Sentences with phrase «more a culture belief»

I found the belief in Buddhism through out the book but more a culture belief than a religious belief.

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An organizational culture is either decisively created and nurtured from the very beginning, or more typically, it comes about haphazardly through the experiences, beliefs, behaviors and actions of those on the team.

In the post «What Truly Great Bosses Believe» (excerpted from Business Without the Bullsh*t), I go through all eight of the core beliefs that tend to result in a corporate culture that is flexible and thus adapts more easily to changing conditions.

Nike's coveted culture includes advancement opportunities, and the belief that every individual counts and more.

While it might not sound sexy, high - performance company culture is more about living and working by a set of unifying company - wide goals, values and beliefs.

Based on the belief that there's no point investing into fast growth startups without a culture in which they could grow, we served as both fund and catalyst to stimulate a lot more risk taking from both entrepreneurs and investors.

It is founded in philanthropist Stephen Jarislowsky's belief that providing students with access to professionals will help them understand that success in business requires developing a more holistic perspective through community involvement and an appreciation of the arts, international culture, religion, politics and diversity.

It has more to do with what is socially acceptable in a given culture then on any supernatural belief.

It is far more likely, given the history of the people and cultures of the time, that the people who followed the old testament, whatever it was called at the time, realized that many new philosophies were edging out their beliefs, so they came up with the NT to try to bring believers back.

In culture and belief she was a Jew, but in hereditary endowment she was more a composite of Syrian, Hittite, Phoenician, Greek, and Egyptian stocks, her racial inheritance being more general than that of Joseph.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

The belief that man possesses a soul, or some kind of spiritual entity that survives death, is itself an almost universal phenomenon in primitive human culture and it has led to different kinds of development in more mature human civilizations.

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

Throw in an immoral political attitude of exceptionalism and imperialism, and it's no wonder that our young people, whose idealism has not yet been completely destroyed by «political reality», are looking to other cultures and beliefs for more acceptable moral standards.

Paul S. Boyer, professor of history emeritus at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, is the author of When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture (1992).

And Schweitzer had grasped, from his very earliest days, the truth that all culture, all human interchange and social life, what we comprehensively call civilization, springs from nothing more substantial than our visions and dreams, our religious beliefs and convictions.

Accordingly, the inevitable historicity of all human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not be more than the characteristic possession of a transient and temporary era in the history of a particular culture.

In When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture, Paul Boyer, a senior historian at the University of Wisconsin, and one of the best in the business, seeks to address the world of secularized academics and journalists who can scarcely imagine, let alone appreciate, the breadth and depth of popular apocalypticism in contemporary America.

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

This notion of the demonic, especially when it is developed to explain the widespread proclivity of human beings to evil (through being born into cultures more or less dominated by demonic habits, symbols, beliefs, and attitudes), provides a further basis for reconciling God's goodness with the world's evil.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

Just because ours is an establishment more of content than of form; just because our close ties with our dominant culture have existed at the level of fundamental beliefs, lifestyles, and rudimentary moral assumptions; any effective extrication of ourselves from this severely limiting relationship has to occur at that more subtle level: the level of original thought.

I think there are cultures where there is an attitude / belief that men are more knowledgeable or more intelligent and if that is what you are referring to then the answer is «Yes!

Farrell comments: «In this famous passage, Faust again reenacts the Enlightenment's annihilation of traditional, religious, and metaphysical culture and at the same time curses the results: the mind recognizes itself as a slave of «make - belief,» of «smug» self - delusion; it recognizes the phenomena of the natural world as no more than a source of distraction and confusion; and, given these recognitions, heroism, family life, love, even greed and intoxication lose their allure, nor can the Christian virtues offer consolation.

But he is not mistaken to see that, if belief in the Caller becomes less pervasive in our culture, the work ethic will lose «its deepest purposive dimensions» and devolve into little more than the search for a satisfying and fulfilling career.

