Sentences with phrase «major religious traditions»

Of equal import is the rise of conflict within major religious traditions.
Except for Christianity, which made the momentous change, most major religious traditions have adopted the lunar calendar, even though it conflicts with the agricultural cycle and its solar system.
Though he asserts the universal normativity of the revelation of God in Jesus Christ, he also recognizes the validity and normativity of other major religious traditions.
All of the world's major religious traditions underscore healing and peacemaking as important traits to develop — in our personal as well as our professional lives.
«The humanistic implication (of Miller's thesis) is that these Gospel stories are not the «sacrosanct possession of a major religious tradition», but of all humankind.
Now, forty years later, it seems that all the major religious traditions claim to have fathered human rights.
The premium placed on marriage as the ideal site for lifelong love and childbearing by most of the world's major religious traditions, the social value attached to the wedding rite, and the support accorded a wide range of marriage - friendly norms by most religious traditions all probably help to explain the religion - marriage connection found across much of the globe.
Much of Panikkar's work has been devoted to clarifying the mythic structures contained in modernity (in «secularism») and in the major religious traditions of the East.
The programs were designed to bring together professionals and materials in psychiatry, psychology, anthropology, medicine, and sociology and to relate mental health information to the theology of the three major religious traditions.
In addition to religiously oriented character (whether or not it is expressed in conventional religious terms), every teacher should have a working knowledge of the major religious traditions of mankind as well as of the principal idolatries.
On the other hand, we noted that the teaching of the major religious traditions has countered this tendency somewhat.
We can illustrate the political implications of this cultural shift by examining the transitions in voting patterns of the major religious traditions between 1960 and 1992.
Appleby argues for a deliberate intervention by international actors to promote the peacemaking resources within the major religious traditions.
Strains of all four attitudes are found in any of the major religious traditions, though they are present with distinct emphases.
All three major religious traditions — Protestant, Catholic and Jewish — relied on their communal origins as they made their way into this country.
Our incorporation of the nominally religious with the secular camp does reduce the size of the major religious traditions, at least in comparison with estimates by most other scholars, but seems to us to have ample empirical warrant.
But there are contemplatives and adepts in all major religious traditions.
In a similar PRRI poll, majorities of every major religious tradition, including white evangelicals, said they did not believe small business owners should be allowed to «refuse services to gay and lesbian people.»
By establishing the congruence between different legal understandings and the ethical teachings of the major religious traditions, he shows that human rights folks from both camps are basically talking about the same thing.
Nor will I demonstrate here the ease with which one can map the details of his analysis of rites of passage onto the stories about the founders of the major religious traditions, finding in the myths and legends of Krishna, Buddha, Moses, Mohammed, and Jesus a common abstract structure, following a familiar tripartite pattern.
Many of them are found in the major religious traditions.
«Physics experiments can not demonstrate the existence of God, but this test shows that today's physics is compatible with all major religious traditions.
My view is that one of the great virtues of the world's major religious traditions is stability — that core principals don't shift like mountains of sand when temporal winds change.
Each lesson exposes students to the ways in which the major religious traditions of the world approach global concerns.
If you look closely, all major religious traditions carry the same message of love, compassion, and forgiveness.
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