Sentences with phrase «people in religious contexts»

In addition, between 20 and 30 percent of respondents reported stigmatizing experiences because of being a gay father, primarily from family members, friend, and some people in religious contexts.

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To put things in context, Bell followed that quote up by expressing his disappointment when communities of faith discourage people from asking questions about religious texts or beliefs.

So many religious people whine about «context, context», yet either never give what the context is in their mind, or the «context» is contradictory to other parts of the bible, and it merely turns into excuses and assertions.

In the context of the Asian civilization, we discern various religious and cultural resources for such gardening, which have been rising among the peoples» movments.

Whenever sinners are mentioned, it is usually in the context of setting up a discussion between Jesus and the religious people.

Similarly, some religious cults have separated their converts from their familiar contexts and provided new ones in ways that have made them new persons for good or ill.

Theology and ethics are inseparable in the black religious experience; The context of the faith of black people is a situation of racist oppression.

At the level of assumption, the historical consciousness is the awareness that every event or entity (including persons or religious traditions) possesses its own finite, historical context and can be explained exhaustively in terms of that context.

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.

Sure, the Star of David, by itself, could also represent the Jewish people (many of which are not religious at all), but in the context of the image would represent Judaism, the Jewish religion.

I'm sorry to break it to you, but it's proven WHY people believe in God in religious contexts.

In arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that contexIn arguing against the possibility of attaining to a neutral standpoint on matters of concern to religious persons, one begins with the axiom that all human activity — and so, by extension, all scholarly activity, all religious activity, and all interaction among serious religious persons — both implies and evinces a commitment to some particular metaphysic, some view as to the way things are and as to how human activity should proceed in that contexin that context.

Some people use it perhaps in this context, but wheni say say Christmas is a religious holiday in which pagans amd Christians celebrated it, it means that people of varying faiths celebrated it.

Creative and dynamic religious forces are finding their expression not in the context of the organized church, but in film, literature, and the arts, and also in some aspects of science and industry, where people are seeking ways to give institutional expression to their basic religious concerns while at the same time rejecting alliances with institutional religion.

Reviewing the exegetical search of the early writers involves, then, for those of us who have come into the inheritance of these traditions, the responsibility not only to interact with these inherited traditions, but also to interpret these in the context of the «extratextual hermeneutics that is slowly emerging as a distinctive Asian contribution to theological methodology [which] seeks to transcend the textual, historical, and religious boundaries of Christian tradition and cultivate a deeper contact with the mysterious ways in which people of all religious persuasions have defined and appropriated humanity and divinity.»

In the context of being «graffiti artist on the walls of religion» it can be taken that «stir shit up» is to mean upsetting people, particularly religious authorities.

The relativity of Niebuhr's theocentric relativism derives not from the variety of religious and cultural contexts in which different people live, but from the awareness that each person lives in several of these contexts at once.

Is it possible for religious people to continue to practice their religion without causing disruptions in the cultural contexts around us?

In such a religious context we can grasp more adequately what it means to be a human person.

That's great, in the context of «I»... but then after you've given every person YOU encounter that «opportunity» and move on, the next religious person out of the millions out there is standing there, next in line, to offer that same «opportunity» to me again.

In our new context, traditional religious practices frustrate the postmodern project, which is one of weakening the strong convictions that once bound people together.

What I am driving at is that in this fellowship of ours, we can have religious people and secular ideologists, anti-religious people and atheists, and people who are renewing religions and ideologies - all within the context of this common commitment to the transformation of society with justice to the self - awakening of people in our time.

«Regardless of the context — clinical, educational, religious, etc. — I want to accompany people, youths in particular, in their suffering,» says Tran, who is hoping eventually to continue his studies in either clinical or counseling psychology, expanding on what he has learned in the Prevention Science and Practice (PSP) Program's research strand.

Some people choose Christian counseling over other types of counseling and mental health treatment because they are more comfortable with managing mental health issues or personal problems in a religious context.