Sentences with phrase «culture and religion in»

On this edition of The Mark Steyn Weekend Show, Mark talks to bestselling novelist and screenwriter Andrew Klavan about the intersection of politics, culture and religion in the Age of Trump.

Wael Shawky's work explores transitional events in society, politics, culture and religion in the Arab World.

Since the revelation of the Cross, those cultures and religions in closest proximity to it gradually lose the effectiveness of divine justifications.

Since the time of the pioneers around the Second Vatican Council, dialogue between religions has become even more necessary today, given that there is an even stronger mixture of cultures and religions in most parts of the world.

«We cherish our culture and religions in the village and [those are] two main things that we continue to teach our children today, as it is what we will be known for,» Sailosi Ramatu, Vunidogoloa's village headman, told E&E News via email through a translator.

«Today, we see people of different cultures and religions in colleges, at malls, shopping complexes, sports events and holding key positions in various organizations.

Because there are very diverse cultures and religion in Canada, a government official is there to represent all citizens of various cultures and religions and not just one culture or religion within Canada.

Not exact matches

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

It is founded in philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky's belief that providing students with access to professionals will help them understand that success in business requires developing a more holistic perspective through community involvement and an appreciation of the arts, international culture, religion, politics and diversity.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

Alternatively, many sociologists predicted that, with the increasing emphasis on individualism and the therapeutic in American culture, religion would have an increasingly marginal influence on domestic life, and the traditional family as the 1950s knew it would gradually disappear in the face of «family modernization,» as some theorists called it.

what you believe is not «biblically based», it's indoctrination about ideas that came from warping and exagerating ideas that existed in «pagan» (not actually the correct term but good for this purpose) mythologies, and the evil imaginations of men like Dante and those who desired to see those they considered inferior in doctrine, belief, religion or culture in torture.

The struggle is that religion in media can create a barrier between Christian culture and those who do not know about Christ.

Even though that religion has promoted ethics in human societies, which has served humanity fairly well, the above hypothesis has created problematic culture in human societies, which is harmful to animals, environment, and humanity as a whole.

In my cell biology course, we investigate the biology and chemistry of a cell surface receptor that helps induce good feelings in us when it binds to a chemical compound found in incense; this may help explain why so many different cultures and religions have independently evolved the use of incense in their ceremonies and ritualIn my cell biology course, we investigate the biology and chemistry of a cell surface receptor that helps induce good feelings in us when it binds to a chemical compound found in incense; this may help explain why so many different cultures and religions have independently evolved the use of incense in their ceremonies and ritualin us when it binds to a chemical compound found in incense; this may help explain why so many different cultures and religions have independently evolved the use of incense in their ceremonies and ritualin incense; this may help explain why so many different cultures and religions have independently evolved the use of incense in their ceremonies and ritualin their ceremonies and rituals.

Those government acknowledgments of religion serve, in the only ways reasonably possible in our culture, the legitimate secular purposes of solemnizing public occasions, expressing confidence in the future, and encouraging the recognition of what is worthy of appreciation in society.

I believe religion and culture is a perception of the world founded in genetics.

Just because I am capable of imagining a pagan world and find the culture emotionally innate to me does not imply I believe in the old religion.

In fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationshipIn fact, in the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationshipin the past 9 years there have only been 3 topics people discussed, regardless of their race, religion (even atheists), culture, gender, or primary language: they only spoke of (1) God, (2) family, and (3) relationships with other people & regrets / joy for those relationships.

Admitting that other cultures and religions have their own perfectly valid set of ethics in no way diminishes your own.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themeIn between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themein Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

Does religion get a free pass in our culture and on our football fields?

If I were working in an environment where the culture and or / religion required me as a woman to wear a burqa, I would.

There is some things in the bible that has good morals in it, but you can find those things in many other cultures and religions as well.

