Sentences with phrase «academic study of religion»

The modern academic study of religion, while aspiring to be objective and scientific, has in fact been compromised by the intrusion of faith upon its mission.

The best known of these is the Iowa School of Religion, founded in the 1920s, which balanced Protestantism with representatives of Catholicism and Judaism, but was originally designed to promote the practice of religion and the training of religious leaders, not just the detached academic study of religion.

In June, educators from Maryland's Montgomery County Public Schools made history when they completed an intensive academic study of religion.

(Wiebe's term for this misfortune, borrowed from classicist Gilbert Murray, is «the failure of nerve» in the academic study of religion.)

The newer way of seeing Christianity has been in the process of being born for a couple of hundred years, but until recently, it was known primarily in the academic study of religion, including what happens in many mainline seminaries.

While seminaries and churches have shown a burgeoning interest in the arts, the academic study of religion and the arts has come under fire in some quarters.

While formal analysis opened up a space for the academic study of religion and art, the project soon sought and found more congenial theoretical underpinnings in hermeneutics.

The first was the jolt of moving from the academic study of religion and social science to the peculiar discipline of pastoral theology.

What role should normative questions play in the academic study of religion, or any area of human endeavor?

Over the last several decades the academic study of religion has been marked by a debate that, put much too simply, pits a «Yale school» against a....

The author suggests implications of critical realism for the academic study of religion and for the encounter of world religions, as well as for personal religious faith.

In the concluding chapter I will suggest some implications of critical realism for the academic study of religion and for the encounter of world religions, as well as for personal religious faith.

And still in our world, when the «academic study of religion» often nudges theological reflection to curricular margins, it remains possible to think of oneself not simply as a scholar of religion but also as a theologian.

I walked away from church at around age 15, wandered through various experiments with pseudo-spirituality, academic study of religion and denominations until I found myself on the path of fully claiming faith in God for my own.

Although the U.S. Constitution prohibits public school officials from directing or favoring prayer, the new religious studies materials are designed to represent the academic study of religion, which the Constitution supports, Harvard scholar Diane Moore told the Chicago Tribune.