adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a cultural/religious tradition
▪ cultural traditions that date back many generations
a financial/legal/religious etc matter
▪ This is a legal matter and should be discussed with a solicitor.
a religious ceremony
▪ Did you have a religious ceremony when you got married?
a religious community (=people with a particular religion, who often keep themselves separate from society)
▪ The buildings belong to a strict religious community.
a religious experience (=one that makes someone believe strongly in God)
▪ As a young man he had a profound religious experience.
a religious objection
▪ Roman Catholics have religious objections to the use of contraceptives.
a religious war
▪ How many people have died in religious wars?
a religious/military/biological etc metaphor
▪ He uses a military metaphor to describe these women as ‘storming’ the castle of male power.
a religious/Muslim/Catholic etc upbringing
▪ Because of her Catholic upbringing she would not divorce her husband.
a religious/spiritual leader
▪ The Pope is the Roman Catholics’ spiritual leader.
ethnic/religious/civil etc strife
▪ a time of political strife
have a good/religious/tough etc upbringing
▪ He had a rather unsettled upbringing, moving with his father from town to town.
political/emotional/economic/religious etc turmoil
▪ the prospect of another week of political turmoil
political/religious controversy
▪ The agreement attracted a lot of political controversy.
political/religious freedom (=freedom to have any political/religious beliefs )
▪ The people were given political freedom for the first time in the country's history.
political/religious orientation
▪ The meeting is open to everyone, whatever their political or religious orientation.
political/religious overtones (=having a connection to politics or religion that is not directly expressed)
▪ The decision may have political overtones.
political/religious persuasion
▪ We need people with talent, whatever their political persuasions.
racial/religious intolerance
religious affairs
▪ She wanted to be more involved in the church and religious affairs.
religious commitment
▪ Many people have ceased to have any active religious commitment.
religious creed
▪ a religious creed
religious discrimination
▪ There must be an end to religious discrimination.
religious diversity (=including people of many different religions)
▪ The Ivory Coast is a country of great religious diversity.
religious fanatic
▪ a religious fanatic
religious fanaticism
▪ The bombing symbolizes the worst of religious fanaticism.
religious freak
▪ a religious freak
religious liberty
▪ The American Constitution protects religious liberty.
religious right
religious/football/disco etc mania
▪ Keep-fit mania has hit some of the girls in the office.
religious/political principles
▪ Doesn’t working on Sunday conflict with your religious principles?
religious/political/ideological etc dogma
▪ the rejection of political dogma
religious/revolutionary/missionary etc zeal
▪ He approached the job with missionary zeal.
religious/sectarian hatred (=hatred between people who belong to different religious groups)
▪ The law makes it an offence to stir up religious hatred.
sb's religious outlook
▪ The Puritans' religious outlook affected every aspect of their lives.
sb’s (political/religious etc) affiliation
▪ the newspaper’s political affiliations
the religious/clerical establishment
▪ His teachings were unacceptable to the religious establishment of the time.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
deeply
▪ In Gulu, a deeply religious town still torn between fear and hope, a handshake has become a sin.
▪ Clarke was a deeply religious man who enjoyed mathematics, music, and domestic life.
▪ One of 11 children, he was born on a Mississippi farm where his deeply religious father disapproved of the blues.
▪ Both were deeply religious, highly intelligent, moralistic southerners who went to the White House as amateurs and outsiders.
▪ He was noted for his prodigious memory, was deeply religious, and a staunch advocate of temperance.
▪ In making this comment, one is merely pointing out particular ideological characteristics in hard-working, deeply religious, and committed people.
▪ Both Digby's parents were deeply religious and almost violently anti-Catholic.
▪ Sorley was deeply religious in the philosophical sense but always remained out of tune with conventional belief.
■ NOUN
affiliation
▪ Like the Robinson-Pattisson connection they could also easily cross lines of religious affiliation.
▪ Maury Maverick managed to pry out of the Pentagon the religious affiliations of the 220 who died that day in Beirut.
