By the time Weber wrote his essay, he believed that the religious underpinnings of the Protestant ethic had largely gone from society.

Osama bin Laden himself couldn't be clearer about the religious underpinnings of his campaign of terror.

In fact, the Knesset, or parliamentary assembly of Israel, enacts laws with religious underpinnings.

It probably stems from the religious underpinnings of our society in eternal redemption.

The 2012 phenomenon has mystical or religious underpinnings, or both.

The rates could be read as a sign there is something wrong with the institution of marriage, especially its patriarchal and religious underpinnings.

And their contributions to the panorama make explicit the religious and ideological underpinnings of much of the painting produced by that movement.

Still, two weeks ago, the Hillsborough school board upheld a district plan to ban, for the first time, all holiday celebrations with religious underpinnings, including Halloween parties.

Other authors display a faith as earnest as that writer's is esthetic, but no less complacent about the religious underpinnings of what they are reporting.

Bizot, a French ethnologist studying the religious underpinnings of rural society, was abducted by a rebel band near the monastery where he was working.