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Or is it a severe case of religiosus homophobiaus?
Think Progress » Focus on the Family to air a second ad during Super Bowl pre-game. 2010
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Among the many binomial designations granted our species (Homo sapiens, Homo ludens, Homo economicus), a strong case could be made for Homo religiosus.
Why Belief in God Is Innate Michael Shermer 2010
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Among the many binomial designations granted our species (Homo sapiens, Homo ludens, Homo economicus), a strong case could be made for Homo religiosus.
Why Belief in God Is Innate Michael Shermer 2010
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Among the many binomial designations granted our species (Homo sapiens, Homo ludens, Homo economicus), a strong case could be made for Homo religiosus.
Why Belief in God Is Innate Michael Shermer 2010
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In fact, the same people who, for some purposes can be understood as Homo economicus, for other purposes are better understood as Homo politicus or Homo religiosus.
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Catacombs became the inalienable property of the Christians; for, according to Roman law, land which had once been used for interment became _religiosus_, and could not be transferred for any other purpose.
Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood Hugh Macmillan
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When in 1412 the new parish church was founded by the canons, the first incumbent was one of them, W. Romer, "vir multum laudabilis religiosus et benignus".
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913
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On the contrary, the well-understood principle of law that a burial place was a locus religiosus and consequently inviolable seems at normal times to have guaranteed to the Christians a large measure of immunity from interference.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913
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The statute thereupon ordains that "no person, religious or other", nullus religiosus aut alius quicumque, shall buy or sell lands or tenements or receive them, or appropriate them (under pain of forfeiture) so as to cause the land to come into mortmain, per quod ad manum mortuam terræ et tenementa hujusmodi deveniant quoque modo.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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The distinction is as real to my mind -- has proved as lamentably real in my actual experience -- as that conceived in the Middle Ages between the life of a _religiosus_, Thomas à Kempis, let us say, and of a faithful man of the world.
The Jessica Letters: An Editor's Romance Paul Elmer More 1900
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