The killer showed signs of increased religiosity, so increased religiosity is a sign of a killer.
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Further, some studies looked at "extrinsic religiosity" and "intrinsic religiosity" as it relates to a fear of death ("extrinsic religiosity" refers to people who turn to religion due to external factors, such as social acceptance, whereas "intrinsic religiosity" refers to those who see religion as an end in itself).
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Age, religiosity and marijuana legalization The Gallup poll results showed that age and religiosity affect how likely one is to use marijuana.
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If religiosity is a marker of one's politics, you can motivate your troops by spreading fear that religiosity is under threat: Secularism and/or pluralism and/or Islam is coming to replace you.
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This record also leans a bit more deftly toward religiosity.
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Religiosity is correlated with partisanship, and partisanship predicts voting behavior.
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Acceptance and rejection of gayness is highly correlated to religiosity.
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He already had the contentiousness, if not the overt religiosity.
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There is a larger partisan difference on religiosity per se.
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There is a larger partisan difference on religiosity per se.
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A scholar of atheism deals with his young daughter's budding religiosity.
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"Greenleaf" does something we relatively rarely on TV: It depicts religiosity.
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Overt symbols of religiosity have not historically been characteristic of Kosovars.
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Throughout it all, Ms. Franklin's profound religiosity permeated everything she did.
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Most have never thought to analyze religiosity using psychology or economics.
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This is a conversation about political movements, American religiosity, and identity.
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The statue's rich history has reinforced a deep religiosity among the locals.
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And it's widely demonstrated that religiosity influences fertility (and probably vice versa).
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In other Anglophone democracies, politicians often have to play down their religiosity.
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But the French are hyper-sensitive to signs of overt Muslim religiosity.
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The reasoning behind active religiosity and whirlwind romance, then, are inextricably intertwined.
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Deep religiosity rarely plays a part in the swing towards political jihad.
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Like Brahms, Shaw founded an intense spirituality on humanism rather than religiosity.
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Islam there is a necessary link between religiosity and worldly power and
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Trump's religiosity and conservative credentials were always suspect, in belief and in action.
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Pratt's religiosity, for example, seems refreshingly free of the politics of past evangelicalism.
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There's nothing wrong with stories in which religion or religiosity is a symbol.
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But everything about Margaery Tyrell's newfound religiosity seems to be through clenched teeth.
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These are moments of pure propaganda where the veneer of cultish religiosity wears thin.
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Beyond that, to fathom the precise value of religiosity in voters' minds remains difficult.
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Religiosity has bred an extremism that at times has looked like tearing Pakistan apart.
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"Religiosity means nothing unless it is inspired by deep faith and charity," Francis said.
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Which can include discussing the electability of a candidate whose religiosity is in question.
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"The correlation between religiosity and being Republican has increased over the years," he added.
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This is precisely the pattern that produced the religiosity gap between Democrats and Republicans.
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Immigrant status has always been, and remains today, a vital component of American religiosity.
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Yet today as well we often overstate Iran's religiosity but underappreciate its nationalist sensitivities.
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To preserve Jewish religiosity, Buber was willing to sacrifice much of the Jewish religion.
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He was a Republican during the Bush administration, but he couldn't stomach the religiosity.
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He has made perhaps the least effort of any Republican candidate to showcase his religiosity.
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There are secrets to the craft, almost a religiosity, and none of it is easy.
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Clothing is not a perfect barometer of religiosity, but somehow tribes have been marked out.
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"The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue and funny," she said.
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"It is spirituality understood in a metaphysical way as opposed to textbook religiosity," she says.
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He was primarily an allegorist who folded mythic figures into otherworldly visions of pagan religiosity.
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For example, patients tended to emphasize religiosity and spirituality more heavily than their family members.
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"There's a shift in the atmosphere of religiosity in Indonesia," Mr. Basuki, the analyst, said.
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Even agencies that don't deal directly with issues of faith can be infused with religiosity.
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Mr. Tanriverdi was expelled from the army in 1996 because of concerns over his religiosity.
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The book is one of a number of recent attempts to grapple with Bach's religiosity.
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He says beards, head scarves and other public displays of religiosity are incidental to Islam.
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But the album is not about 15th century choral music; it's not about religiosity at all.
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The increase in religiosity among young people was natural after Kosovo gained its freedom, he said.
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They also are prominent in a pluralistic culture, in contrast to the minimalism of Protestant religiosity.
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Immigration, moreover, has broadened Britain's definition of religiosity to embrace the faiths of erstwhile imperial possessions.
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By 2015, though, Germany's declining birthrate and declining religiosity had taken its toll on the sisterhood.
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It wasn't politics or economics, some said, that distinguished America from its enemies—it was religiosity.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 211967 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 78423 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 87573 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 87513 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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The commonality of these killings and attempted killings is racism and anti-Semitism, not anti-religiosity.
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And the religiosity, which balanced the barbarity of the 1959 blockbuster starring Charlton Heston, is missing.
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The idea that a country's religiosity and its GDP inversely correlate is not a new one.
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But while his new religiosity gave him direction, it also led to conflicts with his mother.
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Hägglund does his usual deconstructive reversal, and argues that King's religiosity was really a committed secularism.
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Dozens of studies show a strong link between religiosity and existential concerns about death and meaning.
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In Latin America, where popular religiosity remains strong, football borrows from the devotional intensity of its fans.
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And by no means does that mean all religiosity, which I hope is clear from the book.
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But Mariátegui was right in stressing indigenous peoples, popular religiosity and culture in Latin America's political identity.
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Within fifty years, games had gone from preaching religiosity and hard work to celebrations of easy wealth.
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Yet with his blokeish manner, accident-prone English and earnest religiosity, he never seemed particularly like one.
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He made a display of religiosity during his football career, giving him celebrity status among many Republicans.
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On the other hand, it has relatively low levels of religiosity, which tends to help Mr. Trump.
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Life is finite and, current and ancient impulses towards sentimentality and religiosity aside, that's all it is.
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Pew's Dalia Fahmy suggests that a useful predictor of religiosity was not simply wealth but wealth inequality.
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The religiosity gap between Republicans and Democrats grew wider during George W. Bush's first term in office.
