It is my belief that religion should serve man in this way.

American religion served evident social purposes, Herberg concluded, but it had lost its biblical thrust.

A religion cannot possibly serve the world if it can be understood only by people who have been especially educated.

Culture and religion also serve to integrate the immigrant community and to insulate it from wider society.

For centuries, religion served as society's moral standard-bearer on matters concerning the beginning and end of life.

Today, religion, frequently compounded with nationality, serves as a marker of group identity.

That is to say, the religions of the East and the West have served and, for the most part, continue to serve their adherents well.

Perhaps, after all, religion will best serve his ends.

Karl Marx believed that religion serves to hold in check the explosive tensions of a society.

The rulers, meanwhile, manipulated religion to serve their own ends.