In fact, I think a more apt thought connection to the culture - of - death practices and proposals of today can be made to the invidious beliefs that animated eugenics — a movement still disdained by most people.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

As the worldwide community becomes a single intertwined economy with an increasingly homogenised culture, so the consequences of our shared beliefs and collective actions become ever more dramatic and far reaching.

Those beliefs were more informed by culture wars than Scripture.

In this age when the culture of modernity has been fast eroding the traditional belief in God, along with the transcendent spiritual world supposedly surrounding him, the conservative devotees of the religious past hold ever more firmly to the most tangible form of the past: Holy Scripture.

Indeed, the persistence of these beliefs seems to be one of the more stable elements of American religious culture, in contrast with the serious restructuring that has taken place in many other beliefs and practices.

In contrast to variants of Islam shaped in more restrictive desert cultures, it has majority Islamic beliefs and cultures comfortable with living alongside diverse people.

I had never needed to defend my faith (to others or, more importantly, myself) until I began to apply my Christian beliefs to the issue of abortion amid the culture wars.

The significance of the Great Awakening lies not only in its pervasiveness throughout the colonies but equally, if not more, in those ideas and beliefs which it injected into mid-eighteenth-century American culture.

It is ironic that people look back at the Greeks and other ancient cultures and never take their religion or belief in Gods seriously but theirs is more based in fact.

Now, more than ever, our world needs the Church to articulate its own key beliefs in a frank dialogue with those of the culture which have not proved adequate to task of fostering humanity.

Peter Kreeft, Michael O'Brien, Richard John Neuhaus and others have eloquently addressed these «key beliefs» of modernity in terms of the «Culture Wars» that are more evident in North America because there are more Christians there willing to engage in the discussion with confidence.

Insofar as it is a set of values and beliefs, any religion can be useful to the material survival of the poor, whether it provides the individual with experiences, such as those we have described above, which strengthen the dignity and self - esteem of the poor, or because it creates motivations and proposes new values and a new economic culture which lead to new, more productive economic behavior.

There is widespread public belief that organic food is safer, more nutritious, and better tasting than conventional food, [44] which has largely contributed to the development of an organic food culture.

Whatever your beliefs are regarding the intentions of this club moving forward, don't think for a second that it has to do with appeasing the fans, winning the highest honours and / or changing the stagnant culture that permeates this club... every decision is made for one sole purpose and that is to maintain the delicate balance between Kroenke's unyielding need to acquire more wealth and Wenger's fragile psyche, which is why we have this ridiculous wage structure that pays deadwood too much and makes it incredibly difficult to attract special players... personally I believe that Wenger's greatest fear isn't that he won't win a big trophy again but exposing himself to the overwhelming criticism he will face when people discover the totally dysfunctional state of affairs that exist at Arsenal due to his antiquated practices which have gone relatively unchecked and unchallenged since the departure of Dein

We have members here from all walks of life; religious beliefs; cultures; and degrees of attachment parenting... as well as more natural - style or «crunchy» parents.

More specifically, they are interested in the attitudes, beliefs, and practices of breastfeeding within specific cultures.

«It is not that people from different cultures have more or less proenvironmental beliefs or engage in more or less proenvironmental actions — the triggers for these actions is what varies across cultures,» says psychological scientist Kimin Eom of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

More and more PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty pMore and more PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty pmore PhDs, educated in a culture that has long viewed — and, in many places, still views — positions outside the academy not as valid career options for serious scientists but as «alternative employment» at best and «going over to the dark side» at worst, began accepting postdoc positions in the belief that additional publications would improve their chance to land that coveted faculty post.

In Western culture, there exists a common belief that the more protein the better.

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Some singles may hesitate before responding to someone who comes from another culture and subscribes to a different religion than they do because they're worried that having differing beliefs will be a relationship sticking point — especially for more disciplined and faith - oriented individuals.

The results indicated that certain cultures shared similar beliefs and were thus more likely to result in more successful cross-cultural relationships.

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