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Religiosity and bellicosity are on his mind, along with racism and the eradication of Native American languages.
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For many, Christian observance and Christian religiosity are deeply intertwined with a kind of knee-jerk authoritarianism.
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The niqab was, in his words, the height of religiosity, the female garb that most pleased Allah.
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Kanye's Christianity is tedious next to the functional religiosity of Chance the Rapper or Kendrick Lamar anyway.
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The problem is that we tend to think of our own religions when we think of religiosity.
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This means religiosity becomes a shorthand for how broken disciples are, and how little they can be trusted.
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Mr Yameen offered Maldivians a diet of nationalism and religiosity, spiced with Chinese- and Saudi-funded development projects.
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For decades Saudi leaders embraced the first answer, imposing religiosity in an attempt to recapture ancient Islamic glories.
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Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Turkey's president, was once a model Islamist, easy on religiosity and big on liberal reforms.
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Part of the problem for Jokowi, who is Muslim but broadly secular in his outlook, is rising religiosity.
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When we repeated the analysis including measures for religiosity, authoritarianism became a far weaker predictor of Trump support.
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But the religiosity that permeates campus life can start to ring hollow for student journalists covering the college.
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He said when he was in the military, the guardian of secularism, he had to conceal his religiosity.
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Milosz was repelled by the Poles' religiosity and nationalism—their growing hostility to Lithuanian, Jewish, and Belarusan minorities.
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The whole evening feels imbued with religiosity, a campfire sing-along for the righteous in relaxed-fit khakis.
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The layer of religiosity served as both social control and a way to frame killings as divine justice.
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Over a weekend, there's nothing wrong with bowing your head during grace and going along with the religiosity.
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The visible religiosity of the new middle class is often identified as the Wahhabi Islam of Saudi Arabia.
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Trump is clearly not a religious man, unless you believe being compulsively devilish is a form of religiosity.
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If America is not a culture of monopolistic fundamental religiosity and fatalism, than I don't know what is.
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He never lost his religiosity, and for that reason, the arrival of another Christmas may have felt reassuring.
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These activists found common cause in their deep religiosity and opposition to feminism's perceived diminishment of "real" womanhood.
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This new state-guided religiosity is the flip side of the government's harsh policies toward Islam and Christianity.
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Washington (CNN)Kellyanne Conway cited "anti-religiosity" on Monday in discussing the mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue.
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But declining religiosity is a less persuasive factor for these social ills than economic inequality and other policy choices.
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If the old divide of secularism versus religiosity is a persistent crack, "the Kurdish question" constitutes yet another one.
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Instead, he said that Moore's religiosity represented a clever front to appeal to identity groups — Christians, white men, heterosexuals.
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Responses revealed Israeli Jews are divided into communities based on levels of religiosity, with minimal interaction occurring between groups.
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This reflects a broader trend: there is a markedly negative correlation between a state's religiosity and breweries per person.
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Even societies with high religiosity, such as in Africa or much of Eastern Europe, have seen falling birth rates.
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In 2004, sociologists Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart came up with the term "religiosity gap" to describe the phenomenon.
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Mr. Cohen's best-known song may well be "Hallelujah," a majestic, meditative ballad infused with both religiosity and earthiness.
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The ecstatic richness of the music recalls the supercharged religiosity of Olivier Messiaen, who taught Stockhausen for a time.
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The same went for religiosity (or its absence), even for the ability to be transported by an aesthetic experience.
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Positive psychologists research which factors are the biggest contributors to well-being, from income level to relationships to religiosity.
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This is not about religiosity; it is about culture — a culture whose pillars are ancient Judaism and modern Israelism.
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Additionally, he has embraced a fervent religiosity that is evident in the religious content on his social media feed.
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These days the primary strains of religiosity I see in hilly west Arkansas fall along a few fault lines.
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Mr Yameen has offered Maldivians a steady diet of nationalism and religiosity, spiced with Chinese and Saudi-funded development projects.
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This pattern generally holds across Catholic, Protestant and other Christian denominations and does not vary depending on levels of religiosity.
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The decline can be partly attributed to the millennial generation's relative non-religiosity, but there are other factors at work.
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With his deep social conservatism, public religiosity and aversion to negative campaigning, he is a throwback in his political style.
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That is an inflammatory act in a Buddhist-majority nation where strident religiosity, on all sides, seems to be increasing.
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" Another prominent theologian, the former mufti of Istanbul, Mustafa Cagrici, also wrote about "the growing gap between religiosity and morality.
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"In speeches and statements, he says that civil society is being undermined by a move away from religiosity," she said.
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Of course, there are other ways to measure religiosity than just someone calling him or herself born again or evangelical.
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" In their conversations, he found himself impressed by Kadyrov, and was struck by his "high ethical qualities" and "high religiosity.
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He advocated a "return" to greater religiosity and morality, but his actual reshaping of Roman society established an enduring monarchy.
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The reigning theory is radicalization: that the increasing politicization and religiosity of young Muslims can lead to eventual criminal conduct.
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According to Pew, the question of religion versus religiosity yields a more instructive answer than any related to a specific faith.
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REPUBLICANS: Mississippi was Trump's latest Bible Belt victory, another success evangelical Christian voters in spite of his lack of overt religiosity.
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What better way to showcase our superiority than by demonstrating not only our religiosity but also the tolerance embedded within it?
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For some, "Ecstatic Music" will be perfect for zoning out, couched as it is in a religiosity that is welcoming, nonjudgmental.
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They nominated one of their own, activating the grass-roots by fixating on abortion and the personal religiosity of their candidate.
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How did the entire rollercoaster of events effect or change your religiosity or thoughts about a higher power, if at all?
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Since 1905, France has been an officially secular country, and it forbids all public employees from wearing outward signs of religiosity.
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Dr. Raphael G. Warnock, may be helped in Georgia by his religiosity, but his liberal positions could turn off some voters.
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She was educated at a local Islamic boarding school for girls, where she impressed teachers with her religiosity and academic ambition.
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Of 69 epileptics, they found that 26 of them had "symptoms" of religiosity, though only eight had been religious before their illness.
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His religiosity and TV show made him an ISIS target resulting in numerous death threats from ISIS, according to friend Mohammad Sarheel.
