Sentences with phrase «in civil terms»

One of the greatest gifts that two parents can give their child is to communicate with each other in civil terms.

Not exact matches

Contrary to whispers that the former oil tycoon would launch a political career upon his release from prison in 2013, Khodorkovsky has a longer - term strategy: a 10 - year plan to lay stronger civil and political foundations in Russia for when the Putin regime is «swept away.»

Civil rights advocate and Columbia Law School professor Kimberlé Crenshaw explains the term «intersectionality,» which she first coined in 1989.

This works in tandem with designations like «Black Identity Extremism», a made up term by the FBI to attack Black organizers,» said Janaya Khan, a Black Lives Matter activist and organizer with the national civil rights group Color of Change.

Sociologist Robert Bellah first applied the term «civil religion» to American politics in a 1967 essay.

The term refers to a civil, legal contract in terms of government and something spiritual for churches and other religious groups (and yet other things for other cultural groups).

On the other, The Nation describes the movement in terms of radical and sweeping revolution quite beyond anything usually depicted in the anti-homosexualist literature of the right: «But the gay nineties is not only about civil rights, tolerance, and legitimacy.

Conservatives, for their part, repelled by the public vision of civil rights advocates and convinced that the programs of the past have failed, prefer not to address racial issues at all; when they do, they talk in formalistic terms about the principle of «color - blind state action.»

* My point, again, as I understand it in terms of our 1st amendment, and freedom of speech, was to (build in) a «wall» of separation of church and government... (because) of «Christianity,» since you are talking about our country, so as not to have - anyone's freedom of speech and their civil liberties trampled on.

Social - Gospel advocates in the early twentieth century and their mainline children continued to view Christianity's role in the project of American civil religion in terms of the social impact of its moral vision.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

In Habits of the Heart (1985) the term «civil religion» does not appear.

The meaning of every key term in the civil religion — certainly liberty and the pursuit of happiness, but also equality and even life — differs in those two perspectives.18

It was originally a term of Roman and Civil law to express the character of a contract which in a single matter involved several obligations on the part of the debtors, with corresponding rights to the creditors....

But in taking the term «civil religion» from Rousseau's Social Contract I was also bringing in a much more general concept, common in America in the eighteenth century but by no means specifically American.

If we can see the connection between general civil religion and virtue defined as concern for the common good, we can begin to see the connections between general civil religion and special civil religion, for special civil religion defines the norms in terms of which the common good is conceived.

When I use the term «civil religion» I am pointing to that revolution in the minds of men that John Adams argued was the real Revolution in America.

Of these contemporary heresies, civil religion, or what Douthat terms «political theology,» emerges as perhaps the most heretical betrayal of Christianity because it encourages Americans to believe that patriotism is, in its essence, a Christian enterprise.

Yet having little in the way of any «theology» independent of the state, they are not fully civil religions in Rousseau's meaning of that term.

Although the two quasi-civil religions (ecclesiastical legitimacy and nationalism phrased in sacred terms) were historical options Mexico might have elected, the Rousseau - type civil religion must now be regarded as remote indeed.

In so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equallIn so far as that is the dominant view of law in America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equallin America, «gay marriage» says nothing about the morality of homosexuality one way or the other, it simply guarantees that all «domestic partnerships» (an alternative term considered for «civil unions») are treated equally.

«There is genocide again in Europe [No there isn't, unless one debases the term to mean perennial ethnic and religious conflicts]; there is economic inequality at home [There always will be; the question is whether there is greater economic opportunity]; civil rights are not assured for all Americans [Sullivan's particular campaign is for same - sex marriage]; civil liberties have had a terrible decade [I'm not sure what he means; perhaps new and intrusive antiterrorist laws in the Clinton era]; the racial question remains and festers [Undoubtedly true, although it is currently festering below fever level].»

First, the qualities of American civil religion must be seen in terms of their boundary posturing functions in relation to other dominant world powers.

I do not hold an opinion on this issue but to ask from the sidelines if what you declare that Gays and Lesbians want are the rights then if Civil Unions which would give all of the rights and benefits to Gay and Lesbian couples in all matters, would you accept this and drop the desire for the term «marriage» to be used.

Whether killing people for homosexual behavior can be justified in terms of the contribution it makes to the common good or not is a secular civil judgment call.

