Sentences with phrase «new religious studies»

Prospect High School, in Mt. Prospect, Illinois, is helping pilot the new religious studies coursework.

Although the U.S. Constitution prohibits public school officials from directing or favoring prayer, the new religious studies materials are designed to represent the academic study of religion, which the Constitution supports, Harvard scholar Diane Moore told the Chicago Tribune.

A High Court judgment in November has caused confusion over the new religious studies (RS) GCSE.

The education secretary made «an error of law» in leaving «non-religious world views» out of the new religious studies GCSE, the High Court has ruled.

Three families are due in court on Tuesday to challenge the decision to exclude non-religious beliefs from the new religious studies GCSE syllabus.

Education Secretary Nicky Morgan issued the advice a month after the High Court ruled that the new religious studies GCSE wrongfully excluded atheism.

A group of parents and their children are to go to court to challenge the government's decision to exclude non-religious world views from the new religious studies GCSE.

The government might apply to the Court of Appeal over a High Court judge's ruling ministers made an error of law over the new religious studies GCSE.

These new Religious Studies GCSEs have seen a move away from a thematic approach and towards a greater focus on exploring the beliefs and practices of various religions through their sacred texts.

The government is considering applying to the Court of Appeal to challenge a High Court ruling that the new religious studies (RS) GCSE represents a «breach of duty».

New guidelines were released by Morgan following the High Court ruling that found there had been a «breach of duty» in omitting humanism from the new religious studies GCSE.

This resource pack takes you through the first half of The study of Islam for the new Religious Studies GCSE (to start teaching September 2016) and contains approximately 10 hours of teaching material.

The lessons cover Christian and Muslim views on creation, stewardship and science in line with the new Religious Studies GCSE.

The High Court has ruled that the new religious studies GCSE represents a «breach of duty» for not including non-religious world views.

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Soft Patriarchs, New Men by W. Bradford Wilcox, a young sociologist of religion at the University of Virginia, is a study of the actual surveyed attitudes and practices of the married men of the so - called «religious right» that turns this stereotype on its head.

Edward T. Oakes, S.J., teaches in the Religious Studies Program at New York Universty.

Anyone who studies the new testament to try to understand the context of events of the Savior's ministry will learn that he was labeled a criminal by the Pharisees and Sadducees (who were the religious leaders that part of the world during that time) because they felt threatened by Jesus.

It also led to new assignments throughout the world studying economic development and religious movements.

Dr. Longwood teaches in the religious studies department at Siena College, Loudonville, New York.

Lloyd Geering is a Presbyterian minister and former Professor of Old Testament Studies at theological colleges in Brisbane and Dunedia, and Professor of Religious Studies at Victorian University in Wellington, New Zealand.

So one might say there is nothing new in the study, except that increased «fluidity» might be bad news for those traditions, such as Catholicism, with a strong connection between religious identity and ecclesial adherence.

The study just made of the mechanics of the evolution of instinct gives us the insight necessary into predicting that religious belief is the new dimension of reason.

First, the collaboration between universities and church educational centers has been increasing, and some institutions closely involved with churches have become universities or parts of universities, giving rise to a new set of university - level departments (which have generally opted for the «theology and religious studies» model).

As debate continues over President Obama's assertion about the religious nature (or lack thereof) of the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group, a new Pew Research Center study finds that more Americans across the board believe that Islam encourages violence more than other religions.

A new study out of The Center for Studies on New Religions in Italy has revealed that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the wornew study out of The Center for Studies on New Religions in Italy has revealed that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the worNew Religions in Italy has revealed that Christians are the most persecuted religious group in the world.

(CNN)- Young Latinos are leaving the Catholic Church in droves, according to a new study, with many drifting into the country's fastest - growing religious movement: the nones.

The Journal of Religion & Society published a study on religious belief and social well - being, comparing 18 prosperous democracies from the U.S. to New Zealand.

But a couple of bona fide scholars — not professors teaching religious studies in universities but scholars nonetheless, and at least one of them with a Ph.D. in the field of New Testament — have taken this position and written about it.

