These possibilities run counter, it is true, to the old ethic and
the old type of religion associated with it; they have the advantage, however, that they are in a position to combine the vitality of our new image of man with the new and transformed image of God which is emerging.
(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various
types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement
of the first decades
of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy
of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task
of a sociology
of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names
of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students
of the above - mentioned
older scholars — stand out.
Match caters to both heterosexual and homosexual users, the young and the
old, and has members from all different
types of cultures,
religions, political backgrounds, and professions.
Some well - known by thousand - year -
old civilizations (
of which only few
of them are studied by science), which interpreted this cosmic energy in a phenomenological and hermeneutical way, according to past technologies and beliefs, shaping rich plural cultures and
religions of different
types.
Discrimination based on several
types of personal characteristics, such as age (40 years
of age and
older), race,
religion, national origin, medical condition, disability or gender are illegal under both federal (Title VII
of the Civil Rights Act) and state law (Fair Employment and Housing Act).