religious identity

collocation in English

meaningsofreligiousandidentity

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religious
adjective
us
//uk
/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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identity
noun
uk
/aɪˈden.tə.ti/us
/aɪˈden.t̬ə.t̬i/
a person's name and other facts about who ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandidentityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofreligious identity

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Yet his ascendancy owed more to the internal politics of the new ruling party than to hisreligiousidentity.
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Nevertheless, some still wanted to hold on to thatreligiousidentity.
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Many of these clashes involve large numbers of young men, who are mobilised along lines of shared origin, residence orreligiousidentity.
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And why has thereligiousidentitybecome seemingly hegemonic over other identities?
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From the very beginning it had established a strong link between political relationships andreligiousidentity.
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This generalization holds with respect to the proportion of the population who claim areligiousidentityand the proportion that pray daily.
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All illuminate the tension between national andreligiousidentity.
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Reformation politics powerfully resurrected the view that thereligiousidentityof a people must be considered a function of their ruler's confessional conviction.
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Religiousidentitywas one of the strongest such anchors.
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The book does so by studying the connections between the act of interpretation and the formation ofreligiousidentity.
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It suggests, instead, the compatibility of indices of institutional church decline with the persistence ofreligiousidentityand limited church affiliation.
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They are very conscious of theirreligiousidentity.
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Itsreligiousidentity, too, has undergone subtle changes.
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Religiousidentityseems to have been a relatively frequent casualty of the rising, with at least some families finding safety in embracing, at least outwardly, the rebels' religion.
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