Sentences with phrase «about culture and religion»

Their works raise questions about culture and religion, space and time, while blending collective memories and religious traditions with the unique, temporary and physical experience anchored in the here - and - now.

Since you are going to build relationship with a person who does not belong to your race, it will be wise for you to gain some knowledge about their culture and religion.

Do you know that Christians are always possessive and concerned about their culture and religion?

We seek to educate students about cultures and religions from around the world.

Not exact matches

Emma Green — The Atlantic: Emma Green is Managing Editor of The Atlantic and writes about religion and culture.

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

The struggle is that religion in media can create a barrier between Christian culture and those who do not know about Christ.

It's about respecting the religion and culture of others... including your enemies.

We are seeing several foundational truths from Genesis 2 about how to understand life, theology, Scripture, society, religion, and culture.

We have far too many who aren't willing to stand for what is right and oppose what is wrong in our society and culture... This pastors «vision» sounds too much like the world John Lennon wrote about in his song «imagine» where there is no God and «no religion».

Digital utopias disagree with those who worry about scenarios of worldwide cultural homogenisation, they see the emergence of new and creative lifestyles, vastly extended opportunities for different cultures to meet and understand each other, and the creation of new virtual communities that easily cross all the traditional borderlines of age, gender, race, and religion.

They were not very interested in feminism, not very sensitive to Christian anti-Judaism, not much interested in culture or in primal and Eastern religions, not particularly concerned about the repression of the body, and so forth.

And the cultural and legal power of the Protestant culture often stifled differing views about religion, gender, and sexualiAnd the cultural and legal power of the Protestant culture often stifled differing views about religion, gender, and sexualiand legal power of the Protestant culture often stifled differing views about religion, gender, and sexualiand sexuality.

Such is the larger context in which we are invited to think about religion, culture, and secularization.

Another thing that I did not like about this church were their extreme prejudices towards other religions and even races and cultures.

My friends and i go to a christian church and some of the Muslim students have gone with us just to see and learn for them selves what it is like instead of going off rumors and here say... Unless you have experiences something on your own you have no right to talk smack about it... The reason the world is the way it is is because people are to stuck up THEIR butts and THEIR way, to even try and become educated about anything else... im not saying convert or change your ways... But be educated about something before you talk because if your not you really look like a fool... ever religion, race, culture,... they have their good people and they have their bad people and you CAN NOT judge a whole race, religion, culture... off one group... that just being single minded!!!

That's exactly why you don't know much about other religions cultures... etc and do not respect them at all.

Who that person is and what he or she may think about religion are thus weighty questions, not just for science and the academy, but also for communities of belief, and indeed, the entire moral and spiritual fabric of our culture.

The culture seeps into the church, bringing with it a religion without commitment; spirituality without content; aspiration and talk and longing, fulfillment and needs, but not much concern about God.

All religions including Christianity, all cultures and all secular ideologies are in informal and formal dialogues about what is the meaning of our common humanity and about the path of common action - responses to the situation from their respective understanding of the nature and destiny of the human selfhood.

Your implication that all religious believers are morally bankrupt is a bit of an extreme position, and one which perpetuates simplistic stereotypes at exactly the time when we need to think more critically and deeply about religion in this culture.

And it is about the way religion and television are today acting, interacting, and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will And it is about the way religion and television are today acting, interacting, and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will and television are today acting, interacting, and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will and reacting over the question of who will shape the faith and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will and value system of our culture in the future, and what the shape of that worldview will and what the shape of that worldview will be.

The challenge of Islam, however, does force us to think in new ways, particularly about the relation between religion and culture.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

This is not about a religion or culture, there is only ONE path to SALVATION and that is ONLY by believing in JESUS CHRIST as your Lord and Savior.

He spoke of the prestige of science in our culture and the corresponding lack of respect for religion («If it's a science programme it's a documentary, if the subject's politics there's a debate, but a religious programme, unless it's hymns for granny, will have people talking about their feelings»).

No, because the end justify s the means and you have already made up your mind that you are right about Jesus and there can be no other truth, and it's never about learning more about different people and cultures and religions, it's about making sure anyone who is different knows you are a Christian which is the only sensible way to live and anyone who is not like you is either converted, attacked, pitied or dismissed as a fool who awaits eternal damnation.

