Usage of "established religion"

ruso

официальная религия

portugués

religião oficial

catalán

religió estatal

español

estado confesional

Religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.

estado confesional

Sinónimos

Examples for "state religion"

The Persian state religion was Zoroastrianism and wherever it spread, Christianity was persecuted. 
 Templars: history and myth: from solomon's temple to the freemas... 

Twelver Islam is the predominant branch of Shia Islam and Iran's state religion. 
 The ayatollah begs to differ 

The policy of Rome pagan was to dictate the state religion. 
 Notes on the Apocalypse 

Presbyterianism became a more intolerant state religion than Anglicanism had been. 
 A Political and Social History of Modern Europe V.1. 

Nations with an exclusive state religion, like Spain, are not much better off. 
 Recollections of My Youth 

RELIGION: The official religion is Islam, and Libyan Muslims are mainly Sunni. 
 Reuters 

Having said that, bear in mind that Islam is the official religion. 
 Independent.ie 

Changing the official religion didn't change the superstitions of the country people. 
 Surrender to the will of the night 

The priests systematized existing folk beliefs and established an official religion. 
 Myths of Babylonia and Assyria 

There was, however, no necessary conflict between this worship and the official religion. 
 Life in the Roman World of Nero and St. Paul 

There is nothing that so powerfully influences literature as the national religion. 
 The History of Roman Literature / From the Earliest Period to th... 

Marvell then passes on to the national religion and the heterogeneity of Amsterdam:- 
 A Wanderer in Holland 

The faith of Christ became the national religion of the empire. 
 The World's Greatest Books — Volume 11 — Ancient and Mediæval Hi... 

This King was attempting to destroy in Palestine the national religion. 
 The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 / (From the Ris... 

Sintooism may be regarded as the national religion of the country. 
 Sketches of Japanese Manners and Customs 

The constitution protects the right to practice any religion but doesn't rule out the establishment of an official state religion. 
 Radio NZ 

At some point in the last decade, however, a decree went out that rugby was to become the new official State religion. 
 The Irish Times 

Uso de established religion en inglés

A sovereign attached to the established religion might sit on the throne. 
 The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ... 

This approach is even endorsed, implicitly if not explicitly, by established religion. 
 The Prosperity of Humankind 

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. 
 Preface to Major Barbara: First Aid to Critics 

The doctrines and rites of the established religion they treated with decent reverence. 
 Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 

There was a change for the better when Christianity became the established religion. 
 The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 / A Typographic Art Jo... 

They did not come here with the enlarged idea of no established religion. 
 The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1 

Even western Europe, held back by its legacy of established religion, will soon follow. 
 The Guardian 

There is now no established religion in Japan, Buddhism having been abolished in 1874. 
 Round the World 

Mexico's established religion under the Constitution, being Roman Catholic, did not permit its perpetuation. 
 Slavery and Four Years of War, Vol. 1-2 / A Political History of... 

This, Madison believed, was not a promising start for the notion of an established religion. 
 Idiot america: how stupidity became a virtue in the land of the ... 

Among the laity who conformed to the established religion the parties were not unevenly balanced. 
 The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ... 

The established religion is the Russo-Greek, or Græco-Russian, known officially as the Orthodox Catholic Faith. 
 Russia, as Seen and Described by Famous Writers 

To express views openly at variance with the established religion was to imperil one's life. 
 Mystics and Saints of Islam 

The Church of England was the established religion. 
 A Brief History of the United States 

The established religion of the Moors is Mahometan. 
 Travels through the Empire of Morocco 

Their movement was an extreme revolt against the formalism, corporate character, and externality of established religion. 
 The American Nation: A History — Volume 1: European Background o... 