Sentences with phrase «depending upon their religion»

Furthermore, the council was entitled to conclude that it would be wrong to allow registrars to decide whether and if so which obligations they should carry out depending upon their religion, as this would convey the wrong message to staff about the council's commitment to equality.

Not exact matches

That is, if Wilson's purely functionalist explanation of religion were to become widely accepted by religious people, it would then be rendered false» for the adaptive features of religions depend, on Wilson's account, upon religious people thinking it false that their religions are best understood as adaptive social organisms.

Not the textbook GOD being shoved upon every person on the planet depending on what religion they were born with.

The role of religion in the lives of individuals and societies depends greatly upon personal and historical experiences and developments.

Since public education is controlled through agencies of government, racial justice in education depends upon equal political rights and responsibilities for all citizens regardless of color, religion, or national origin.

Marketing Indian religion or any product depends upon consumer expectation.

The sociologist of religion will have to examine the character of this twofold relationship in the case of each individual group because the nature, intensity, duration, and organization of a religious group depends upon the way in which its members experience God, conceive of, and communicate with Him, and upon the way they experience fellowship, conceive of, and practice it.

But I am arguing civil religion depends upon conditions independent of particular individuals and events.

On the basis of the foregoing analysis of Mexico and the United States, perhaps this explanation can be offered: Civil religion depends for its existence upon circumstances allowing persons and institutions to be «religious» and «political» at the same time.

Since meaning depends upon the assignment of relevant experiences, the five fundamentals of religious experience may be taken as providing basic meanings for the concept of deity in a universal religion.

While the Humanists propose to solve the problem of the religious crisis by allowing only a religion which completely identifies itself with the spirit of secularism, and while the Modernists rely primarily upon the actuality and presence of the religious life, the Barthians wish to depend almost exclusively upon the Bible and on a church which recognizes the special worth of the Bible.

To be sure, something depends upon how a challenged program is designed and which President makes the next Court appointments; nevertheless there is a high probability that educational subsidies empowering the family to choose among the full array of providers will not be found an «establishment of religion.»

«People feel that they can get along perfectly well without religion,» said John Robinson and added that «Bonhoeffer's answer was to say that God is deliberately calling us in this twentieth century to a form of Christianity that does not depend upon the premise of religion».

For one day the salvation of our religion may depend upon how widely and well we demonstrate to the world the unity of liberation and love.

So important is the healing of the rift between science and religion that Whitehead (1933) said: «When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of history depends upon the decision of this generation as to the relations between them» (p. 224).

The root insight here is that subjective certainty (in religion as in other matters) depends upon cohesive social support for whatever it is that the individual wants to be certain about.

Our salvation depends upon our ability to create a religion of nature.»

«And can a society that depends so much upon lawyers for shaping public perceptions and preserving American traditions regarding the freedom of speech and religion, afford so ignorant a bar?»