Sentences with phrase «in religious culture»

Without a doubt, there is merit to noticing that, particularly in a film so steeped in religious culture.

Plus, I was living in a religious culture that endorsed and promoted these beliefs.

Changes in the nature of religious television in the 1960s and 1970s can therefore be seen to have been a function of a historical coincidence of a number of related factors: social conditions, government regulation, audience response, and general trends in religious culture.

I am speaking generally, of course, but I think Christian women wrestle with these questions most of all, perhaps because in a religious culture that often puts forth narrow and contested definitions of womanhood, young women whose interests and personalities might lead them away from the list of acceptable rules and roles are subtly punished for not exhibiting a more «gentle and quiet spirit,» for not reigning in some of that ambition and drive.

Now this may seem very startling, even shocking, to many in our religious culture, where there is a long tradition of doubting, or possibly even of being unable to tell, whether or not one is a Christian.

In the consumerism culture, these ugly aspects can be seen easily, in religious cultures, they are disguised by «god - talk» and holiness professionals — and in this way, much more dangerous.

Not exact matches

Taoism itself is a religious and philosophical tradition that was born in China about 2,000 years ago, and dragons are a popular symbol in Chinese culture — although there's no sign West's dragon energy is connected to Taoism or to Chinese tradition.

Though the company had to alter parts of its branding, like changing its colour scheme from red to pink (the latter being less provocative), nixing forbidden photos of skin - baring women and axing Cupid imagery due to its religious connotations, it was still adapting to a culture that celebrates sexuality, albeit in a different way.

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

The religious conservatives, beset by this sea change in the secular culture, might have been expected to retrench into their conventional media stereotypes: authoritarian, emotionally uninvolved husbands and fathers, a rigidly patriarchal family style, deeply gendered domestic roles that kept women at home» plus, as Wilcox puts it, «high levels of corporal punishment and domestic violence.»

Should those trends persist, in the long term America's religious culture may become more like Denmark's than like that of the Bible Belt of Billy Graham's youth.

Then he starts in about the Resurrection, which strikes their ears as fantastic religious fiction of the sort their culture had long been steeped in and was now weary of.

Such accounts of the previous generation's struggle to defend and advance authentic religious faith against the scientism, atheism, materialism, hedonism, and despair of the surrounding culture can do much to prepare and strengthen us for our struggles against similar forces in our time.

That's compounded often in the religious evangelical culture: «Send me.

There have been concerted efforts in fundamentalist circles to become the dominant religious voice in our military as a means of ensuring their «victory» in a «culture war.»

CNN: In culture war skirmishes, Georgetown becomes political football In the latest round of culture wars over contraception and religious liberty, most Americans would probably identify places like the White House and Congress as key battlefields.

Social and religious conservatism struggle in today's culture, which continues to favor anti-traditional expression (however routine and easy anti-traditionalism has become).

Milosz believed that the religious question ought to be explored in the mainstream of literature and culture.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

When previous cultures provided religious and ethical guidance in the process of technology, it was not to show that «ought» is built into the process and that «Godly cooking» is possible.

Religious historian Thomas S Kidd writes, «In American pop culture parlance, «evangelical» now basically means whites who consider themselves religious and who vote RepublicaReligious historian Thomas S Kidd writes, «In American pop culture parlance, «evangelical» now basically means whites who consider themselves religious and who vote Republicareligious and who vote Republican.»

If not for the facts that we live in a common culture and histories I would see religious knowledge as a complete waste of time.

Rather, we refer to recent attempts in sociobiology to account for the rise of human culture and religious values such as altruism.

The Secular City helped accelerate the secularization of American elite culture, which created not only new openings in the public square for more - traditional religious bodies but also new fault lines in our politics» fault lines that are as visible as this morning's headlines and op - ed pages.

Religious liberty means one thing in an entirely Catholic culture, and quite another in a pluralistic democracy (as many have pointed out at length).

So how, in a society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic culture?

