Sentence examples for sectarian practices from inspiring English sources

Shrine Shintō, Japanese Jinja Shintō, form of the Shintō religion of Japan that focusses on worship in public shrines, in contrast to folk and sectarian practices (see Kyōha Shintō); the successor to State Shintō, the nationalistic cult disbanded by decree of the Allied occupation forces at the end of World War II and subsequently in the Japanese constitution.

The former Iraqi Prime Minister, Nuri al-Maliki, has warned the executions could lead to the downfall of the gulf kingdom and said the country "strongly condemned these detestable sectarian practices and affirm that the crime of executing Sheikh al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime".

Maliki, referencing the killing of a prominent cleric in Iraq in 1980, said Iraqis "strongly condemn these detestable sectarian practices and affirm that the crime of executing Sheikh al-Nimr will topple the Saudi regime as the crime of executing the martyr al-Sadr did to Saddam Hussein".

The event is being produced by the non-profit Shaolin Association of North America in association with the Shaolin Temple of China to enlighten people and generate further support of the Temple's basic philosophy of bringing compassion and health into the world that empower people through non-sectarian practices.

These practitioners, however, do not necessarily practice Hinduism, but rather the non-sectarian practice of yoga and meditation.

He accused Mr. Maliki of having abused his authority by arresting opponents, pressuring the courts, and hiring and firing security forces based on sectarian identity — practices, Mr. Nujaifi said, that Mr. Maliki continued even now as a caretaker leader with no mandate or parliamentary oversight.

When some people say "we are all born atheists," they are referring an implicit atheism present in all young children before they are indoctrinated into the sectarian religions practiced by their parents/guardians or are indoctrinated into the dominant sectarian religious practices of their community, region, nation, or culture that these children are born.

Yet with ever-increasing shrillness, we hear from elected or appointed officials that it's religious persecution to ask them to suspend sectarian prayer or practices on the bench, in the legislature or at the schoolhouse gate.

The Ibrox club for decades practiced a sectarian signing policy, which just about everyone concedes today was embarrassing, and some in Scotland who have detested Rangers have long memories in this particular context.

Today, a narrowly divided Supreme Court upheld the practice of sectarian prayers before local council meetings in the town of Greece, New York.

Government, through its various agencies, takes a keen interest in promoting cultural practices that transcend sectarian divisions.