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In a country where relations between some Hindu and Muslim communities remain especially fraught, this behaviour does not necessarily reflect greater religiosity.
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But just as you find traces of religiosity in the most committed atheist, every investor is at some level a value investor.
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But whoever is behind it, the seemingly "family-friendly" optics of Trump's newfound religiosity are far more unsettling than they are conciliatory.
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Whether people were open to dating a trans person depended on several factors, including their age, education level, religiosity, and gender identity.
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Unlike my other great-grandparents, the Wieners never really assimilated, my father told me, clinging to their old language and strict religiosity.
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There were several reasons for this, including substantial levels of Hispanic immigration, a high teen birthrate, and, some speculated, America's exceptional religiosity.
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And while his religiosity may help him in a deeply religious state, he will also most likely be attacked for liberal positions.
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Several of the people he is choosing to run the government have not been shy about their desire to legislate traditional religiosity.
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Perhaps it was because of the religiosity of the Byzantines, who fought for the glory of God rather than any vainglorious conceits.
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"These shortcuts can be political ideology; it could be religiosity, deference to scientific authority," says Dominique Brossard, the University of Wisconsin communications researcher.
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For example, Dill's dad [represents] a certain type of religiosity that I find distasteful, having seen a lot of it in my life.
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Some exhausted residents have stopped attending mosque and are looking for an alternative to the religiosity that was once central to their lives.
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After comparing daily streaming data against a number of factors, it appears that daylight hours, weather and religiosity are big drivers of behaviour.
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Homophobia, while more identifiably political, was frequently characterized as misunderstood religiosity, or as an eroding anachronism of well-meaning but old-fashioned geriatrics.
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His actions were lent particularly potent irony by his intense public religiosity (he's suggested that he believes homosexuality should be a capital crime).
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I have never been blind to this — the people who see black religiosity as an indicator of primitive thinking and lack of enlightenment.
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There are religious people, and many are on the right, but the idea of religiosity as an organizing principle for conservatives has passed.
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Mr. Pence's religiosity may embody the old mode of American support for Israel, driven by groups with strong views on the conflict itself.
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What ancient paganism did successfully was to unite this kind of popular supernaturalism with its own forms of highbrow pantheism and civil-religiosity.
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If you ask what makes America exceptional, it's the embedded mix of religiosity and the high status we're willing to give to businessmen.
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Others saw the shocking abuse in the entertainment industry and considered it confirmation of what happens in communities with a lack of religiosity.
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Regardless of what Bachmann means, it's very hard to see -- based on public evidence and reporting -- the religiosity of Trump that she apparently sees.
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Trump has no experience in government, has changing or heterodox views on all kinds of issues, and does a laughably poor job feigning religiosity.
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It has all the necessary ingredients to put the internet in a foul mood: impure nostalgia, mild religiosity, texting culture, YA fiction, anxious ellipses.
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That puts our religiosity on par with countries like Turkey and Venezuela and separates us from every other wealthy Western country in the world.
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In this case, religiosity was measured by asking the individuals pictured as well as three people who knew them well to complete a questionnaire.
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Lepore establishes the influences of technology on American ideals, but she has less time for the diverse flavors of political religiosity—egalitarian or otherwise.
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Religiosity, having relatives abroad, or simply being Uyghur increase the chances of being detained, as do the contents of a person's phone or computer.
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Implicit in these portrayals is a vilification of the upwardly mobile groups whose more visible religiosity is viewed as the legacy of General Zia.
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" One constituency, which Buss described in an email as "politically conservative and high on religiosity," adamantly "abhors short-term mating, casual sex, promiscuity, etc.
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He said Mr. Trump's interest in evangelicalism stemmed not from opportunism but from wanting to atone for a life largely devoid of conventional religiosity.
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We kept asking how white conservative evangelicals could support Mr. Trump, who luxuriates in divisive rhetoric and manages only the barest veneer of religiosity.
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We were living in California at the time, and I had to explain the special religiosity of the book — oh the sacred page turning!
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With a new type of religiosity and spirituality that embodies technology, the future, and the potential of almost unimaginable infrastructures in space and on earth.
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There is a perceived necessary connection between Islamic religiosity and earthly success, given that Muhammad founded both a faith and an empire within a generation.
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Bringing up the spurious issue of "anti-religiosity" falls into the familiar Trump administration pattern of muddying the waters to deny the existence of racism.
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The familiar explanation is that this religiosity gap arose because religious Americans shifted into the Republican Party while less religious and secular Americans became Democrats.
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Relatives said his one-man aid mission to the Rohingyas was driven by his deepening religiosity and a desire to connect with Muslims in peril.
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In 2010, Charles Murray published "Coming Apart," a lamentation on the decline among poor whites of religiosity, of the work ethic, and of family values.
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What's made Trump's rise even more puzzling is that his support seems to cross demographic lines — education, income, age, even religiosity — that usually demarcate candidates.
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"Even as secularism reduces overt religiosity in many places religion has apparently still left a deep and abiding mark on human moral intuitions," the authors write.
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Local's say the religion's particular sway in La Tuna is a sign of his mother's influence, and her religiosity is immediately apparent when entering the hamlet.
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The bounty of oil made the model appear workable; Saudis could have both the good life and piety (those who disliked religiosity could always go abroad).
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To a startling degree—and for reasons that may shed light on the presidential race—it and other southern states combine conspicuous religiosity with widespread loucheness.
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True, the Republicans had recently nominated Mitt Romney, whose Mormonism made many evangelical Christians anxious, and before him John McCain, a man of little obvious religiosity.
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Indeed, active religiosity is (relatively speaking) one of the bulwarks against Trumpism, and his coalition is strongest among the most secular Republicans, not the most religious.
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He stands out not just for his improbably large craft empire, now worth $4.3 billion, or for his religiosity but for the scale of his ambitions.
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In fact, most of the polarisation around climate along political ideology, gender, age, and religiosity that we see in the United States is not reflected elsewhere.
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There was a visible South Asian, Arab, and black Muslim turnout, as well as an array of representations of religiosity in terms of dress and presentation.
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The administration of George W. Bush was trying to use an evangelical-Catholic alliance to ground the G.O.P. in an ecumenical and morally serious conservative religiosity.
