Also, one of the world's great religions, Judaism, classifies
its adherents on matrilineal grounds, rendering it akin to a race, though nothing is offered here on whether Judaism is a race or religion, or both.
Of course, rather than bringing about the end of collecting, the digital expansion of the comics market could just as easily lead to a retrenchment, (re) focusing
its adherents on long out of print titles, long out of business publishers, and books unlikely to find an additional life in electronic format.
However, his larger point which is reflected in the updated subtitle Why Their Differences Matter) is to highlight the importance of understanding religions and
their adherents on their own terms, than trying to conflate them into some common theme like compassion (Karen Armstrong) or a common underlying spirit (Perennial tradition).
He tasked Muslim
adherents on good deeds, saying no Muslim must be found wanting of good character.
By AD 353 the Christian community in Edessa was divided by the rift between the bishop and
his adherents on the one hand and the school of Edessa and the majority of the Christians on the other.
It afforded the emotional comfort of certainty, offered a compelling explanation of current affairs, situated
its adherents on a social map, and was led by men and women of skill.
Here again, evangelical media could have a crucial role in focusing the thinking and concern of
their adherents on issues like world hunger and the plight of our urban minorities — issues that correspond to the problems of slavery and child labor which 19th century evangelicals successfully attacked.
Not exact matches
He argues that most negotiators are overly willing to compromise, and he blames this
on the way that some win - win
adherents prize «relationships» over getting the best possible deal — a style of negotiating that others, especially non-U.S. negotiators, go out of their way to exploit.
And, by your standards, the Jewish community, with roughly 6 million
adherents in the United States, and 12 million worldwide (comparable to the Mormon community), isn't «relevant
on the global scale» either.
The most comprehensive study of its kind, it provides detailed county - by - county information
on congregations, members,
adherents and attendance for 236 different faiths groups.
As president, Monson is considered by
adherents of the religion to be a «prophet, seer, and revelator» of God's will
on earth.»
Precise statistics
on the number of
adherents within each church are difficult to come by.
some religions brainwash their
adherents, and some have the hose
on so hard it removes their brains altogether... I will let you guess which one that is
The doctrine of Noahide law, in particular the doctrine of the universal prohibition of idolatry, gave Jewish thinkers the criterion they needed to judge the two religions among whose
adherents they bad to live from late antiquity
on: Christianity and Islam.
In all honesty, would you vote for a man that was a former imam of a mosque that advocates converting everyone to Islam, and teaches that all
adherents should do anything, including lie, to advance the aims of creating a global kingdom for Allah
on earth?
Then there will be an army of phony Christians professing to be rabid
adherents while carrying
on in their own sleazy world as always.
Dean Kelley has argued that the conservatives provide a clearer meaning system for their
adherents, The culture at large is shifting
on several fronts toward a style more prescriptive, less permissive.
Its 300,000
adherents in the country «may face repression
on the grounds of apostasy,» according to the annual report of the U.S. Commission
on International Religious Freedom.
CNN: Survey: Catholics divided
on political issues, as
adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused
on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.
But there is no doubting the popularity and fruits of the charismatic influence, with many of its
adherents being instinctively
on the side of orthodox belief and moral precepts.
depending
on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of
adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.
He notes that in subsequent years Gilson's approach attracted a number of high - profile
adherents, including Joseph Ratzinger, who, over the long course of his theological and now magisterial service, has relied consistently
on the «Gilsonian paradigm» when explaining the relation of faith and reason.
Sometimes, the best friends a minority can have are
adherents of other religions, who see it in their interest to lobby
on behalf of the minority.
From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its
adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon
on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»
By theology of religions, I mean critical theological reflections
on the interaction and intercourse between different religions through such means as proclamation and sharing of their different creeds and teachings, through dialogue of their
adherents, and mutual challenges and partnership for common cause.
Adherents invariably saw themselves living
on the cusp of history, straddling the end of the present age and the beginning of the age to come.
Were it to be otherwise, he maintains, «in the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate
on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal and the
adherents of other religions.»
Today, the 30 Days Prayer movement (30daysprayer.com) counts hundreds of thousands of faithful Christian prayer warriors who cry out to God
on behalf of Islam's 1.7 billion
adherents, asking God to reveal to them his truth.
