Sentences with phrase «eastern religions»

These practices are rooted in Eastern religions, particularly Buddhism, but a secular version has taken hold in the United States.

I'd suspect he'd add other eastern religions to the mix if they had a large enough following to be a perceived threat to his Christo - Judaic worldview.

This anchors her visual universe within cultural history and lends a modern, personal interpretation to Eastern religions, including Tibetan Buddhism, Indian Tantrism and Christian ecstatic traditions like those of the seventeenth - century Baroque.

She has garnered critical acclaim for her use of ceremonial and ritualistic materials gathered from and transcending everyday culture; the use of the sacred refers to a multiplicity of meanings as it dates back to pre-Christian times and is found in both Western and Eastern religions symbolized through such objects as the apple, salt, and lotus.

Founded by transcendentalist Sarah J. Farmer and named by the poet John Greenleaf Whittier, Green Acre was a utopian community where progressive intellectuals discussed Eastern religions, theosophy, the arts, science, and philosophy.

His work was influenced by his Jewish heritage and Eastern religions as well as by artists including Altdorfer, Grünewald, Caravaggio, Rembrandt, Blake, Bresdin, Ensor and Soutine.

Paul Jenkins was very interested in Eastern religions and Jungian philosophy.

She was interested in Eastern religions and philosophies, but so were many American intellectuals in the 50's and 60's.

She derives inspiration from ritual practices and philosophies from eastern religions like Hinduism and Buddhism, which manifest in the themes that underlie her work, her choice of materials and method of drawing and painting.

Mark Tobey (1890 - 1976), known as the «Sage of Seattle,» was greatly influenced by Asian calligraphy and Eastern religions, converting to the Baha'i faith, which stresses the equality and unity of mankind.

Our interests included alternative realities, the spiritualization of nature, the fantastic, the dream, psychedelics, and the study of eastern religions.

In Baxter St at CCNY exhibition, their classically composed, environmental portraits depict Western converts to eastern religions, and in a large - scale group portrait, an assortment of mostly western devotees sit meditating in an airy, light - filled temple.

Senior in age and experience, he had a strong influence on the others; friend and mentor, Tobey shared their interest in philosophy and Eastern religions.

With an ongoing interest in Eastern religions and philosophy, the study of the Tao Te Ching and the I Ching, and the writings of Carl Gustav Jung, Jenkins turned toward inward reflection and mysticism, which dominated his aesthetic as well as his life.

«In addition to judo and the Eastern religions and philosophies he encountered in Japan, other religions, such as Rosicrucianism and Catholicism, also played a significant role in his work.

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The degrees mentioned include: Theology, Philosophy, PPE and Eastern Religions.

The movie presents Eastern religions as mysterious, «magical,» something that's wildly different that exists only to be understood and mastered by a white person.

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Beautifully filmed, George Harrison: Living in the Material World is especially good on the singer - guitarist's post-Beatles life as he sought enlightenment in Eastern religions.

This book also gave me a bit more insight on Buddism and meditation, topics that I have been fervently exploring in the past year because of my dad's persistent study of Eastern religions.

Meditation is usually recognized as a component of Eastern religions, originating in Vedic Hinduism, but it also developed independently in Sufism.

This view has come to be known as dualism, and while dualism is prevalent in many Eastern religions and has attached itself in various ways to most Western religions (including Christianity), most Christians would not say that evil is eternally co-existent with God.

I'd guess that there have been more Hindus born and died than all of your Middle Eastern religions.

These three great religions share a number of important traits not shared, for example, by Eastern religions such as Buddhism, Confucianism, Hinduism, and Taoism.

So these young people turn to the eastern religions and their methods of meditation, or to some esoteric teacher who tries to show them «how to pray,» or they attempt to discover for themselves what prayer may mean and what it may become in their own experience.

From what I hear, Middle Eastern religions are wild and crazy!

It is encouraging to note that since World War II facilities for the study of Eastern languages, histories, and cultures have been greatly expanded in the United States, but provisions for the study of Eastern religions are still far from adequate.

Historically, it was the Western scholars who discovered Eastern religions as the subject matters of academic discipline.

Furthermore, Eastern religions, despite that wealth of fantasy, myth and legend which make them quite unacceptable to modern minds with an historic sense, possess a keen perception of the spiritual as opposed to the material.

I have enumerated some of these problems because I believe it is essential to clarify them if we would advance toward a better understanding of Eastern religions.

Thus, while we are bound to reject the fictitious and fanciful content of Eastern religions, we might do well to accept techniques of practicing religion which we in the West have almost wholly neglected.

All high religions of the earth, not only the Eastern religions of redemption but the pre-Christian religions of the West, know the commandment to love the enemy.

Another aspect of Eastern religions which was difficult for me to understand was that of magic and sorcery.

The Eastern religions are totally «other» from the concept of Christianity.

The Jewish Kabbala and Chassidism, as well as Muslim Sufism, reveal a surprising similarity to Christian mysticism, and this mysticism in turn weaves a bond of unity around the related forms of mysticism which constitute the heart of the great Eastern religions of redemption — Taoism, Brahmanism, Hinduism, and Buddhism.

The Western Christian also must beware of transferring to the Eastern religions his own ideas concerning the organization of religion.

It is baffling to the visitor from the West to note again and again how in the Eastern religions outstanding personalities are swiftly elevated to the rank of god, or recognized and worshipped as incarnations of certain divine attributes.

This item is not mentioned in his book; in fact, one of the most frequently cited chapters, «Buddhist Economics,» almost made it appear as if he were deeply involved in Eastern religions.

In addition, when exposed to such hoary doctrines of some classical Eastern religions and philosophies as that of the fundamental unreality or illusory character of the entire material world and that of the all - encompassing reality of God, the average Westerner can only respond with astonishment and incredulity.

It is the keystone of many Eastern religions, as Northrop points out, but is not as evident in a practical and activist Western culture.

In his chapter, «The Meeting of Religions,» in Eastern Religions and Western Thought, Radhakrishnan remarks that «the man of faith, whether he is Hindu or Buddhist, Muslim or Christian, has certainty,» but he adds: «yet there is a difference between the pairs.

Cf. the chapter «Christendom I» in Eastern Religions and Western Thought, esp.

The Eastern religions hold no one accountable for evil actions.