As mainline Protestantism ceased to be a culture - forming force in American public life, the void was filled by a new Catholic presence in the public square and, perhaps most influentially in electoral terms, by the emergent activism of evangelical, fundamentalist, and Pentecostal Protestantism in what would become known as the Religious Right» a movement that has formed a crucial part of the Republican governing coalition for more than a quarter - century.

It was designed to a meet a situation that, in virtually everybody's opinion, needed remedying: the rapid and distressing decline of a strong religious presence at Catholic universities, and the simultaneous desire to foster a renewal of the Catholic intellectual presence in secular culture.

It is evident that this period influenced Morrison's permanent interest in exploring the relationships between religion and its surrounding culture, with the result that a unique feature of the Century came to be its openness to articles on topics — political and literary, for instance — that did not commonly appear in religious publications.

The AFA statement read, in part, «Here at the Academy, we world to build a culture of dignity and respect, and that respect includes the ability of our cadets, Airmen and civilian Airmen to freely practice and exercise their religious preference --- or not.»

First, very many people in the world are not religious, and some entire cultures appear to be quite secular, without apparent damage to their happiness and functionality.

Likewise, if 100 cultures develop religious systems based on a real god I expect them to have a good bit in common, or at least agree on the basics such as the number of gods.

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

Dan and I were both raised in loving, grace - filled homes, but in a fundamentalist religious culture that required total acquiescence to a strict set of theological beliefs and left little room for mystery.

We were debating whether or not it's helpful to use language like «act like a man,» or «true womanhood,» or «real men» in our religious dialogs, and I was arguing that the goal of the Christian life is to be conformed to the image of Christ, not idealized, culture - based gender stereotypes.

This model invites students to see the New Testament as the product of a profoundly human process of experience and interpretation, by which people of another age and place, galvanized by a radical religious experience, sought to understand both that experience and themselves in the light of the symbols made available to them by their culture.

But that this should be interpreted as freedom from religion, and used as a means of sealing our culture against the imparting of religious knowledge, has no justification in fact.

The message behind the «culture creep» promoted by the Times is a «gospel,» says veteran reporter Proctor, because it is adhered to with religious - like devotion both in the editorial and news sections of that influential medium.

Distinguished men of letters, essayists, novelists, and poets, have recently asserted their conviction that the only thing which can save our sagging culture is a revival of religious faith, but many of these men make no contact whatever with the particular organizations in their own communities which are dedicated to the nourishment of the very faith they declare necessary for our salvation.

This is increasingly evident in contemporary culture, where the search for religious truth is often supplanted by the idolization of supposed tolerance.

How can our religious communities renew the culture of marriage in a society burnt over by the sexual revolution?

The religious rules in first - century Jewish culture didn't make life better — they made it more difficult.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

The past two years have seen the appearance of an informative Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (4 vols., edited by Leonard W. Levy [Macmillan]-RRB-, several outstanding studies on its intellectual background (including Forrest McDonald's Novus Ordo Seculorum: The Intellectual Origins of the Constitution [University Press of Kansas] and Morton White's Philosophy, The Federalist, and the Constitution [Oxford University Press], at least one pathbreaking effort to trace the document's role through the years (Michael Kammen's A Machine That Would Go of Itself The Constitution in American Culture [Knopf]-RRB- and a gaggle of good books on its religious themes (see Martin Marty's review in The Century [«James Madison Revisited,» April 9.

Russian national identity is tied to Russia's religious history in a way not unlike how Western culture is deeply connected to its Catholic and Protestant histories.

A historian with a hand on the pulse of contemporary religious culture, I admire her like crazy, so when she expressed some disagreement with my post at CNN, «Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church,» my first instinct was to curl up in a ball and cry.

«All we ask is that it be fair and the church not be singled out for a horror that has cursed every culture, religious organization, institution and family in the world,» he said.

Her Catholic culture is evident in the religious and moral management of her Hollywood years.

Coupled with Russia's failure to establish a religiously and ideologically «neutral» public space in 1990s, this indicates that Christian religious ideals still hold strong influence over Russian culture.