Sentences with phrase «different religious culture»

Her work should be required reading not only for students of American religion, but also for anyone who wishes to study sympathetically and fruitfully a different religious culture.

It was fun and enlightening discussing issues related to the Bible, gender equality, and faith with women coming from a somewhat different religious culture.

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Though the company had to alter parts of its branding, like changing its colour scheme from red to pink (the latter being less provocative), nixing forbidden photos of skin - baring women and axing Cupid imagery due to its religious connotations, it was still adapting to a culture that celebrates sexuality, albeit in a different way.

Christ, as time has many different names from many different cultures and the christians forcibly converted people to stop them from celebrating THEIR OWN religious holidays that fell at the same time of years millenia ago.

After learning of so many different cultures with different religious beliefs, I began to believe that there was no one true God or multiple gods.

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

A translator can not neglect the role of language in the process of translation, especially in a pluralistic society like India, which includes different religious and political ideologies, languages and culture.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

Many of the refugees come from different cultures, have different religious beliefs and maintain different worldviews.

Beside I feel that the same descriptions might be required to be asked or be questioned to Muslims of Different Doctrines, Races and Cultures, who might have among them that who are similar to your nations, such as those who are Atheists, Agnostics or even Satanic but there still will be those who are considered as religious believers «Moderate or Extremes»..!

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

In Europe, for example, religious people can no longer ignore the existence of the millions of foreigners with different cultures who are now living there.

The Bible has absolutely no references to violence towards non-believers at all and the Catholic church doesn't have a tarnished history of slaughtered indigenous cultures and different religious groups in record numbers...

People from different cultures, societies, religious traditions and regions often use speech that is common to them, so what?

Their Americanization notwithstanding, the Durand - Perez family retained a number of features typical of every border family I know: pride in the Mexican culture and heritage; a deep and abiding religious faith; a love for both the Spanish and English languages (with family members having different degrees of competence in each); and a special esteem for the family's youngest and oldest members.

«I believe the American culture to be one of the best nurturing grounds for individuality... I hope it should go without saying that I reject blindly embracing the religious values of different people especially when they are in violation of the law and rights of individuals.»

Today, supporters and opponents of the culture of death have radically different and mutually exclusive worldviews, outlooks that do not necessarily track with the usual left - versus - right, religious - versus - secular paradigms that often roil our public controversies.

Religious conversion to Christ in this setting essentially means a change of faith which involves participation in the local worshipping congregation of Christian believers without transference of community and cultural affiliations, but with a commitment to the ethical transformation of the whole society and culture in which they participate with others of different faiths.

I think the biggest problem with a certain breed of religious ppl... is that they forget that different cultures have different customs.

g) What community is given us in Christ, and what community can we achieve socially and politically among people of (1) different cultures and nations, (2) different class and social conditions (e.g., caste), (3) different ultimate commitments of faith, whether secular or religious?

Importing Vivaldi or Brahms or William Mathias into a church community whose native musical languages are closer to those of Madonna, Jimmy Buffett or John Tesh is like missionaries imposing European or North American religious styles on drastically different cultures.

Growing up I was always around different races, backgrounds, cultures, and religious beliefs.

Albany, NY — Members of the New York State Senate overwhelmingly approved pieces of legislation which are part of the Independent Democratic Conference's Religious Freedom package on Tuesday to combat hate - inspired crimes in New York State and to promote tolerance amongst those of different cultures and ethnicities.

«This insight could prove important in an increasingly complex and interconnected world where taking the view of others, especially those from different cultures or with different religious backgrounds, becomes ever more difficult — and ever more necessary,» adds Böckler.

I have seen archaeology cause conflict when it is used for political and religious purposes, but I want to help Somalis understand their past and accept different people, religions, and cultures.

By 2000 B.C.E. the entire culture had disappeared and been replaced by very different religious practices that favored cremation burials.

Opposing such confidence, he sees a blindness of science to the awkward and anomalous «noise» of the moral and religious world views of cultures that are radically different from ours in the industrialised West.

The United States just like any other country faces a lot of interracial dating, due to the fact that majority of the population call the country second home, not natives.They come with different cultures and religious backgrounds.The most important thing is to accept that one's culture and religion should not be barrier, it should help to unite as you learn new things from others.The uniqueness we have has the inspiration to ignite passion and bring tolerance to promote peace and love while dating.

Using culture - neutral graphics, avoiding region - specific references to sports, humor, religious symbols, and using international formats (for dates, units of measurement) in the source course will make it easy to localize the course into different languages.

At the same time, she reveals how complicated it is when cultural, national, and religious identities intersect; even before adding the culture shock that comes with immigration to a new country with completely different social rules.

Travel is about embracing new cultures, exploring culinary traditions and religious differences, education, and learning to look at life in a different way.

With each «yes» or «no», they edit the experience of our culture in the name of many different forces: political, moral, ethical, even religious.

«For more than two decades,» Roberta Smith wrote in her review for The New York Times, «the work of this British artist has dazzled and discomfited, seduced and unsettled, gliding effortlessly between high and low, among cultures, ricocheting off different racial stereotypes and religious beliefs.»

When you see the tactics of anti-petroleum Leftists — doing everything possible to disrupt the efficient allocation of the low - cost energy that has contributed to making America great — you wonder how different the Left is from religious fundamentalists who invade, tear down, deface and destroy the historical artifacts of a culture to erase and rewrite the past.

But when one contrasts the Canadian reaction to the explicit insertion of religious views into the Republican Party and the recent book attempting to argue that the US Constitution (notwithstanding the separation doctrine) is a Christian text because of the beliefs of the Founding Fathers — then it becomes clear just how different the two legal cultures are.

[1] Since September 2008, as part of the mandatory core curriculum in schools across Quebec, the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports has required a Program on Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), which teaches about the beliefs and ethics of different world religions from a neutral and objective perspective.

Loyola High School v. Quebec (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 12 Administrative Law — Civil Rights Summary: As part of the mandatory core curriculum in schools across Quebec, the Minister of Education, Recreation and Sports required a Program on Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC), which taught about the beliefs and ethics of different world religions from a neutral and objective perspective.

In 2005, to foster harmonious relations among students of different backgrounds and to introduce them to religious practices and traditions from around the world as well as from Quebec, the provincial government gradually imposed a controversial new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the privreligious practices and traditions from around the world as well as from Quebec, the provincial government gradually imposed a controversial new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the privReligious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the private ones.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,

This certification provides agents with everything they need to know, from dealing with different cultures, to understanding different negotiating styles, expectations, and how to work with those from differing religious, ethnic and national backgrounds.