Sentences with phrase «by religious bodies»

As expected, a number of submissions by religious bodies supported the teaching of religion in schools.

The demand for immediate, powerful and deep religious experience, which was part of the turn away from future - oriented instrumentalism toward present meaning and fulfillment, could on the whole not be met by the religious bodies.

One can draw on the result of the careful work that has been done by religious bodies, educational institutions, and local communities regarding better understanding between the Islamic faith and societies since the Gulf War in 1991.

One source is the «roll data» kept by religious bodies themselves, which vary in quality from the clearly defined, meticulously updated and publicly available membership records of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) to the much less reliable numbers put forth by many historically African - American denominations.

I am a Christian, yet I recognize that moral values are not only Christian, not only Catholic, not only evangelical, and in fact are not defined by any religious body or individual for the nation as a whole.

The dispute was over an $ 8 million tax abatement, with the Masons contending that the state constitution forbids such aid to an institution controlled by a religious body.

Not exact matches

Jim Al - Khalili says that he doesn't have a «religious bone in his body» — despite being brought up by a Shia Muslim father and a mother whom he describes as a «born again evangelical Christian».

They belong to us for some of the same reasons they were practised by ancient Pythagoreans and modern Buddhists: natural, human religious wisdom acknowledges that the body must be tamed before the soul.

And when you think others are stupid to be «religious», how stupid are you to limit yourself to this one planet, when there are billions up there, all connected by God's Galactic Internet, no big bang, no beginning, no end, forever, billions of souls traveling the ever - changing universe, in and out of various human - like bodies, on and off of different earth - like planets.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

According to data provided to me by Rich Houseal of the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies, Massachusetts is the most Catholic state in the nation.

According to this theory, religious bodies expand by demanding strong commitment while providing social and personal benefits.

From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization of the death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

Some of these religious men said nothing when body bag after body bag of young men and women were showing up at the airports killed by terrorist!!

These quotations, including the statement by Bellows at the cornerstone laying, are from a description of the work of Turner in an article by Francis W. McPeek, «The Role of Religious Bodies in the Treatment of Inebriety in the United States,» Alcohol, Science and Society, pp.413 - 14.

Schlesinger states that «religion has an indispensable social function,» but the body of his address argues that absolutism is the root of the worst social and political evils, and that all absolutism is essentially religious, whether it is the «Judeo - Christian tradition» or «the totalitarian social religions of our age» (by which, one assumes, he means fascism and communism).

Richard John Neuhaus notes that the decennial study of church membership conducted by the Glenmary Research Center and sponsored by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies has confirmed the phenomenon highlighted in Dean Kelley's 1972 Why Conservative Churches Are Growing (While We're At It, January).

The value of the body is largely shared by people, whether from religious motives or not.

No man [should] be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place, or ministry whatsoever, nor [should he] be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor... otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief... All men [should] be free to profess and by argument to maintain their opinions in matters of religion, and... the same [should] in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

Until surpassed by the Southern Baptists, the Methodists were the dominant religious body in America, at a membership of about 10 million.

Now if you want to say all deaths under a leader are due to religious position of the leader, the Christians still win the body count game by a lot.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Though he presses the analogy of the religious body with the physical organism and though his concept of the «divine society» is open to criticism, de la Grasserie does offer helpful categories for the understanding of «external religious society,» and particularly of the «societies to the second power,» as created by prophets and saints.

Conversely a universal orientation may be qualified by national, social, or other criteria, as in the case of the national religious bodies in Eastern and Western Christianity, in Islam, and in Buddhism.

On the positive side, I am sure you are right that Catholicism goes beyond all other religious traditions, Christian and non-Christian, in the dignity it confers on matter and the human body; on the negative, we must indeed get rid of «infinitely contrary poles of existence» and the successive swapping of abstract forms by parcels of intrinsically featureless matter.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

WHAT??? The major publications report on the events that are heppening BECAUSE there is no separation... aren't we TRYING to prevent a conflict or contorversy between religious and governing bodies by advocating for the separation?

«The kingdom has drawn near,» Jesus» first proclamation, was followed by healing of bodies and minds; by freeing persons who felt bound; by challenging authorities, religious and secular, when they stepped beyond their limits (the cleansing of the temple; on paying tax).

''» will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same - sex «marriage»: by taking away their tax - exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both.

He would provide a profile of the early Church which was «a religious communion claiming a divine commission, and holding all other religious bodies around it heretical or infidel, a sort of secret society binding its members together by influence and engagement, spread over the whole world, a natural enemy to governments, intolerant and capable of dividing families and breaking laws.

Indeed, as a result of the perfect freedom and the voluntarism born of pluralism, the American church boasted a vital, generous membership served by a necessarily vigilant and attentive body of priests and religious.

The review by academics and lawyers urged minsters to establish a body which would allow self - regulation by Islamic religious councils.

Since that time we were allowed to hold our services at a warehouse held by the local high school and though its not so much the building that matters for a religious body, the dilapidated premises were certainly having a notable impact on the strength of our community.

Our strategy is to anger Hispanics by freaking out about the illegal aliens, to anger women by reducing their control over their own bodies and lessening their health care choices, to anger Blacks by calling the NAACP and MLK racist, to alienate moderates with our extremist ideologies like Tea Party and Limbaugh and the Religious Right.

Definition of CULT 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents 3: a religion regarded as unorthodox or spurious; also: its body of adherents 4: a system for the cure of disease based on dogma set forth by its promulgator 5a: great devotion to a person, idea, object, movement, or work (as a film or book); especially: such devotion regarded as a literary or intellectual fad b: the object of such devotion c: a usually small group of people characterized by such devotion

«Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly, that no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and the same shall in nowise diminish, enlarge, or afflict these civil capacities.»

An exception to the last of these three is that «faith» schools «may take account of religious activities, as laid out by the body or person representing the religion or religious denomination».

A council in Wales has withdrawn its decision to exclude a humanist representative from the local body responsible for overseeing religious education (RE), following a legal challenge by a local humanist parent.

Concerns stem in part from a majority of students in the district attending religious schools, while the Board of Education is largely dominated by Hasidic men making decisions for a largely black and Latino student body.

We are taught in our Muslims, Christians, Buddists, Hindus and the various religious bodies hat leaders are role models, so a role model can be a good or a bad role model depending on the character traits of the person, is much followed by people, Ghanaians are yearning for change,» he said.

The religious body appealed to the international community for assistance and urged all churches to set aside time on Sunday, January 7, to pray for Nigeria and «for victory over the wicked killings by Fulani herdsmen.»

The First Temperatures The earliest temperature measurements by Derham and others amounted to a sort of religious inquiry: They documented not only the weather, but also the body sizes of gnats and wasps and the dates on which snowdrop flowers bloomed and thrushes began to sing each spring.

In the debates, Perry distinguished himself by comparing the persecution of a 17th - century astronomer by a powerful religious and political body with the plight of those who doubt the science of climate change.

One study showed that engaging in spiritual community by attending religious services can extend your life by up to 14 years, so it's unsurprising that connecting with the Divine — whether within yourself or in spiritual community with others who share your faith — would activate your body's self - repair mechanisms so your body can heal itself.

What that means is that, while I may not be an avid calorie counter, I am a religious label reader and if the ingredients listed on a product aren't pronounceable or recognizable by my body, I choose to stray away from it.

I'm not religious, so I tend to go for funny ones like Body By Junk Food or Allergic To Mornings.

Not a religious film by any means, it isn't concerned so much with Heaven or the afterlife so much as exploring the comic possibilities of a man transported from one life to another, trying to inject his own personality into the body of another.

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