Sentences with phrase «group of religious values»

A work of art is a concrete thing, an event that helps the participant bridge personal experience with that of the artist or the group of religious values expressed therein.

Not exact matches

Developers at the time could access virtual anything of any value that a person's friends had posted on the social network: her hometown, current city, events and location check - ins; her interests, groups and all the pages she'd liked; her relationship statuses with romantic partners, friends and family; her birthday, activities, work history and political and religious affiliations; and her photos, notes and videos.

They are the primary participants in religious experience; they are the unit of value; the social group, the church — while it is conceived to be in unbroken continuity the true «commonwealth of Israel» (Ephesians 2:11 - 12.)

Although religious pressure groups are able to influence policy makers to act in ways that are in harmony with the values of particular religious communities, this plays a secondary role in relation to most public issues.

He sets between himself and the world a rigid religious dogma, a rigid system of philosophy, a rigid political belief and commitment to a group, and a rigid wall of personal values and habits.

The intent of the group is to deal with the cognitive level of helping the patient to integrate what he is learning about himself with his religious values.

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).

Most religious groups justify low pay as the outworking of such values as simplicity and financial restraint, but pay rates for many religious groups are so low they make even a simple life difficult.

The clearest measure of the value that religious groups place on the profession is the low pay scale for Christian ministers and most other religious professionals.

The picture above the article is displaying a group of Catholic sisters (Dominican Sisters of Mary, Mother of the Eucharist) that never belonged to the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, but instead started the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious because they disagreed with the values of the LCWR.

Among these layers are a variety of tax rules, which encourage religions to reshape themselves so as to be eligible for tax benefits, and the recent legislative efforts, certainly constitutional but perhaps of dubious value to religion, to allow religious groups to share in the rather substantial largesse of the programmatic side of the welfare state.

Powerful interest groups in many places, especially large cities, are often antagonistic to the traditional religious values of family, sexual self - control, objective morality, and individual responsibility.

The only intelligible solution to this problem would seem to be to admit the relative religious value, based on experience, of each group's scriptures for its own corporate life, but to recognize that no book has final authority.

If we value cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation of existing ethnic groups to find a basis for such pluralism, though the persistence of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.

Many of their followers were and are inclined to substitute for the questions of meaning, value, and truth, an inquiry into the social origin, the sociological structure, and the social efficacy of a religious group or movement.

Much of that surge was fueled by white evangelical and other white mainline Protestant religious groups who are more likely to see immigrants as a threat to American values than other groups, according to a 2015 PRRI study.

The conjunction of the parties» goal to maximize votes and the desire of religious communities to voice their values made the aggregating of diverse groups into opposing coalitions both necessary and effective.

In Virginia, a related group, called the Matthew 25 Network, is launching a radio ad Monday on behalf of Democratic Rep. Tom Perriello - who has also come under attack by religious conservatives - that lauds his Christian faith and his values.

A sermon is group counseling when it communicates within a supportive religious group the healthy values of the tradition.

Religious individuals and groups should respect and honor the valuable principle of pluralism, the essence of which is not that all values are equal, but that our society is one in which any number can play, and that a multiplicity of views contributes not to chaos, but to a rich and diverse republic.

In all these respects the values, attitudes and beliefs of the oriental religious groups, the human potential movement and even a group like the Christian World Liberation Front, as well as the more flexible of the radical political groups, would be consonant with the new regime and its needs.

However, there are groups of tamed adherents of secular ideologies and religious faiths who feel that in the dialogue between religions and secular ideologies they must find some alternative path to save the positive human values and what modernity has realized of them through the last three or four centuries.

Writing for Politics.co.uk, Stephen Lloyd, former chair of the all - party parliamentary group on religious education, said the group's new boss had pushed through changes to exclude the teaching of values of people with no faith.

To describe the demographic characteristics, religious beliefs and practices, and social and political values of those religious groups; and

The urban, liberal group values the rights of gay people to do things more than they value the rights of religious people to not do things.

To assess the common health care values of this diverse religious community, Padela and colleagues conducted several focus groups in southeastern Michigan, home to one of the largest Muslim - American communities in the United States.

Philadelphia — Evangelical Christians who teach in the public schools should do all they legally can to impart their religious values to students, a group of Christian educators said here at a meeting attended by President Reagan's domestic - policy adviser.

Sometimes lack of alignment with our nation's professed values might be an indicator: certain public schools have at times been captured by groups, sometimes religious, that do not teach basic democratic values.

Specifically, the charitable deduction allows individual taxpayers and corporations to deduct from their taxable income in a given year the present value of contributions they make to nonprofit groups that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific, or literary in purpose, or that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals.

Developers at the time could access virtual anything of any value that a person's friends had posted on the social network: her hometown, current city, events and location check - ins; her interests, groups and all the pages she'd liked; her relationship statuses with romantic partners, friends and family; her birthday, activities, work history and political and religious affiliations; and her photos, notes and videos.

A basic difficulty arises from the fact that, under some laws, Aboriginals have to prove the religious significance of sites and their importance; partly this is difficult owing to different approaches by different Aboriginal groups to sacred sites and to the fact that knowledge of the sites is restricted to a few gender - specific individuals and partly it conflicts with some Aboriginal values and customs, including the importance given to secrecy.