Sentences with phrase «ultraconservative religious»

The adoption of ultraconservative religious standards in Saudi Arabia led to the closing of cinemas in the early 1980s on the orders of hardline Muslim clerics.

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The pastors told me that, according to the Argentine Registry of Non-Catholic Religions, more than 2,000 free religious movements, including Protestants and other minority religions, are registered in Argentina — most of them related to ultraconservative or fundamentalist North American groups.

At a moment when civil religious symbols are more and more co-opted by ultraconservatives and the philosophy of liberalism seems less and less adequate as a guide to our public or private lives, a revival of public philosophy seems urgently needed.8 One of the tasks of such a revival would be to make the religious aspect of our central tradition understandable in a nonreactionary way.

Claude, a young adult from an ultraconservative Protestant group, reports that the theme song of his early religious life might have been the hymn line, «For such a worm as I.» As a result of obtaining psychotherapy in his early twenties, he gradually achieved a sense of his worth as a person.