▪ The course is open to people of all nationalities and religious affiliations, and the minimum age is 15 years.
▪ Does he have religious affiliation and whatnot?
▪ But hypersensitivity about colour or religious affiliation can be counterproductive.
▪ In controversy abolitionists found arguments in common whatever their religious affiliations.
▪ She was also a grand needle woman, a talent which rather curiously led to a change in her religious affiliations.
authority
▪ It was the latest instance of an attempt to lend religious authority to political violence.
▪ Many were religious authorities forced to take part in the movement by military men and were inhibited by the barracks-room jingoism.
▪ The religious authorities are not impressed.
▪ The priest, Gleb Yakunin, long has been a vocal critic and irritant to secular as well as religious authorities.
▪ The Roman see emerged as the sole religious authority and centre of a barbarian West.
▪ Witches are simply women who control symbolic power that neither men nor established religious authorities can wrench from them.
▪ A fundamental issue was whether religious authority was ultimately vested in an ecclesiastical succession or in the Bible alone.
▪ Their religious authorities were poetic performers, not bureaucrats.
belief
▪ Her book asked Christians to take a deeper look at some of their religious beliefs.
▪ Fewer than one in 200 cited religious beliefs as their reason for not practicing family planning.
▪ At that stage we ignored other possible religious beliefs.
▪ Christine tells me how there is no distinction on the island between religious belief and social structure.
▪ They were separated from their northern neighbours only by religious beliefs.
▪ For example, must teachers and students salute the flag or follow the curriculum if doing so violates their religious beliefs?
▪ The strength and nature of a person's religious beliefs are often made clear by a will.
▪ Six months after their surgery, patients with no religious beliefs had a death rate three times higher than those who did.
ceremony
▪ For a supposedly religious ceremony there is a very secular feel about the whole affair.
▪ And we were not pleased about the interference in our religious ceremonies.
▪ More often, religious ceremonies required special clothes.
▪ Ruby Wax found some real wackos in West Virginia-loons who use poisonous snakes in religious ceremonies.
▪ Then the entire party walked to the parish church for the religious ceremony.
▪ The next day saw the religious ceremony at Notre Dame - which again led to family difficulties.
▪ I thought a religious ceremony must now follow, but I was mistaken.
community
▪ The Sikhs have a very strong identity as a religious community and an ethnic group.
▪ Was it really Guru Nanak's intention to found a new religion, or even a new religious community?
▪ It is interesting to note that the meals of other religious communities of the times suffered from similar strains.
▪ Confirmations and ordinations did not take place - most of the bishops and many of the religious communities were in exile.
▪ It is shaped and nurtured in a religious community, and its expression grows and develops through history.
▪ As a retreat conductor, preacher and speaker for religious communities in the Assembly and the Synod he had few rivals.
▪ The religious community that subsequently formed here was at its apogee in the twelfth century, when the present church was begun.
conservative
▪ To religious conservatives, however, even these tentative and moderate reforms were undesirable and alarming.
▪ After a ferocious election campaign, religious conservatives lost their majority on the board in November.
▪ Lena is a staunch religious conservative who slaps her atheistic daughter across the face.
▪ Some religious conservatives have opposed the act, saying it unfairly penalizes people to overprotect lesser forms of life.
▪ These days, the evolution issue is symbolic of the legislative influence of religious conservatives.
▪ But the candidate himself continues to court religious conservatives with fiery attacks on abortion and on Sen.
▪ By some estimates, as many as 2 of every 5 Iowa Republican voters are religious conservatives.
▪ Still, Buchanan appeals to abortion opponents, gun rights advocates and religious conservatives.
conviction
▪ They all wear headscarves-whether out of fear or religious conviction I do not know-whereas I don't.
▪ Furthermore, preparation of students to work as church musicians without regard to their religious convictions can lead to confusion or insincerity.
▪ Davis' religious conviction actually gives him a better understanding of Hall, Hall says.
