Sentences with phrase «experts on religion»

This Emory professor is winning wide recognition as a «comer» in the new generation of social scientific experts on religion.

«But experts on religion and politics say the message to one particular subculture — evangelical Iowans — is clear: Mitt Romney may be Mormon, but he shares evangelical Christian values.»

But experts on religion and politics say the message to one particular subculture — evangelical Iowans — is clear: Mitt Romney may be Mormon, but he shares evangelical Christian values, including a rock - solid commitment to family, and counts high - profile evangelicals like the Pawlentys as friends and supporters.

As a secular nation should we be expecting people to be experts on religion (s)?

Furthermore, if you're not an expert on every religion out there, can you really state that each one really believes that their own way is the only acceptable way of worshipping that God?!

«Relatively few people participate in the Iowa caucuses, so it's ideal for a group of highly committed activists to have a big influence,» says John Green, an expert on religion and politics at the University of Akron.

This is good because being an atheist automatically makes one an expert on all religions, didn't you know?

ok wrote, «because atheists, as atheists, become experts on all religions, and therefore know better than anyone else that they are right, so they have the privilege of smuggly saying everyone else is an idiot except for them.»

No, see, because atheists, as atheists, become experts on all religions, and therefore know better than anyone else that they are right, so they have the privilege of smuggly saying everyone else is an idiot except for them.

Not exact matches

«The biggest reason we've seen all this action on abortion since the GOP came to power is that social conservatives are still a very important part of the Republican coalition,» says John Green, an expert in politics and religion at the University of Akron.

I'm glad that every single person commenting on this blog feels that they are an expert in another person's religion.

While I do not consider myself an expert on all the religious writings of all of the main religions in the world, I have read most of the main religious texts for most of the main world religions, and while it is not uncommon to find violent events being described in these other religious books, no other set of religious writings comes even close to describing the violence and bloodshed that one finds within the pages of the Hebrew Scriptures.

As an expert on various religious cultures, and with a knowledge of the role of religion in personality structure and function, the specialist is in a position to offer relevant insight for psychodynamic diagnosis, for evaluation of the manner in which religious issues should be dealt with in treatment, and the means by which religious resources may be used in rehabilitation.

But experts on European politics and religion say that the Christian fundamentalist label could overstate the extent to which the suspect, Anders Behring Breivik - who has told authorities that he carried out the attacks - was motivated by religion, and the extent to which he is tied to a broader religious movement.

So FJtI and Cindy, What makes you experts on why Mormonism isn't a religion versus Doc» opinion?

So glad you are the expert in religions and can define what «category» different religions fall into based on personal belief and perspective, just like a politician.

It is true that the issue of popular religion in Brazil which is drawing on different wells and can, therefore, be lived out in a variety of churches — a phenomenon called by experts «double» or «multiple» religious belonging.

The National Catholic Reporter: Bishops told religious liberty is in growing «global crisis» There is an increasing «global crisis» of «government restrictions on religion and social hostilities toward religion,» an expert on religious liberty told the U.S. bishops Wednesday during their spring national meeting in Atlanta.

Authors range from retired Colonel Charlie Beckwith, founder of the Army's elite Delta Force, to experts on nontraditional religions such as J. Gordon Melton, to some of the country's most distinguished defenders of religious freedom such as Dean Kelley, long - time religious liberty director of the National Council of Churches.

I don't claim to be an expert on the Sikh religion but I have seen over the years how much of a positive impact Sikhs have had not just in my constituency but across Britain.

Still, experts welcome the injection of sophisticated statistical techniques into research on religion and culture.

Today this bitter tea, also known as hoasca, has become the sacramental ritual of two modern religions in Brazil; one of them, the União do Vegetal (UDV) church, has invited McKenna, an expert on psychoactive plants, and other research teams, to scrutinise this sacred brew.

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Mariam Durrani, an expert on Islamophobia and Muslim youth and a lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE), says that even if there are no Muslim students in a class, «changing educational and society - wide demographics suggest that as young people come of age, we'll have even greater need for conversations about learning across difference and about addressing systemic inequalities,» whether about religion, race, gender, sexual orientation, or other identifiers.

I offer these observations, I should add, not as an expert on world religions but as a pretty good Googler.

Other artists during this period addressed social and political issues through their work, such as Jean - Michel Basquiat commenting on consumerism and religion through comic imagery in A Panel of Experts (1982).

The only logical conclusion (based on climate «experts» own assertions): Climate Change is a religion.

As Dr Vakulenko, an expert on the Islamic dress in legal discourse, says: «although it might be argued that it's direct discrimination because it affects adherents of religions more than it affects secular employees, the courts were unlikely to interpret direct discrimination that way.

I'm no expert on organized religion (and this book only addresses hetero couples) but I don't think many churches are embracing of lots of people, not only LGBT people of any color but also singles.