Sentences with phrase «number of the adherents»

Precise statistics on the number of adherents within each church are difficult to come by.

Indeed, as Pleket has shown, from Augustus onwards, the emperors were the focus of «mysteries» that resembled the long - established mysteries of the Hellenistic world, and drew substantial numbers of adherents.

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

It took several decades before this message found large numbers of adherents.

^ «Major Religions of the World Ranked by Number of Adherents».

But can one judge «success» by numbers of adherents?

@SevenPup: «The number of adherents mean nothing.

[Rachel Zoll, 2001:8 A] This example indicates the influence that the sheer number of adherents of a particular religion have on the socio - political affairs of modern states, and in a world where truth seems to get blurred amidst statistics.

Christianity (both Protestants and Roman Catholics), Hinduism and Buddhism have smaller number of adherents.

The only difference between a cult and a religion is the number of adherents.

«The church will become small and will have to start afresh more or less from the beginning... As the number of her adherents diminishes... she will lose many of her social privileges... It will be hard going for the Church, for the process of crystallisation and clarification will cost her much valuable energy... But when the trial of this sifting is past, a great power will flow from a more spiritualised and simplified Church... And so it seems certain to me that the Church is facing very hard times.

Critics say it's just training the parents, but it's being done all over the world and gaining an increasing number of adherents here in the United States.

Hayek, subsequently, had a long period in the intellectual wilderness, moving from the UK to the US, and was mostly ignored except by a small number of adherents.

In fact, many of the candidates, which included David Clegg, Antonio Delgado, Brian Flynn, Gareth Rhodes and Pat Ryan, found themselves ranked simultaneously near the top and the bottom at the same time, apparently lending credence to theories that each had a sizeable number of adherents.

Just over a year ago, Secretary of State Clinton launched an international initiative to promote this approach and it has won an increasing number of adherents, helping to build international attention and action.

View what happens in one second, each and every second, on the Internet This is a listing of the major religions of the world, ranked by number of adherents.

He states, «In the past two decades, this multiple (EM) has acquired a number of adherents among analysts for a number of reasons.»

It would probably benefit from somebody first working out a set of question to measure the full spectrum of possible positions, and then to do some systematic surveying to find out the number of adherents to each among climate scientists, scientists generally, and the general public.

(2) For the purposes of this section, a person publishes or utters blasphemous matter if --(a) he or she publishes or utters matter that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion, and (b) he or she intends, by the publication or utterance of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.

«Blasphemous matter» is defined as matter «that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that

«Blasphemous matter» is defined as matter «that is grossly abusive or insulting in relation to matters held sacred by any religion, thereby causing outrage among a substantial number of the adherents of that religion; and he or she intends, by the publication of the matter concerned, to cause such outrage.»

It is like communism once was — a superficially appealing philosophy that garnered a number of adherents even in the West, but which, as history has proven, engenders and spreads harm like an ebola virus sneezed into a classroom.

Not exact matches

«The biggest consumers are politicians, their cronies, family and coteries,» says Omoyele Sowore, publisher of Sahara Reporters, an online news network that covers Nigeria and sub-Saharan Africa, adding there is a growing number of «movie stars, musical artists, con artists and a sizable population of religious adherents of the prosperity - preaching get - rich - quick Pentecostal stock» who are revelling in the bubbly.

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

CNN: Survey: Catholics divided on political issues, as adherent numbers decline As important as the Catholic vote is in the 2012 election, a new survey finds that the group is far from monolithic and is not largely focused on the issues that get a lot of attention from church leaders — abortion and gay marriage.

Perhaps even more important than the relative number of confessionally literate adherents, I suspect that the Lutheran understanding of baptism and the Lord's Supper constitutes a huge barrier to the influence of Lutheranism among American Evangelicals relative to the influence of Calvinism.

He notes that in subsequent years Gilson's approach attracted a number of high - profile adherents, including Joseph Ratzinger, who, over the long course of his theological and now magisterial service, has relied consistently on the «Gilsonian paradigm» when explaining the relation of faith and reason.

For instance, several seminal organizations began tabulating the number of religious adherents in the middle of the century, including the United States Census Bureau, something that widely attests to the importance of religious identities.

For many groups, these numbers provide a fairly accurate county - by - county picture, but to the extent that a group provided sketchy data (lots of round numbers always raise questions) or no data at all, these «adherent» numbers fail to reflect the actual religious composition of a given area.

I suspect that a number of these conclusions are shared by many middle - of - the - roaders who have thought of themselves as just - war adherents.

Last week, the AG reported a gain of 48 churches and about 45,000 adherents (those who consider an AG church to be their church home) in 2015, bringing its total number of American adherents to 3.2 million.

A welcome development of recent years is the number of books debunking the myth that the American founders were post-Christian rationalists or adherents of a vague spirituality conveniently called Deism.

Mostly the descendants of Jakob are adherents of Judaism, whereby always a small number of them converts to Christianity.

A steady number of those reports tell us that the number of nones (those who are not adherent to any...

I know a number of Primal adherents who fit this profile and then went on to experience the symptoms Jessica describes.

His meticulous architectural landscape painting influenced a number of artists in Italy and elsewhere: his nephew Bernardo Bellotto (1720 - 80) took his style to central Europe - notably Dresden and Warsaw - while his followers and adherents in England included the marine and topographical painter Samuel Scott (1702 - 72) and the landscape and marine artist William Marlowe (1740 - 1813).

Today, the adherents of the mainstream religions typically use modern family planning to limit their family size and accept that limiting human numbers makes sense.

I recall specifically a grievance involving grievors who were Pentecostal Christians who objected to having any body measurements converted into numerical form, http://canlii.ca/t/1qdbj Specifically, as adherents of the Pentecostal faith, the grievors subscribed to an interpretation of Scripture which warns that such numbers could one day serve as the «Mark of the Beast,» which will identify followers of the Anti-Christ, resulting in their damnation.

While most sects of Christianity do not require that adherents to wear what the PQ considered «ostentatious» symbols of faith, a number of faiths or sects do require that.

Sling TV boasts more than 600,000 customers, a figure that also pales in comparison to the number of Netflix adherents.

Although a growing number of divorce lawyers are actively involved and influential in ADR, there needs to be more interaction between the adherents of each approach.