Sentences with phrase «of different religious traditions»

The BMA presents Documenting the Spirit, a panel of practitioners, scholars, and observers of different religious traditions.

Adherents of different religious traditions may be able to recognize the reality of both ends, though they are not able to agree on the explanation of how and why the two ends exist or on the priority they should be given.

As a student of Religions, I want to note that various responses to the ecological crisis are already given from the perspective of different religious traditions.

The difficulty of fitting Buddhism into broad generalizations about «authentic and lasting religious experiences» raises a broader question about the coherence of positing a mutual normativity of different religious traditions.

What «further can be said,» however — i.e., whether the Principle of Limitation should be conceived as «Allah, Brahman, Yahweh or Father in Heaven» — is left to be decided on the basis of particular experiences of the different religious traditions.

Could the continuous dialogue on ethical issues between people of different religious traditions building new communities bring about a sustainable world?

People of different religious traditions are today experiencing a changed world, where they discover the interconnectedness between religions.

There are, in the midst of fragmentation, signs of a changing society in the context of religious plurality, where people of different religious traditions are instrumental in building new communities and where interreligious dialogue promotes a new understanding of the other.

Is it a problem, a defeat for our religion or do we discover that the interrelationship of people of different religious traditions is of benefit for our life as human beings in this global village?

Today we live in a different world, where people of different religious traditions live together side by side.

Not exact matches

I belong to a wonderful church where we welcome (encourage) diverse points of view and seek to learn all we can about different religious traditions.

Are you saying that I need to learn about every religious sect within each religion and I need to memorize every tiny nuance and «tradition» of these thousands of different forms of religious expression?

The Conference examined the way sacred music has evolved in Jewish, Christian and Muslim traditions, its different modes of expression, its contribution to deepening religious experience, and its place in wider musical and general culture of the three faith traditions.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

It's simple enough, and although the American Rorty and the Italian Vattimo have been formed by different philosophical and religious traditions (pragmatism and red - diaper communism for Rorty, hermeneutics and cradle Catholicism for Vattimo), they agree on most of its elements.

The draft supports these values not just by pragmatic calculations but by a kind of «spiritual vision,» conceived broadly enough to elicit support from many different religious traditions.

The problem with trying to reconcile these two conceptions of Catholic ethics regarding war — the «peace tradition» of the religious life and the just war tradition of secular life — is precisely that they are so fundamentally different.

Several factor analyses of the responses revealed some clustering around religious, social, and individualistic ideas, but the results also suggested a high degree of «mixing» among different thematic traditions.

«The metaphysical content of the religious tradition of the Bible, both Jewish and Christian, is utterly different from the metaphysical content or structure of the religious traditions of India, Africa, Oceania or Greece.»

While some people whom I would include in this mode of thought are involved with «religious studies,» particularly at the undergraduate level, and see autobiographies as a valid way of introducing students to different religious traditions (and I would agree that it is a valid way), the main drive, I believe, is focused on the central task of theology — serving the hearing of the word of God in a particular time and place.

Descriptions of unity in the church are usually addressed to readers with different perspectives on religious tradition.

Just as there are parties today, writers of New Testament books had to think how to describe Christian faith to people from two different religious traditions.

Informationally speaking, the pluralist theological option radically relativizes the importance of distinct religious boundaries, proposing that different religious traditions may all be equally valid ways of experiencing the revelation of an ultimate reality transcending the comprehension of any particular tradition (See the essays in John Hick and Paul Knitter, eds., The Myth of Christian Uniqueness (Maryknoll, New York: Orbis Books, 1987).

This understanding happens in the combination of intra-religious and inter-religious dialogue, that is, in the dialogue between different religions and among different religious traditions within one human person.

It is important to remember that non-relating or conflict in the spiritual area frequently occurs even between spouses from the same religious tradition, but who have basically different value systems and world - views derived from their respective families - of - origin.

Examples of intermittent persecutions of groups belonging to different traditions — there must be many such — do not illustrate religious intolerance in India.

«In Britain we have a long tradition of freedom of worship and religious tolerance, where many people of different faiths follow religious codes and practices and benefit from their guidance.

within virtually all modern nations - between people who are prepared to live with others who are different, on terms of equal respect, and those who seek the... domination of a single religious and ethnic tradition.

They try to see a religious community in the organic wholeness of its life, action and thought before generalizing about similarities between different traditions.

Most Christians do not accept Mormons as one of them because of their different traditions and religious habbits, much like the Mormon Church refuses to recognize the FLDS and their child brides and multiple marriages as one of them.

Given the distinct religious traditions of Christianity and Judaism, it is no wonder that the revival of religion takes different forms in the two religious communities, exemplified by «born - again Christians» and the ba «alei teshuvah, «penitents» or «returnees,» in Judaism.

An analysis of current religious programming on American television reveals the influence of this shaping effect on religious programming also: particular religious traditions are presented to the exclusion of others; there are apparent similarities between the content of many religious programs and general television programming; and there are similarities in religious program formats and content even in programs from a range of different theological traditions and experience.

More frequently, however, the Christian participants have tried to base the dialogue on completely different facets of religious tradition..

In the previous sections I noted how in China different religious traditions could function in a complementary fashion, in a context that was determined by a more inclusive horizon, that of being Chinese.