▪ That shows an inner strength which must be the result of his deep religious conviction.
▪ The nuns do not, as a matter of religious conviction, use such modern conveniences, but city bureaucrats were implacable.
▪ Its aim would be to produce people with versatile musicianship and proven teaching ability, based upon religious conviction.
▪ Friends and associates describe Starr, the son of a Baptist minister, as a man of deep religious convictions.
discrimination
▪ It had previously been notorious in some areas for the manipulation of electoral boundaries and for the practice of religious discrimination.
▪ Students do not need to be victims of racism, sexism, religious discrimination, or homophobia to feel like outsiders.
▪ To begin with, Catholics objected to religious discrimination reflected in the unfair allocation of jobs, housing and industrial investment.
education
▪ But religious education has been known to be fundamentalist and in some cases anti-catholic, depending on the teacher.
▪ After his religious education advisors had reviewed the program, he banned it from archdiocesan schools.
▪ Puskat started life in 1969 producing audio visuals for religious education.
▪ Beside her stood Anna Thompson, the director of religious education.
▪ I suspect this, like compulsory religious education, gave me a lifelong scepticism about obligatory elements in any curriculum.
▪ We can apply these to the purpose of religious education in this way: to help pupils 1.
▪ History, geography, technology, music, religious education, art and physical education were not dealt with in separate departments.
▪ Catholic teachers are urged to consider the benefits of such a process of formation for all in religious education.
experience
▪ One of the lessons we have already begun to learn is the almost uncanny universality of the religious experience.
▪ Such a thought finds a corroboration in religious experience and thought.
▪ He had that resigned helplessness which hospital patients and people in the thrall of religious experience have.
▪ Larson cites a medical journal article of 22 years ago that compares a religious experience to a psychotic episode.
▪ The disciplined study of religion reaches out more broadly to cover all the forms of religious experience.
▪ A visit to the ancient ruins, especially on a quiet weekday, comes close to a religious experience.
▪ People who do not understand his religious experience are fools!
▪ The learning is an intense cultural and religious experience.
faith
▪ None in religious education. 9 - strong religious faith?
▪ If that happens, religious faith is born.
▪ Walker was baptised a Presbyterian but throughout her life her religious faith grew ever broader in its outlook.
▪ Latimer is living apart from people, divorced even from religious faith by his visions, when Charles Meunier pays a visit.
▪ To contemplate death may be scary, but for those with a strong religious faith it can be almost exciting.
▪ Such calculations did little to shake the religious faith of the masses.
▪ Some would see his agnosticism, his awareness of the limits to thought, as the only true basis for religious faith.
▪ The effort to inculcate ethical behavior without religious faith seems one of the great fiascoes of the modern age.
fanatic
▪ Pathans are very very orthodox and sometimes religious fanatics.
▪ Born dirt-poor in a southern town to religious fanatics, he was raised on the Bible and the taunts of others.
▪ In December 1980, there was a serious outbreak of rioting by religious fanatics in the northern city of Kano.
freedom
▪ They would know the real meaning of religious freedom, something which has never really existed throughout religious history.
▪ This pioneering plea for religious freedom called diversity not a curse but a glory.
▪ The Humane Slaughter Association is right to point out the arguments in favour of religious freedom.
▪ When the United States assured religious freedom around 1776, the founders paid little notice to this seeker.
▪ The police were called and required the protesters to go home, in the name of religious freedom.
▪ There have been instances of religious freedom being outweighed by a powerful public interest, however.
▪ You've also got various religious freedom fighters.
▪ The principle of religious freedom was established as fundamental from the beginning of this nation.
group
▪ This is particularly true of certain ethnic and religious groups.
▪ Are student religious groups entitled to recognition?
▪ The ostensible reason was Mr Moussa's supposedly unauthorised dialogue with representatives of the main radical religious group, the Jamaat Islamiya.
▪ A religious group called the Legion of Mary went from door to door to collect these portions.
▪ I am a friend of the religious groups, but only of the revolutionary religious groups!
