Sentence examples for religious unification from inspiring English sources

Pufendorf's so-called works on religion (Pufendorf 2002a, 2002c, 1691b) engaged the same topics, as well as associated questions about religious unification and toleration, in the context of the early modern confessional state.

Nonetheless, the religious and patriotic unification of Athens had made great progress during Peisistratus' calm, even rule.

By Hendrik Hertzberg June 4, 2013 The Onion? No, the Washington Times: NOT SO FAST: VATICAN SAYS POPE FRANCIS GOT IT WRONG, ATHEISTS DO GO TO HELL Given that the Washington Times is published by a rival religious organization, the Unification Church (founded by the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, the late Korean messiah), one is wise to approach its reporting on matters spiritual with caution.

(via) The Reverend Sun Myung Moon, who told everyone he was the messiah and started a global religious movement called the Unification church, died this weekend.

Yet near to it the 78-year-old multi-millionaire Korean founder of the Unification church, a controversial religious sect with a worldwide business empire, has found what he calls his Garden of Eden.

But when he was in high school, a chance meeting with a revered monk named Domun persuaded him to become an activist, starting campaigns for environmental protection, religious reform, aid for the hungry and unification of the two Koreas.

Totally convinced of the need for religious concord in order to facilitate political unification, he was willing to accept temporary measures of toleration until religious reunification could be achieved through the meeting of "a national or general council to resolve matters of religion" which was slated to be held "two years later".

Unification exposed tensions due to religious, linguistic, social, and cultural differences among the inhabitants of the new nation, suggesting that 1871 only represents one moment in a continuum of the larger unification processes.

And it was his capacity to inspire a quasi-religious fervor in his volunteers that allowed the unification movement, or the Risorgimento, as it became known, to overcome Catholic piety and loyalty to the Pope.

Ikhwān, (Arabic: Brethren), in Arabia, members of a religious and military brotherhood that figured prominently in the unification of the Arabian Peninsula under Ibn Saʿūd (1912 30); in modern Saudi Arabia they constitute the National Guard.

The Unification Church is one of the most controversial religious movements of the past century.