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Some Palmetto State insiders suggest the controversies may be especially damaging to a candidate like Cruz, who trades on an image of personal rectitude and religiosity.
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The study found that relational mobility was a strong predictor of the tendency to support sacrificing one person, even after controlling for religiosity, individualism, and GDP.
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The nine measures by which the researchers tracked polarization include extreme attitudes and behaviors regarding religiosity, partisan affiliation, and perception of the beliefs of political parties.
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So that gives this type of religiosity a far more powerful bite than the traditional religions, which are based on faith in things unseen and unprovable.
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And yet, even with the possibility that we will find life elsewhere in the universe, the key players within this new religiosity continue operating in the shadows.
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"The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue… making fun of people who express religion, the late night comedians,.. It's always anti-religious." pic.twitter.
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Participants who scored highly on the religiosity index frequently attended worship services and reported that they considered religion to be an important factor in their personal lives.
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"The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue... making fun of people who express religion, the late night comedians,.. It's always anti-religious." pic.twitter.
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Many non-Orthodox Jews, myself included, feel that the spread of state-enforced religiosity in Israel is turning a modern, liberal nation into a semi-theocratic one.
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He is a religious kid, but he also uses his own religiosity as a social shield to avoid some of the more anxiety-inducing aspects of adolescence.
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Buber drew a distinction between religion—a body of received beliefs and rituals—and what he called "religiosity," the molten spiritual core from which religions are born.
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Because the height of religiosity was in the 1950s, and I don't know many people of color or women who want to go back to the '50s.
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In a new study published this April in Neuropsychologia, they examined the relationships between the vets' injuries not just to religiosity, but fundamentalism—extreme and unwavering religious conviction.
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"Religiosity definitely stands out as a key divide in how people are thinking about these issues," said Cary Funk, Associate Director of Research at the Pew Research Center.
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For bisexual youth, the importance of religion was not associated with suicidal behavior, while religiosity was protective against thoughts of suicide and suicidal attempts in the heterosexual youth.
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Throughout, we controlled for other variables and found that it was moral values — binding values, in particular — and not political orientation, gender or religiosity that determined the results.
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The staffers questioned Sanders' religiosity, attacked Sanders' campaign manager Jeff Weaver and leaned in favor of big-dollar donors rather than the small-dollar army Sanders had built.
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The app also hunts for scanned pages from an Arabic dictionary and benign expressions of religiosity like portions of the Quran or a photo of the Dalai Lama.
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Taim, we learn, had become disaffected by the resistance movement, whose embrace of religiosity and armed combat seemed too similar to the thing it was meant to resist.
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For many advocates of religious education, meanwhile, state vouchers are seen as a solution to a whole host of problems — and, yes, as a way to promote religiosity.
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But my book is more about this new form of religiosity and how it's becoming more influential among scientists and people in Silicon Valley and Americans more generally.
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Kellyanne Conway suggested that what she sees as late-night comedians' "anti-religiosity" was a motivator for the massacre that killed 11 people at a Pittsburgh synagogue on Saturday.
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Such bans, which have been challenged by civil-liberties groups in the courts, fall partly under a long French secular tradition of keeping conspicuous religiosity out of public places.
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She brings a notable religiosity to her conversations with the show's protagonist, Celie, and a greater intensity to both her anger and her desire for Celie's abusive husband, Mister.
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Watch "Carnivàle," which has that woozy eeriness, an unusual relationship to death, violent religiosity and an elaborate — but never fully articulated — back story about what holds the universe together.
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When the Pew data about religiosity is tracked against a country's relative wealth equality or inequality, rather than GDP, the United States' religious observance is no longer statistically anomalous.
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That's mostly because of the melancholiness I mentioned above, but the overt religiosity also doesn't seem to turn some viewers off in the way it might in other programs.
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"As an actor you're always looking for those kinds of nuances," Watts said, noting Carlson's religiosity and dedication to family but also her ambition and willingness to play along.
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It is quite another for someone being grilled at a Senate committee by senators who clearly are unhappy with her nomination to be forced to speak about her religiosity.
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The first Little Drummer Boy saw a surprising amount of success for such an overtly religious special, but there was always a strain of religiosity running through Rankin/Bass's work.
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Much of the international coverage of the DUP has focused on the party's perceived religiosity and how the DUP might move the Conservatives further to the right on social issues.
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Though he had ventured outside the insular Haredi community where he grew up, the Jerusalem College of Technology still adhered to strict codes of religiosity, which included filtering the internet.
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In the face of declining millennial religiosity, Mutual, which is named after an old church program that brought Mormon youth together, may have another benefit: ensuring the longevity of Mormonism.
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The Republican convention featured a sprawling blended family, an L.G.B.T. first, and promises of a top-down government fix, while the Democratic convention showcased religiosity, patriotism, militarism, and American exceptionalism.
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This decline in religious countries (including where religiosity is stable or rising!) is surprising, because religious groups tend to place a high priority on family, children, and multi-generational living.
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"There's a religiosity around it," notes therapist Kronberg, who believes that fixations with clean eating and cleansing the body have replaced church attendance in the way that Americans express virtue.
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The band's lyrics and arrangements were largely left alone; the Beatles may have talked a big old atheist game, but it's not difficult to see the religiosity in their songs.
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They have failed this test so terribly that it raises the question of whether religiosity and morality really go hand in hand, as so many religious people like to claim.
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"End of times fantasies have been a central part of American religiosity since the beginning, so it shouldn't be any surprise" if many people sense its approach, Dr. Hecht said.
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Instead, the three key dimensions contributing to black self-identification as conservative are religiosity, opposition to social welfare and, to a lesser extent, moral conservatism on social and cultural issues.
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"Once religious rites and dogmas have become so rigid that religiosity cannot move them or no longer wants to comply with them, religion becomes uncreative and therefore untrue," he wrote.
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Yoga, like the wellness industry more broadly, has become a form of secular "religion," even as that religiosity is inseparable from the capitalist economic structures that make it so profitable.
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I wrote my novel "A Strangeness in my Mind" to explore and describe the world of a street vendor, an everyman, on the streets of Istanbul, without ignoring his religiosity.
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And thus, with the growth of religiosity, and the embargo on the traditions of the past, fighting as sport nearly disappeared in Europe and Asia Minor by the 5th century.
