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Official Religion and Popular Religion in Pre-Exilic Ancient Israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Kaufmann’s sporadic references to “popular religion” lead one to infer that what he had in mind was the religion of the demographic majority, the religion of the masses (1972:122, 123, 132, 146, 223). As for “official religion,” Kaufmann was only a bit more forthcoming. These, as we are about to see, render his understanding of both popular and official religion, and a host of other things, very problematic. www.bibleinterp.com /articles/berlinerblau5.htm   (757 words)

State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Increasingly, sociologists of religion are using the concept of monopolies in economics as an analogy for state churches. State religions tend to enjoy the allegiance of the majority of their country; however much of this support is little more than nominal, with many members of the church rarely attending it. Some countries with official religions have laws that guarantee the freedom of worship, full liberty of conscience, and places of worship for all citizens and implement those laws in society better than countries that do not have an official or established state religion. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/State_religion   (1073 words)

Establishment - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Establishment of religion refers to the act of positioning a church or religion as the official, or an official, state-supported church. With regard to religion, establishment is the act of assigning a religion the status of an official, state-supported church. The first amendment to the United States Constitution forbids Congress from making any law with respect to an "establishment of religion." Here the term "establishment" refers to an official religion similar to the Church of England, with which the Constitution's authors were quite familiar. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Establishment   (515 words)

Journal of Religion and Society Religion contributes to a strong family unit, the building block of society; it fosters an economic safety net by encouraging charity, and provides a source of strength for those recovering from addiction to alcohol, drugs, gambling, and other social diseases. Accommodating religion is not the same thing as establishing an official religion. Government can allow religion's positive effects to be maximized by ceasing to interfere with its free expression, and joining hands with religious people in appropriate ways to help tackle some of society's worst problems. moses.creighton.edu /JRS/2003/2003-9.html   (1487 words)

Urban Legends Reference Pages: Religion (Census Knight) Even if there were official status to be gained, none of these governments would be swayed by a number of yahoos writing "Jedi" into a blank space on their census forms. Officials said on Thursday there was "absolutely no possibility" of Jedi appearing as a choice of religion on future census forms after officials created a code for Jedi to help them analyze responses to the 2001 population survey. This no more means that Jedi is an "official" religion than the election bureau's assigning a numeric code to "Mickey Mouse" (who usually receives at least several hundred write-in votes in every major election) means that a cartoon rodent is a qualified candidate for political office. www.snopes.com /religion/jedi.htm   (1194 words)

Religion In so far as the Romans had a religion of their own, it was not based on any central belief, but on a mixture of fragmented rituals, taboos, superstitions, and traditions which they collected over the years from a number of sources. To the Romans, religion was less a spiritual experience than a contractual relationship between mankind and the forces which were believed to control people's existence and well-being. Christianity is often portrayed as the religion of the poor and the slaves. www.roman-empire.net /religion/religion.html   (4894 words)

State religion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) A quite different topic is treated in statist religion, and yet another topic in civil religion. The degree of state endorsement of a state religion varies, from mere endorsement and financial support, with freedom for other faiths to practice, to prohibiting any competing church from operating and persecuting the followers of other churches. In some communist countries, notably the People's Republic of China, the state sponsors religious organizations, and activities outside the state-sponsored religious organizations are met with various degrees of official disapproval. www.kernersville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Establishment_(church)   (1074 words)

ISLAM WOULD BE PALESTINE'S OFFICIAL RELIGION   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Islam would be the official religion of a Palestinian state and Jerusalem would be the capital, according to a proposed constitution drafted by Palestinian officials. The declaration of Islam as the official Palestinian religion is a key element, but stipulates that the state would guarantee the sanctity of places of worship and respect other religions, according to the draft. But a constitution is in some ways contingent on a cease-fire and a PA official in Ramallah is already expecting a conference of Palestinian organizations scheduled for Wednesday in Cairo will fail because Palestinian factions are no longer able to control all the gunmen. icej.org /cgi-local/view.cgi?type=headline&artid=2003/01/21/657315378   (348 words)

Official Misconduct. (from Religion) --  Encyclopædia Britannica   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Religion and violence were linked in several prominent incidents in 1993, including a shoot-out in Texas, a bombing in New York City, and rioting in India. Religion is commonly regarded as consisting of a person's relation to God or to gods or spirits. Official religion of Persia and keepers of the sacred flame. www.britannica.com /eb/article?tocId=213865   (773 words)

Nashville Chapter - Americans United I do not believe it is in the best interests of religion to invite the civil magistrate to direct its exercises, its discipline, or its doctrines; nor of the religious societies, that the General Government should be invested with the power of effecting any uniformity of time or matter among them. Jefferson wrote voluminously to prove that Christianity was not part of the law of the land and that religion or irreligion was purely a private matter, not cognizable by the state. It was this nonpreferential assistance to organized churches that constituted "establishment of religion" in 1791 and it was this practice that the Amendment forbade Congress to adopt. www.nashville-au.org /quotes.html   (2526 words)

