Sentences with phrase «new religions»

Charismatic Christianity in Finland, Norway, and Sweden: Case Studies in Historical and Contemporary Developments (Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities)

Suggested Reading Will Bagley, Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows; Fawn Brodie, No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith; Sally Denton, American Massacre: The Tragedy at Mountain Meadows, September, 1857; Judith Freeman, Red Water; Philip Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History; John D. Lee, Mormonism Unveiled: Or Life and Confession of John D. Lee and Brigham Young; Bernard Lewis, What Went Wrong?

False gods strut through the movies of Paul Thomas Anderson: rapacious oilmen, well - endowed porn stars, inventors of new religions and spinners of old lies.

I'm only wandering on such websites to send people home to their kids and tell them to stop wasting time here, building new religions, or get into serious discussions and debates that consider the pro-s and con - s of everything and teach everyone to think and feel and behave congruently.

Just don't start sacrificing chickns and making up new religions and it's all good.

As debates over mosque construction plans continue to make headlines, churches are asking how to reach out as new religions come to town.

Their communities have been fertile grounds for new religions and cultural movements, and their history is filled with religious - cultural encounters and conflicts of all sorts.

It is precisely from Shintoism that in recent times there have emerged not only new gods, but also new religions.

«All religions are new religions, every morning.

In addition to these material relief efforts, the new religions naturally have provided spiritual support.

Originally organized around charismatic leaders, some new religions identify as Buddhist, others as Shinto and others as neither.

The oldest new religions of Japan trace their history to the early 19th century.

As it turns out, they are talking more and more about religious revival, about the rise of new religions, about the worldwide resurgence of fundamentalism, about the enormous impact religion is having on world affairs and, in this country, about the increased prominence of the Religious Right, a movement which may already be the most powerful special interest group in America and which has given ample notice that it doesn't consider its job anywhere near done.

A characteristic feature of Japan's new religions is having well - organized lay organizations and networks, making them effective channels for providing aid.

Japan's new religious movements are as diverse as new religions in the United States, where Mormonism and Scientology have emerged only relatively recently.

New religions pop up... dead ones end up in mythology books.

And although the chances of finding any are probably minute, perhaps with some searching one or two libertarian Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims, or adherents of «the so - called new religions,» of academic caliber and with good writing skills, could be found.

It is easy to stand and prophecy that in the future there will be strange new religions, that people will do things foreign to our understanding, and swear that our gods will not be pleased... and be correct... because it is the nature of human beings to change, to modify our beliefs to fit our experience, to seek out new understanding, change the way we dress and do our hair, and unfortunately, it is in our nature to fight over stupid crap like land and religion.

They were one of the few new religions to develop in America.

He compared statistics from three US research centers and his own — the Center for Studies on New Religions in Turin, Italy — and estimated that 500 to 600 million Christians in the world can't practice their faith freely.

See also Richard H. Drummond, «Japan's New Religions and the Christian Community».

One can interpret the Bible as they want but that's how new religions are born and everything goes back to square one.

You may see Christian myths related to the myths of several other religions because it is quite common for new religions to borrow elements from existing religions with which the storytellers of the new religion are familiar.

~ Jacob Needleman, The New Religions

It can not originate new religions.

Buddhism in its various branches, Islam, Hinduism, Taoism, and others of the long - established religious faiths — plus new religions all over the world and the so - called primitive or local religions of Africa and elsewhere — are all now of world concern.

But, people who left the Puritan church, or were kicked out founded new religions.

Then along came John F Kennedy and the Vatican Council; the visibility and vitality of black Protestantism; new religions and now New Age religions; the more patent secularity of the «no religious preference» sort; curiosity about Jews in respect to Israel, and, most of all, the revitalization of conservatisms.

The new religions which are related to Buddhism refer to a transpersonal Nirvana.

These new religions are also active in Hawaii.

While Stark's early sociological research showed that people come to new religions and new churches through the testimony and influence of others, he maintains that the message is as important as the messenger.

Christian interest in Buddhism and the attempt to appropriate its insights is far more widespread than Buddhist interest in Christianity Still, the situation is not a simple one in Japan, he said, Much of the vitality of religious life and practice in Japan is in the so - called new religions, some of which draw on Buddhism more than others.

The subject of «new religions» is a staple in the news, making the book an essential for journalists, but it will also be welcomed by all who are interested in the many forms taken by the intense spiritual churnings of our time.

Further, The Center for Studies on New Religions said more than 90,000 Christians were killed in 2016.

The Center for Studies on New Religions (Censur) will publish its annual report next month,...

Elsewhere I have indicated that whereas biblical religions are oriented to a sky god, the new religions, explicitly or implicitly, seem more oriented to an earth goddess:

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 world.

We might invent other new religions out of fear of death and fear of our own insignifigance, but Jesus (apart from being a real guy who got killed 2000 years ago for saying we should be nice to each other) exists only in our minds.

Never must one of these new religions be laughed at or dismissed easily; rather it must be understood on its own terms and as a serious response to some fundamental issues raised by the women's movement.

After all, their members are sisters and brothers, and without doubt, the forms and language of the new religions depend very heavily in either negative or positive ways on the historic Judaism and Christianity which they repudiate.

Finally, a few ordinary drug users have claimed to have created new religions.

«I wanted to sink into new religions.»

Even in modern times new religions that might compete with established order are typically under threat of persecution.

Crain's Chicago Business calls corporate social responsibility the new religion for millennials.

They want everyone to accept their agenda as their new religion.

This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

That does not change the fact that mohamed conquored a large area and then brought unity and relative order with his new religion as a guiding force.

Professionals or secularists within the UK or Western world will accept these religious tenets more sympathetically if they came from a faith they recognise, or indeed may once have been part of, more so than other newer religions.

That said, Atheism has become a new religion in it's own right, stating with as much certainty as people of «faith», THERE IS NO GOD.

Six years before that, Paul Vitz had made a similar point in Psychology as Religion: psychology, he wrote, had become a substitute for faith» a new religion encouraging a cult of self - worship.