Sentences with phrase «religious orthodoxy make»

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In the east, the Russian czars, jealous of the religious power of Kiev, made the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church the dominant force of eastern orthodoxy.

His articles over a period of years exercised great influence on youthful minds and made many converts from the modernists and Muslim communists — but very few from the Muslim nationalists, since they belonged to religious orthodoxy and were not inclined to listen to the young Maudoodi.

In later years it served as a center of Muslim orthodoxy, but it also created religious leaders who did not hesitate to make common cause with the Hindus in an effort to wrest power from the British.

Fundamentalism, «the religious phenomenon of the twentieth century,» is made up of «the militant and faithful defenders of biblical orthodoxy.»

For example, the decline of orthodoxy may beassociated with a rise in personalized religious interpretations that make religion more adaptable to changing circumstances.