Sentences with phrase «demands of its adherents»

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This anticlerical thinking gave rise to a theologically liberal brand of Protestantism, whose adherents were receptive to demands from atheists, liberals, and secular Jews for total separation.

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These new devotees of evangelism are imperialistic, attacking those who deviate as secular humanists (read pagans) and demanding conformity of its adherents under pain of excommunication (read being targeted for defeat in the next election).

The televangelists have used this power to join forces with the political right in order to bring about a nation more in conformity with what its adherents believe to be the will of God, or at least the demands of Christianity.

Totalitarianism is, almost by definition, religious in its intensity and in the nature of the demands it makes upon the total being of its adherents.

The result is a remarkable and often brilliant blend of the insider's penetration and the outsider's critique that demands the attention of all who would understand fundamentalism, whether as adherents or as observers.

Any church that does not increase the scope of its demand for social justice can in the long run expect to attract fewer adherents.

But, with religious fantasies, the adherents hysterically demand some sort of ultimate «proof» for their deity (ies)'s non-existence, while admitting, under duress, that they themselves can't «prove» their fantasy exists.

But many close observers of the Communist movement, including FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, have concluded that it can be understood only as a faith that demands the total allegiance of its adherents.

10) demanding any form of conduct or observance which makes it difficult or impossible for adherents (particularly children) to take part in lawful activities which are commonly enjoyed in British society, and punishing or attempting to punish adherents for failing to comply with such a demand, particularly by putting them in fear of supernatural disfavour.

I agree with Mr. Bauerlein's twin observations that arts education adherents need to go beyond the social / behavioral - rectification benefits of the arts and demand more rigor and an understanding of art's context.

Demanding a dispassionately cool anonymity at the expense of the feverishly assertive personal components that had been the hallmarks of abstract expressionism, minimalism's adherents asserted that the meaning of an artistic entity resided not within, but rather solely on its surface.