The contemporary student of religion is living at a time when not only the reality but also the
very meaning of religion threatens to disappear.
Thus, a serene indifference to the human need for fixed spiritual maps by which we can navigate through life, no matter how variable the weather, betrays an ignorance of the major
meaning of religion for human existence.
The area produces traditional musical instrument, silver, clothes, and also well known with the classical wayang painting of Kamasan which has rich
full meaning of religion art.
He says: «Man first unconsciously and involuntarily creates God in his own image, and after this God consciously and voluntarily creates man in his own image».25 What we have to do, says Feuerbach, is to recover the purely
human meaning of religion.
One imagines behind that Scotchman's life such a home as Burns described in «The Cotter's Saturday Night,» where the
profound meanings of religion and right living were bred into the very marrow of the children.
Schweitzer was firmly convinced that one of the shortcomings of all world religions is that they regard ethics as ultimately separated from spirituality, as is the general rule in Eastern religions, or as myopically identified with the
total meaning of religion, as is the case generally in the West.
As the essays collected in the Martin Buber Reader clearly show, Buber's central preoccupation in his remarkably broad and vast writings was the
modern meaning of religion, defined precisely as (to use Strauss» description of Guttmann's position) a field of culture that is marked by a «turn of consciousness.»
He analyzes the development of human consciousness, from its immediate perception of the here and now, to the stage of self - consciousness, the understanding that allows man to analyze the world and order his own actions accordingly.3 Following this is the stage of reason itself, understanding of the real, after which spirit,
by means of religions and art, attains the absolute knowledge, the level at which man recognizes in the world the stages of his own reason.
I also feel that Marx's criticism of religion although valid in some respects, does not exhaust the
full meaning of religion.
Christian feminists must continue their contact and dialogue with practitioners of the new feminist religions because they are asking crucial questions about
the meaning of religion.
Priyath there are horrible atrocities committed in the name of religion for centuries but they go against the very
meaning of religion and compassion for others.
It is also necessary to use them in defining a framework of concepts which can be used to clarify
the meaning of religion in mutual discourse.
I especially emphasized the experience of fundamental trust as the principal contemporary «secular» clue for approaching
the meaning of religion, God and Christ.
By removing the wide segments of knowledge and skill with which the school ordinarily deals from all explicit relation to religion,
the meaning of religion is falsified; by being made a specialized concern, it is robbed of its essential comprehensiveness, and the school studies become occasions for propagating the gospel of autonomy and self - sufficiency.
If one studies
the meaning of his religion, it is mysterious, wonderful, spontaneous, producing perception, establishing essentials, for the salvation of creatures and the benefit of man.
Innumerable Christian theologians insist, however naively, that Christianity is not a religion, and humanistic scholars seem unable to employ
a meaning of religion that can give direction and purpose to their own work.
And this, we are now told, is
the meaning of religion, which is not so much encoded truth as pure illusion.
new questions such as released time for religious instruction, prayer and Bible reading in the public schools, tax exemptions for churches and other religious bodies, and the very
meaning of religion itself occupied the attention of jurists.
A third area of focus for continuing education that is relevant for the achievement of mental health is concerned with
the meaning of religion in relation to the meanings of the other disciplines of human thought.
Micah in a single immortal sentence summed up
the meaning of religion:
This is
the meaning of religion.
Another reason to question
the meaning of religion.
It gives stronger support to the phenomenologist's concern for
the meaning of religion to its adherents, since it takes seriously their systems of belief.
The meaning of religion to its adherents.
While directed with intelligence and visual flair by Scott McGehee and David Siegel, this family drama ultimately is undone by the same trait that makes young spelling whizzes insufferable — a continual need to impress with how smart he or she is on subjects such as Jewish mysticism,
the meaning of religion and dysfunctional parenting.
Searching for the first kiss is the focus of «A Very Short Romance,» and learning the true
meaning of religion is the theme of «Finding Religion.»