Sentences with phrase «context of a particular religion»

And that ethos will inevitably have been born in the context of a particular religion.

Not exact matches

The fact that these principles have such great similarity to principles of obligation found in other religions and philosophies has led many theologians to believe that what is unique about Christian principles of obligation is not so much their context as the particular view of the world that follows from the metaphors and stories which surround them and which are found in the Christian drama.

Hence, if we situate the call of Abraham, as well as other special revelatory moments of the history of religion, within the wider context of cosmic evolution, this may help soften the «scandal of particularity» associated with any unique or distinctive summoning by God of a particular people to bear witness in a novel way to the divine promise and mystery that come to expression first in the very creation of the world.

As to religion, Judaism and Christianity affirm the occurrence of miracles, but divine interventions occur within a particular religious context.

«Festivals and pilgrimages,» I have said in another context, «are outstanding occasions, for here we find a close interrelation between different cultic activities such as purifications, lustrations, prayer, vows, offerings, sacrifices, and processions all of which are of particular interest both to the historian and the sociologist of religion» (Sociology of Religion, p. 42).

«The new memo also defends applying statutory protections for «hiring persons of a particular religion'to include protection for religiously based standards of conduct for employees, including in the funding context — and potentially (although this is not said explicitly) when the category of prohibited discrimination that's asserted is sexual orientation, not just when it's religion.

Philosophy needs the data of religious experience in order to remain sensitive to the particular, and religion needs philosophy to modify it, rationalize it, and fit it into a wider context.

The fact that you feel that Mormonism is not a cult and that Jehovah's Witnesses are means nothing outside of the context of your particular reasons for feeling that one religion deserves to be insulted and the other does not.

She is currently conducting a research on the relevance of human rights norms in migration law, in particular human rights norms that have not been much touched upon in migration context, such as the right to freedom of religion, the right to respect for private life, the right to fair trial and the right to education.

This states that differences in treatment based on religion can be justified where «by reason of the nature of the particular occupational activities concerned or of the context in which they are carried out, such a characteristic constitutes a genuine and determining occupational requirement, provided that the objective is legitimate and the requirement proportionate.»