What may be more important to most Americans than religion among their fellow citizens is a government free of it.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

There's this deep religious tradition that came out of Slave Religion, but there is also a deep anger. -Yes. Yes.

在《奴隶宗教》这本书中,既有深深的宗教传统，又有一种怒火，-的确如此。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

We can talk about "religion-ex" since everybody is spiritually equal, but women and men actually in practice are not equal.

我们可以说说“宗教性别“,在精神层面上，人人都是平等的，而实际上女人和男人是不平等的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

These are to bury the old man deep in the ground, and to bring religion to his uncle's mentally sick child.

VOA: special.2010.12.26

It brought Judean religion closer to monotheism because you have the insistence of worshiping one god in his one central sanctuary.

它使犹太人的宗教更接近于一神崇拜因为,对只崇拜一个神并且以他为祭祀中心的坚持。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The study also found that more than one-quarter of American adults have left the religion in which they were raised.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

That's why hermeneutics gradually moved I should say, it didn't desert religion, but it expanded--to the study of the law.

因此诠释学从宗教领域转移到了,应该说，它没有离开宗教，而是延伸到了法学领域。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

Public schools in the United States have to be neutral about religion, even though they close for holidays like Christmas.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

So what makes him feel close to home, in a way, has to make him feel close to the religion he's trying to reject.

所以，要想让一个人对亲近家，在某种意义上，先得让他亲近他试图抗拒的宗教。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The First Amendment of the Constitution supports religious freedom and places religion outside the reach of the government.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

Jefferson:"Northerners are cool, sober, laborious, persevering, independent, jealous of their own liberties, chicaning, superstitious, and hypocritical in their religion."

杰斐逊说,"北方人冷静,稳重,勤劳,坚毅,独立,珍惜自身的自由,奸诈,迷信,还假装是虔诚宗教信徒"

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

A survey last April by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life found that fifty-four percent of Americans opposed gay marriage.

VOA: special.2010.02.06

There are no signs or fruit of religion," he says, " "but in man only," he says in chapter 12.

他在第十二章中说，“由于除开人类以外，便没有任何宗教的迹象或其成果。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Regina Spektor says she has always been interested in faith and religion and she is always thinking about them in different ways.

VOA: special.2009.08.14

In Stevens, modernity shows us that the truth of religion was always a fiction, a fundamentally poetic construction.

在史蒂文斯的诗里，现代性向我们展示了,宗教的真理不过是虚构之言，是最基本的诗意创作。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

Parents are entitled to send their children to school without having to proselytize somebody having somebody else's religion."

VOA: special.2011.03.17

Religion can't be divorced from social, political, and historical contexts and issues.

宗教无法脱离于社会，政治，及历史环境与事件。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

Title seven of that federal law says employers cannot discriminate based on race,color,religion, sex and national origin.

VOA: special.2009.07.03

Some of the sampled denied having any religion at all-- said they have no religion at all.

样本中有些人声称自己并无宗教信仰,那些无神论者

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

Thomas Jefferson and other early American leaders purposely designed a national government that had no established religion.

VOA: special.2009.05.22

I think it's also the struggle of a generation trying to enrich the public square with positive conversation about religion.

我认为这也是我们这一代人的努力,我们试图通过积极地谈论宗教,来丰富社会生活。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life did a study in two thousand seven on major religious traditions in the United States.

VOA: special.2010.03.05

So Israelite-Judean religion on the ground shared many cultic forms and practices and rituals with Canaanite and Ancient Near Eastern culture generally.

因此以色列-犹太宗教本质上来说,和迦南以及古近东时期的文化,在宗教形式、操作和仪式上有很多共同点。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

He wanted a place where they would be safe where no one could interfere with their religion.

VOA: special.2009.05.28

And speaking in turn to the arden secularists to say religion should have no part in the White House.

再说到艺术世俗主义者,他们说白宫不应该涉及宗教。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Gold was discovered there. Treaties and religion meant nothing to the white miners who rushed to the Black Hills to search for gold.

VOA: special.2010.04.08

The priests were able to construct a new identity and religion that stressed the sinfulness of the people, and the need for ritual purity and ritual observance and legalism as the road back to God.

这些牧师能够建造新的身份和宗教,强调人们的原罪，宗教圣洁和遵从律法的必要性,强调守法主义是重返上帝的必经之路。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

At the same time,courts have ruled against any publicly supported celebrations of one religion over another.

VOA: special.2009.12.24

This is, I think one, of the best examples of that syncretic view of religion, that basically all worshippers are worshipping the same god.

我认为这是个最好的例子,来证明宗教的融合的观点，基本上，左右的崇拜者都在崇拜同一个上帝。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

Poetry, you remember--this is a scientist-- is no more true than religion, but it can perform the function of religion and is therefore capable of saving us.

科学家曾说过-,诗歌并不比宗教更真实，但是诗歌具有宗教的作用,并因此可以拯救人类。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选