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What today's "evangelicals" have in common is not so much Biblicism or action for the gospel, but a self-defined sense of religiosity and a dogged commitment to Republican politics.
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Similarly, studies such as my quant study in preservice teachers and Leslie Rissler's study of undergrads in Alabama show that religiosity is a strong negative factor that impacts acceptance of evolution.
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However, part of the implicit narrative of Pratt's religiosity, I suspect, also has to do with his divorce from actress Anna Faris, and the inherent laxity of biblical sins like divorce.
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While it's true that some conservative religious sects in America are growing, the overall trend hasn't supported the notion that stricture and rigid tradition are an effective antidote to declining religiosity.
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First there was moderate religiosity, the belief that God is ultimately in control, that all things are ultimately fashioned toward the good and that the arc of history bends toward justice.
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Khomeini "understood that in Iran the path to power lay in the gutter," he writes with the snootiness of the same secular elite he faults for failing to appreciate Iranians' religiosity.
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In recent years, the country's Muslim majority has embraced more overt signs of religiosity and shifted toward Arab-style devotion: flowing clothes and veils, Arabic names and Middle Eastern devotional architecture.
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And to his credit, Trump did spend some time at the Prayer Breakfast talking about religion, well, sort of if you count ripping into the religiosity of people who've wronged him.
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That's the classic worry of many secularists: that state support of religion will create religiosity, which might threaten the vital separation of conscience and state on which all peaceful pluralism depends.
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Allied to the increasing propensity to religiosity among Israeli Jews are trends in the composition of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), a change that raises questions about the reliability of the army.
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"In some countries that had strong religiosity, like Italy, controlling women's bodies was a part of the country's religious morality; today in France there is a civil religion of secularity," she said.
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That exception was in 1977, when the democratic left led by Bulent Ecevit, a progressive populist who called for social justice and respected popular religiosity, won over 40 percent of the votes.
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Arguably, one of the major reasons for Trump's improbable electoral college victory in 2016 were the white conservative evangelical voters that flocked to the GOP candidate's side despite his lack of religiosity.
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Along with restrictions on halal food, Islamic dress, and general religiosity, the ongoing crackdown has primarily affected the Uyghurs, a predominantly Muslim ethnic group who historically were the majority in the region.
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I had never liked country music — just couldn't get my head around its twangy goodness, finely buffed edges and overt religiosity — but Florida Georgia Line brought me over to the dark side.
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The pervasive belief in UFOs and ETs is a new form of religiosity brought about by the digital infrastructure, delivered not only through books (like traditional religions) but through films, phones, and computers.
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In an effort to put flesh on these irreverent bones, the Public Religion Research Institute, a non-profit body based in Washington, DC, came up with some broad measures of religiosity and spirituality.
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Shiraz Maher, the project's leader, and his colleagues took months to classify each of the 50,000-odd messages and posts under headings such as "yearning for the afterlife", "religiosity" and "desire to migrate".
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" That's why in the US, polarisation about climate change along gender, age, and religiosity lines "may simply reflect that country's ideological divide, with women, young people, and the less religious being more liberal.
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With "Bush" he sticks to the original conventional assessment, presenting a shoot-from-the-hip Texan driven by religiosity and immune to the advice of people who knew what they were talking about.
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" For years, Fosse says, America was seen as a counterargument to the popular theory that economic development would lead to secularization, as unlike other Western capitalist democracies, the United States had "heightened religiosity.
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For example, when research participants are presented with stimuli that bring death to mind or challenge a sense of meaning in life, they exhibit increased religiosity and interest in religious or spiritual ideas.
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Yet in this time of dank living spaces, poor hygiene, forced religiosity, and baleful delight in the macabre, the Masters of Defence, elite swordsmen with a passion for improving martial arts pedagogy, arose.
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His grandparents sent him with a group of project kids to a nearby church every Sunday, and his father is still in the ministry, though Mike shed much of his religiosity in college.
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Abdul Razzak said Bowman appeared to be reading off cue cards, asking him if he was earning enough money and throwing out pointed questions about Israel, the war in Syria and Abdul Razzak's religiosity.
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In the past century across many modern societies, "religion has tended to be restricted to the private sphere," meaning public displays of religiosity have been frowned upon and strictly limited, writes sociologist John Brewer.
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The analysis included statistical controls for a variety of individual characteristics and beliefs that tend to be related to political attitudes, such as race/ethnicity, partisanship, ideology, income, education level, gender, age, and religiosity.
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"The God described in the Bible is none other than the God who is already known in the framework of our traditional African religiosity," Mr. Mbiti wrote in The Christian Century magazine in 1980.
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"False religiosity and political insecurity is not what the New Malaysia is about and can accept," said Vinod Sekhar, adding that Malaysia's diversity, acceptance of differences and human values made it a wonderful country.
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The religiosity that hung in the background of good kid creeps to the fore in the opening tracks, a bleak vision of the strife in the artist's hometown as prelude to the biblical apocalypse.
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But when Perry compared how often people watched porn against rates of religiosity (using indicators like frequency of prayer and religious doubts), he found something a little more complicated than this common knowledge suggests.
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One study, led by Laura P. Neiman at the University of California at Berkeley, found that 123 undergrads could accurately assess 113 people's religiosity simply by looking at full-body photographs of those individuals.
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"Many non-Orthodox Jews, myself included, feel that the spread of state-enforced religiosity in Israel is turning a modern, liberal nation into a semi-theocratic one," wrote Lauder in The New York Times.
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I would have been happier to settle for the heavy cloak of religiosity that lay over Ireland in the 19th century (and even the 20th; see the crime novels of Benjamin Black for that).
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Animated by a kind of Victorian religiosity, Mr. Bleckner's cannily postmodernist yet unabashedly sentimental art would seem to be equally far from Mr. Fischl's earthy tragicomedy tragic-comedy and Mr. Salle's bitter semiotic gamesmanship.
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Indeed, the recent study in Israel and Palestine showed that those who perceived the conflict in religious terms were much less willing to compromise, even accounting for other important factors like ideology and religiosity.
