Sentences with phrase «of religious values given»

Pianist in Turkey who tweeted «insults» of religious values given suspended sentence for blasphemy, Reuters

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You are advocating censoring education by prohibiting instructors who ARE musically knowledgeable from giving students a well - rounded and balanced musical experience by pretending that there was no music of value that was composed with a religious text or through the pat ronage of the church.

Now, I realize I could just as easily call it «How to be Decent to One Another on the Internet» or «How to be Human on the Internet,» but given this particular community of readers, I wanted to frame the discussion around specifically Christian values and concerns, (many of which also apply to those of other religious persuasions, of course).

If religious belief is attained when reason makes a «total response of the total being to what is apprehended as the ultimate reality,» such that in this act reason is reborn, then it follows that those who totally accept a given world - view as ultimate, whether it be theistic or non-theistic, naturalistic or supernaturalistic, immanentist or transcendentalist, as normative for their entire lives and as the supreme value in their hierarchy of values, and hence not taken as a means but as an end, belong to the religious dimension.

The universality and centrality of value - experience give it a fundamental character just as with the experience of change, dependence and order, and fulfill two aspects as the requirements for a basis of religious experience.

First, in every domain of teaching the following essentials of religious faith should be emphasized and demonstrated in the teacher's own outlook: That the world, man, and his culture are neither self - sufficient nor self - explanatory but are derived from given sources of being, meaning, and value.

Sociological theories of the 1940s and 1950s tended to portray culture as a hierarchy of values that was integrated by higher - order religious values and was internalized by the person, thereby giving unity and direction to the person's behavior.

Experiences which give our children an awareness of the values in other religions are no longer «elective» items in sound religious education.

«A religious body,» he says, «is a stable institution with a heritage which it cherishes, a government which gives organized expression to its faith, and a body of members whose duties and values are generally recognized.»

Religious entities in Asia will emerge as counter-veiling centers of life, giving identity, values and meaning.

One was the work of a sociologist, Earl Brewer, who, with the aid of a theologian and a ministries specialist, sought by an extensive content analysis of sermons and other addresses given in a rural and an urban church to differentiate the patterns of belief and value constituting those two parishes.67 The second was the inquiry of a religious educator, C. Ellis Nelson, who departed from a curricular definition of education to envision the congregation as a «primary society» whose integral culture conditions its young and old members.68 James Dittes, the third author, described more fully the nature of the culture encountered in the local church.

The driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

The absolute significance and value of any bit of religious experience we might hear of would thus be given almost mathematically into our hands.

Frankfort also is conscious that he is innovating, and he states the point almost in the terms of my present argument: «Erman... gave... a masterly but patronizing account of weird myth, doctrines, and usages, while the peculiarly religious values which these contained remained hidden from his lucid rationalism....

Particularly now that liberalism was not a major independent political force or contender for rule its values could be accepted as the legitimate norms of the state and given religious approval.

A religious system which provides significant ethical norms (that is, having to do with the maximizing of personality values) gives growing individuals guidelines in developing their own value systems.

This lesson is an English / RE lesson and uses the Simon Armitage poem «Give» to explore religious concepts of the value of life.

Specifically, the charitable deduction allows individual taxpayers and corporations to deduct from their taxable income in a given year the present value of contributions they make to nonprofit groups that are religious, charitable, educational, scientific, or literary in purpose, or that work to prevent cruelty to children or animals.

According to many chroniclers, the whole territory's gold and silver was concentrated there, as these metals would arrive in the form of offerings to the Sacred City, and Temple, given that, in the Incanato, precious metals did not have an economical value, but rather, a religious one.

Royal Inka Pisac, built in the sixteenth century, was the home of the Treasury of the Figueroa family, with a chapel of the Virgen del Carmen Cultural Religious giving a value, retaining an original construction to the present.

Regardless of religious, ethnic, or economic background, these scholarships give deserving students a quality, values - based education in a safe environment.

Apart from being unreasonable because it isn't linked to actual discrimination by TWU grads (which discrimination might justify the need for protection) it also fails to give weight to the charter values of religious freedom and freedom of association reflected in sections 2 and 15 (1) of the Charter, to say nothing of the provincial protections afforded to TWU's conduct under section 41 of the BC human rights code (and similar provisions in other provinces).

A basic difficulty arises from the fact that, under some laws, Aboriginals have to prove the religious significance of sites and their importance; partly this is difficult owing to different approaches by different Aboriginal groups to sacred sites and to the fact that knowledge of the sites is restricted to a few gender - specific individuals and partly it conflicts with some Aboriginal values and customs, including the importance given to secrecy.