Maldives The 1997 Constitution designates Islam as the official state religion and the practice of other religions is prohibited by law. Foreigners are allowed to practice their religion if they do so in private and do not encourage citizens to participate. The 1997 Constitution designates Islam as the official state religion, and the Government interprets this provision to impose a requirement that citizens be Muslims. www.state.gov /g/drl/rls/irf/2001/5610.htm   (692 words)

5% now official religion, not gang according to court--Ummah.com General In the universe of prisoners' rights, the ruling was groundbreaking because it would force state prison officials to allow Five Percenters, whom observers see as an extremist group, to have access to the literature and carry out the rituals of what they say is their religion, the Nation of Gods and Earths. In many states, prison officials track "security threat groups," as jailed members of a handful of gangs and supremacist organizations are commonly called. Last year, a New Jersey state court ruled that state prison officials were justified in punishing several inmates caught standing in a circle, their hands clasped behind their backs, discussing the tenets of the Nation of Gods and Earths, according to the New Jersey Law Journal. www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?t=24266   (1067 words)

420 Times Forums - Official Religion Take religion out of government, and let atheists (not to be confused with atheism) in. I got a speeding ticket because there is now a 25 mph speed limit sign infront of a church and I was doing 40 in a road that is primarily 55 mph with a 15 mph speed limit on a cross walk for the church to a parking lot. The "law" is a religion, people are most of the time forced to follow it. www.420times.com /forums/showthread.php?t=3095   (1001 words)

Harun Yahya - Articles - Why Is France So Afraid Of Religion? In 1881, Catholicism ceased to be the official religion of France and in 1988 religious education was completely removed from the education system. Their primary aim was to weaken the Church and its religious institutions, destroy the values of religion and the influence of its laws on society, and to abolish religious education. As The Catholic Encyclopedia maintains, the war against religion, from the French Revolution to the twentieth century, was carried out by "the anti-clerical measures passed in the French Parliament" which "were decreed beforehand in the Masonic lodges and executed under the direction of the Grand Orient." 4 This fact is clear from Masonic writings. www.harunyahya.com /32why_france_afraid_religion.php   (3885 words)

@forums - The official religion thread!!!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) I thought that instead of having a bunch of religion threads, we should have one main thread, and this is the one!!! african slaves were not allowed to practise their religion in the new land...so they kind of let catholizism enter their cults (but not their beliefs)...they pretended to pray to virgin mary but instead prayed to iansan, the goddess of the sea. umbanda is pretty much closer to the christian religion (and has indian influences, too) than candomble but still has lots of african features like the concept of rebirth, trance and the myth of caboclo, the old indian. www.atforumz.com /showthread.php?t=213681   (478 words)

Jedi Knights achieve official recognition as a religion | The Register However the Home Office would not say what constituted a religion and we subsequently discovered that while you can be heavily fined for putting down false details on a census form, it does not apply to the religion question. This is the official line: the Census does not provide recognition to any religion in the official statistics nor does it attempt to define religion. As such, Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a religion. theregister.co.uk /2001/10/09/jedi_knights_achieve_official_recognition   (495 words)

Adherents.com At the head of Tibetan Buddhism, officially suppressed since the Chinese invasion, stands the Dalai Lama; now in exile, he recently announced his intention of establishing a miniature Tibet in India for the preservation of his country's religion... The religion of the country was Lamaism, a development of Mahayana Buddhism, first introduced into Tibet from India in the 7th century AD. The last elected religions head of the Kalmyk people, Lama Lubsan Sharab Tepkin (born in 1875), was arested in 1931, tried, condemned, and exiled... www.adherents.com /Na/Na_631.html   (3604 words)

the official religion of the United States:Humanism This type of humanism can be wedded to any religion or philosophy, for it only recognizes the value and dignity of man and his art. It was declared a religion by the Supreme Court in 1961. The Supreme Court declared it to be a religion in 1961 in Torcaso vs. Watkins. because41.tripod.com /text/humanism.htm   (1067 words)

Jedi Knights achieve official recognition as a religion | The Register However the Home Office would not say what constituted a religion and we subsequently discovered that while you can be heavily fined for putting down false details on a census form, it does not apply to the religion question. This is the official line: the Census does not provide recognition to any religion in the official statistics nor does it attempt to define religion. As such, Jedi Knight is not officially recognised as a religion. www.theregister.co.uk /2001/10/09/jedi_knights_achieve_official_recognition   (579 words)

