Sentences with phrase «folks religion»

Some initial work has been done on teasing out elements of Australian folk religion.
20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity)
6 20 million Taiping Rebellion 19C (Confucianism, Buddhism and Chinese folk religion vs. a form of Christianity) 20 million Joseph Stalin 20C
On this account, both Catholic and Protestant reformers labored to replace the inherited half - pagan folk religion of late medieval Europe with something more authentically Christian, focused on the person of Christ rather than often legendary saints, prioritizing orthodox catechesis and preaching over quasi-magical ritual, and imposing religious and moral discipline on a reluctant populace.
In my more cynical moments I tend to view the so - called doctrinal critique of Evangelicalism by certain detractors who shall remain nameless as an impatience with folk culture and folk religion in all of its messiness.
The goal of this rebellion was «social reform» by replacing Confucianism, Buddhism, and Chinese folk religion with Christianity!
Christians make up 2 % of the population, behind Folk Religions and Other Religions, according to the study.
Many liberal churches — perhaps the majority — will take the form of traditional folk religion and will be honored with the same reverence as a good museum.
And folk religion offers no permanent meaning, only a salve to get one over the rough spots.
But I wanted them to appreciate this vestige of the true, unadulterated, uncommercialized folk religion that had provided the foundation for the urbane, analytical, sophisticated Christian I had become.
Religious familism is the American folk religion; it adapts the language, symbols, and rituals of the Christian tradition to serve the family needs of the people.
And it is most folk religion and natural religion which knows that there is suffering and cross in life, which we may escape by appeasing the right god, wearing the right amulet, incanting the right spell or prayer, changing states of consciousness through pleasure or pain or other things... It does not usually work out.
He explained that the political Evangelicals, the «big - E Evangelicals», treat evangelicalism «as the civil or folk religion accepted by default as part of one's social and political identity».
But at the same time the film traffics in the pseudo-psychological mumbo - jumbo that is the standard folk religion of the film biography, and undermines its interest in reason by dabbling in emotive pop occultism.
Shenism is closely linked to Taoism which combines elements of Hinduism (multiple dieties and festivals) with the ethics of Buddhism (compassion, moderation, humility)- although organized Taoists would, on the whole, distinguish themselves from those who follow folk religions.
Buddhism, introduced to China in the 1st century, is considered the largest single religious group in China, but the many varieties of Shenism (the worship of spirit gods, sometimes known as Chinese folk religion) is the largest group overall.
Religious institutions may be caught in the middle of such changes: pro-Western religious orientations may suddenly become unpopular because of changes in trading alliances, peasants may turn to millenarian or folk religions to revitalize economically threatened communities, communist or nationalist movements among oppressed urban workers may strike out at traditional religious organizations, and so on.7
It is one of the most interesting books of antiquity and a very valuable source for an understanding of the folk religion of the Vedic period.
This exercise in folk religion may include a homily or object lesson presented by a lay leader.
(The seven are Christianity, Baha'i, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Confucianism and Chinese «folk religions
Thus the Atlanta speaker declared: «You [of the middle class] will extol their folk religion as the authentic experience of an authentic people, but it is not the religion you prefer or know best.»
Following Mircea Eliade and some others, Professor Wacker shows that «the distinctive theological ideas pentecostals lived for and fought about invariably reflected one of the central features of folk religion: ahistoricism.»
A folk religion is always related to, but different from the historic faith from which it springs.
There is a kind of folk religion or domestic religion in which believers use God as a means to achieve their own ends.
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