Sentences with phrase «conservative religious traditions»

Significant numbers of millennials (young people born in the 1980s and 1990s) will continue to walk away from socially conservative religious traditions.

Not exact matches

It is much the same, if not worse, when we turn to the conservative defenders of the various religious traditions.

Other religious expressions and traditions were almost forced off the air totally by these (now) wealthy conservative Protestant organizations.

The rhetoric of liberal religious leaders, unlike that of their conservative counterparts, has often questioned the value of America's distinctive cultural traditions.

Now sociologist Wade Clark Roof's A Generation of Seekers, based on his recent study of the religion of the baby boom generation, shows that a sizable proportion of Catholics and conservative Protestants have also left the religious traditions in which they were brought up.

Both groups were crucial elements of Clinton's coalition in 1992; and although there are religious conservatives in both traditions, the GOP has made only marginal inroads among them so far.

If they are from a biblically conservative tradition they are likely to use selected references to sexuality, marriage, and family to communicate the ideals of God in a way that will encourage and motivate people to strive for the ideal.6 This didactic use of the Bible fails to distinguish the radical difference between family life and the religious practices of ancient and modern cultures.

This new divide is ideological in the sense that it creates religious «liberals» (who would liberate religion from the past) and «conservatives» (who would conserve the religion of the past) within each religious tradition.

This development is creating cross-tradition alliances, as religious «liberals» from several traditions battle their «conservative» counterparts.

You kind of run the gamut of conservative American religious traditions.

If we define the religious right broadly — as orthodox religious people who hold to conservative positions on the right to life, the definition of marriage, the goodness of tradition, and the freedom to believe and practice one's faith — then the religious right is alive and well, despite the mythology of an ever - secularizing, omni - progressivizing Hegelian spirit - force.

Numerous prominent conservatives immediately denounced him for trampling on America's best traditions of religious tolerance.

On the other hand, there was another minority who, looking back to their own religious and cultural traditions with a newly acquired Western - type national consciousness, became extremely conservative and rejected the West in toto.

If we can give a positive answer to these questions, then we can affirm the various religious traditions in a much more concrete sense than either liberal or conservative theologians allow.

By the same token, I still believe that we need to rediscover and reinterpret the three overlapping political traditions — conservative, liberal and socialist or social - democratic — that have woven in and out of our history for well over a century; and that we have at least as much to learn from our complex religious traditions as from political ones.

Many such states, for example, appeal to religious tradition in making the law, provide material and symbolic advantages to members of the majority religion, and enforce conservative laws in matters of sexuality and the family.

«Southern and rural cultures have been described as emphasizing tradition and order, and are more conservative in their religious and political affiliations.»

Over time, ethnic distinctiveness has subsided, and some conservative Protestant religious traditions in schooling have diffused throughout the movement — partly through the growth and consolidation of Christian - schooling organizations and of publishers of Christian school materials.