., Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (N.Y). and other prominent Democrats to talk about their faith and the religious underpinning of their positions.
In this polarized political environment, the religious vs. spiritual underpinning of each side's argument has created a deep gulf that cannot be bridged by intellectual arguments or "fact" presentations.
Her zeal for rehabilitation has a quasi-religious underpinning.
Many religious scholars say the senator's airy, almost generic souffle of faith and policy recalls an older, nonsectarian spiritual underpinning to government that has stronger roots than the hard-edged prescriptions of the religious right.
What's particularly troubling about these incidents are the political and religious motives underpinning them, all of which relate to current hot-button topics such as abortion, an African-American president and the economy, topics that some of the more controversial conservative commentators wax lyrical about, in the most of alarmist of ways, every day.
In an exclusive essay sent to Blue Nation Review, Newsome discussed the reasoning behind her act of civil disobedience and the religious values underpinning it.