▪ Can student religious groups use school facilities?
▪ Elsewhere, when governments had failed to provide schools, religious groups often moved into the vacuum.
house
▪ At one time a fifth of the town was occupied by religious houses or mission centres.
▪ These were used as retreats in times of attack and for clandestine communication between the religious houses.
▪ All his surviving work was done for religious houses in the south-west.
▪ The comparison is a literal one as far as the abbeys and other religious houses in the list of libraries here are concerned.
▪ The hospitality of the religious houses had become the responsibility of the gentry.
▪ The relationship between the popes and the religious houses could be used to papal advantage.
▪ The religious houses fitted neatly into the papal hierarchical structure.
institution
▪ In these years he was frequently a proctor for prelates and religious institutions in Parliament.
▪ Bishop Drausin founded several religious institutions, including a chapel for nuns who had taken ill and a monastery at Rethondes.
▪ But spontaneous vigour of citizens and of political and religious institutions was not, happily, any longer felt to be sufficient.
▪ It comes as President Bush advances a plan to increase the involvement of religious institutions in solving social problems.
▪ The final obstacle was a disagreement between Shas and Mafdal over the distribution of funds to their client religious institutions.
▪ It is also true that he accorded certain privileges to the Roman Church, as well as to other religious institutions.
instruction
▪ In return, local authorities were empowered to appoint the teachers in such schools for all subjects other than religious instruction.
▪ She started giving children religious instruction and grew to love teaching.
▪ Gradualism had failed to secure the collaboration of masters or their agents in educating or providing religious instruction for the slaves.
▪ More prayers, more training, sometimes with live firing, followed by more religious instruction.
▪ Before the 1988 Act, the governing bodies had control only over religious instruction.
▪ Can students receive religious instruction during school hours?
▪ It laid down guidelines for religious instruction.
▪ There the religious instruction started by his father, who for all the lean years had been his schoolteacher, continued.
leader
▪ It is a system that works well for the police and for the city's religious leaders.
▪ A son of the great religious leader I think it was-he discovered that place where the cannery was.
▪ Enquiries emanated from government departments, newspapers, independent scholars, medical practitioners, religious leaders and philanthropic bodies.
▪ It was the inspired creation of a company of gifted architects, canny financiers, and cosmopolitan religious leaders.
▪ The army stamps with efficiency on any uppity religious leaders.
▪ A: Yes, what is unique this time is that we are convening some civil rights and religious leaders.
▪ His sense of foreboding is shared by almost every politician, diplomat, religious leader and journalist returning from the region.
liberty
▪ Needless to say, this system by no means produced the religious liberty for which people had originally fought.
▪ Its purpose is to secure religious liberty in the individual by prohibiting any invasions thereof by civil authority.
▪ To withhold religious liberty was out of the question.
▪ This case is not about religious liberty.
life
▪ My dream of the religious life is shattered.
▪ They grafted themselves, in fact, on to a much older, more primitive and powerful religious life.
▪ Secondly, he cared about the intellectual question in religious life.
▪ Their religious life is tolerant, pluralist, divided into different sects or denominations.
▪ These embrace the Benedictine, Augustinian, Franciscan and other main traditions of the religious life.
▪ Under the circumstances, it was only natural that religious life be focused on their gods of war.
▪ We have done little to consider how new members entering the religious life nowadays can internalize the attitudes they attempted to represent.
▪ It was the single greatest revelation of his religious life.
man
▪ He had always been a very religious man, which had helped him a lot in the Corporation.
▪ He is a Sikh, a religious man, very calm, kind.
▪ Hadn't she just described the truly religious man, some one in the world but not of it?
▪ My father was not a religious man in his youth and middle years.
▪ Clarke was a deeply religious man who enjoyed mathematics, music, and domestic life.
▪ Starbuck is the religious man and he sees in the doubloon a symbol of the Trinity.
▪ Lord Halifax was a cold fish, a man of steely rectitude, a religious man.
