Sentences with phrase «ground of human identity»

In the words of Oxford scholar Larry Siedentop — and in contrast to ancient pagan society — «Christianity changed the ground of human identity» by developing and uniquely stressing the idea of the individual person with an eternal destiny.

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Thus, when Tatchell talks of Enlightenment values and human rights, he is on very slippery ground, and that made slippery by the very philosophies of sexuality and identity to which he has committed his life.

Following from the foregoing definition of religion are the sociological functions described by Thomas F. O'Dea: 13 (I) «It provides the emotional ground for a new security and firmer identity amid the uncertainties and impossibilities of the human condition and the flux and change of history.

We will contemplate the world in which conflicting concepts and phenomena are intricately intertwined and constantly in flux, the nature of identity and diversity, and how the courage, imagination and creativity of human beings can be used to derive a new vision and ground design for the future when our future remains uncertain.

This week, the Saskatchewan government amended its Human Rights Code to add gender identity as a prohibited ground of discrimination, joining the Northwest Territories, Ontario, Manitoba, Nova Scotia, P.E.I. and Newfoundland and Labrador in so doing.

This is one of several failed attempts to protect persons from discrimination by including gender identity as a protected ground under the Canadian Human Rights Act and Criminal Code.

«This may be the first civil rights complaint of its kind in Quebec that invokes gender identity, a term that is neither found in the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, nor the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms, as a prohibited ground of discrimination.

be based on the key principles of self - determination, respect for human rights, reconciliation, and adopt a community development approach that is grounded in Indigenous culture and identity;