Sentences with phrase «including humanism»

For years now we have been making gradual progress towards the acceptance of the teaching of non-religious worldviews in RE, with the 2004 national framework including Humanism in national guidance for the first time.

Opening last night's debate, Lord Harrison, argued «that the BBC has failed the humanist community in Britain both in the spirit and in the letter of the Communications Act 2003, which requires the BBC to schedule programmes on religion and other beliefs, including humanism... The truth is that religious public broadcasting is growing while Anglicanism contracts.»

The British Humanist Association believes that all young people should be free to explore the full range of beliefs and values in Britain, including Humanism, and that school should be a place for them to explore these issues for themselves.

The BHA is urging all parents, teachers, young people and academics to respond to the consultation and call on the Government to include the humanism annex.

The rest of the course is based on the study of philosophy and ethics, which the government says can include humanism and other non-religious beliefs.

Not exact matches

The seventh lecture of William James's pragmatism series bore the title «Pragmatism and Humanism,» and included the statement: «When we talk of reality «independent» of human thinking, then, it seems a thing very hard to find.»

With extensive expert testimony, the plaintiffs made the case that secular humanism functions in many respects for its adherents as a religion (with ministers, fellowship, ceremonies marking the milestones of life, and a missionary program), and that it has many of the substantive characteristics of a religion as well, including a coherent interpretation of all of reality.

The atheist's value code can be humanism, but it can very easily be any other human - based value code, including a judeo - christian based one.

Certainly those forces included the Crusades, the rise of nationalism, the broadening of opportunities for education, various political reform movements, the rise of democracy, the Reformation, the rediscovery of the classics, the rise of humanism and the birth of a new interest in the natural sciences.

These insects included religious believers, the bourgeoisie, all the aristocracy, any property - owning peasants or «kulaks,» and the independent - minded socialists who refused to sever socialism's remaining connections with Western humanism and the liberal and democratic cause.

Furthermore, in the United States, for over a quarter of a century the writings of Professor Charles Hartshorne, including Beyond Humanism, The Vision of God, Reality as Social Process, The Divine Relativity, The Logic of Perfection, and A Natural Theology for Our Times, as well as many occasional articles and essays, have eloquently argued the case for «process - thought».

They are seeking what has been called post-modern paradigms for «an open secular democratic culture» within the framework of a public philosophy (Walter Lippman) or Civil Religion (Robert Bellah) or a new genuine realistic humanism or at least a body of insights about the nature of being and becoming human, evolved through dialogue among renascent religions, secularist ideologies including the philosophies of the tragic dimension of existence and disciplines of social and human sciences which have opened themselves to each other in the context of their common sense of historical responsibility and common human destiny.

I find it a bit humorous that the writer did include «Christian humanism» and also «religious humanism» in his ranting way (s)

This supplementary guidance withdraws and replaces parts of the 2013 guidance, including the part that previously referred to atheism and humanism.

Read the BHA's briefing on why Humanism is included in RE: http://humanismforschools.org.uk/guidance/why-humanism-is-included-in-religious-education-re/

This followed the publication of a new curriculum framework for RE last year, endorsed by the Secretary of State for Education, which included non-religious worldviews on an equal footing to each of the principal religions, as well as the issuing of Departmental advice recommending that schools meet the new requirement to promote British values by teaching about «beliefs such as... humanism» as well as religions.

Forty years of progress in RE, including last year's RE curriculum framework, make it clear that the systematic study of humanism contributes to making the subject both rigorous and relevant.

Only annexes on six world religions are included and an annex on humanism produced by the BHA at the request of the DfE was not included.

The draft subject criteria for Religious Studies published for consultation by the Department for Education (DfE) were widely expected to include an optional annex on humanism alongside optional annexes on the six principal religions.

The signatories include philosophers and RE professors, consultants, advisors and teachers, including professors from Britain's top universities, leading national voices on RE, and classroom teachers already teaching their pupils about humanism and objecting to its exclusion in the draft criteria:

If collective worship was ended and RE became universally objective, fair and balanced (and included non-religious views such as Humanism), community schools would indeed be exactly what we would want a school to be — open and accommodating to all.

This lesson is focussed on Humanism; the objectives of the lesson are: - To describe what Humanism is - To explain the main beliefs Humanists hold - To analyse and debate Humanist beliefs Implicit objectives include: - To identify common humanist objections to religious influences on society, law and politics - To draw out (through debate) the motivations Humanists have for rejecting religion and religious beliefs.

Booklet focuses on Christianity (including different denominations within Christianity) and Humanism.

Those values differ from leader to leader, but usually include descriptors such as caring, empathy, and humanism.

The religious studies GCSE caused controversy last November, when three parents took the Department for Education (DfE) to court over the wording of a paragraph in the new subject content, claiming that it «gave unlawful priority to the teaching of religious views as compared to non-religious views, including those of humanism».

With a background that includes studies of ancient Greek literature and a stint at famed theater director Robert Wilson's Watermill Center, the Istanbul - born Köken Ergun brings both classical humanism and experimental approaches to his film and video work.

Hard to believe, because they include an artist as popular as Sandro Botticelli — or as central to the new humanism as Piero della Francesca.

During our visit we talked about his Dedalus Foundation exhibition, «The Humanism of Abstraction,» which also includes work by David Reed and Carrie Moyer.

During our visit we talked about his Dedalus Foundation exhibition, «The Humanism of Abstraction,» which also includes work by... read more... «Studio visit: John Zinsser»