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

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

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

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

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

And this is part of what ancient religion was like, is that people were not exclusive.

古代宗教的特点之一，就是人们并不排外。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

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

In fact, next semester I'm teaching an entire course devoted to Hobbes' critique of religion in which this will, among other things, figure prominently.

下学期我会开一门课,专门讲霍布斯,对宗教的评述，尤其是对那些，重要杰出人物的评价。

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

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

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

VOA: special.2011.03.17

and in fact in art and in religion, if I don't recognize my pain and confusion and suffering, it is not, in my words, self-vific.

事实上，在艺术和宗教中，如果我不面对我的痛苦，疑惑和苦难，那么艺术就不是，用我的话讲，有现实意义的。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.07.03

I wasn't able to go to the actual graduation ceremony but I was at the class-day ceremony for those seniors to graduating from the religion department. -Right.

额，我没有去成毕业典礼仪式,但我参加了宗教系毕业生典礼,但我参加了宗教系毕业生典礼，-恩。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.05.22

But I would say - I would agree with you - but I would add that for me, good religion and good art - I like this idea -- are as real as life itself.

我同意你的观点，但我还想加一点,对我来说，好的宗教和好的艺术,应该和生活一样真实，我喜欢这个理念。

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

How do these ideas or how does this material jive with other aspects of Israelite religion that we've talked about so far?

这些观点或内容,是怎么和我们到目前所讲到的,以色列宗教的其他方面相应和的？

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

We have a special topic, which is nature and spirituality, or religion and the outdoors.

今天我们的话题很特别,关于自然与灵性，换句话说，是关于宗教与户外。

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

I was not a part of this growing conversation about religion and public life in the 1990s.

我并未参与到90年代日益加大的,对宗教和社会生活的讨论中。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

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

VOA: special.2009.12.24

Inner Core is a program about religion, spirituality and ethics and anything else that comes to mind.

人性》是一档关于,宗教，精神和道德的节目,也包括涉及到精神的其他任何事物。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Well, this reconstruction of the evolution of Israelite history, Israelite religion, excuse me, is really driven more by theological prejudice than it is by historical evidence.

嗯，以色列历史进化过程的重建，以色列的宗教，抱歉，实际上是由神学偏见推动的,而不是历史证据。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选