Sentence examples for work of religious from inspiring English sources

Wherever it is, the altar is a total, balanced work of religious art, a model of good ritual housekeeping.

Hagiography was not a biography in the modern sense but was a work of religious devotion that portrayed the saint as a model of Christian virtue.

It is a great, introspectively spiritual work of religious art whose creator was well known for his love of young men.

The Tory vision of the Big Society does not seem large enough to take account of the work of religious groups.

It has become customary, especially on the Sept. 11 anniversary, to think of terrorism as solely the work of religious fanatics, typically people shouting "God is great" in Arabic as they attempt to inflict mass death.

Hauser and Wirth, London W1S until 26 July Nicholas Pope A modern work of religious art in which sculptures of the apostles fitted with lamps are set against the ethereal beauty of the medieval architectural masterpiece that is Salisbury Cathedral.

What won her over was her intense appreciation of a handful of works of religious art.

Works of religious art are generally found in churches or in the permanent-collection rooms of major museums.

Literary Persian thus spread to the whole of Iran, and the Arabic language disappeared in that country except in works of religious scholarship.

Before long guilt-ridden bankers were commissioning great works of religious art in the hope that they might after death escape the damnation that the scriptures foretold.

More than 2,000 churches, Roman chapels and mosques, were blown up with dynamite and 300,000 works of religious art and books were burned in the street.