Sentences with phrase «definition of religion»

That is consistent with what I think is a helpful definition of religion in keeping with British values.

If the worker's views stated in his essay were enough to meet the legal definition of a religion, he had a valid Title VII claim.

Why won't you answer the simple question of what definition of religion you are using that could possibly put NOT believing as a religion?

But the author kept on arguing against a straw man definition of religion and I had a hard time taking the arguments seriously because of it.

That is one of my two favorite definitions of religion.

You pretty much gave the operational definition of religion.

I agree that my statement is not a complete definition of religion.

What definition of religion are you falsely using to say atheism is a religion?

But within the context of people saying they are SBNR, I don't really see such people reacting against a loosely defined definition of religion as merely moral teachings administered with certain rituals and structures.

If Whitehead's definition of religion from Religion in the Making is destined to be constantly quoted, let it at least emphasize that he said «Religion is what one does with one's solitude» (28, emphasis added).

Whitehead offers a variety of definitions of religion, all of which highlight this point.

The very definition of religion is the «belief of a superhuman controlling power, especially a personal God or gods.»

Scientology is fully developed, by definition of religion, in its theology, religious practice and organization.

Kenny comments: «Religion, Taylor tells us, is perfectly possible without God - and given his elastic definition of religion, this is surely true.

Christianity simply has certain elements and truth claims that separate it from traditional definitions of religion.

Yet another clue to this meaning of God is contained in Whitehead's initial definition of religion in Religion in the Making:

But whenever a theologian will not allow a societal definition of religion as a sometimes useful, sometimes dangerous, usually harmless «private option,» then the struggle of contemporary theology for authentic publicness begins.

If you want to use the broad definition of religion then you must use the broad definition of violence as being a global phenomenon, not a singular violent act averted.

George Albert Coe's familiar definition of religion as «the discovery of persons» points in the same direction.

So it is that critical definitions of religion in all their variety show that the sacred and the religious life is the opposite of the profane and the secular life.

If they truly believe there is a god, but that that god has not yet revealed itself to us, or that the current specific definitions of each religions» god are merely incomplete aspects of this greater god... how do you label it?

Ting hopes that this new spirit of dialogue will extend even to the point of fundamentally affecting the government's operative definition of religion so that it will no longer be viewed as simply a transient ideology but rather as a necessary expression of the human spirit.

In Beijing a representative of the Division of World Religions of the Chinese National Academy of the Social Sciences admitted that the standard Marxist definition of religion as the «opiate of the people» is no longer the only view informing the academy's research.

And, although it would indeed be foolish to set up an abstract definition of religion's essence, and then proceed to defend that definition against all comers, yet this need not prevent me from taking my own narrow view of what religion shall consist in for the purpose of these lectures, or, out of the many meanings of the word, from choosing the one meaning in which I wish to interest you particularly, and proclaiming arbitrarily that when I say «religion» I mean that.

(Cf., e.g., Whitehead's passage on the role of withdrawal in which occurs his famous definition of religion as «what the individual does with his own solitariness.»

There are many definitions of religion.

Her insistently advanced definition of religion is radically Protestant and individualistic, effectively identifying religion with individual conscience understood as self - direction.

In America, some people have begun to argue for a very individualistic definition of religion, one in which a sole practitioner, following her own inner voice, can qualify as a religion for legal purposes.

Equally, students will be equipped to make their own definitions and have an in - depth knowledge of Ao2 evaluative points about definitions of religion.

By the end of this lesson, pupils will be able to articulate the different definitions of religion and link them to sociologists that proposed them.

This lesson goes through definitions of religion, introducing sociologists to A2 students that research into this area.

Yes David religion of atheism as some have used the legal definition of religion in law suits in favour of an atheist position.

vertexpoint But isn't his narrow definition of religion an invented one, made up specifically to exclude his own religious beliefs?

one of the definitions of religion: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith» As noted above Atheism is none of these things.

1: one of the definitions of religion: a cause, principle, or system of beliefs held to with ardor and faith

You have yet to prove anything I stated as incorrect and even added proof by admiting to fitting into the definitions of a religion

Of course the legal definition of religion: is «Religion means any religion and a reference to religion includes a reference to a lack of religion.»