Sentences with phrase «institutionalized religion»
"Institutionalized religion" refers to the organized and structure aspect of a religious belief system. It emphasizes the establishment of religious institutions such as churches, temples, and religious organizations, with a set hierarchy, rituals, and traditions. It often involves a codified belief system, formalized practices, and a professional clergy. Full definition
Moreover, since to Berger certainty is a «social construction,» all of life is a religious enterprise of sorts beyond the confines of institutionalized religion.
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A slave mentality There will always be a struggle between priestly authority and prophetic challenge in institutionalized religion because institutions are intrinsically conservative and will always choose social stability over justice which works to the advantage of the socioeconomic / political power - elites whose interests are served by sustaining the status quo.
Who in their right mind would return to quasi-community when they've found the Real thing outside institutionalized religion?
Peter Trueman, a United Church layman, and until recently anchorman for the Canadian Global TV network's two nightly news programs, offers an explanation as to why so many reporters become cynical about institutionalized religion.
I'm sharing this one with all of my friends who are alienated from institutionalized religion because their hunger for God could not be satisfied by the mass marketed, cookie - cutter Christianity that too often is subsituted for meaningful theological / spiritual formation.
Engels found that while institutionalized religion generally seeks to defend the status quo, the content of the religious affirmations has its own logic, and may appeal to, and does appeal to, different classes.
But in its final form the Sinai tradition is obviously vastly expanded, leaving with the reader the impression that virtually the total structure of thoroughly formalized and institutionalized religion came into full - blown existence at Sinai.
Whether one conjures up phantoms and bogeymen and things that go bump in the night (as the Brunists do), or commits oneself to the empty forms of an institutionalized religion informed by a positivistic culture (as the Reverend Edwards does), Miller understands that to become so involved in the game of religion that one no longer recognizes the world for «the mad scatter it [is]» (p. 160) is to be lost.
, if it embraces large blocks of legal material, if it sometimes exercises an unnecessarily minute interest in the external accouterments of institutionalized religion, it also incorporates some of the Old Testament's most beautiful and eloquent lines.
Pandit Nehru himself, though remaining skeptical of institutionalized religions, had in later years.
Pousette - Dart was not, however, a member of the order, and never adhered to any institutionalized religion or denominational creed.
I'm generally not a fan of institutionalized religion.