▪ It did not change me in the sense that I am a religious man now.
matter
▪ For him it's a religious matter.
▪ Sophia was not intolerant in religious matters.
▪ If this legislation was repealed, the Pope promised, the church would confine itself to religious matters.
▪ There are just the odd hints here and there that John and Ann did not always see eye-to-eye on religious matters.
▪ Learning, singing, and praying are rolled up into one: catechesis, as opposed to dialogue or concerned interest for religious matters.
▪ During the long sea voyage, Thomas Burns was seen as a leader in more than religious matters.
objection
▪ Sometimes there are often religious objections.
▪ For example, mandatory polio immunization of all school children has been upheld, despite the religious objections of some parents.
▪ Suitable for couples with religious objections to other methods.
▪ What if the family has religious objections?
▪ Can a teacher refuse to follow the curriculum if the refusal is based on religious objections?
observance
▪ Figures of religious observance are harder to come by.
▪ This information also served as the basis for fixing with exactness the dates of major religious observances such as Easter.
▪ A punctilious attention to prayers and strict religious observance would win their indulgence.
▪ Now that religious observance was officially discouraged only a few hundred worshippers were present.
▪ But the universal character of Amnesty should surely bar the incorporation of any religious observance into its official procedures.
▪ As an adult, John did not follow any religious observances.
▪ She was one of the few members of the artistic community who admitted to religious observance.
▪ The seventeen volumes of his survey provide a remarkable survey not only of poverty but of employment and religious observance in London.
party
▪ As these opportunities appeared, so at the same time the lines of religious party and sect hardened.
▪ This process of clarification may not have pleased the ruling classes or the officials of the religious parties.
▪ Having a religious party on board could make all the difference.
▪ Negotiations with Moda'i Initially, Peres directed his efforts towards winning the support of small orthodox religious parties.
▪ The debate was interspersed with angry exchanges as the small religious parties demanded increased state funding for their seminaries and social institutions.
people
▪ To say this is not to belittle the sincere concern shown by many religious people in the debate over embryo research.
▪ They were very religious people that come over here from the old country.
▪ If she or I had taken more trouble I might have been convinced that all religious people were cruel hypocrites.
▪ It is opposed by religious people who believe that one can and should pray at home or in a place of worship.
▪ He wanted to know what are the experiences and emotions of religious people.
▪ Many religious people are as worried as non-religious people about the abuse of religion.
▪ For in the real world there is a nasty side to religion, and religious people can become ogres.
purpose
▪ The divine art of poetry was dedicated once to a religious purpose.
▪ Miracles, however, have a religious purpose, not a scientific one.
▪ Robert Hibbert had died in 1849 leaving money for religious purposes, which was at first applied to theological education.
▪ Firstly, the hill is not suitable for defense or agriculture and therefore must have served a religious purpose.
▪ Now, it was invoked for a religious purpose.
▪ Babylonian science was predicated on a tradition of astronomical record-keeping for strictly religious purposes.
▪ Typical of the late Middle Ages were secular funds created for religious purposes.
▪ What Paul refers to is a real meal, but one with a religious purpose.
right
▪ The religious right can not side wholeheartedly with Dole now.
▪ The religious right has made the strongest claim.
▪ He straddles the ground between party moderates and the religious right.
▪ Within months, the religious right had begun to compare her plight with that of civil rights activists in the I 950s.
▪ But for the religious right, McCain would certainly have won.
▪ The vast majority of Viriginia voters, almost 90 %, were not part of the religious right.
▪ Most fundamentalist churches disapprove of homosexuals, and many leaders of the religious right have aggressively campaigned against gay rights.
▪ The Pentagon opposed the forced discharges, but Congress preferred to pander to the social and religious right.
school
▪ One legitimate fear is that more religious schools will deepen social divides.
▪ True, synagogue membership and religious school enrollment both hover around 50 percent.
▪ The government should be outspoken, and specific, about its fears for teaching in religious schools.
