It was a sort of historico-philosophical disquisition on religious imagination, and had an instant vogue.
Wilgefortis is a female saint of popular religious imagination whose cult arose in the 14th century.
And certainly there is the religious imagination, the question of how people deal with the problem of human suffering, a problem as old as Job.
Still, the scrolls have a hold on the religious imagination that transcends the rational.
"This transition, this major transition in the calendar, stimulates people's religious imaginations."
For the first time in Jewish religious history, the religious imagination had turned to speculation of a more abstract nature.
A Jewish visionary will see visions of the seven heavens because his religious imagination is stocked with these particular symbols.
The story's melancholic sheen stems from Fowler's understanding of his own corruption, which requires a religious imagination.
The center of religious imagination in America today has drifted to evangelism.
The tenets of Earthseed arise from a thought-provoking collaboration between the scientific and religious imaginations.