When conducted in a sectarian manner, reading from the Bible and singing hymns in the school's morning exercise have been prohibited, as has using the Bible as a textbook.
If he were now to embrace Gandhi's non-violent and non-sectarian reading of the Gita, more than simply giving it away in other countries, one can imagine a different style of governance altogether.
Did this mean that more people at that time were reading "sectarian Gospels" rather than "orthodox" ones?
You may wish to introduce students to the following words or concepts before reading: refugee, heterodox, secular, sectarian, nom de guerre, pluralistic.
In the following years the regime would stick to reading the revolution through ethnic and sectarian lenses; and largely due to its own efforts, these eventually came to dominate the field.
"The takeover in early June by ISIS of Mosul, Iraq's second largest city, and other towns and villages in north-western Iraq has resulted in a dramatic resurgence of sectarian tensions and the massive displacement of communities fearing sectarian attacks and reprisals," read the report.
In 1833 the governor of New South Wales asserted government responsibility for education by proposing the introduction of a nondenominational system that would reduce religion in schools to reading commonly approved scriptures and to providing release time for sectarian instruction by clergymen.
I keep reading the coverage of the upcoming provincial elections and bubbling sectarian tensions in Iraq very carefully but I can't judge from this distance how serious the fault lines are.
"This terrorist is trying to start a sectarian war," the statement, read on state television, said.
It named him and the caption read: "Meet Sectarian Parade Organiser".
Ugly lettering stains the exterior of family homes, reading "Yazidi", "Sunni" and "Shia" in Arabic, evidence of the extremists' violent sectarian nature.