The questions about religion and public life, those calling for «public» discussion, no longer focus on the verifiability of religious speech but concern quite other issues: methods of understanding and describing the religious realities, old and new, that we see appearing around us; useful criteria for assessing these religions and for defining and comprehending this new set of powers in our public life; and ways of protecting vital religious groups from the excesses of the public reaction to them, and protecting the public from the excesses of powerful religious groups — hardly questions a secular culture had thought it would have to take seriously!

If you'd like to get together with serious - minded people who want to talk about religion, culture, and public life, please get in touch.

And the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culturAnd the further interesting thing is that the forms of religion that are more bizarre or alien to modern Western «scientific» culture — astrology, occultism, Zen, yoga, Sufism — appeal to the «intelligentsia» and so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culturand so ironically tend to cluster about our contemporary university centers (the remaining seats of that culture).

If you want to be «scientific» you also have to be agnostic about all the other gods, and about vampires, werewolves, dragons, ogres, leprechauns, and pretty much everything else from all the world's cultures and religions.

Those who work in theological education are also aware, however, that we must also avoid intellectual or spiritual tourism — the tendency to explore the range and quaintness of the world's wondrous variety without asking about the truth - claims of various cultures, without attempting to discern the relative justice of alternative social practices, or without seeking commonalities that may overarch multiple lands and religions.

Because we don't have the capacity and time to teach them about everything, we teach them the tools on how to separate right from wrong and know this is something in culture that you don't have to follow and this is something that you should adopt because it is aligned with your religion.

Like our founder, Richard John Neuhaus, we believe that public life is ultimately shaped by culture and religion — our ideas about the first and highest things — rather than clever soundbites or wonky white papers.

There are many theologians of religion and the whole church, of faith and of culture, but very few who have had much to say about the dynamics of belief within the setting of the local congregation.

@Patty et all, How do you live your lives in such fear everyday... you have been so brainwashed about other people, cultures and religions, I'm surprised no reports of increased from fear craving people have not committed suicide or have had heart attaches or stocks.

= > you do nt believe in the God of Israel because «it is a prison of the mind based on culture and circvmstance» That does nt make any sense, you are talking about the inst.i.tutions of religion, not the God of Israel.

In addition to witty commentary on religion and culture, Zack writes thoughtful and accessible reflections on theology, as well as deeply personal, engaging stories like this one about the news that he and his wife are expecting.

Hard conversations are coming, perhaps legislation, around gun control, about hatred, racism, religion, about our culture's glorification of violence, our nationalism, and the divisions between us, yes, those conversations need to happen, but not just now: now is the time for grieving, now is the time for loving, for burying, for mourning with those who mourn, for gathering humanity together, and for compassion.

And what are the best ways for Christians to talk about and live their faith in a culture that thinks sex and chores are more important to family life than religiAnd what are the best ways for Christians to talk about and live their faith in a culture that thinks sex and chores are more important to family life than religiand live their faith in a culture that thinks sex and chores are more important to family life than religiand chores are more important to family life than religion?

The gospel always comes wrapped in a particular language, particular customs and traditions and ways of doing things, particular unwritten rules about politics and religion and the family — in other words, in a particular culture.

Alex McFarland, the Christian director of Worldview and Apologetics at North Greenville University, holds regular public debates with Silverman about God and the place of religion in American culture.

This is a blog concerned with the material culture of religion, and as a general rule, I don't write about politics.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

The Christian contribution in this context should be in relation to the struggle of India to develop, through dialogue among the many religions, cultures and philosophies, a body of common insights about being and becoming human, that is, a common framework of humanism which will humanize the spirit of modernity and the process of modernization.

Last, since I exist in the United States in 2013, am white, and have never been Jewish, I doubt that I do a great job getting in the mindset of, for instance, Paul, without looking to other resources that would help me understand a bit about his culture (s), religion, and times.

It is one thing to be open to the world and learn about other religions and cultures, but it certainly is another to constantly defend them to show that you are the open minded educated American.

All these show that ours is a historical context conducive, not only to inter-religious but also to religion - ideology dialogues on building a common body of insights about being and becoming human - a dialogue in which Christianity can make a contribution from its idea of reconciliation of humanity and the creation of a Secular Koinonia across religions, cultures and ideologies.

He made a few remarks about how Dallas's view of things reflected a general antipathy among some evangelicals toward contemporary culture, but I was still puzzled, given Balmer's criticism, as to why anyone would find this kind of religion attractive, and I wished our guide had helped us to see that a little better.