noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
freedom of religion/worship (= the right to hold/practise any religious belief )
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Liberal newspapers made an effort to secure religious toleration and freedom of worship.
organized religion (= a religion that has lasted for a long time with leaders and many followers )
professor of Chinese/economics/religion etc
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She’s been named the professor of English.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
different
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Though belonging to different religions and coming from differing backgrounds, an affinity grew and developed.
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These are not wars of religion but conflicts between communities which have different religions; no side tries to convert the other.
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Thus detailed comparative analysis of different religions is possible.
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I attend the International Church of Lucerne which has people from all the different religions in its congregation.
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It is interesting to compare the reactions of people from different religions to this statement.
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Respect and friendly relations amongst the faithful of different world religions is essential for true peace.
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By affirming these non-contradictory emphases, members of different religions can move closer together without fearing loss of integrity.
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For years the headscarf was frowned upon and sometimes banned on the ground that it encouraged dissent among children of different religions .
eastern
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Varo collected pre-Columbian art, studied eastern religions and was fascinated by the occult and alchemy, in particular.
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That a symbol of Eastern religion sits prominently in the room is no accident.
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The Eastern philosophies and religions have little to offer in improving the lot of mankind.
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Science had always been and continued to remain the handmaiden of the great Eastern religions .
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Does this not constitute a radically different form of theism from that practised by the Near Eastern religions ?
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This is the question that the Near Eastern religions in particular have to address, and that they often fail to answer.
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It is the Eastern religions repackaged and made presentable for consumption by Western minds.
great
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It was in this harsh and inhospitable land that one of the great religions of mankind originated.
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Every great religion originally appeared as a response among people desperate for comfort and solace during troubling times.
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Furthermore, all the great world religions pronounce it false.
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Science had always been and continued to remain the handmaiden of the great Eastern religions .
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Since then, we have become starkly aware of fundamentalism in: all the great religions of the world.
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In the archipelago, the great religions had curious adventures.
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The world's great religions are even more notorious for simultaneously looking in different directions.
natural
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Interspersed in Kant's constructive argument on behalf of his version of natural religion are polemical thrusts against positive religion.
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C.-Neo-Confucianism does not reflect natural religion .
new
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Was it really Guru Nanak's intention to found a new religion , or even a new religious community?
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At this fundamental level of resource there can not be any easy interchange without changing an old or creating a new religion .
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It is easy to see why a new religion has grown about them.
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The new religion considered the body, and its animal desires, as the enemy of true reason.
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If the new religion forced too difficult and direct a choice, it could have had a sticky launch.
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The modern attempt to secularize civilizations is really an attempt to substitute new religions for old.
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Rahma in exchange for freedom is the social contract that the new religion proposed to the citizens of Mecca.
old
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The Olympians replaced the older religion through conquest.
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But they were also to swear to root out every remnant of the old religion .
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They give point to the cries of the preachers for repentance, conversion, and return to the old religion .
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The old religions under which people lived for ninety-nine point nine percent of human history have decayed or are irrelevant.
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At the same time, however, it could not simply banish the old religion .
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Lastly, a station resembles the old religions rather than the new religions in this point, that people go to it.
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Full of the old religion still, people say - not a place to go after dark.
other
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We shall never be able to look at either our own or other people's religions in quite the same way again.
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My response was to make one condition of my own - that the anthology should include prayers from other religions .
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But like other religions , Leavism offered the sweet joys of antagonism.
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In other religions , however, the forces of order are more devious and underhand.
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Among other forms of religion that flourished in the Roman empire was Mithraism.
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Under Communist rule, as with other religions , services were permitted but no cultural or educational activities.
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Christians usually think that they have nothing to learn from other religions , but that is because we confuse beliefs and practices.
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Fortunately, there is a more tolerant attitude towards other religions in most parts of the world today.
particular
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At very best, any particular religion can be normative or valid only for those who happen to subscribe to it.
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It matters little what value that particular philosophy or religion attaches to the use of the word, phrase or prayer.
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No particular religion can ever embody the perfection of Religion or lay claim to a monopoly of Truth.
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No particular religion , and all of them at the same time.
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But as particular truths do not embody the fullness of Truth so particular religions do not embody the fullness of Religion.
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Such clothing also gives the impression, particularly to less mature students, that the school supports the particular religion .
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There seems indeed to be an unacknowledged weighting in the direction of a particular religion .
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The rebels in the current offensive say they represent democracy, not a particular religion .
traditional
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Yet it is easier to sense the swing of history against traditional religion than to measure it.