Fundamentalism uses the culture, rituals, sacraments, texts, language, and metaphors and allusions and symbols (verbal, visual, musical, etc.) of religion in blind adherence to a dogma as defined and interpreted by a person or group who is self - aggregating and self - justifying raw personal power for the sole purpose of controlling the lives of others.

Articles from this weekend (just a portion, hardly exhaustive) that may interest anyone interested in religion, culture, and public life: Catholic vote and Hilary Clinton (NY Times) Rabbis criticizing the revised Good Friday praye r (NY Times) James Dobson and John McCain (Wall Street Journal....

In Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in LiliesIn Updike's view, the ineluctable disappearance of religion in the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Liliesin the life of Americans has been replaced by the ersatz religions of devotion to the bitch goddess of material success, and to the excitements of a degraded popular culture (the cult of the silver screen figures large in Liliesin Lilies).

But it's not clear how conservative Christians are going to persuade Muslims to reshape their religion to make them at once less susceptible to Wahabi literalism and at the same time fit to be eager warriors in Western culture wars.

We slam their religion constantly, devaluing their culture, and in general, treat them badly.

By my reading of both the human condition and our current culture, a project like Hart's is more important to the status of religion in public life than, say, arguments for a natural law.

To the cultured despisers of religion and Biblical morality, we say we love you, but we will oppose you — and with our COGIC friends we will strive not so much to defeat you in a cultural and political struggle as to open your hearts and minds to the life - preserving and love - affirming truths of the Gospel that reason knows and faith confirms.

Roof and McKinney are surely right, however, that the critique of authority that pervaded the «60s served, often inadvertently, to exacerbate secularizing tendencies inherent in modern culture, particularly the inclination to regard religion as a private affair.

«Without this, each human is subject to the culture in which he / she grows, and the prevailing religion in each.»

It is evident that this period influenced Morrison's permanent interest in exploring the relationships between religion and its surrounding culture, with the result that a unique feature of the Century came to be its openness to articles on topics — political and literary, for instance — that did not commonly appear in religious publications.

There was profound agreement that God has found people, and people have found God, throughout human history and in the contexts of many religions and cultures.

Katharine Wilkinson has been interested in the environment and religion's role in culture since her undergraduate years at Sewanee: The University of the South.

... reason and faith [must] come together in a new way [if we are to] become capable of that genuine dialogue of cultures and religions so urgently needed today.

With the Great War as backdrop, the great culture warrior for the social gospel utilized his understanding of historicism as a method to discuss how religion and patriotism should be rightly understood in a genuine democracy.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

Both men, from their differing perspectives on culture — Berger as a sociologist of religion and Lewis as a professor of English literature — have allowed play to be the activity we have described in Chapter Two.

From this point of view one can proceed to review the wide variety of ways in which religion and American culture have been constantly interrelated throughout American history.

Americans have always held an unusually high degree of respect for religion and its role in their culture.

In short, they are asking for an alternative form of development that takes the interest of the poor as central and allows room for their culture and religion.

But that this should be interpreted as freedom from religion, and used as a means of sealing our culture against the imparting of religious knowledge, has no justification in fact.

We have far too many who aren't willing to stand for what is right and oppose what is wrong in our society and culture... This pastors «vision» sounds too much like the world John Lennon wrote about in his song «imagine» where there is no God and «no religion».

What guides Niebuhr through the various ideal types in Christ and Culture is the desire to resist institutionalization, which is why even Augustine comes up short by substituting «the Christian religion — a cultural achievement — for Christ.»

Since my readers are, like me, heirs of Western culture, I shall limit our discussion of religion to the ways in which that culture has usually portrayed the divine, and then attempt a process reconception of the situation.

The novel addresses the conflict between secularism and Islamism, the different conceptions of religion in Muslim and Western societies, and the impossibility of individualism in Muslim culture.

Among the cultural forms studied by the anthropologist are ones that explicitly embody spiritual meanings, including the beliefs, practices, and institutions of religion, some forms of which appear in every known culture.