The Christian theology that engages us in Asia must have must have room, yes, plenty of room, for people of different walks of life and of diverse religious traditions and cultural backgrounds.

The method of the Indian religious traditions is somewhat different.

My experience is that Roman Catholics and Protestant evangelicals both share many traditions of Christian education and many subdivisions of religious experience, although they may view these through different lenses and historical perspectives.

The conflicting claims among different religious traditions necessarily relativize all such claims and underscore his central thesis that «afterlife notions are mirrors of our cultural and social needs.»

If different religious practices and beliefs aim at and constitute distinct conditions of human fulfillment, then a very high proportion of what each tradition affirms may be true and valid in very much the terms that the tradition claims.

Accepting different religious ends allows for mutual recognition of extensive concrete substantive truth in another tradition.

As a result of this violence, although she is Catholic, her religious and prayer life are now profoundly different from the traditional Roman Catholicism of her parents, and she has significant spiritual distress because of this divergence from her family's traditions, beliefs and practices.

Working to bring together students and faculty who come from different religious traditions and a range of secular perspectives is completely consistent with the institutional values of the IB.

In part because of its dismal public school system and in part because of a strong religious, especially Catholic, tradition, New Orleans had a robust private school network before Katrina: some 25,000 students, more than a third of the number in the public schools, attended 92 different schools.

The report findings suggest that opportunity to study different religious faiths and traditions help promote understanding among students of different religious groups, that «carrier» subjects such as history, second or foreign languages and the social sciences, as well as physical education and art are also critical to the fostering of LTLT competencies in these countries.

They focus on the Three Wise Men and their role within the Christmas Story, as well as looking at the significance of Epiphany to Christians and some of the various traditions associated with this religious celebration in different countries.

Some of these sessions discussed the souls of animals and different religious traditions, historic views of animals and the existence of their souls.

This selection begins with the tradition of the academic nude study and progresses to embrace different genres, from both secular and religious contexts.

In 2005, to foster harmonious relations among students of different backgrounds and to introduce them to religious practices and traditions from around the world as well as from Quebec, the provincial government gradually imposed a controversial new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the privreligious practices and traditions from around the world as well as from Quebec, the provincial government gradually imposed a controversial new Ethics and Religious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the privReligious Culture (ERC) curriculum on all schools, even the private ones.

While mindfulness might sometimes seem like a recent fad, it has been practiced for thousands of years in the context of different religious and spiritual traditions.

The General Assembly, Guided by the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations, and good faith in the fulfilment of the obligations assumed by States in accordance with the Charter, Affirming that indigenous peoples are equal to all other peoples, while recognizing the right of all peoples to be different, to consider themselves different, and to be respected as such, Affirming also that all peoples contribute to the diversity and richness of civilizations and cultures, which constitute the common heritage of humankind, Affirming further that all doctrines, policies and practices based on or advocating superiority of peoples or individuals on the basis of national origin or racial, religious, ethnic or cultural differences are racist, scientifically false, legally invalid, morally condemnable and socially unjust, Reaffirming that indigenous peoples, in the exercise of their rights, should be free from discrimination of any kind, Concerned that indigenous peoples have suffered from historic injustices as a result of, inter alia, their colonization and dispossession of their lands, territories and resources, thus preventing them from exercising, in particular, their right to development in accordance with their own needs and interests, Recognizing the urgent need to respect and promote the inherent rights of indigenous peoples which derive from their political, economic and social structures and from their cultures, spiritual traditions, histories and philosophies, especially their rights to their lands, territories and resources, Recognizing also the urgent need to respect and promote the rights of indigenous peoples affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements with States, Welcoming the fact that indigenous peoples are organizing themselves for political, economic, social and cultural enhancement and in order to bring to an end all forms of discrimination and oppression wherever they occur, Convinced that control by indigenous peoples over developments affecting them and their lands, territories and resources will enable them to maintain and strengthen their institutions, cultures and traditions, and to promote their development in accordance with their aspirations and needs, Recognizing that respect for indigenous knowledge, cultures and traditional practices contributes to sustainable and equitable development and proper management of the environment, Emphasizing the contribution of the demilitarization of the lands and territories of indigenous peoples to peace, economic and social progress and development, understanding and friendly relations among nations and peoples of the world, Recognizing in particular the right of indigenous families and communities to retain shared responsibility for the upbringing, training, education and well - being of their children, consistent with the rights of the child, Considering that the rights affirmed in treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements between States and indigenous peoples are, in some situations, matters of international concern, interest, responsibility and character, Considering also that treaties, agreements and other constructive arrangements, and the relationship they represent, are the basis for a strengthened partnership between indigenous peoples and States, Acknowledging that the Charter of the United Nations, the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (2) and the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 2 as well as the Vienna Declaration and Programme of Action, (3) affirm the fundamental importance of the right to self - determination of all peoples, by virtue of which they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development, Bearing in mind that nothing in this Declaration may be used to deny any peoples their right to self - determination, exercised in conformity with international law, Convinced that the recognition of the rights of indigenous peoples in this Declaration will enhance harmonious and cooperative relations between the State and indigenous peoples, based on principles of justice, democracy, respect for human rights, non-discrimination and good faith, Encouraging States to comply with and effectively implement all their obligations as they apply to indigenous peoples under international instruments, in particular those related to human rights, in consultation and cooperation with the peoples concerned,