KENEMA, Sierra Leone — A short - term missions team from South Coast Community Church in New Orleans, La., arrived in this country racked by three decades of civil war, and began serving the ravaged people through the ministries of clowning and puppetry.

All in all, the Supreme Court term strengthened the independence and vitality of civil society and fostered the decentralization of government power.

From another perspective the Indian Christian convert has been described «as deracinated, and as an outcaste, no longer recognizable as a functioning member of his or her former community... in terms of the loss of caste and the pronouncement of civil death by Hindu law.»

Yet Jefferson's hope for a national turn to Unitarianism as the dominant religion, a turn that would have integrated public theology and the formal civil religion much more intimately than was actually the case, was disappointed and public theology was carried out predominantly in terms of biblical symbolism.

The text is employed to speak of national «revival,» defined in terms of renewed civil religion and moral awakening.

Significantly, alongside this theological development the term person had also evolved in the secular sphere, and had come to be applied to all members of society with civil and legal rights, to all who could be designated as actors in the drama of public life.

Too complicated to be identified with Shintõ alone, the halo of symbols and slogans and emotions which congealed around Japan in those years would better be denoted by some more general term such as «civil religion.»

While Rousseau is generally credited with coining the term «civil religion,» analysis of civil religion in sociology has been influenced more by Emile Durkheim.

There is warrant for this broader usage in the origin of the term itself, in that «civil religion» is pretty clearly an outgrowth of the term «civil theology» that Augustine used to characterize the religion of pre-Christian Rome.5 That religion was, in terms of my typology, distinctly archaic.

Dr. Bellah clarifies the term «civil religion» and how the principle has worked out in our history, and he discusses the confusion about the nature of the American republic.

I suppose that is why the ordination of women is finally, for me, an, inadequate expression of the essence of feminine theology, just as obtaining the vote in patriarchal societies proved illusory in terms of granting women civil liberties at the beginning of the century.

«Liberty» is as close as we get to an ethical norm, and that term is deeply ambiguous, depending on whether it is, in John Winthrop's words, freedom to do the just and the good (Christian freedom) or freedom to do what you list (the freedom of natural man).10 While American civil religion remained extremely vague with respect to particular values and virtues, the public theology that fleshed it out and made it convincing to ordinary people used it with more explicitly Christian, particularly Protestant, values.

This also happens to the «atheist», and thus he can live also a more or less «righteous» life, speaking in «civil» terms.

Indeed, through the pressure of such groups as the American Civil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutiCivil Liberty Union, philosophical liberalism is rapidly becoming our orthodox civil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstituticivil religion, if I may indulge in a contradiction in terms, and traditional American views of the relation of religion and society are declared unconstitutional.

In a set of resolutions submitted by Madison to the First Congress we find the term «rights of conscience» as a third item after the prohibition of the abridgment of civil rights on account of religious belief and the prohibition of the establishment of a «national religion.»

Of course none of this addresses that some feel they should not be excluded by any U.S. law from using the term to signify their civil relationship in the way they choose.

This quiet story of an elderly preacher's coming to terms with his life and the lives of his fathers - from the Civil War to the twentieth century - is told with such intimacy that it can be painful in its beauty.

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As I wrote here and on Civil Eats, the BAKE SALE Act and similar state efforts to bring back school junk food fundraising make perfect sense in the short term.

Although it is true that Tehran's support to the Assad regime is strategic and part of a long term alliance, the proposals of the Iranian - sponsored conference suggested a set of pragmatic and political steps to exit the civil war scenario in Syria.

The move comes amid continuing civil unrest in the country, which was sparked last April when President Pierre Nkurunziza announced he was running for a third term.

While Civil Rights in the USA means far more than racial equality only, it is common to use the term synonomously with racial equality because that was the driving force behind the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

It is abundantly clear that restricting political advertising is dangerous in terms of human and civil rights.

We can get some indication from a recent NAO report (Central government staff costs, 2015) which used unpublished Cabinet Office data to calculate that the total annualised salary cost for the civil service in 2014 was # 11.13 billion, a decrease of # 2.49 billion in real terms on 2010.

My point is that the Labour blogosphere is too uncritical of the government on civil liberties - that, in your terms, it contributes to the «political culture and dominant political discourses» that are the driver of the problem, rather than contesting this culture and these discourses.