Sentences with phrase «western religious culture»

A Chinese university has banned Christmas in order to help young people resist the «corrosion of Western religious culture.

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My assessment is that the wider disorientation of Western society, the decreasing respect for many institutions and the disdain for humans alongside what Christopher Lasch has termed a «culture of narcissism» has played out both among the «spiritual but not religious» identifiers as well as among many «new atheists.»

Troeltsch saw Christianity as bound up with Western culture and thought it the best religious position for Westerners.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

Russian national identity is tied to Russia's religious history in a way not unlike how Western culture is deeply connected to its Catholic and Protestant histories.

The idea that one's faith is a private matter has become deeply ingrained in Western culture, and very seldom are «religious» considerations used to justify public actions.

The point of departure in this work is the religious individual's sense of estrangement from Western culture.

After passing through an era dominated by rationalism, Western culture is experiencing an explosion of religious mysticism — a manifestation of the human spirit's seeking to transcend the confines of the single - storied universe into which it has locked itself since the Enlightenment.

In the 19th century, the Protestant Christian missions identified Christianity almost totally with western culture and made religious conversion to Christianity a transference from Indian culture to an alien culture.

This paradoxically Christian justification for anti-Christian sentiments is among the most powerful religious impulses in modern Western culture, as well as one of the best disguised.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Yet the novel does suggest, in curious and even captivating terms, that today the religious frame of reference has lost its controlling power across much of Western culture, but it hasn't quite disappeared.

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

Yet it is this intellectual revolution that is responsible for the secularisation of western culture... [which] owed... its diffusion to the ill - judged and unjust, though sincere, action of religious orthodoxy» (Christopher Dawson, The Gods of Revolution, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1972, p14 - 15)

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

and so is the western open culture of dating and doing it like bunnies before marriage to a religious conservatives (not just christians, either)..

In this book, CS Lewis mixes autobiography with the religious / philosophical history of Western culture, and writes about it in the form of John Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress.

I have tried thus far to demonstrate that the secular part of Western culture has itself raised the community question with unprecedented urgency and that the religious are best situated to address the question with authority based upon both tradition and experience.

The great mass of people of western culture still play at least lip - service to past religious traditions, but the proportion of their daily life that it directly influences grows increasingly less.

Lest it seem as though I would subordinate religious to metaphysical language, thereby reinforcing the Western rationalistic critique of religion, I hasten to point out that in Hinduism, philosophy never developed in opposition to religion; the philosophical critique of energy that never ceases to preoccupy Western culture could not arise in a culture like Hinduism, where the language about the gods — what we call mythology — was never denied its rightful place in the scheme of things.

A more lofty and idealistic one is that most of us, as Jews, hardly know ourselves or have a sense of Judaism that is not in some way tied up with our experience as cultured members of Western Civilization, which is Christianized not only in an explicit religious sense but also in the pathos and longing of its secular consciousness, as exemplified in its literature and art.

Since all people of the world, including the most Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

With a poise borne of decades of distinguished scholarship, Barzun recounts the religious, political, artistic, and social revolutions that shaped Western culture.

Satrapi's account of the trials of growing up in Iran — including religious oppression, the allure of Western culture, and the Iran - Iraq War — is visualized with art that conveys nuance even as its deceptively simple strokes suggest the perspective of a child.

Stories of book burnings and religious censorship still find their way onto western newscasts, but in reality, Iran is an incredibly cultured nation.

Martin Luther's Reformation ranks among the most successful religious movements in history, altering western society and culture forever, and... Read More

Gates was selected for his installation A Complicated Relationship between Heaven and Earth, or When We Believe (2014), which seeks to challenge a Western - centric ideology of Christianity by looking at other religious objects and traditions from diverse cultures across the globe.

JEEZ is her subsequent attempt to grapple with the religious images that pervade Western culture.

Luxurious materials, like pearls, crystals, and gold - leaf, can pull double - duty as reference to both the religious traditions of Iranian art and the opulent superficiality of Western pop culture.

His work juxtaposes symbolic elements borrowed from pre-Columbian mythology, religious iconography, and popular culture to highlight cultural and historic collisions between Western and non-Western cultures that includes borders and immigration issues based on the artist's concepts of reverse Modernism and reverse anthropology.

Islamicate is the discursive space where Muslim voices may take part in the conversation necessary to advance and mature British and, broadly speaking, western Muslim perspectives by examining religious and political cultures.