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LOS ANGELES — What's the only art form big enough to hold Kanye West's grandiosity, his grievances, his cast-of-thousands collaborations, his musical lushness and toughness, his religiosity, his self-appointed skill at design?
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Religiosity is a protective factor for mental illness, both because there's a religious community that can be supportive, but also because when you have faith in something, it's something that can put everything in perspective.
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Trump lapped the field in a moderate state, and then he did almost as well in a state that should have been fairly hostile to his mix of feigned religiosity, anti-Bushism, and unflinching hawkishness.
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Called "Does Viewing Pornography Diminish Religiosity Over Time?" the study was conducted with 1,314 people who were surveyed in both 2006 and 2012 as part of the nationally representative Portraits of American Life Survey (PALS).
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Salem, with its mix of religiosity and anxiety about a changing nation, created a cauldron of hysteria and male power-seeking that produced more than 200 witchcraft accusations, sham trials and executions of 19 people.
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Religiosity has also been linked to a lower risk of suicidal behaviors, but there is some evidence to suggest that the impact of religion may be different for lesbian, gay, bisexual and questioning (LGBQ) individuals.
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The fictional tribe's customs owe a lot to actual Swedish tradition—the white dresses and floral headdresses of the real Midsommar festival are authentic—but their eccentric beliefs toe the line between religiosity and spookiness.
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Does our emerging post-Christian or quasi-Christian model of religiosity — the therapeutic style of Oprah, the individualized mix of prayer and meditation and self-help — potentially reconcile the sexes, or push them further apart?
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"They look at how we facilitate an atmosphere of religiosity," said Syahrizal Abbas, the head of Aceh's Department of Shariah, who said he gives visiting delegations advice on how to incorporate Shariah teachings into law.
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So I can't say whether the recent decline in American religiosity will become an unstoppable collapse, as Dreher argues, or if it's just the evaporation of nominal Christianity that will leave a churchgoing core intact.
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In other words, despite a too-common misconception of Muslim religiosity as at odds with an American identity, the two seem to go together; it correlates with civic engagement outside of the mosque as well.
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I've written frequently about my embrace of the wild religiosity of 12 Monkeys, and while The Expanse is slightly more sedate, it boasts some of the best space action on TV since, well, Battlestar Galactica.
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If Ramachandran's patients showed the same response to all the stimuli he showed them, which included sexual imagery, religious imagery, pictures of family and friends, as well as neutral images—that could explain their intense religiosity.
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The government has responded by cracking down on what it sees as overt signs of religiosity, like veils or beards, and has periodically issued interviews with those captured after attacks who say they had been radicalized.
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Now the wheel has turned again, and the new consensus is that secularization was actually just delayed, and with the swift 21960st-century collapse of Christian affiliation, a more European destination for American religiosity has belatedly arrived.
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Other countries might instead celebrate a culture of strong ties to family or close friends, which is often linked to higher levels of religiosity, or have a government with greater corruption and less democratic involvement by citizens.
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Given that religiosity is declining in America (even among evangelicals), nationalism is rising, and partisanship (being a Republican) is more important than ideology (being a conservative), Cruz is probably on the losing side of this identity war.
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This latest version pays only lip service to the weepy religiosity of the previous adaptations, which include a mini-series, two silent films (including the 1925 blockbuster starring Ramon Novarro), an animated version and the 1959 juggernaut.
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As for religiosity, for most English-speaking Western democracies, the more religious you are, the less concern you have for climate change—but the opposite is true for most of the world, especially in Asia and Africa.
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For evangelical leaders, it was an important signal that Mr. Trump — despite his two divorces, lack of religiosity and alleged mistreatment of women — might do more to advance their long-stalled agenda than more traditional Republican politicians.
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Now, however, that's the mode that all Democrats — even wonks like Hillary Clinton — aspire to: a little poetry, a little religiosity, and a big belief that the US is stronger as a plurality, rather than a singularity.
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Many conservative evangelicals would say the problem with progressives isn't just a matter of doubting their religiosity — it's that Democrats are wrong on policy, and those progressives who claim to be religious are blinkered if they support Democrats.
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After Trump suggested that Romney was faking his religiosity and its influence on his decision to convict and suggested -- with zero proof -- that Romney's polling numbers had flagged as a result, Lee stood up to accept Trump's congratulations.
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As Council on Foreign Relations scholar Rachel Bronson argued in her book, "Thicker than Oil," the country's deep religiosity was also valuable between the 1940s and 1990s, because it helped create a buffer to the appeal of communism.
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To see if this hypothesis was actually true, Dr. Jonathan Jong, a researcher at Coventry University in the UK, conducted an analysis of 100 studies, published between 1961 and 2014, that examined the association between religiosity and death anxiety.
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"The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue and funny, to make fun of anybody of faith, to constantly be making fun of people who express religion," Conway said on Fox & Friends while discussing the shooting.
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It's a form of observance that is heavy on ritual and sits somewhere between the two poles of Ashkenazi life: staunch secularism (the kibbutzniks; the sushi eaters of Herzliya) and strict religiosity (the kipa-wearers and the ultra-Orthodox).
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What they have gotten wrong, but don't normally ask for help about — and it's a problem of perception: the lack of a plausible, nuanced range of the level of religiosity in portrayals of Hindus, Buddhists, Jews, Sikhs, [and others].
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But we have to remember that the same technologies are being used by governments in way less liberal countries, where revealing your political views or revealing your religiosity or your sexual orientation can be really a matter of life and death.
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Colorless and graphic, the prints are more charged by the appeal of a gaudy religiosity than futurity, touched by the longevity not only of ancient and painterly method, but of the timelessness of photos and the clarity of walking's own practice.
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Yet in speeches to political gatherings and in interviews with reporters, Mr. Sasse offers a compelling campaign-style message that reflects his impressive academic résumé, his work as a business turnaround specialist, his orientation toward individual rights and his intense religiosity.
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There was also a "slide into religiosity" apparent in some of his decisions, it said, while the return of the royal motto "God, King, Country" to monuments was fuelling speculation about a possible restoration of the monarchy for his benefit.
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Even Mr. Bannon, who is not known for his overt religiosity, got into the spirit, albeit in his typically pugnacious style: He cited Ecclesiastes and assured that this moment was a "time for war," at the least the political kind.
