Religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.
1The Persian state religion was Zoroastrianism and wherever it spread, Christianity was persecuted.
2Twelver Islam is the predominant branch of Shia Islam and Iran's state religion.
3The policy of Rome pagan was to dictate the state religion.
4Presbyterianism became a more intolerant state religion than Anglicanism had been.
5Nations with an exclusive state religion, like Spain, are not much better off.
6The state religion which the monarch pledges to uphold has a weakening public hold.
7A particular school of Confucian ethics was adopted and taught as the state religion.
8These reforms gave new vigor to the Roman state religion.
9The Roman Catholic religion is now the recognized state religion.
10At Rome it was a state religion, but not a government by the priests.
11Ark of Baz becomes state religion of the Empire
12Why not a constitutional amendment establishing a state religion?
13The party wants to formally make Buddhism the state religion and give more support for temples.
14This is no blueprint for totalitarian state religion.
15MAYONNAISE, n. One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
16Early kings were themselves the head of the state religion or else had separate high priests.
Translations for state religion