Sentence examples for universal religion from inspiring English sources

Several speakers here, from President Sarkozy to Sepp Blatter to the Emir, they referred to sport as the universal religion.

Poch'ŏngyo, (Korean: "Universal Religion"), indigenous Korean religion, also popularly called Humch'igyo from the distinctive practice of chanting humch'i, a word said to have mystical significance.

To fulfill this need and to obviate the danger of harmful religions, he devised the religio catholica, the universal religion, which is characterized by two distinctive traits.

"Shinto is not a universal religion, and it's inherently nationalistic," said Koichi Nakano, a politics professor at Sophia University in Tokyo.

The Bahāʾī faith, a universal religion founded in Iran in the mid-19th century, is the only religion other than Judaism to have its world centre in Israel.

The process of introducing the universal religion throughout the Roman Empire extended over three centuries, covered thousands of miles, and embraced peoples of the most varied backgrounds and individuals of the greatest differences in rank.

In the religions of highly developed cultures and in the universal religions, complicated systems of iconography have been developed.

In universal religions, such as Buddhism and Christianity, anthropomorphic pictures of the divine were maintained despite criticism.

In the Hibbert Lectures for 1882, National Religions and Universal Religions, Kuenen had emphasized the difference between religions limited to a particular people and those that have taken root among many peoples and qualitatively aim at becoming universal.

If one distinguishes between universal religions of salvation, such as Buddhism and Islam, and the older, more culture-bound religions, such as Japanese Shintō and Hinduism, Daoism undoubtedly belongs to the second category.

Creeds in the full sense are therefore found only in so-called universal religions, such as Zoroastrianism, Buddhism, Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and certain modern Hindu movements (e.g., Brahmo Samaj).