religious authority
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreligiousandauthority
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religious
adjective
us//uk/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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authority
noun
uk/ɔːˈθɒr.ə.ti/us/əˈθɔːr.ə.t̬i/
the moral or legal right or ability ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandauthorityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreligious authority
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Today, more and more,religiousauthoritydoes not come exclusively from religious training.
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In this way, a contemporary critique of traditionalreligiousauthorityalso included women's participation, but with a difference.
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I also argued that it could confer on physicians an element ofreligiousauthority.
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And, perhaps most important, the localreligiousauthoritymight sporadically neglect to record some events.
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People started to ask for a more immediatereligiousauthorityto deal with their daily lives and to provide an emotional link to religion.
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Conversion texts generally reconstitute the family in a moment that reinterprets paternal andreligiousauthority.
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Among liberalism's central ideas were those of the individual's right of religious liberty and the separate jurisdictions of secular andreligiousauthority.
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How isreligiousauthorityproduced and reproduced today, and what is its relationship to the broader field of political power?
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The hierarchy ofreligiousauthoritythat allowed each church to possess a particular number and size of bells seems to have been reinforced during the seventeenth century.
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Ullman's rebellion againstreligiousauthoritywas, indeed, a rare case of a philosopher's defiance of the rabbinical elite.
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She explores this sacredness - and the consolidation ofreligiousauthoritywithin kings - through ritual regicide, installation rituals and kings' growing involvement in rainmaking and male and female initiation.
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In the meta-context ofreligiousauthoritycounter-intuitive beliefs are considered undeniable truths despite the fact that in other contexts the same beliefs are not held to be true.
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For many, this form of legitimization is deeply unsettling and, through scandal after scandal, it becomes publicly expressed through accusations of corrupt claims toreligiousauthorityand authenticity.
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It is thereligiousauthoritywhich strives to dominate the civil authority, and when this kind of thing prevails there must be trouble.
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I wish that it were possible to repeat what they said, but it would be denying theirreligiousauthority.
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Rushbrooke is a very great man, a greatreligiousauthority, whose name is indeed a household word.
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I would go on to say that possibly in such cases there might be consultation with areligiousauthoritybefore an order was made removing the child.
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So there is a difficulty at least equal to that which he finds, a difficulty for the secular authority equal to that of thereligiousauthoritywhich he represents.
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