religious convention

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Then there are his gnomic utterances and the annual religious convention, the Macworld Expo in San Francisco, where Jobs regularly turns up to lay hands on his devotees.

From The Guardian • Jan. 25, 2011

Ordinarily as liberal as any U. S. churchmen, the Unitarians voted down the resolution after many a delegate had argued that Labor was not a proper concern of a religious convention.

From Time Magazine Archive

A Concord judge and an old Free-Soil politician once attended a religious convention, and after the business of the day was over they went to walk together.

From The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne by Stearns, Frank Preston

Fair visions of a life untrammeled by creed or religious convention hovered at times that night before his mental gaze.

From Carmen Ariza by Stocking, Charles Francis

He was one of the early artists to break through the old wall of religious convention, painting frankly mythological subjects, and he did them in an exquisite manner all his own.

From The Book of Art for Young People by Conway, Agnes Ethel