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The hoped-for marriage isn't just a test of Michal's happiness but also of her religiosity: A rabbi warns Michal against "counting on miracles," and wonders what will happen to her faith if she doesn't find a husband in time.
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As someone so deeply enmeshed in religion, the author is in a unique position to ponder the overlap between extremist and mainstream religiosity, or the ways many mainstream evangelicals have driven the culture wars in the name of their God.
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But anyone who grew up under the influence of the harsh and austere religiosity exported throughout the Muslim world by the Saudi state via its clerics and oil wealth knows just how significant this change in direction could prove to be.
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For instance, my colleagues and I recently published a series of studies in the journal Motivation and Emotion demonstrating that the link between low religiosity and belief in advanced alien visitors is at least partly explained by the pursuit of meaning.
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And to really buy into it, you have to, in essence, immerse yourself not just in Christianity, but in an outmoded form of it, with a strict moral code and ferocious religiosity that will look foreign to most modern eyes.
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People in some former communist and former Ottoman lands seem to overstate their religiosity when asked about their views, just as those who live in the continent's more secular western half may be a bit shy about admitting any interest in the transcendent.
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So what we are going on is based on the breakdown of small studies that suggest that religiosity is a big factor, more so in some places than others, and that literal interpretations of creation are one of the leading points of contention.
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But it is one thing for an individual to claim his religious beliefs are threatened, and another to define someone else's undertaking as "inherently religious" when the third party says it is anything but, or interprets its religiosity in a very different way.
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His research has shown, for example, that a man's belief that use of pornography is immoral and his level of associated religiosity is more highly linked with whether he believes he is addicted to porn than his actual level of porn consumption.
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Frederick Lewis Allen, in the epilogue to his 1931 best seller "Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 19733s," wrote that cultural values changed after the crash: People began to dress more modestly, adopting a new formality and religiosity, reviving Victorian sexual taboos.
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In fact, the study's authors found, America was the only country out of the 235 surveyed to score higher-than-average on metrics of both religiosity, or the reported frequency of prayer, as well as national wealth, as measured in GDP per capita.
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Trump's pugnacious language may seem to jar with ordinary Christian rhetoric, but it's actually very much in keeping with the imagery of "muscular Christianity," the quintessentially Anglo-American conflation of machismo and religiosity that has defined American evangelicalism since the country's foundation.
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I completely agree, for instance, with Mounk's critique of Le Pen's secularism-on-steroids approach to public religiosity, which would try to suppress Islamic identity (and Jewish identity) in various ways, from bans on head scarves to rules against kosher and halal slaughter.
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And a study of 2011 data, published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, found religiosity is tied to higher odds of suicidal ideation (the desire to take one's own life or thinking about suicide) for gay, lesbian and questioning college students.
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In the United States, only about 50 percent of the population is formally affiliated with a Christian denomination, substantially lower than in the Nordic countries, yet somewhere between 15 percent and 40 percent are weekly attendees at church, indicating far greater religiosity.
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This could then be used to create a simulation in which a number of AI agents make decisions about how to interact with one another based on their own religiosity, environmental constraints, and the actions of others in their own group and outside of it.
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Warrington also speculates that as people have become increasingly open about their desire to abstain apart from the assumed reasons (addiction, pregnancy, religiosity), that has opened the gates for an increased introspection about imbibing, and an increased willingness to take a break or abstain altogether.
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Occupying the liminal space between body politics and religiosity in his depiction of the body as a vessel for a kind of spiritual warfare is Didier William's creation of fluid, flowing figures despite the rigid immovability of the wood from which they are carved.
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And it lasted quite a long time, in part because it skillfully fused the racism of the segregation academies issue — private, overwhelmingly white religious schools in the South created in response to desegregation — with the religiosity of school prayer and the gender politics of abortion.
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That anti-PC message also dovetails nicely with the whole trying-to-take-the-Christ-out-of-Christmas angle that Trump knows appeals to some segment of evangelical conservatives who resent what they see as the attempt to neuter the religiosity from the holiday.
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While studying for a law degree at Cambridge, he wrote a treatise, "Walt Whitman: A Study in the Evolution of Personality," in which he argued that the American poet exemplified an expansive conception of freedom rooted in pantheism and human potential, rather than religiosity.
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In spite of the catatonic aftereffects of three sedentary festival days, I drove out of Camden on Sunday enthused about the quality of the films, and particularly uplifted by the sincere religiosity of my (award-winning) festival favorites La natura delle cose and Cameraperson.
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After the July coup attempt, Mr. Erdogan also caused alarm in secular circles when he appointed as his military adviser a former one-star general who was fired from the army a few months before the 1997 military intervention because of concerns about his religiosity.
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When Gershoff and other scientists surveyed more than 12,000 school aged-children last month, they used a statistical method to account for differences that might affect people's experiences, such as parental income, education level, marital status, food insecurity, religiosity, race, ethnicity and immigrant status.
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When it comes to watching pornography, there are a host of other factors that might affect a person's relationship with sexual partners, including the actual content of that pornography, how often a person views it, and their "religiosity" (which can make them feel guilty for viewing pornography).
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One of the suicide bombers had even been arrested just a few months ago, Sri Lankan officials disclosed on Monday, on suspicion of having vandalized a statue of Buddha, an inflammatory act in a Buddhist-majority nation where strident religiosity, on all sides, seems to be increasing.
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The rationale was that yoking religiosity to anti-establishment ire would tie up the evangelical vote with those of other disgruntled conservatives—millions of whom, in the estimation of the Cruz campaign, had stayed away from the polls in recent elections because no true believer was on the ballot.
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"The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue and funny, to make fun of anybody of faith, to be constantly making fun of people who express religion, the late night comedians, the unfunny people on TV shows—it's always anti-religious," she told Fox and Friends.
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So when Stahl asked Trump and Pence what they had in common, religion and values seemed an unnatural choice — and one that ultimately had Trump arguing that his support among evangelicals is proof enough of his own religiosity: Lesley Stahl: But what about the chemistry between you two?
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It reached back to some of the hard-edged law and order rhetoric of the Nixon years, offered a small dab of religiosity, harked way back to GOP isolationists of the 1920s, and then poached a fair amount of people-versus-powerful rhetoric from the populist wing of the Democratic Party.