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They have cut the nerve of traditional religion , which is often tied to specific geographical locations and cultural patterns.
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The bold canvas on which they worked was, as I have suggested already, a deliberate affront to traditional religion .
true
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If ever there was a flight from the true religion , this was it.
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It is true that religion has been closely identified with our history and government....
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True education does not consist in being taught just anything, any more than true religion consists in believing just anything.
■ NOUN
state
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Being unpleasant to the priests of its state religion will serve us no good purpose.
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Manicheism became the state religion of the Uyghurs around 762, the only state in which this religion achieved such status.
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Religion: No state religion , but traces of Buddhist Lamaism and Shamanism still survive.
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From that state religion , it plundered certain accoutrements as well.
world
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It is probably one of the cruellest ironies in the evolution and development of any major world religion .
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This chapter gives some idea of the scope possible for a world religions course which is open, affirming and critical.
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Furthermore, all the great world religions pronounce it false.
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Key to the work on markets are considerations of change in the world religions and in painting.
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But in general the world religions kept to themselves, separated by linguistic, cultural and geographical barriers that seemed insuperable.
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Respect and friendly relations amongst the faithful of different world religions is essential for true peace.
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Bahá'ís do not disbelieve in any previous founders of world religions .
■ VERB
based
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And would politics based on religion have disappeared in Glasgow if not for the rise of the Labour Party?
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Projects based on religion , morals, the nature of the self and so forth can not be fully incorporated within this framework.
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Yes, they can, if their objections are based on either religion or conscience.
establish
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His rebellion began quietly enough in a dispute over whether or not to pay taxes for established religion .
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On the other hand, to establish a religion that would wipe out all chance of internal troubles.
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Carroll did not choose to keep a low profile but spoke up on many issues, often against the officially established religion .
organize
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Yet organized religion is already as remote from Alice's or Henry's life as paganism or human sacrifice.
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Until relatively recently, organized religion has left environmental protection to environmental activists, concerned scientists and political figures.
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Since then, I went on quests that had nothing to do with organized religion .
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No regimental control of organized religion .
practise
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Patients undergoing surgery sometimes find talking to a spiritual counsellor provides psychological comfort, even if they do not usually practise a religion .
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He resolved to practise his religion better.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
brand of humour/politics/religion etc
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Bush was elected on the coat-tails of Ronald Reagan, who in turn worshipped Margaret Thatcher's brand of politics and economics.
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I was by no means immune from this brand of humour.
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Presenter, Jim Bowen, puts the contestants at ease with his own brand of humour.
established church/religion
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Carroll did not choose to keep a low profile but spoke up on many issues, often against the officially established religion.
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During the plague, the rich people and most of the ministers who had remained in the established church fled from London.
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His rebellion began quietly enough in a dispute over whether or not to pay taxes for established religion.
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Naturally most of the more established churches were embarrassed and angered by the unseemly goings on.
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That same light revealed the corruption of the established Church.
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The only result of clerical opposition was that the established Church once again forfeited its chance to control developments.
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The representatives from seventeen national parties at the Paris conference were quite plainly non-attenders in the established church of politics.
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Therefore, it is certainly more comfortable to remain in the security of stable established church life.
in the name of religion/freedom/science etc
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He also reminded the court that such auctions were permitted by the United States constitution in the name of freedom of expression.
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Lord Salmon clearly felt strongly and spoke in the name of freedom and democracy.
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Most gruesome and horrible mutilations - and all, mind you, in the name of religion.
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Objections to the creation stories are made up in the name of science.
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They banned meat, eggs and alcohol in the name of religion.
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They can take the fun out of sports in the name of religion.
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They do so all in the name of freedom.
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We are seduced by what science can do in the name of freedom and civilisation.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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Exercise is almost like a religion to Mina.
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My beliefs about abortion are not influenced by religion .
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My parents' religion is very important to them.
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people of all religions
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She can't eat pork. It's against her religion .
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The Buddhist and Shinto religions coexist in Japan.
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the Catholic religion
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The Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and religion .
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the Muslim religion
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We respect all religions here.
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We spent hours discussing politics, religion , and poetry.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Culture and religion also serve to integrate the immigrant community and to insulate it from wider society.
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It would be wrong to conclude from this that Gandhi is opposed to conversion from one religion to another.
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Scientology has fought long battles for legal acceptance as a religion and has succeeded in many countries, including the United States.
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The average viewer should, of course, by now be immune to the trivialisation of religion .
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The Cathedral of the Assumption on Red Square had been demolished along with other redundant relics of reactionary religion .