Sentences with phrase «local religion»

A congregation, undeniably Christian, nevertheless uses forms and stories common to a larger world treasury to create its own local religion of outlooks, action patterns, and values.

-- As empires emerged in the ancient world, local religions began to take on universal characteristics, with moral codes that diverse groups could follow.

Actually deductive reasoning would tell you, if you are being honest, that while many local religions have come and gone, Christiantiy, Islam and a few others have continued to grow throughout history.

People only go for the ambivalence you state on the dominant local religion, due to the hidden social pressure of saying that is highly unlikely too.

Striking Sculptures THE MOST EXCITING discoveries from the Brochtorff site, aside from the human remains themselves, are small stone sculptures that have changed our views about the role of art in the ancient local religion.

Buddhism in its various branches, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, and others of the long - established religious faiths — plus new religions all over the world and the so - called primitive or local religions of Africa and elsewhere — are all now of world concern.

When I decided to study congregations, I had imagined an idealized field scene in which native informants would satiate the anthropologist with information about the local religion.

Great so she chose her local religion.

Buddhism is a complex belief system with a longer history than western science; and the ability to incorporate folkways and local religions, into a highly literate and esoteric specialist practice.

The word is most often used for the great universal systems that arose two and a half millennia ago to supersede the local religions of the earlier epoch.

It puts all religions on a level playing field; people will be less pressured by their society to conform to the local religion.

The local religion is Agama Hindu - Dharma and centres on the 5 ritualistic pillars of gods and ancestors, demons, the stages of human growth, the dead, and the consecration of priests.

Laura Calhoun «s video The Rope documents the biggest religious event in Brazil, a festival in Belem at the mouth of the Amazon, which fuses elements of Christianity and local religions.