Sentences with phrase «began comparative studies»

With this brief outline before us we are now in a position to begin the comparative study.

Several years later, Tom Insel, a former colleague of Carter's who is now president of the National Institute of Mental Health, began a comparative study analyzing the brains of prairie voles and their less monogamous cousins, the montane voles.

Neuroanatomist Michael Hofmann at the University of Bonn in Germany is beginning a comparative study of the inner ears of fish to understand their hearing and orientation.

Not exact matches

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

Western writing on Eastern religion has had, in the course of the last hundred years, because of its substance, an influence on the development of those religions themselves that certainly deserves careful historical investigation; on the whole, because of the form in which it has mostly been cast, it has in addition been causing resentment and is beginning to elicit protest.22 Certainly anyone for whom comparative religion studies are something that might or should serve to promote mutual understanding and good relations between religious communities can not but be concerned at this contrary effect.

Philosophers, theologians, and social scientists who formerly were fascinated by the comparative approach to the study of world religions have begun to question the validity of such an approach.

Towards the beginning of this century there was great enthusiasm for the comparative study of religions; it was often conducted by scholars who believed that when they had discovered parallels to early Christian expressions, ideas, institutions or rites in other religions they had shown that the Christian phenomena were derived from these other religions and also that their meaning within Christianity was essentially the same as it was within the other religion or religions.

Boyd began with a comparative study of two painted rock shelters called Rattlesnake Canyon and Panther Cave.

As he got involved in comparative studies, he began to see a need for new, systematic methods for evaluating new medical technologies.

The study had begun as a comparative study of patients given Gleevec or the previous standard treatment, interferon alfa plus cytarabine.

While in New Zealand, she hopes to begin a comparative case study examining the work of Indigenous policy organizations leveraging resources in support of student and community success.

Begun 35 years ago with the vision of studying naturally occurring cancer in pet animals as a means of also helping in the fight against similar cancers in humans, the Purdue Comparative Oncology Program hosts a one day conference Friday, November 14.