Amanda Spielman, head of the non-ministerial department said new laws and powers to protect children who mostly study religious holy books such as the bible, the Sunday Times reports.

NCAA President Mark Emmert has announced a new commission to study how its handling of fouls called in men's basketball can help state governments determine the proper balance between religious freedom and civil rights: Continue Reading»

Dr. Grant is assistant professor of religious studies at Mount Allison University in Sackville, New Brunswick.

Hendrikus Boers, Theology out of the Ghetto: A New Testament Exegetical Study Concerning Religious Exclusiveness.

Dr. Walaskay is assistant professor of religious studies at the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York.

Study of the intellectual origins and ideology of crusading had been placed on a wholly new footing by Carl Erdmann's Die Entstehung des Kreuzzugsgedankens (1935), followed by studies into the spiritual and religious context of the First Crusade by Étienne Delaruelle (1941) and Paul Rousset (1945), both revealing the limitations of the materialist focus.

Atheists and agnostics are more driven by compassion to help others than are highly religious people, a new study finds.

In this same study, the researchers of the Institute for Religious Studies (ISER) in Rio de janeiro found that in metropolitan Rio, 710 new churches were founded between 1990 and 1992, the equivalent of five churches every week.

That's according to the «Religious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination» experts, who conducted a study in New England and the South in which they found employers were 26 percent less likely to call an applicant who «expressed a religious identity» on theiReligious Affiliation and Hiring Discrimination» experts, who conducted a study in New England and the South in which they found employers were 26 percent less likely to call an applicant who «expressed a religious identity» on theireligious identity» on their resume.

«It's kind of an unusual year - almost all of the top films have relatively little explicit religious dimensions to them,» said Brent Plate, a writer who teaches religious studies at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York.

For two years I studied government collaborations with religious groups in nine states (California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Texas, Virginia and Wisconsin) and identified 84 financial partnerships like the ones Sue hill pioneered.

A new study released by the University of Nebraska - Lincoln show that in most measures, the more educated one is, the more likely one is to be religious, and more importantly, participant.

About a quarter of religious adults in the U.S. tell others about their faith at least once a week, which is up since 2007, according to a new study by...

For further exploration of these issues, see the following excellent studies: Dean, William, American Religious Empiricism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1986); Frankenberry, Nancy, Religion and Radical Empiricism (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1987); and Hynes, William J., Shirley Jackson Case and the Chicago School (Chico, California: Scholars Press, 1981).

A new study of 228 college students found that while just about everyone prefers video games to regular board games (duh), those who claim no religion vastly prefer video games compared to the religious peers.

The Strategy of the Genes: A Discussion of Some Aspects of Theoretical Biology (London: Allen and Unwin, 1957); Hardy, Sir Alister, The Biology of God: A Scientist's Study of Man the Religious Animal (New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, 1976); by the same author, The Living Stream: A Restatement of Evolution and its Relation to the Spirit of Man (London: Collins, 1965), and The Divine Flame: An Essay Towards a Natural History of Religion (London: Collins, 1966), Vols.

Rabbi Dr. Allan Nadler Department of Religious Studies Director, Jewish Studies Program Drew University Madison, New Jersey

One can point to the emergence of a variety of critical approaches to religion in general, and to Christianity in particular, which have contributed to the breakdown of certainties: These include historical - critical and other new methods for the study of biblical texts, feminist criticism of Christian history and theology, Marxist analysis of the function of religious communities, black studies pointing to long - obscured realities, sociological and anthropological research in regard to cross-cultural religious life, and examinations of traditional teachings by non-Western scholars.

(At least three publishers are establishing new series on philosophy of religion: Cornell University Press's Cornell Studies in the Philosophy of Religion, the University of Notre Dame Press's Library of Religious Philosophy, and Indiana University Press's Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion.)

Thirty years ago, I traveled much of Africa studying new religious movements and was honored to meet the leader of one sizeable movement who was, he assured me, John the Baptist reincarnate.

Joseph M. McShane, S.J., is associate professor of religious studies at LeMoyne College in Syracuse, New York.

(CNN)- A new study shows that attending religious services regularly can mean a more optimistic, less depressed, and less cynical outlook on life.