Modernity's emphasis
on secularism involves three elements - a) the desacralisation of nature which produced a nature devoid of spirits preparing the way for its scientific analysis and technological control and use; b) desacralisation of society and state by liberating them from the control of established authority and laws of religion which often gave spiritual sanction to social inequality and stifled freedom of reason and conscience of persons; it was necessary to affirm freedom and equality as fundamental rights of all persons and to enable common action in politics and society by
adherents of all religions and none in a religiously pluralistic society; and c) an abandonment of an eternally fixed sacred order of human society enabling ordering of secular social affairs
on the basis of rational discussion.
By the thirties these voices became a major force in creating a new climate in which
adherents of the earlier synthesis were increasingly
on the defensive in intellectual circles.
The commission cited the rampant imprisonment of prisoners of conscience, the startling increase in refugees, and the ongoing bigotry toward Jews and Muslims in Europe, as examples of attacks
on religious
adherents.
But because the homogenizing worldview of liberal individualism exalts individual autonomy over all standards outside the will,
adherents regard with suspicion all communities based
on non-individualist assumptions, especially those such as marriage, family, and even the gathered church which are not obviously reducible to private contract.
So, millions of
adherent Catholics
on the African continent that die of AIDS should be happy that they were at least
adherent to Catholic dogma?
But other commentators have responded that Islam is a militant faith, which at times requires its
adherents to make war
on non-Muslims.
I'm not personally interested in creation stories that have only small numbers or
adherents and little or no impact
on the cultures that brought forth the western technological society in which I live.
As predictable and pat as the Esquire piece may be, there's little doubt that the new consensus
on family — «straight people blew up marriage a long time ago» — has powerful
adherents quite a bit further up in the clouds than the average Esquire reader, or writer.
[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of
adherents of a particular religion have
on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.
Whatever the nature of the various God's in question, I suspect one thing every
adherent would agree
on is that there is no imperfection in that being.
In Indonesia both understandings have their
adherents, and the inter-group conversation
on the differences of emphasis is in progress, without creating sharp polarization as in other places.
Pentecostalism and related «Spirit - filled movements» are rightly seen as a hard - driving engine fueling the global spread of Christianity, but their
adherents are often wrongly seen as apolitical, otherworldly enthusiasts bent
on «speaking in tongues,» according to two separate studies
on the century - old phenomena.
I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with
adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues
on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.
What we are witnessing, I would suggest, is that the Holocaust is taking
on some of the characteristics of a cult, with
adherents promoting a dogmatic approach to a series of sacred events.
Drawing
on a consumer model, such congregations will hold multiple and different styles of worship services each Sunday to appeal to the varying liturgical tastes of
adherents.
In summary, the virtues of organized religions include but are by no means limited to the following: they give their
adherents something solid against which to rebel; they allow one to see farther by standing
on the shoulders of giants; they insist
on the primacy of lived experience; they work against illusion and historical insularity; they point to the power of the collective and the merits of deep diversity; and they are capable of the kind of mobilization that can transform the world.
The French prohibition
on religious symbols extends beyond the school edifice, but violates the freedom to worship of individual Christians, Jews, Muslims and other religious
adherents because it bans jewelry, headwear, etc.
on their person.
This, I submit, is uncharitable in the extreme, and it also violates the principle, to which Griffin subscribed in Searching for an Adequate God, that a position ought to be criticized
on the basis of its «core doctrines» and not
on the basis of views that may have been espoused by some
adherents but are not essential to the position itself.
It is extremely necessary to point out that the crazies that made this outrageous comparison and those that spit
on 8 - year - old girls are not ultra-orthodox Jews, but lunatics that do not understand what it means to be a Jew
adherent to the Torah laws pertaining observance and social conduct.
In a letter he wrote to the organization's
adherents, published
on the site after his death, he said:
In the context of the life and work of other religious traditions it is incumbent
on the Church in India to evolve more open ecclesial structures that do justice to its experience of an interrelatedness and mutual inclusiveness with other religious traditions and their
adherents.
My central concern with communitarianism in its current form is that its
adherents seek to impose a new psychology, a new history, and even a new reality
on the public.