▪ They were joined by teenage boys who surged in waves from the neighboring Mir-i-Arab Madrasa, a religious school.
▪ The palace was also Charles's religious school.
▪ Can public schools provide sign language interpreters for deaf students attending religious schools?
▪ Other religious schools unwilling to go along with them should no longer expect state funding.
▪ Can the state regulate private religious schools?
sect
▪ Paramat stood by the doorway with the attitude of a tourist at the shrine of an exotic religious sect.
▪ Behind the gate, however, is a religious sect that former members say indulges in polygamy and other questionable practices.
▪ He believes Dinah has either been murdered or is the prisoner of a religious sect.
▪ It must be stressed that the Zealots were not a religious sect or denomination.
teaching
▪ There are numerous examples of the manner in which distorted religious teaching has done harm.
▪ Examples are constitutions, revered leaders, widely respected media or books, and religious teachings.
▪ It is not surprising to find, therefore, that the womb has a key role in many religious teachings.
▪ In most religious teachings it is said that no lasting realization can be achieved without many years of practice.
▪ The child starts off with an in-built certainty that sooner or later his intelligence will clash with his religious teaching.
▪ Opposition to contraception is often reinforced by religious teachings and the fear that contraceptives will encourage wives to be unfaithful.
▪ Inpart this reflected religious scruples since mechanical explanations for our behaviour were incompatible with religious teaching.
tradition
▪ Assertiveness training has rarely featured much in religious traditions.
▪ But the abuses of our religious traditions should not keep us from affirming their call to compassion.
▪ A conventional conflict thesis can also conceal vital distinctions between different religious traditions and between liberal and conservative representatives of those traditions.
▪ And modern life, in almost all its aspects, represents a break with religious tradition.
▪ Clearly none of the religious traditions we have examined asserts the latter.
▪ The proposed immigration policy would compromise the First Amendment, which forbids the identification of the United States with any religious tradition.
▪ It is, of course, impossible to do justice to the thought of a religious tradition with one or two quotations.
▪ Increased possibilities of travel together with the effects of immigration have also made possible a wider knowledge of the world's religious traditions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
along religious/ethnic/party etc lines
▪ In Moldavia there was a marked division of voting along ethnic lines.
▪ In the specific conditions of post-colonial underdevelopment it is not unusual to find conflict within the bourgeoisie working along ethnic lines.
▪ It comes as no surprise that the caricatures are extended along ethnic lines.
▪ On Capitol Hill, reactions to Bush's proposals fell predictably along party lines.
▪ The committee voted 21-16, along party lines, to empower Burton.
▪ The Council, said the author, should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines.
▪ The vote was 35 to 24, almost strictly along party lines.
religious/sex maniac
the religious right
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Religious education is compulsory in all English schools.
▪ religious studies
▪ a religious festival
▪ All acts of religious worship were banned.
▪ At one time, I was very religious and a regular church-goer.
▪ He's always been a religious man, and I think that has helped him.
▪ Hooker was born on a Mississippi farm, to a deeply religious mother who disapproved of almost all music.
▪ Like many Victorians, Ruskin was deeply religious.
▪ My mother is so religious that she won't even watch TV on Sundays.
▪ Record companies feared the album might cause offence to people on religious grounds.
▪ The tutor discussed her own religious beliefs openly with the students.
▪ The walls were decorated with religious symbols.
▪ They didn't attend because of religious reasons.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But it refers to a religious reality that is so basic and so universal its equivalent has been found almost everywhere.
▪ It also took testimony Thursday from religious leaders.
▪ It depicted what he took to be some sort of religious ritual.
▪ Since it was the Sabbath, he thought he ought to watch something religious.
▪ Some religious have moved into smaller communities whilst carrying the responsibility for caring for their own elderly and sick brothers and sisters.
▪ The variety of religious motivations was not always conducive to harmony among philanthropists.
▪ To pursue political objectives seriously, they must work with the very people whose religious beliefs are most antithetical to their own.