12 sentences with 'religion'
Example sentences and phrases with the word religion and other words derived from it.
• « The failures of philosophy and religion will hardly leave room to prove or disprove the episodes in question, although there is no choice: one or the other is still impossible. If there are those who come back from the dead and the reality is more fantastic than we can imagine, life will be incomprehensible until we know "something" of this other world, with luminous beings and dark tunnels. »
• « The Mesopotamians also created systems of writing, organised religion and literature, all of which would come to have an enormous influence on world history and, in turn, on Western civilisation. »
• « Also, the essential features of Egyptian religion emerged during the Old Kingdom, especially the idea that the king was in reality a god and that his rule guaranteed the continuity of the world itself; »
• « The Egyptian religion of the Old Kingdom had emphasised life on earth; although the pyramids were tombs built to house the kings and the things they would need on their journey to the afterlife, there are no records with details of how most people would fare after death. »
• « Unlike the Greeks and Romans, the ancient Hebrews were not known for being scientists or philosophers or conquerors. It was their religion, Judaism, that proved to be of crucial importance in world history, both in its own right and as the religious root of Christianity and Islam. »
• « The most important building project under Solomon was the great Temple in Jerusalem, the centre of the Yahwist religion. There, a class of priests performed the rituals and worship of Yahweh. »
• « In time, the identity of the god in question became Ahura Mazda, the supreme god of the Zoroastrian religion instead of Marduk, but the principle remained the same. »
• « Despite the general policy of religious tolerance, there remained one dominant Persian religion: Zoroastrianism. »
• « Zoroaster himself lived much earlier (sometime between 1300 and 1000 BC), long before the rise of the empire, and was responsible for codifying the beliefs of the religion that bears his name. »
• « Humanism was a general theme and a phenomenon common to all the major achievements of Greek culture in literature, religion, drama, history and art. »