America's 'official' religion - PittsburghLIVE.com Those misguided souls cite the separation of church and state to justify their rigid opposition to any reference to God associated with anything connected with government. And while religion needs God, our Founding Fathers understood that it does not have a copyright on Him. By avoiding the G-word whenever possible so the perpetually offended will not be offended, Congress tacitly is establishing atheism as the unofficial state religion. pittsburghlive.com /x/tribune-review/opinion/columnists/s_276444.html   (551 words)

Wired News: Jedis Stand for the Census Count The e-mail suggested that just 8,000 of these responses would mean that New Zealand would have to declare Jedi an official religion after its March 6 census. In all three censuses the question on religion is voluntary, and because of this, prosecution for putting Jedi -- another worry circulating -- is remote. In New Zealand and Australia, as in England and Wales, the aim of asking one's religion is to build a picture of people's backgrounds, especially as many people nowadays identify themselves by their religion. www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,44141,00.html   (721 words)

Adherents.com: By Location Estimates of % of population in principal religions, & est. Islam official religion; nearly entire population adheres to Sunni branch of Islam. Freedom of religion is guaranteed by the constitution. www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_185.html   (2000 words)

nV News Forums - Official Religion Discussion Thread I believe there is a deeper and higher meaning to life, but not in the form of organized religion. We are imperfect beings trying to live perfect lives, and to overcome current issues such as drug addiction, underage pregnancy, gay marriage, etc. we have to look at in a more intelligent way than preaching abstenace and ignorance. But of course religion will stay its course, teenagers will still have sex and do drugs, and there will always be the people blaming it all on "being out of touch with God". www.nvnews.net /vbulletin/printthread.php?t=34450   (2593 words)

THE TRUE RELIGION -- main   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) THE TRUE RELIGION is a religion formed by the Co-Rulers of the World (Brendan, Cronan, Wayland, and Jason), with the help of many other Prophets, and is the official religion of The World Oligarchy. The teachings of THE TRUE RELIGION are fairly straightforward; they are based on the fact that many deities have publicly established their existence. The highest of all deities is the holy Duct Tape, though there are several others on Earth who rank nearly as high; the most notable being Delilah, a fat, fl, leather-clad lesbian midget who is credited with the creation of the Earth (as the result of a bar bet). www.holyducttape.com /ttr   (262 words)

Archive file: stupidity2   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Subject: Re: RFD The official religion of alt.stupidity. But then, if we really wanted to be logical about the whole thing, we probably wouldn't be on alt.stupidity in the first place, and then there wouldn't be any official religion of alt.stupidity, and then we wouldn't be having this discussion. We've already got two nominations for the name of the religion, and you're not going to just move in and claim it to be Whateverism. www.df.lth.se /~jesper/funnys/archive/stupidity2.html   (7544 words)

TvNewsLIES.org :: View topic - RELIGION AND 9-11   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) control which is inherent in religion, and he utilized it to perfection. The problem is not religion as a whole. My own opinion is that the Roman leader Constantine recognized the enormous potential for crowd control which is inherent in religion, and he utilized it to perfection. www.tvnewslies.org /phpbb/viewtopic.php?t=1076   (1655 words)

Adherents.com: By Location Religion: Bhutan is the only country in the world to adopt Mahayana Buddhism in its Tantric form. A teacher at the University of Prague and a priest, Huss was influenced both by John Wycliffe and a native Czech reform movement. However, religion as practiced in many parts of the country is a mixture of Christian and native Indian beliefs... www.adherents.com /adhloc/Wh_37.html   (2436 words)

10/10/01: Jedi Knight has become an official religion in Great Britain   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) Scientology, author L. Ron Hubbard's creation that detractors call a "sci-fi religion," may be soon be overshadowed by George Lucas's honest-to-goodness sci-fi religion. Earlier this year, Brits were urged in an email campaign to list Jedi - the mystical way of life followed by Obi-wan Kenobi and Luke Skywalker in the Star Wars movies - as their religion on census forms. Its official code is 896, placing it at #174 on a list of 177 choices, just above Heathen, Athiest and None. www.mrcranky.com /movies/serendipity/19.html   (175 words)

The Official State Religion List See, David says that the Bill of Rights only prevents the FEDERAL government from establishing a state religion, but it's okay for each individual state to have an official one (yes, this is THE hot, new Constitutional interpretation that all the right-wing lawyer-pundits are hip with). And then I went to U.S. Composite Demographics, and got a ranked listing of the most popular U.S. religions (it was taken from polls where people identified themselves with a particular religion or lack thereof). And when I got to the least populous states, I just got creative and assigned them a fun demographic group to try out, or a major world religion that I thought might be nice to have represented in America. blogs.salon.com /0002874/stories/2003/11/22/theOfficialStateReligionList.html   (698 words)

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