Sentences with phrase «among adherents»

Increasing awareness and clarity among adherents to a faith or cultural group about variations within their system of beliefs and practices.

He said there was need for Muslims to share love not only among themselves but also among adherents of other religions which will engender brotherliness among Nigerians.

One may at this point note that among his adherents were women, who are elsewhere never included among the followers of a rabbi.

Of course, the success of the new music has created an opposite — and, if not quite equal, certainly vocal — reaction among adherents of other styles of church music.

Pope Francis has 10.6 million twitter followers, and is the leader of a global religion that counts more than 1.2 billion people among its adherents.

Not exact matches

Clara Shih, the chief executive of Hearsay, said that her social media gospel was gaining adherents among top executives.

The only reason this is news is that the intelligent design people see it as a chance to create some frenzy among their pathetic whack - job adherents.

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.

Strong discontent with the Chinese government brought him many adherents, especially among the poorer classes, and the movement spread with great violence through the eastern valley of the Chang River.

That human beings can not live without transcendent points of spiritual and moral reference is nicely illustrated by the fact that, as liberal mainline Protestantism was collapsing, those who previously might have been expected to have been among its staunch adherents found a new god: the earth.

And their adherents among humankind will say: Our Lord!

Perhaps even more important than the relative number of confessionally literate adherents, I suspect that the Lutheran understanding of baptism and the Lord's Supper constitutes a huge barrier to the influence of Lutheranism among American Evangelicals relative to the influence of Calvinism.

That Catholicism could be regarded as pacifist is in many ways an odd notion, but the adherents of this position argued that the Second Vatican Council, in calling for the spirituality of the religious life to be expanded among the laity, implicitly extended the traditional non-involvement in war of the religious to all faithful Catholics.

And in fact one Zealot at least passed into the other camp and entered the inner circle of the disciples of Jesus.16 We may be sure that here were others with a Zealot background among the wider body of adherents.

Were there not adherents of many different orientations among them, yogins and ascetics of every conceivable kind?

Because fundamentalism must draw its adherents from among those who are outside the religious mainstream, it tends to ally with populist extremes.

In the face of war (or any conflict), adherents might seek peace among the warring factions within the borders of their own heart and mind.

Among Protestants, the influx of Pentecostals and evangelicals greatly outnumbers the adherents of mainline (or, better, «historical») denominational traditions.

The literalist point of view is now more common among the sects than in the mainline churches, but it still has its adherents in the latter, as any denominational paper which has a forum of letters to the editor will make evident.

The failure of this ambitious attempt to fuse an evolutionary concept of nature with a high Christology and an orthodox Trinitarianism has won few adherents among either students of Christology or process thinkers, and has probably discouraged others from entering this thicket.

The peoples among whom Christianity had had adherents became either Buddhist or Moslem.

Prof. Levenson notes that, among other differences between traditional Judaism and Christianity ignored by Dabru Emet, Jewish adherents of Judaism do not consider the New Testament to be their sacred scripture, do not believe that Jesus was either Messiah or God, do not believe in a Trinitarian God, and do not believe that Christianity either supersedes or fulfills Judaism.

Fuller cooperation is often possible among those who share a common philosophical grounding than between adherents of different philosophies.

Movement adherents suggest that a higher rate of conversion growth can be predicted for the homogeneous church; it is important that people can «feel at home» and know that they are among «our kind of people.»

Long an adherent of unity among the denominations, he was receptive to any developments that might seem to promote that goal.

This concern with prejudice against blacks or women was not pervasive among social gospel adherents, many of whom championed labor, for example, but had little to say about sexism or racism.

It was largely due to Paul that the Christian movement began to move outside the boundaries of Jewry, and this partly derived from the discovery that, whereas there was considerable resistance among the Jews to the new form of the faith, some of the Gentile adherents of the various synagogue centers were quickly attracted to the Christian Gospel.

The adherents of Lutheranism did not fully agree among themselves.

The Ottoman Turks were one of several peoples whose early home was in Central Asia and among whom Nestorian Christianity had formerly counted adherents.

The denial of eternal life which is so common among modern Christians is not, as its adherents often claim, a nonegoistic, mature, realistic willingness to face the brutal limitations of finitude; rather, it amounts to a tragically unbelieving denial of God's honor — and thus of God's very existence.

There were other groups among the Jewish people who belong with far greater right than the Essenes to the antecedents of the movement led by Jesus; such, for example, were those who were waiting for «the Man» who was to come from heaven, or Galilean adherents of the Messianic faith, or pietistic religionists of one sort or another.

Never underestimate the highly narcissistic tendencies among conservative religious adherents to see oneself as the martyr.

Go to any OB conference and you will see far more self criticicism and willingness to look at how practice can change based on current research than you will see at a Lamaze conference, a Bradley workshop... or any of the many events I have attended that are popular among natural childbirth adherents.

He reiterated that Islam is a religion that promotes peace and it's adherents have no choice but to propagate messages and deeds among fellow faithful and non muslims alike.

Pentecostalism's origins among the poor further enhance its adherents» feeling of being outsiders vis - à - vis secular society.

One would think that the failures of progressivism might induce more skepticism among both its adherents and the public.

He states, «In the past two decades, this multiple (EM) has acquired a number of adherents among analysts for a number of reasons.»

Factor investing has rightfully gained adherents among investors seeking superior risk - adjusted returns.

She followed in the footsteps of other female artists like Vija Celmins and Sylvia Plimack Mangold, who were among the first to suggest that, contrary to the work of its flashier male adherents, Photo Realism had a striking potential for quiet, deadpan enumerations of the everyday.

It would probably benefit from somebody first working out a set of question to measure the full spectrum of possible positions, and then to do some systematic surveying to find out the number of adherents to each among climate scientists, scientists generally, and the general public.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if --(a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.

«Blasphemous matter» is defined as matter «that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that

«Blasphemous matter» is defined as matter «that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.»