Sentences with phrase «religion as a significant factor»

Keister's conclusions are not exactly counterintuitive» except perhaps to members of the academy who can't bring themselves to think of religion as a significant factor in the world.

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For many years — perhaps since the Scopes trial in 1925 — the eastern secular and liberal Protestant establishments treated evangelical religion as though it were an archaic religious form, peculiarly persistent in some regions of the country, but not a significant factor in American culture.