Based on this interpretation, the village had been founded by one person with religious motives.

The police stressed that they found no concrete evidence of a religious or political motive for the attack.

When he began to paint again, his works have appeared distinctly religious motives.

Later, in the 1910s, he began to focus more on religious and mythological motives.

As we have seen, a religious motive was more often important then than now.

I'm particularly interested in seeing if there's a religious motive behind any of this.

But some groups say the building boom also has religious motives.

As a result the science, education, art, technology and institutions of a society are dependent on its religious motive.

This is usually done for religious or political motives.

But he said it was possible that the gunman had religious or political motives.