Then there is sectarianism, particularly the growing strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

Geopolitical interests, religious sectarianism, and ethnicity thus form a dangerous mélange in the new Middle East.

In the Quran, religious opinion religious orthodoxy is dismissed as zanna self indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other, but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian.

The sources of revolutionary instability include tenuous post colonial boundaries arrested modernization the failed Arab Spring and religious sectarianism, exacerbated by the interstate rivalry between Sunni ruled Saudi Arabia and Shia ruled Iran.

It's a religious event.

Sectarianism and racism have become a regular feature of the political landscape.

He died in Seville in 1682 at the age of 64.

The country's official religious authority has refused to condemn the attack.

It is also the world s largest religious monument.

There is a lack of appreciation of how deeply entrenched are Iraq's sectarian, tribal, and ethnic loyalties.

On November 23, 1654, Pascal had a profound religious experience.

It is favoring one worldview, secularism, over another worldview, religiosity, masquerading as neutrality.

Tatars referenced in the ad are the largest ethnic and religious (Sunni Muslims) minority in Russia.

Political fissures and tribal and ethnic sectarianism add fuel to this lethal mix of volatility and violence.

The flash point for Muslim Christian tensions is Sharia, or Muslim religious law.

Finally, there is a religious reason weapons of mass destruction simply violate the precepts of Islam.

The religious self for individual Muslims is being shifted from the private to the public realm.

They even forgot to replace the word religious education with the name of the subject, BTW )

Neither Swiss bigotry, nor the religious or architectural significance of minarets are what is important about this story.

For example, the Maskoba temple in the Veer Village of the Pune District in the Indian state of Maharashtra, was still refusing to let women enter the inner sanctum of the temple after the court order.

After the fall of the Hohenstaufen at the Battle of Benevento in 1266, it was the first province of Italy.

Despite generally peaceful coexistence, religious tensions have spilled over on many occasions in the past.

But religious education was confined to religious institutions, similar to the concept of Sunday School in the U.S.A.

The Blake Prize for Religious Art was established in his honour in Australia in 1949.

The Wahhabi religious establishment, the Saudi state s hidden co rulers, could very well obstruct Abdullah s attempts at regional religious reconciliation.

Turkey draconian laws on national education ban any sort of religious education unless it is strictly controlled by the state.

As well as being an abbreviation of his current professional name, West has previously said the word has religious significance for him.

The women s movement in Morocco which now bridges secular and religious communities is setting an example of the power of social thought in a traditional society.

In addition, religious violence sparked by the Danish cartoons mocking the prophet Muhammad ripped through Nigeria in February.

The distance that separates the West from countries that rely on sham elections is not only geographic, religious, or cultural it is chronological.

Except for Slovenia, Albania and Montenegro, Balkan countries have introduced some sort of religious education in their school curriculum.

If Iraqi Shi ite leader Muqtada al Sadr and his followers chose to stop their own violence, it was not simply because of the superior firepower of the coalition forces. It was because Shi ite religious leadership felt empowered, optimistic, and secure enough to press the Sadrists to end their revolt.

It was because Shi ite religious leadership felt empowered, optimistic, and secure enough to press the Sadrists to end their revolt.

Tibetan Buddhism, however, still serves as the common link, with the Karmapa s Kagyu sect a powerful force on the Indian side.

American Jews, in particular, need reminding that when one religious minority is targeted, all religious minorities are at risk.

In seventeenth century Europe, a local religious uprising by Bohemian Protestants against the Catholic Habsburg Emperor Ferdinand II triggered that era s conflagration.

Lampião included in his closed body prayer not just some elements of Saint George's prayer, but also the huge religious nature of the hinterland population.

The proposed course was designed to replace the existing religion curriculum entirely, leaving parents without control over their children s religious education.

It will be particularly difficult in an environment in which the sharia that is, Islamic religious law administered not by judges but by priests is never far away.

Americans and the Tea Party should look at France a century ago, when religious bigotry hijacked constitutionalism, and then take a good hard look at themselves.

Then, suddenly, a few months ago, Tudor announced that he had undergone a religious experience and had changed his mind about the Jews.

It is often assumed that modern feminism has no place, and thus can make little headway, in societies undergoing a religious revival, particularly in the Islamic world.

Parents criticized the religious education class because it required the children to declare their religious identity, leading to traumatic experience for kids who found themselves in the minority among their peers.

In 2009, the Constitutional Court struck down the article enabling religious education from the Law on Primary Education for violating the secular character of the state.

The dream of peace, the nationalist fervor, and the purported religious redemption that animated Israel s political combatants for a half century are gone, replaced by a resigned pragmatism.