Sentences with phrase «about religious studies»

What is so different about religious studies in high school as compared to college?

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... I look at this person's comments and keep thinking about a study I read recently that stated that «it is impossible to tell religious zelotism from parody in print, since both sound equally absurd».

Funny stuff these religious people... got all the time in the world to study the Bible, but too lazy to read about cosmology or take a science class.

The «associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies» knows so little about Mormonism comparing it to Scientology (a religion?)

He said that the latest study (Professor Jordan Grafman, from the US National Inst - itute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,) suggests the brain is inherently sensitive to believing in almost anything if there are grounds for doing so, but when there is a mystery about something, the same neural machinery is co-opted in the formulation of religious belief.

But the claim with which Keister begins her study» that a person's religious beliefs will exert some influence on whether he will pursue material wealth and how he will go about doing so» seems eminently reasonable.

She may not have been indoctrinated / brainwashed by someone within her household, but she didn't form these beliefs about Christianity in a vacuum where no one around her was attempting to convince her to believe, and she was just studying various religious texts until she happened on the bible and other apologetics.

Ask yourself who was allowed to study in ancient religious universities — that should give you some pause about supporting bringing back the exclusivity of religious schools.

Based on my own detailed study of other religious beliefs, practices, and writings, I believe that Jesus could have made such a statement about any stream of religious writings.

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

E.g., see «What the Bible Says About Death, Afterlife and the Future» at http://clas-pages.uncc.edu/james-tabor/ancient-judaism/death-afterlife-future/ written by James D. Tabor, Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlott.

But a couple of bona fide scholars — not professors teaching religious studies in universities but scholars nonetheless, and at least one of them with a Ph.D. in the field of New Testament — have taken this position and written about it.

How about a study, that religious Americans are more likely to support a war or blame all troubles on God, rather than themselves... You believe or don't all you want, but please stop misleading people, with worthless studies and instead put more energy and resources to help those in need...

• The Orthodox Union's National Conference of Synagogue Youth has completed a massive study of Jewish young people, with some encouraging conclusions about the pattern of return to religious observance.

A 2012 study says that atheists and agnostics only make up about thirty - six percent of the nones, while thirty - nine percent just say that they're «not religious.»

But let's be fair about the 10 questions; being a Christian doesn't mean you are an expert on comparative religious studies.

But why does all this matter to religious conclusions about the methods we employ to study religion follow from my analysis?

did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier religious and cultural studies as well...

A few words might be said about the role of the comparative method in the study of socio - religious phenomena.

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.

I have learned much about Judaism; nor my wife, a Presbyterian and professor of religious studies, who has in various ways greatly heightened my appreciation of Calvin.

I sympathize with Beverly Schneller's lament about the exclusion of the religious tradition from contemporary literary study.

The task of this essay is to discover what we can about Dostoevsky's own religious vision from a study of The Brothers Karamazov.

About a quarter of religious adults in the U.S. tell others about their faith at least once a week, which is up since 2007, according to a new study About a quarter of religious adults in the U.S. tell others about their faith at least once a week, which is up since 2007, according to a new study about their faith at least once a week, which is up since 2007, according to a new study by...

I'm thinking about taking a religious studies class to motivate me to study The Bible more.

A new study of 228 college students found that while just about everyone prefers video games to regular board games (duh), those who claim no religion vastly prefer video games compared to the religious peers.

They are religious in the wider sense; yet in this acutest of all senses they are not so, and it is religion in the acutest sense that I wish, without disputing about words, to study first, so as to get at its typical differentia.)

While immensely appealing to religiously motivated reformers, this evangelical argument sits uneasily with Appleby's academic, religious - studies description of a deep and ultimately knowable ambivalence about or within the sacred.

Taking into account viewing duplication and correcting for the fact that the diaries may underreport by as much as 15 per cent, the study says that the number of people who have watched at least one - quarter hour of religious television per week is about 13.3 million, or 6.2 per cent of the national television audience.

Thus, except where specifically noted, when the study talks about «religious television» it is essentially referring to the electronic church, rather than to all religious broadcasting.

When we study the history of Europe and America we can assume at least a minimal knowledge about the influence of Greek, Jewish, and Christian religious thought and practices, but for the study of the history of Asia we must prepare ourselves by gaining a sympathetic understanding of the quite different religious ideas and practices of that part of the world.

