Sentences with phrase «religious studies examples»

The examples used are Religious Studies examples but the strategies are generic.

Not exact matches

According to a 2006 Baylor University study, for example, almost two - thirds - 63 percent - of Americans who claim no religious affiliation believe in God.

Actually, it is an example of something studies have shown, which is that the more ritual and sacrifice a church or religious commune requires the longer it lasts.

Although the book is best regarded more as a presentation of the Supreme Court's religious - freedom work than as a direct study of the questions underlying that work» the work of constitutional scholars, for example, is for the most part only referenced, not engaged» it is, nonetheless, recommended.

It deserves careful study as an example of the application of religious principles to practical social needs, moulding a comparatively primitive order of society to the shape of justice and humanity.

A 2012 Pew study, for example, found this faction to be the fastest - growing «religious» group in America and determined that one in five Americans now identify with no religion.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

It is the task of general sociology to investigate the sociological significance of the various forms of intellectual and practical expression of religious experience (myth, doctrine; prayer, sacrifice, rites; organization, constitution, authority); it falls to the specific sociological study to cover sociologically concrete, historical examples: a Sioux (Omaha) Indian myth, an Egyptian doctrine of the Middle Kingdom, Murngin or Mohammedan prayer, the Yoruba practice of sacrifice, the constitution of the earliest Buddhist Samgha, Samoyed priesthood, etc..

At the end of the study, the particular recommendations come as no great surprise: seminary training should include the study of asceticism and the regimen of ascetical discipline; assessment should be of the candidate's capacity to live a life of chaste celibacy and spiritual poverty; wilful deviations from discipline should be taken to indicate the lack of a religious vocation; those who form and mentor students should be sterling examples of ascetical discipline.

He's studied the religious patterns of immigrants into Canada and found that when people migrate into a Western society — for example, Buddhists from Southeast Asia — they either become much more devout or much less devout.

For example, 35 percent of Americans describe themselves as «born again or evangelical Christian,» according to the Pew Research Center's 2014 US Religious Landscape Study, and 25 percent identify with evangelical churches.

The other development is the increased importance of national associations of scholars in religious studies — for example, the Society of Biblical Literature, the American Academy of Religion, and the American Society for Church History.

The «functional» approach to the scientific study of religion, for example, identifies a particular behaviour as «religious» not necessarily by its supernatural referent, but rather by the distinctively «religious» functions being served by that behaviour.

We have noted already that the Broadcast Institute study in 1971 identified a fairly even level of religious programming across the country, indicating that station managers were not only influenced by the demand for air - time for religious programs, but also by peer example.

For example, in 1968 the faculty of the University of Virginia's religious studies department consisted of two full - time members; in 1974 there are 14.

One speaks, for example, of the wheel as a solar symbol, of the cosmogonic egg as the symbol of the non-differentiated totality, or of the serpent as a chthonian, sexual, or funeral symbol, etc. (In like manner it is agreed that the term «symbolism» should be reserved for a structurally coherent ensemble, for example, we speak of aquatic symbolism, the structure of which can not be deciphered except through studying a great number of religious facts which are heterogeneous in appearance, such as baptismal and lustration rites, aquatic cosmogonies, myths relative to floods or to marine catastrophes, myths featuring fecundity through contact with water, etc. [Cf. Eliade, Patterns in Comparative Religion, pp. 188 ff., and Images et symboles, pp. 164 ff.

The extra impact added to religious study that takes place in mosques and churches is a good example.

Hobby added: «The subjects which count towards the EBacc are not the only ones which are rigorous or useful preparation for later life; religious studies and music are both examples of demanding and useful qualifications.

For example, the Washington Supreme Court has barred a blind student from using vocational rehabilitation funds to pursue seminary studies [xxxii]; forbidden a program that provided textbook and tuition assistance grants for needy students at public and private, including religious, schools [xxxiii]; and struck down a program that allowed students from private, including religious, schools to ride public school buses.

For example, the Government Accountability Office's 2016 study identified one voucher school that required all students in fourth grade and above to follow a list of religious principles.

I know of no example whereby the studies of satellite data by Spencer are pseudoscience, and I suspect you don't either (drum roll to announce your responses with irrelevant references to Spencer's religious beliefs).

For example, a Catholic school can require a teacher of religious studies to be Catholic.