Sentences with phrase «observes religious practices»
I didn't know baking a cake or taking photos was observing religious practices.
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Religious beliefs and practices are observed and discussed, but treated as states of mind and social customs, mere human constructions unsupported by any transcendent reality.
Observing the practice of a cultic group, the outsider may be inclined to compare the «control» exercised by a religious leader to that in political or economic organizations without realizing that obedience may in each case be very differently motivated, and that it hence may not be really the same thing.
I say that if you have a religious holiday that you observe and practice, then you should be allowed to have the day.
John Charlot observes in Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture that sacred chants were traditionally practiced on the beach so as to reproduce the modulations of wind and waves.
Against this, he tartly observes: «Judaism, as a religious practice, has not contributed much to world - mending.»
Andrew Greeley has observed that «Catholics stay Catholic because they like being Catholic» — they like, that is, the stories, symbols and practices which convey the rich, analogical Catholic religious imagination.
It is also interesting to note that where customary law — adat — deviates from religious law and can not be reconciled to it even in a formal way, it is often customary law which is observed, and such observation is not derogatory to religious sentiment nor to the conscientious observance of the religious obligations and practices of Islam.
A total of 263 participants were involved who observed Christianity (70 per cent), traditional religious practices (20 per cent) and Islam (10 per cent).
Not a religion and not allowing omnipotence to any God in particular (practitioners often practice hoodoo while observing their own particular religious beliefs), hoodoo is rich with spirits, one such being the «dark man» or devil who bares a striking resemblance to Ruby's own «dyboù».
The Strasbourg institutions have not been at all ready to find an interference with the right to manifest a religious belief in practice or observance where a person has voluntarily accepted an employment or role which does not accommodate that practice or observance and there are other means open to the person to practise or observe his or her religion without undue hardship or inconvenience.
«Although the sincerity of a person's belief that a religious practice must be observed is relevant to whether the person's right to freedom of religion is at issue, an infringement of this right can not be established without objective proof of an interference with the observance of that practice.
The extent to which religious practices should be observed for adults lacking capacity can give...
I would have thought that Quebec, like the rest of Canada, would want immigrants of all beliefs and cultures to integrate as thoroughly as possible into our society, and barring them from public sector work (or voting) for observing the religious or cultural practices of their homelands, or their parents» homelands, will not help their integration.