(n.) One earnestly devoted or attached to a religion; a religious zealot.
Example Sentences:
(1) This is a reminder that the vast proportion of casualties of terrorism are Muslims killed by co-religionists.
(2) The religionists haven't helped themselves, though; surely the new atheism is in part a reaction to the rise of, say, Islamic extremism?
(3) The expressed intention of his fatwa was to defend and strengthen the clergy, and one of its effects in Britain has been to create a kind of pseudo-clergy, a class of Islamist intellectuals and militants who presume to speak not just for their co-religionists in Britain but 1.5 billion Muslims worldwide.
(4) The US backed prime minister Nouri al-Maliki opted to instead privilege his Shia co-religionists and later, particularly after US forces withdrew in 2011, himself.
(5) Muslims the world over, which Isis views (wrongly) as a sea of potential recruits, could be forgiven for viewing the Republican rhetoric as a declaration of holy war against their co-religionists.
(6) Cairo's Al-Ahram newspaper chided his "politically motivated" 1979 edict forbidding Egyptian Christians from visiting co-religionists in Jerusalem.
(7) And if it has been Hezbollah's overt intervention in the fighting in Qusair that has set the alarm bells ringing ever more loudly, it is worth noting that the Hezbollah's interest in Syria has less to do with the fate of its Alawite co-religionists and everything to do with its own survival and interests.
(8) Other minority groups, such as Kurds, Alawis and Christians, have been mostly left to their own devices or are helped by co-religionists.
(9) As leaders and senior figures of faith communities, we urge our co-religionists and others to think about the implications of a Leave vote for the things about which we are most passionate.
(10) [Christians] are seen as legitimate targets for what they perceive as actions of their co-religionists.
(11) During the Iran-Iraq war , the Ba'athist government feared that Iraqi Shias would sympathise with their co-religionists in Iran and unleashed waves of repression against them.
(12) They add: “As leaders and senior figures of faith communities, we urge our co-religionists and others to think about the implications of a Leave vote for the things about which we are most passionate.
(13) Baroness Cumberlege is treasured by co-religionists as "a distinguished Catholic politician".
(14) In disparaging the potential "bad deal" with Iran, Netanyahu went beyond mere criticism and said to his co-religionists: We are the Jewish state.
(15) To his supporters, whose numbers peaked in the few years after the attacks of 11 September 2001 in America that he masterminded, he was a visionary leader fighting both western aggression against Muslims and his co-religionists' lack of faith and rigour.
Zoroastrian
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to Zoroaster, or his religious system.
(n.) A follower of Zoroaster; one who accepts Zoroastrianism.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Whether Jain or Sikh or Buddhist or Sufi or Zoroastrian or Jewish or Muslim or Baptist or Hindu or Catholic or Baha'i or Animist or any other mainstream or minor religion or movement, we are taught as a tolerant society to accept a diversity of ideologies.
(2) Iran, which was a Zoroastrian country before Islam arrived, is home to some of the world’s most magnificent historical and archaeological sites with ancient ruins, glittering mosques and spectacular landscapes.
(3) It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1319, and today its ruins are spread over a wide area, with the remains of spectacular churches, a Zoroastrian fire temple, palaces and city walls.
(4) Among dual nationals behind bars are Karan Vafadari, an Iranian-American national belonging to the Zoroastrian faith, and his wife Afarin Neyssari.
(5) Over the course of his life, Cyrus meets many influential philosophical figures of his time, including his grandfather (and founder of Zoroastrianism), Socrates, the Buddha, Mahavira, Lao Tsu and Confucius.
(6) Iranians are proud of their history and still largely celebrate many ancient traditions that goes back as far as the country's Zoroastrian era, such as the Persian new year, Nowruz.
(7) It could be shown that the differences between Zoroastrians and Jews are highly significant (p less than 0.001).
(8) Joyce later told ABC Radio that Shiites, Zoroastrians, and Jews in the region were also under threat from extremist, but it was “the reality [that] the future of Christianity in that area is over”.
(9) Islam is the official religion in Iran and only Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians are tolerated as accepted religious minorities with access to higher education, although each face various restrictions.
(10) Iran, which has Islam as its official religion, only recognises Christians, Jews and Zoroastrians as accepted religious minorities.
(11) The Zoroastrians show the lowest frequency of TfC1 (0.4999) and highest frequencies of TfC2 and TfC3 (.02215, and 0.2783, respectively).
(12) Among the social groups utilizing this hospital, the Parsis (Zoroastrians) have the highest incidence of colonic cancer.
(13) During the 9-year period 1964 to 1972 inclusive, a total of 2130 women with breast cancer were seen, with break-down by religion as follows: Hindus (1259), Muslims (306), Christians (264), Parsi (Zoroastrians) (226), Jains (25), Buddhists (26) and others (24).
(14) In the first, Cosmos, Chaos and the World to Come: The Ancient Roots of Apocalyptic Faith (1993), Cohn studied the ancient civilisations of Egypt, Mesopotamia and Vedic India in order to trace the source of millennial speculation, which he claimed to find in Zoroastrianism.
(15) On prevalence day, 16 clinically definite cases of MS were counted, 14 in Bombay and 2 in Poona, from a total Zoroastrian population of 50,053 and 3,399, respectively.
(16) The frequency of transferrin Tf C subtypes has been determined by double one-dimensional electrophoresis of plasma samples from Moslems (n = 91), Zoroastrians (n = 97), Jews (n = 88) and Armenians (n = 88) of Iran.
(17) Link to video Another frontbencher, Barnaby Joyce, made similar comments on Friday , telling ABC Radio that Shias, Zoroastrians and Jews in the region were also being persecuted, but it was “the reality [that] the future of Christianity in that area is over”.
(18) There's Nisaba the Babylonian goddess who looks after the stores of both grain and knowledge in Mesopotamia; the Hindu goddess Saraswati; the Zoroastrian Anahita; the ancient Greek Athena; and the Shinto Omoikane (a fine goddess of holistic thought and multitasking).
(19) Oh well, it's a pleasant thought prompted by Terry Teachout's new biography, He places Mencken in the libertarian camp of American conservatism, noting that others on the right would still shun him - Christian conservatives, for example, because he placed fundamentalism on a par with voodoo or Zoroastrianism.
(20) These ranged from four fortified monasteries, a Zoroastrian fire temple and several Buddhist stupas (commemorative monuments), through ancient copper working, smelting workshops, miners habitations and a mint, as well as two small forts and a citadel.