Sentences with phrase «from religious communities»

An essential component of human organization, from religious communities to constitutional democracies, public opinion depends on public expression and public assembly.

In a human rights court, litigants from religious communities have a right to think the judges will treat them fairly and, to the extent possible, decide cases without bias.

Certain media elements are trying to deprive him of votes that come from religious communities.

Marriage, abortion, «moral» rights... all should stay separate from the religious community.

Facing that kind of hate from the religious community, it's no wonder atheists can't be quiet and just take it.

That is all I demand from the religious community.

When you are extracted from a religious community for a while (your decision or theirs) and this game is no longer sustained by the crowd dynamic, the gimmick becomes even more obvious.

CSW's Chief Executive Mervyn Thomas said he is deeply alarmed at the planned seizure of property from a religious community that is recognised under the Iranian constitution.

Freilich received strong support from his religious community and was later acquitted.

Eventually, we learn that the awkward air between the threesome is due to the reasoning behind Ronit's departure from the religious community.

Prayer and the social support from a religious community play a strong role in positive coping.

Not exact matches

To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

We've seen the clout corporations can have when they successfully work with LGBT communities from North Carolina to Indiana and states to defeat and derail so - called religious freedom laws.

The very existence of the Jewish people as a religious community separate from Christianity was regarded as a fundamental affront to the new religious community with whom Cod had now made his permanent covenant.

Stevens offered not a word of concern about whether religious students might feel themselves to be less than full members of the political community if, by order of the nation's highest court, their messages and only their messages are categorically excluded from the school's public arena.

They say that the patterns of worship and religious education seem designed to preserve the connections to the countries from which their Muslim communities emigrated, while these young folks want their faith to guide them in their lives in America.

Far from fearing Islamic radicalism, the 68ers trust that consumer society will quickly vaporize the piety, virility, and patriarchal values of Muslim communities, leaving a harmless residue of ethno - religious kitsch.

When the U.S. Muslim community sounds out LOUD and CLEAR, without equivocation, and immediately against all forms of terrorism, including all aggressive religious intolerance for human rights, women's right, children, equal protection under the law, the respect for other religions to coexist, the right to free speech, and the ability to separate church from state, IF THEY FINALLY DO THAT AND LOUDLY, then we will begin to feel comfortable that they are truly embracing American ideals and here to join us, not to oppose, defy, or undermine what we hold dear.

Ultimately, much of this is a result of the modern «competitive» paradigm of religious communities: being right, having the truth, drawing people into the light from the dark, etc. all becomes about feeling good about ones own membership and being part of those who are «right».

The transitional government has failed to protect religious minorities from violent attacks at a time when minority communities have been increasingly vulnerable.»

Orthodox Jews have been expelled from the military for wearing yarmulkes; a religious community in which all members worked for the church and believed that acceptance of wages would be an affront to God has been forced to yield to the minimum wage; religious colleges have been denied tax exemptions for enforcing what they regard to be religiously compelled moral regulations; Amish farmers who refuse Social Security benefits have been forced to pay Social Security taxes; and Muslim prisoners have been denied the right to challenge prison regulations that conflict with their worship schedule.

From which kind of religious communities were they?

There would be apostolic visitations of seminaries and houses of religious formation, led by seminary rectors and religious men and women from living and growing communities, who would recommend needed changes; the trustee agency would then mandate their implementation.

So we learned about generations of indigenous children who had been removed from their homes, their parents, their communities, and their families to be placed in government - sponsored religious schools beginning officially in 1880 so the «Indian» could be educated out of them.

Each community has its own religious history and even that changes drastically from neighbourhood to home.

While personal relationships could form across confessional lines» families hired servants from other communities, for example» and while some religious leaders encouraged respect and compassion for members of other faiths, the relationship among Christians, Muslims, and Jews was hardly a model of cooperation.

«I strongly believe that we must be vigilant in protecting our citizens from crime and terrorism, but to put large segments of a religious community under surveillance with no legitimate cause or provocation clearly crosses a line,» he said.

