Sentences with phrase «religion at»

In 2000, the Americans who attended a house of worship at least once a week were 25 percent more likely to give charitably than those who participated in a religious service less frequently or participated in no religion at all.

Finding a way to save faith, and face, is part of the process when a prophecy fails, said Lorenzo DiTommaso, an associate professor of religion at Concordia University in Montreal, who has been studying apocalyptic worldviews for a dozen years.

Similarly, they did not merely say there should be separation of church and state; rather, they actually separated them by (1) establishing a secular government on the power of «We the people» (not a deity), (2) saying nothing to connect that government to god (s) or religion, (3) saying nothing to give that government power over matters of god (s) or religion, and (4), indeed, saying nothing substantive about god (s) or religion at all except in a provision precluding any religious test for public office.

The words of one religion at the same time, have been used to skew and distort the perceptions of others into believing it's bad, or evil, or heresy of some kind.

Parenthetically, Ellinwood, who was professor of comparative religion at New York University, was instrumental in organizing the American Society of Comparative Religion in 1890.

Robert Wuthnow, sociologist of religion at Princeton University, has studied stewardship in the church and discovered that preachers do a good job of promoting stewardship.

And for the aetheist among us, or people who don't care to follow any religion at all, we have a few common sense laws for everyone to follow just to make sure that our rights don't infringe on the rights of others.

In predominantly Protestant towns and villages, going to the Catholic church was second best, but better than no religion at all.

Also in favor of sticking with the Conference's founding purpose was Sheila Briggs, who teaches religion at the University of Southern California.

If a historian of Greek religion at times take an interest in recent studies on Iranian or Indian religions, he is less inclined to follow the work of his specialist - colleagues, let us say, in Altaic, Bantu, or Indonesian religions.

Jefferson, for example, did not propose the total exclusion of religion at the new University of Virginia, but encouraged its nonsectarian presentation.

But allow me to babble a little: Paul / Saul, according to scriptures, was the top dog / buff at his game of intellectual religion at the time.

It is our hope that the present comparative treatment will deepen the understanding of American civil religion at the same time it opens up issues that can be explored in many other societies.

I'm a bit too busy converting to the Viking religion at the moment to start that diet, though.

Dr. Boyd is professor of religion at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas.

Everywhere you look these trolls are shoving their religion at someone.

Cristina Traina is assistant professor of religion at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

I would like to point once again that «Atheism» is «NOT» a religion, but just a lack of belief, just meaning having no religion at all... like not believing in Unicorns could be called A-unicornism or not believing that spiderman really exists might be called aspidermanism... both examples could hardly be called religions, i think... thank you.

William C. Placher, professor of philosophy and religion at Wabash College in Indiana, offers what he modestly describes as «an extended preface to contemporary discussions about theological method.»

You know, the ones who tried to convert the natives their peaceful, merciful religion at gun point?

Stephen Bullivant is professor of theology and the sociology of religion at St Mary's University, London, and directs the Benedict XVI Centre for Religion and Society.

Wow, you've managed to make yourself look ignorant and offend many in your own religion at the same time.

Paul Nelson is assistant professor of religion at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and the author of Narrative and Morality: A Theological Inquiry (Penn State University Press).

Martel should have stuck to the metaphoric approach he takes to religion at the end of the novel's second section, when Pi finally reaches land.

Dr. Gordis is the editor of Judaism and professor emeritus of Bible and philosophy of religion at Jewish Theological Seminary in New York City.

The divinity school has posted a draft of King's article to which AnneMarie Luijendijk, an associate professor of religion at Princeton University, contributed.

Religion in the New World: The Shaping of Religious Traditions in the United States by richard e. wentz fortress press, 370 pages, $ 19.95 Wentz, who teaches religion at Arizona State, set out to give the general reader an accessible overview of the diversities of religion in America.

David Ray Griffin teaches Philosophy of religion at the School of theology at Claremont and Claremont Graduate School and is Executive Director of the Center for Process Studies.

The problem is that the bet of «if I believe, I lose nothing but if I doubt I lose everything» can be applied to any religion at all!

From there, our group loyalties become the source of much that is most noble and most horrible about us — with religion at the center of both, sacralizing group loyalties and forging larger social bonds beyond the kinship group, but still leaving room for a deep sense of us versus them, a pervasive suspicion of the stranger and the out - group.

At the same time, a growing number of people have shed their particular religious affiliations, saying they are just «religious, spiritual» or have no religion at all.

or Rep.. As for Scientology, it isn't a religion at all.

I don't understand religion at all.

He believed that William James's «momentous error» had been to justify the exercise of religious belief on the basis of a few extraordinary individuals (who in any case were merely justifying religious believing, not the beliefs themselves), and he understood clearly that those who followed in James's track were (like Dewey) eventually going to lose any grip on religion at all.

New guidance has been published today to help employers and employees deal with religion at work.

Will Catholics allow this new age religion to supersede their religion at the polls?

Shannon, like many others seems to have reached his limit in understanding religion at the level of a child.

Of course, that also means we don't need religion at all!!!

Wach was sympathetic to the desire to find a special place in the study of religion for Judaism and Christianity, which was the emphasis of the first approach to comparative religion at Chicago.

Also, I would fight for your right not to believe in any religion at all.

When A. Eustace Haydon retired as professor of comparative religion at the University of Chicago, Wach agreed to take his place.

Thanks for the term «god mechanism» it so fits what my experience as a questioning child was all about... I was trying to understand the «god mechanism» in the light of other religions, or no religion at all.

I would want my future children to learn about all religions and have the ability to chose as they please, even if they chose not to accept any religion at all.

Making allowances for the ambiguity of some categories (does «none» mean «no denominational preference» or «no religion at all»?)

The second approach to comparative religion at Chicago was advocated by George Burman Foster (d. 1918), who accepted a widely held three - layered scheme: (1) a narrow history of religions — conceived to be the simple historical study of «raw» religious data, often colored by an evolutionary ideology — toward (2) «comparative religion,» which aims to classify religious data and culminates in (3) a philosophy of religion (or a theology) that provides a meaning for the comparative religion enterprise as a whole.

In the last ten years of his life, Wach was often mistakenly thought to be in the camp of the second approach to comparative religion at Chicago, which necessitated his stating repeatedly that while the philosophy of religion applies an abstract philosophical idea of what religion is to the data of empirical, historical studies, the history of religions begins with the investigation of religious phenomena, from which, it is hoped, a pattern of «meaning» will emerge.

I follow the path of the Traditional Witch when I'm feeling I need some religion at all.

The seminar's faculty are leading scholars of American religious freedom: Daniel Dreisbach, constitutional scholar at American University and co-editor of the main text; Thomas S. Kidd, historian of American religion at Baylor University; and Gerald R. McDermott, theologian and scholar of religious history at Roanoke College.

A guy who teaches religion at a university.

He's a teaching at religion at BU and says Christians and Catholics don't pray the same way?