Studies have repeatedly shown that atheists usually know more about religion than religious people.

We were aware that studies of American religion based on national sample could tell us mainly about what was believed in the present and perhaps also in the past, since religious views change relatively slowly.

It took years of studying the history in which the Bible was written, learning about the other influences that often aren't taught in religious settings... and considering those religious influences, as well as the scientific and philosophical influences... to reach to the conclusions I have reached today — though I admit they still aren't and never will be perfect (like when I said IT doesn't care.

They collected and published otherwise unavailable comparative information about Protestant theological schools» student bodies, including their educational backgrounds, programs of study, finances, and governance, and also about these schools» faculty, including their educational backgrounds, teaching methods, religious life, etc..

Most people in this group continue to be «spiritual» but many have left organized religion behind: http://www.pewforum.org/Unaffiliated/nones-on-the-rise.aspx Another study showed that Atheist perform the best on a quiz about religious knowledge: http://www.pewforum.org/U-S-Religious-Knowledge-Survey.aspx

As I studied, I got to wondering about what Jesus had to say about all of this, and the passage that suddenly jumped into my mind was the passage in which the religious leaders try to best Jesus in a theological debate by asking him about the post-resurrection marital status of a (hypothetical) woman who had been married seven times.

Award - winning journalist, arts critic and record producer Dennis Polkow holds degrees in music theory, composition, philosophy and religious studies from DePaul University, Chicago, and has written frequently about religion and the arts for the Chicago Tribune and is currently on the adjunct faculty of Oakton Community College in Des Plaines, IL.

In 1984, an Annenberg - Gallup study revealed that the total number of viewers who watch one hour or more of religious programs per week is about 4.84 million persons, or 2.17 percent of the total population.

Carl Raschke, a religious studies professor at the University of Denver, evoked Jesus» words about Rome and taxation.

The concern for theology, not as a particularist discipline but as the search for human wisdom about the wisdom of God in the creation and redemption of man, is manifest in other disciplines besides Biblical studies: in systematic theology frequently, occasionally in Christian ethics, homiletics, religious education and pastoral counseling.

Folks talk about the soul as a religious item — that it synonymous with religion — But religions don't really explain what a soul is — because they don't know — only a possible destination — Before you get all huffy, please consider where my concept comes from — I am no longer religious — I studied Ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs for dozens of years, and determined a different design, for what the glyphs could portend — and found some interesting thought processes hidden within — including what the soul is — for instance: The Ankh symbol represents Life — the charcters for An and kh, I translate as an = thought and kh = soul — Thus Life = the thought of the soul — The soul as described by the AE, is a continuity between 2 or more enti - ties — including the enti - ty Environment — Our environment creates us — some name their environment as god — some believe there is a continuity with their environment — that is soul --

«There is something unique about religious and spiritual involved people that contribute to their trust, positive outlook, involvement and engagement in the community,» said Jim Jansen, senior fellow at Pew and the leader of the study.

About studies at her Birmingham school, she spoke of learning a «great deal about Islam» in addition to other religious faAbout studies at her Birmingham school, she spoke of learning a «great deal about Islam» in addition to other religious faabout Islam» in addition to other religious faiths.

Yet, this study shows most instructors in Arizona neither acknowledge their students» religious beliefs, nor discuss that there are a variety of beliefs about science.

«Right now just about everyone» is funding network science, says MIT sociologist Damon Centola, who studies how beliefs and behaviors — from religious extremism to vaccination — spread in large social groups.

«The purpose of the study has been to discover the underlying cognitive structure of religious beliefs — to find out what cognitive processes take place when religious and nonreligious people think about religion,» Kapogiannis tells me.

According to local police, the attack was carried out in response to «disparaging» remarks about the lineage of a legendary Hindu king, Chhatrapati Shivaji, contained in a 2003 book by James Laine, a professor of religious studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Co-author Harold Roth, professor of religious studies, taught the labs, which included about 30 minutes per session of specific contemplative practice from Buddhist or Daoist traditions.

A new study carried out by ecologists at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), among others, indicates that if the world's religious leaders wished to bring about a change, they would be ideally positioned to do so.