This understanding can be used by outsiders as a way of removing the beliefs of religious communities from serious consideration as to their truth.

To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.

The film spans several decades, following Corinne from a young girl who half - heartedly proclaims herself to be saved by Jesus to a teenager who marries when she becomes pregnant to a woman ensconced in a deeply religious community after she and her husband come to believe that God has saved their baby.

The mess could be cleared up if the government gave a clear exemption for religious nonprofits and «faith - shaped communities» like it did for churches, according to a press release from the Institutional Religious Freedom religious nonprofits and «faith - shaped communities» like it did for churches, according to a press release from the Institutional Religious Freedom Religious Freedom Alliance:

Religious members of the movement are embarking on our 40 Days for Life campaign, in which we pray, fast, hold vigil, and perform community outreach, all in service of saving men, women, and children from abortion.

The present tangle of American divorce laws has resulted in part from the refusal of some religious groups to allow the general consensus of the community to be expressed.

Although the American Catholic community has been confronted with yet more difficulties — ranging from the redefinition of marriage to assaults on religious liberty — one of the reasons for hope, moving forward, is that John Paul II left behind a rich spiritual and intellectual infrastructure for Americans to draw upon, to deal with these ongoing challenges.

The religious vision from which Attic tragedy emerged was one of the human community as a kind of besieged citadel preserving itself through the tribute it paid to the powers that both threatened and enlivened it.

It's just an age - old attempt to have it both ways; people who are Christian and perceive that others will reject them for being «religious» or «conservative» love this kind of talk because it allows them to distance themselves from the Christian community while still claiming to follow Christ.

This overall agenda would not differ from those of most liberal Protestant or Jewish groups — except in the high level of consensus, and in the fact that the most important religious goal for UUs is «a community for shared values» (rather than theology or personal growth or social change or experiences of transcendence).

It's disappointing to keep seeing CNN's milquetoast nod to the religious community when they should be delivering real news from real thinkers about real issues.

When patients are hospitalized they often feel estranged from their community life; thus, the provision of religious activities while they are hospitalized may serve to provide continuity, as well as the primary nurturance that persons may receive from their religious participation.

A second challenge arises from the fact that increasing numbers of people are transient and infrequent participants in religious communities.

The main conclusion I draw from the data is that, other things being equal, the person who is involved in religious life is also likely to be more involved then his secular counterpart in the life of the community.

Could it not also be looked on in another way, that religion has caused Sophia to hate herself through the indoctrination and be encouraging women to escape and find freedom from such religion to a place of healing from self hatred and community that is more healthy than the opressive religious forces that are depicted in the picture.

Thus support for human rights in the Jewish, Christian and Muslim communities follows a pattern: each group believes that the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other human rights standards established through international law derive authority from the teachings of its own religious tradition.

If this approach is valid, then we shall have to give greater emphasis in the church's mission, to conversion of religions to Christ and to urge individuals from other religions converted to Christ to stay within their religious communities and build up Christ - centred fellowships around the Bible and the Lord's Table within their religious ethos.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

From the perspective of process modes of thought, there is but one fundamental datum on which religious experience is based: the generic contrast between the individual and the community, or, more metaphysically, the one and the many.

But a close study of America's religious history yields precedents and equivalencies to virtually everything that exists today, from the demythologizing deism of Thomas Jefferson and the séances of spiritualists to the utopian settlements that practiced everything from celibacy (the Shakers) to free love (the Oneida Community).

The combination of communal and adumbrative subjective forms in transmuted physical feelings provides the foundation of the religious feeling of «the value of the objective world which is a community derivative from the interrelations of its component individuals, and also necessary for the existence of each of these individuals» (JIM 59).

In the wake of Latin American liberation hermeneutics, religious communities and academics in the various countries of Africa and Asia have developed analogous forms of biblical interpretation that work from the particular experiences of those nations.

Although it might be claimed that Dewey was simply giving democracy a religious dimension and seeing it as some kind of final spiritual community, the point I want to emphasize is that for Dewey democracy is a moral ideal for this life, an ideal that we are still far from attaining.