Sentences with phrase «functional religious community»

I think that is a defining characteristic of functional religious community.

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The religious community's tradition and belief - system offer ethical guidelines within which (or even against which) individuals can develop their own functional value hierarchies.

Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car — functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.

(11) These analyses, by utilising a functional definition of religion, (12) indicate different ways in which the mass media are serving a highly ritualised, integrative, value - forming, and community - cohering function similar to that which has traditionally been served by the established and recognized religious faiths.