Sentences with phrase «own religious culture»

But a country's religious culture and higher yearnings condition what it can do, and what it is inclined to.

Should those trends persist, in the long term America's religious culture may become more like Denmark's than like that of the Bible Belt of Billy Graham's youth.

CNN has sensitivity for every religious culture other than Christianity.

«Even our religious culture tends to focus on success and stability as ideals for religious growth.»

Televangelism and African American Religious Culture.»

What is present is something older and deeper than nazism — a Bavarian if not a German racial consciousness supported by a conservative religious culture.

Without a religious culture, the slide into statism, if not authoritarianism, seems to become irresistible.

Dan and I were both raised in loving, grace - filled homes, but in a fundamentalist religious culture that required total acquiescence to a strict set of theological beliefs and left little room for mystery.

It is a very black and white religious culture here.

An important element of that religious culture was associational purity.

A historian with a hand on the pulse of contemporary religious culture, I admire her like crazy, so when she expressed some disagreement with my post at CNN, «Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church,» my first instinct was to curl up in a ball and cry.

I've seen both very good and very bad fruit come from organized religion — including Christianity — and prefer to think of each individual as spiritually unique rather than the sum of his or her religious culture.

Questions of a particular religious culture or theological position may be important to understand.

In other words, the questions and issues I raise in the post aren't new; these questions and issues are recurring ones in American religious culture (though they have manifested themselves differently through the years) and have been inherited by my generation.

The dominance of religious television by this one minority expression of American religious culture assumes more serious implications when it is considered with the factors that have influenced it, which is the substance of our next chapter.

As an expert on various religious cultures, and with a knowledge of the role of religion in personality structure and function, the specialist is in a position to offer relevant insight for psychodynamic diagnosis, for evaluation of the manner in which religious issues should be dealt with in treatment, and the means by which religious resources may be used in rehabilitation.

The grass roots always furnishes a certain amount of discontent with denominational structures, barren religiosity, and «status - quoism» within the religious culture.

Our concern in this and the subsequent chapters is not, however, with the total Islamic culture but with the specifically religious culture which originates almost exclusively from the Qur» an, the Traditions of the Prophet of Islam, and the various interpretations of these two fundamental sources.

They argue that the religious culture in many southern and midwestern states makes women less likely to choose abortion when....

DO N'T think you understand democracy if you think it's only about elections: it's about injecting as much of your religious culture and mindset which excludes freedom of thought, freedom of expression, political and religious pluralism, and human rights.

I think cultural diversity was built into the Christian faith with that first great decision by the Council in Jerusalem, recorded in Acts 15, which declared that the new gentile Christians didn't have to enter Jewish religious culture.

Aggressiveness is part of conservative religious culture; it's both the secret of its effectiveness and its downfall.

Which got me thinking about how the dominant religious culture, even the dominant expression of Christianity and church that we are exposed to, attempts to set the rule.

The most absurd, the most laughable, the most narrow forms of religious culture can nevertheless be — or so Keillor's voice is able to convince us — effective channels of real grace.

Timothy was sent to Ephesus to counter the effects of the Artemis / Diana religious culture.

The religious culture of his day dictated that there should be a firm wall between Jews and Samaritans, between men and women, between the righteous and the sinner.

She traces the history of Sophia in postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity, only to discover that the feminine is repressed in both religious cultures in favor of the masculine.

A compelling aspect of Kilde's book is her reading of the buildings themselves in order to understand the religious culture that produced them: bold, confident, masculine and modern — yet slightly on the defensive.

Those that pose a real challenge today are (a) the frontier of religious cultures which define a people and (b) the frontier of power.

«Much of this has to do with the passing away of a religious culture, sometimes disparagingly referred to as a «ghetto,» which reinforced participation and identification with the Church.»

Marty's lengthy discussion of the role of denominations is fascinating — especially his observations (which I find convincing) about the continuing relevance of denominational entities in our reportedly «postdenominational» religious culture.

Genuinely religious cultures, too, may take many forms.

In a similar way, in this Second Axial Period, the religious cultures arising from the First Axial Period feel threatened by the new secular and humanistic culture.

With a few bolder claims, this book might have done more to help us understand our own religious culture.

Now this may seem very startling, even shocking, to many in our religious culture, where there is a long tradition of doubting, or possibly even of being unable to tell, whether or not one is a Christian.

I am speaking generally, of course, but I think Christian women wrestle with these questions most of all, perhaps because in a religious culture that often puts forth narrow and contested definitions of womanhood, young women whose interests and personalities might lead them away from the list of acceptable rules and roles are subtly punished for not exhibiting a more «gentle and quiet spirit,» for not reigning in some of that ambition and drive.

It was fun and enlightening discussing issues related to the Bible, gender equality, and faith with women coming from a somewhat different religious culture.

But alas, the two problems — those of the contemporary religious culture that says that is mean - spirited and those who love power and bullying who say, that man can never be a part of us again.

Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

The faster we extend religious culture across geographic space, the more it seems to dissipate through time.

It is one of the affirmations of this study that this power exercised by the television industry in relation to religious culture is of greater concern than any individual aspect of religious television.

Part of the reason for the takeover of religious television by conservative, paid - time religious broadcasters has been the changes that have occurred in American religious culture, changes that have reduced the power of those broadcasters who represent the mainline denominations while increasing the power of those representing the conservative denominations and groups.

In relation to American religious culture, therefore, television has exercised a major status - conferral effect, not on the basis of a representativeness, nor on a calculated moral - evaluative basis, but solely on the basis of a correspondence of a minority religious ethos with television's own economic, functional, and mythical goals.

«Meditation» as a mental / emotional practice of clearing the mind is a long established practice, in virtually all religious cultures, and in psychology, neurology, medicine, etc..

Changes in the nature of religious television in the 1960s and 1970s can therefore be seen to have been a function of a historical coincidence of a number of related factors: social conditions, government regulation, audience response, and general trends in religious culture.

Let them blend new sciences and theories and the understanding of the most recent discoveries with Christian morality and the teaching of Christian doctrine, so that their religious culture and morality may keep pace with scientific knowledge and with the constantly progressing technology... Thus they will be able to interpret and evaluate all things in a truly Christian spirit,... and priests will be able to present to our contemporaries the doctrine of the Church concerning God, man and the world, in a manner more adapted to them so that they may receive it more willingly.»

The biggest shift in American religious culture in my lifetime has been the extraordinary decline of mainline Protestantism as a vital force in public life.

Fundamentalism is the demand for a strict adherence to specific theological doctrines usually understood as a reaction against Modernist theology, combined with a vigorous attack on outside threats to their religious culture.

As a self - avowed, practicing member of this band, I wonder (as we flee from the wrath that is surely to come) if our work will be a harbinger of renewal in the church or another instance of nostalgia over a religious culture rapidly disappearing.

Family - based rituals and activities present the most obvious opportunities for passing on religious culture.