Sentences with phrase «attitudes toward»

Pew's Forum on Religion and Public Life has released the latest version of its periodic survey of public attitudes toward various professions in America.

We have radical radicals today; they are nonmoderate and in general can be identified by their attitudes toward James Baldwin, LeRoi Jones, Martin Luthur King and civil disobedience.

Men who are ministers can perhaps understand it more readily than others because they themselves sometimes feel limited as persons by other people's attitudes toward them.

Attitudes toward the poor, material wants, downgrading the spiritual virtues, presumed sophistication are discussed.

We have seen how the minister's attitudes toward alcohol and alcoholism influence his opportunities to help.

Khan, a practicing Muslim, was particularly disturbed by the attitudes toward Muslims and what he called a misunderstanding of sharia law.

My wife and daughter both say I'm doing pretty well, but I have to admit that sometimes I slip into the status quo of the prevailing attitudes toward girls and women and how to relate to them as well as how to treat them.

For nearly a half century after the Second World War, the cohort of babies born between 1946 and 1964 profoundly transformed American culture and society» from parenting styles and media consumption to attitudes toward government and authority and sexuality.

From these figures it is apparent that a minister's general attitudes toward alcohol and alcoholism have a great deal to do with whether or not he discovers the alcoholics who are potentially available to be helped by him.

But Sprigg and other evangelicals say changing attitudes toward homosexuality have created a new victim: closeted Christians who believe the Bible condemns homosexuality but will not say so publicly for fear of being labeled a hateful bigot.

Since being married have you noticed a change in your willingness to «protect» your family that perhaps have challenged you our attitudes toward non-violence?

Even as the absence of a feudal order and established church have shaped American institutions and political habits, the dialectic of a feudal order and established churches and of secularist rejection of religion has structured European attitudes toward the United States, particularly toward the American experiment in religious freedom and toward the seemingly unabating religious vitality that this system has produced.

Religion can often be a powerful motivating force in people's lives or instrumental in forming attitudes toward illness, conflict, or suffering.

«When evangelicals support Phil Robertson, it tells me less about their attitudes toward sexual minorities than their ongoing interactions with me do.

They are traditionalists, advocates of a status quo, opposed to change, and holding exclusionist attitudes toward anything new.

It is vital for the pastor to realize how strong and pervasive the positive and negative attitudes toward the pastoral office may be, often in the same person.

It has been more than a half - century since James Coleman and his team surveyed students in ten high schools to determine their values and interests and attitudes toward learning.

It is difficult to have a leisurely existence when you are unemployed, when you see your children sick, when you live in rat - infested homes and when you see the administration taking careless attitudes toward your plight.

This fact, with the resulting intermixtures of good and evil, is clearly illustrated by differing attitudes toward racial segregation in the North and South of the United States, or the presence of nontheological social factors in the creation of the various denominations of the Christian Church.

Carl Sagan who once expressed quite negative attitudes toward Christianity has begun to work closely with the churches.

Stephen Toulmin echoes these sentiments in an elegant statement on the cosmos understood on the model of our «home»: «We can do our best to build up a conception of the «overall scheme of things» which draws as heavily as it can on the results of scientific study, informed by a genuine piety in all its attitudes toward creatures of other kinds: a piety that goes beyond the consideration of their usefulness to Humanity as instructions for the fulfillment of human ends.

Johnston explores current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, then looks at three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying the reader's understanding of the human player — life - style, mission and opportunity.

A knowledge of the way in which the Traditions were compiled and transmitted facilitates an understanding of the various attitudes toward the Traditions which are found in Muslim countries today.

13 How effective AA will be in non-Western cultures (with different attitudes toward guilt, pleasure, and the goals of life, for example) and what modifications will eventually occur in the AA program in such cultures has yet to be determined.

After exploring current attitudes toward and descriptions of play, we will turn to three representative theological positions in hope of clarifying our understanding of the human player.

Such exploitative attitudes toward nature have worsened with the rise of global capitalism.

A draft of the order published by The New York Times reads, «In order to protect Americans, we must ensure that those admitted to this country do not bear hostile attitudes toward our country and its founding principles.»

Pawlikowski notes that in the last two decades churches have adopted statements on their theological and practical attitudes toward Judaism.

Evangelical colleges likely face generational differences in attitudes toward sexuality as younger evangelicals develop friendships with people who are gay, says David Kinnaman, president of the Barna Group, a Christian market research firm.

The other half is directed at global capitalism's destructive attitudes toward creation.

Nor is it an accident that the single most important variable in attitudes toward abortion — and most other issues in conflict — is religious commitment.

Looking back on it, I had very condescending attitudes toward religious believers.

In the process, Christianity absorbed much from the aristocracy» in attitudes toward wealth, family, honor, the importance of friendship, and political power.

I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.

Other impediments stem from distinctive Russian attitudes toward the Eucharist.

The interview format used by the Oliner team had over 450 items and consisted of six main parts: a) characteristics of the family household in which respondents lived in their early years, including relationships among family members; b) parental education, occupation, politics, and religiosity, as well as parental values, attitudes, and disciplinary approaches; c) respondent's childhood and adolescent years - education, religiosity, and friendship patterns, as well as self - described personality characteristics; d) the five - year period just prior to the war — marital status, occupation, work colleagues, politics, religiosity, sense of community, and psychological closeness to various groups of people; if married, similar questions were asked about the spouse; e) the immediate prewar and war years, including employment, attitudes toward Nazis, whether Jews lived in the neighborhood, and awareness of Nazi intentions toward Jews; all were asked to describe their wartime lives and activities, whom they helped, and organizations they belonged to; f) the years after the war, including the present — relations with children and personal and community — helping activities in the last year; this section included forty - two personality items comprising four psychological scales.

The core chapters of the Oliners» book try to unravel and weigh the factors shaping the personality and character of rescuers, and their attitudes toward Jews.

What separated rescuers from non-rescuers, however, was the absence of negative views and attitudes toward Jews.

You will want to choose your doctors carefully, particularly with respect to their attitudes toward suicide and the use of the medical profession in hastening death.

Hence, it was his practice to address matters of the heart - justice, mercy, love, man's need for his atoning work - and the eternal consequences that accompany our attitudes toward each.

Yet, shortly after assuming the presidency, he initiated a research project designed to determine attitudes toward the seminary within the synod.

All of this material provides a rich background for a treatment of the political, social, moral, and personal consequences of attitudes toward suffering in the contemporary world.

Trends in consumer sentiment have shown some divergence recently as attitudes toward current economic conditions continue to become more optimistic while expectations about future conditions reflect some caution.

A Columbia professor and clean tech entrepreneur talks with his son, a clean tech investor, about generational differences in their attitudes toward climate change and radical solutions to the world's most pressing problem.

Millennial preferences and attitudes toward cars mean we will see a big shift in the industry in the decades to come.

The case is being closely watched, because the outcome of the investigation could affect consumer attitudes toward Tesla, automation and self - driving technology in particular.

Notably, there are no significant differences in attitudes toward an FTA with China between those who believe human rights issues should be the number one priority for Canada government, and those who do not.

American views on China are dimming, even while Chinese attitudes toward the United States have become more positive in recent...

Canadians» attitudes toward economic engagement with China are strongly affected by these political rights concerns.

Continual changes to pension rules appeared to have an impact on attitudes toward retirement saving, as the vast majority of UK respondents reported they were still confused and disillusioned with their options.