Sentences with phrase «great religious cultures»

The real antagonism that characterises today's world is not that between various religious cultures, but that between the radical emancipation of man from God, from the roots of life, on the one hand, and from the great religious cultures on the other.»

Not exact matches

Religious people are so concerned about the so - called «culture war» that they're out there voting for the greatest enemies of the well - being and opportunity of the working - and middle - classes.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

I think cultural diversity was built into the Christian faith with that first great decision by the Council in Jerusalem, recorded in Acts 15, which declared that the new gentile Christians didn't have to enter Jewish religious culture.

Such an oversimplification ignores the biographical, religious and political realities running through the history of Christian missions during the «great century» and long before, as missionaries have, in the name of Jesus, striven to understand and learned to respect the particularities of the cultures to which they have come.

Then Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and tried to merge cultures, where by such religious ideas might be considered where they normally might not.

Mount Putuo in Zhejiang is the latest of several religious sites whose administrators have gone down this route, prompting gloomy musings about moral decline and alarm at the ever greater commercialization of Chinese culture.

It is one of the affirmations of this study that this power exercised by the television industry in relation to religious culture is of greater concern than any individual aspect of religious television.

This interplay between cultures and between religious traditions means that few, if any, of the great cultures ever wholly disappear; they leave deposits of their most compelling ideas and themes.

One chapter on shifting religious voting blocs by Lyman Kellstedt and colleagues gives greater detail in support of their article in these pages, «It's the Culture, Stupid!

The great mass of people of western culture still play at least lip - service to past religious traditions, but the proportion of their daily life that it directly influences grows increasingly less.

That is to say, in a technopoly, one's need for efficiency rather than social reform or greater philosophical or religious inquiry becomes the means and end, the subject and object, of society and culture.

Finally, Tillich's greatest weakness was his relative inability to discern in classic religious symbols the fresh complexity of meaning that he found (with ease, insight and fluidity) in symbols from ancient Greek and modern secular culture.

Since religion is central to most special identities within the larger national culture, religious tolerance has been the great guarantor of the survival of the variety of cultures.

Just as Schleiermacher's Speeches on the Christian Religion to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) won great renown in Germany, so too James» Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) convinced many of Christianity's utility inside industrial civilization, where feelings were being crushed on the assembly line.

If it is the recurring patterns as presented on the major social forms of communication which are effective in the molding of culture, greater attention needs to be given to the study of the dominant patterns and images shown on religious television programs and how these relate to other and traditional expressions of religious faith.

The Dead Sea scrolls reveal in greater detail the Jewish culture of the period and the Jewish religious framework within which Christianity arose.

For a greater discussion of other religious symbols, consult my previous works: Christianity and Culture (San Antonio: MACC Publications); Galilean Journey.

Analysing the isolated success of science in the other great cultures of the world, he demonstrates how their long - term failures (or «stillbirths») were invariably connected to the dominant philosophical or religious mindset of the given culture, especially the pervasive influence of eternal cycles and other tendencies towards fatalism.

Although older groups can and do evolve over time, newer ones are freer to innovate, both by adaptation to recent changes in society and culture and by greater boldness in delving into the country's religious tradition in a search for more efficient communication.

Open to discussions including on how to choose religious messages, keep cultures alive, develop identity, battle stereotypes, and develop great kids.

The first three decades of the twentieth century, a time characterized by the arrival of the culture of modernity, was a period of great change not only for women but also in the realms of economics, politics, the arts, science, and social and religious thought.

«Domestic and international research suggest,» notes Berner, «that schools with positive, distinctive cultures, whether religious, philosophical, or pedagogical, have a greater chance of cultivating civic behaviors and sensibilities.»

But he completed it, preserving a great deal of what we know about Indian cultures, including more than 75 languages, thousands of songs and stories, traditional practices in everything from clothing to religious ritual, and the Indian accounts of such historic milestones as the Battle of the Little Bighorn.

In fact, the complex mix of religious iconography, racial themes, and popular culture is exactly what earned Ofili the coveted Turner Prize in 1998 (just before his 30th birthday) and led him to represent Great Britain at the 2003 Venice Biennale.

SB: The Indian Ocean region symbolizes great movements of people, hybrids of culture and religious identity, both historically and in contemporary terms.

When you see the tactics of anti-petroleum Leftists — doing everything possible to disrupt the efficient allocation of the low - cost energy that has contributed to making America great — you wonder how different the Left is from religious fundamentalists who invade, tear down, deface and destroy the historical artifacts of a culture to erase and rewrite the past.