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A hundred high-ranking bishops will meet for a Vatican summit in February to discuss the ongoing sex abuse crisis, but Francis also has to deal with an ever-increasing shortage of priests and the lack of religiosity among younger generations, as well as declining trust among US Catholics in particular.
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For sheer audacity and bizarreness, at least in comparison with the cliché-ridden religiosity that characterizes some other American outsiders' Christian-themed imagery, the late Norbert Kox's "Adam and Eve" (acrylic and oil on canvas), from Milwaukee's Portrait Society Gallery, offers a shot of otherworldly-psychological intensity of its own.
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Sunday attendee at New Psalmist Baptist Church, which hosted the packed Friday home-going — the funeral also injected a strong dose of religiosity into a party whose presidential front-runners have been busy announcing policy prescriptions but sounding few of the overtly pious notes once regularly played by former Presidents Carter, Obama and Clinton.
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This religiosity sometimes makes being an all-in fan of Chance challenging; while any fan of independent music, black achievement, and black visibility should be happy for all of Chance's accomplishments, his constant invocation of God is jarring because of the way Christianity has been used as a weapon against the black community in America.
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The first fault line is the one suggested by the data on churchgoing: Trump is losing the most active believers, but he's winning in what I've previously termed the "Christian penumbra" — the areas of American society (parts of the South very much included) where active religiosity has weakened, but a Christian-ish residue remains.
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And though genuine religious literacy tends to complicate people's confidence in the manifest superiority of their own faith, and tends to discourage less tolerant forms of religiosity that are often embraced by right-wing politicians, this does not mean higher education is "biased" or "anti-religious," any more than biology is "biased" against creationism.
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Then came three crucial developments: Ayan's mother hired a Quran teacher for her brood, who held radical views; Ayan discovered an organization called Islam Net, which she joined for the religiosity as much as for the cute boys; and she and her friends met a group of charismatic thugs who longed for jihad abroad.
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We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt The first "not Christian" comment — that "a person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian" — is pretty clearly not a judgment about Trump's personal religiosity.
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"The anti-religiosity in this country that is somehow in vogue ... making fun of people who express religion, the late-night comedians, the unfunny people who go on TV. ... It's always anti-religious," she said, before invoking the 2015 fatal shooting of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina, church by a white supremacist, Dylann Roof.
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The book is also an intriguing window into how class, culture, and religion play into these scenes—whether it's Saudi bands angrily dismissing black metal's anti-religiosity, or the differences in how the Christian East and Muslim West of Beirut prefer their metal ("If [East Beirut] are Iron Maiden, we are Venom," Lebanese musician Tex explains).
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While almost three-quarters of American Jews continue to vote Democratic and a majority identify as liberal, the center in Israel has shifted to the right—in part organically, thanks to immigration and the experience of living in a state surrounded by hostile neighbors, and in part driven by a disciplined right-wing campaign to increase religiosity and nationalism.
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He keeps wondering aloud about this, not because he's all that interested in extremism, bigotry, religiosity and fear as part of an actual pathology — or Trump supporters and the religious right, for that matter — but because in another version of this story, where the movie star thing hadn't clicked and he remained stuck in his home state, that could have been his fate.
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It evokes that inescapable part of the region's history — a legacy rooted in anti-intellectualism, xenophobia, stubborn religiosity, and, of course, ugly, institutionalized racism, expressed in a poisonous mix of ignorance and fear — that has caused indelible pain over many generations, a kind of lasting damage to the human soul that no amount of feel-good, anecdotal jottings will ever mitigate.
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Dissidence for the Chechen authorities was defined as any deviation from the rules and ideas of neo-traditionalism, heterosexual morality, cultural and political docility, and religiosity that were set by the government of the Republic itself In other words, Kadyrov's regime props itself up by identifying a useful "other" — a threat to the Chechen way of life and national consciousness — to purge.
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"On social media, yelling about what we don't like defines us as much as the things we do like," he said, pointing out that the red cup controversy had the unfortunate side effect of flattening all Christians — a large and varied group, most of whom were not incensed about the comparative religiosity of Starbucks cups — into a monolith with Feuerstein.
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And while Trump does not really manifest any personal signs of religiosity, he has proven himself to be a loyal policy ally of religious conservatives on topics ranging from abortion to contraceptive access to "religious liberty" exemptions to LGBTQ rights litigation to school vouchers to the passel of Christian Zionist figures he invited to the opening ceremony of the new US Embassy in Jerusalem.
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White House counsellor Kellyanne ConwayKellyanne Elizabeth ConwayIllinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Trump health chief: Officials actively 'working on' ObamaCare replacement plan Campaign aide: Trump asking questions shared by 'millions of Americans' with Epstein conspiracy theory MORE on Monday condemned the trend of "anti-religiosity" in America, just days after a mass shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue left 11 people dead and several wounded.
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People hunting for a specific kind of grievance to wear as their own found it in Tebow, and they spun some truly weird shit around him—that he had somehow been touched by God in a way the NFL's other objectively miraculous talents were not, that various opaque elites were first persecuting and then blackballing him because they detested his open religiosity, that the media was conspiring to conceal the truth of all this from the public.
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In this story the political success of Bill Clinton reflected not only his compromises with Republicans on taxes and spending, his tacit nods to Reaganomics, but also his ability to infuse a centrist liberalism with reassuring nods to various kinds of moderate cultural conservatism — the school uniform and v-chip business and the rhetoric of "safe, legal and rare" on abortion, the easy Baptist religiosity, the tacitly center-right positions on immigration and crime and same-sex marriage.
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If Apple's aversion to potentially scandalous storylines is as extreme as The Wall Street Journal article makes it seem — requesting the removal of crucifixes from a set to avoid offending religious sensibilities in an M. Night Shyamalan drama; parting ways with show-runners because of the "dark tone" they were taking in a reboot of Steven Spielberg's Amazing Stories and the big budget vehicle for Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon; spiking the Dr. Dre show entirely — it may not even be able to field series as enjoyable as reported Cook favorite Friday Night Lights (which featured teenage sex, underage drinking, abortion, and extreme religiosity alongside the familial and football foibles of Eric and Tammy Taylor).
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