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Meanings of state religion in English

Russian
официальная религия
Portuguese
religião oficial
Catalan
religió estatal
Spanish
estado confesional
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Religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.

официальная религия
Usage of state religion in English
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The Persian state religion was Zoroastrianism and wherever it spread, Christianity was persecuted.
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Twelver Islam is the predominant branch of Shia Islam and Iran's state religion.
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The policy of Rome pagan was to dictate the state religion.
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Presbyterianism became a more intolerant state religion than Anglicanism had been.
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5
Nations with an exclusive state religion, like Spain, are not much better off.
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The state religion which the monarch pledges to uphold has a weakening public hold.
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7
A particular school of Confucian ethics was adopted and taught as the state religion.
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These reforms gave new vigor to the Roman state religion.
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9
The Roman Catholic religion is now the recognized state religion.
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At Rome it was a state religion, but not a government by the priests.
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Ark of Baz becomes state religion of the Empire
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Why not a constitutional amendment establishing a state religion?
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The party wants to formally make Buddhism the state religion and give more support for temples.
Reuters
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This is no blueprint for totalitarian state religion.
The Guardian
15
MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
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16
Early kings were themselves the head of the state religion or else had separate high priests.
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