Sentences with phrase «most 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.

Not exact matches

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.

Even if we consider the three major religious groups as ethnic traditions rather than religious in the narrow sense, their brightest and most creative intellectuals and artists have been absorbed into the general American intellectual and artistic community so as to deprive the communal groups of their natural cultural leaders.

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.

The parties acknowledge that creationism, in this sense, is rejected by most mainstream churches and religious traditions, including the major providers of state funded schools such as the [Anglican][Catholic] Churches, as well as the scientific community.

The parties acknowledge that Creationism, in this sense, is rejected by most mainstream Churches and religious traditions, including the major providers of state funded schools such as the [Anglican][Catholic] Churches, as well as the scientific community.