Usage of "national 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 

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... 

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 

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 national religion en inglés

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 

With the people of Athens, tragedy formed a part of the national religion. 
 Handbook of Universal Literature, From the Best and Latest Autho... 

Above all, the national religion supplied the spiritual life with an immovable basis. 
 Prolegomena to the History of Israel 

Wahab was an ambitious fanatic, who aimed, nevertheless, at reforming the national religion. 
 History of the Moors of Spain 

We haven't any national religion any more than we have a national flower. 
 Pomona's Travels / A Series of Letters to the Mistress of Rudder... 

Beer being the national religion, why shouldn't it find adequate expression in Art? 
 Without Prejudice 

Islam is Pakistan's national religion and underpins its legal system. 
 Radio NZ 

The 'other religion' Rugby is a national religion of sorts. 
 Radio NZ 

Superstition runs strong in Cambodia, where the national religion, Buddhism, is flecked with animism. 
 Reuters 

But laws were not only passed against the native race and the national religion. 
 Handbook of Home Rule: Being Articles on the Irish Question 

The next is a national religion, belonging to one country. 
 The Eve of the French Revolution 

The old pride of the Latin national religion-themoderation of its economic demands-wasirrevocably gone. 
 The History of Rome, Book III / From the Union of Italy to the S... 