They have also thereby provided a religious self - corrective for the abuses of
religion by religious institutions, which is one of the main roles of prophecy in the Bible.
Not exact matches
Granted that
religious forms and
institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned
by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does
religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?
People of a skeptical disposition commonly suppose that because modern science has provided them with a reason to disbelieve the claims of
religion, or because they think it has, modern science must therefore be the generating force behind secularization itself ¯ that historical progression, evident in the West since the Renaissance, in which habits and
institutions are less and less influenced
by religious doctrine.
There was much greater emphasis on the need to undermine
religion by social and economic action rather than
by direct confrontation with
religious institutions and believers.
The party must not try to abolish
religion by decree; instead, it should attempt to guide
religious people and
institutions so that they will «center all their will and strength on the common goal of building a modernized, powerful socialist state.»
He insists that the constitutional framers did not envision complete independence of
religion and the state, or absolute separation of church and state, and therefore nondiscriminatory or indirect aid to
religion and
religious institutions was not enjoined
by the First Amendment.
Marxist — Leninist atheism is a form of atheism which holds that the essence of
religion should be abolished.In China,
religious institutions were shut down
by the Red Guards in the 1960s and 1970s as part of the Cultural Revolution.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of this title, (1) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for an employer to hire and employ employees, for an employment agency to classify, or refer for employment any individual, for a labor organization to classify its membership or to classify or refer for employment any individual, or for an employer, labor organization, or joint labor - management committee controlling apprenticeship or other training or retraining programs to admit or employ any individual in any such program, on the basis of his
religion, sex, or national origin in those certain instances where
religion, sex, or national origin is a bona fide occupational qualification reasonably necessary to the normal operation of that particular business or enterprise, and (2) it shall not be an unlawful employment practice for a school, college, university, or other educational
institution or
institution of learning to hire and employ employees of a particular
religion if such school, college, university, or other educational
institution or
institution of learning is, in whole or in substantial part, owned, supported, controlled, or managed
by a particular
religion or
by a particular
religious corporation, association, or society, or if the curriculum of such school, college, university, or other educational
institution or
institution of learning is directed toward the propagation of a particular
religion.
-- This title shall not prohibit a
religious corporation, association, educational
institution, or society from giving preference in employment to individuals of a particular
religion to perform work connected with the carrying on
by such corporation, association, educational
institution, or society of its activities.
This title shall not apply to an employer with respect to the employment of aliens outside any State, or to a
religious corporation, association, or society with respect to the employment of individuals of a particular
religion to perform work connected with the carrying on
by such corporation, association, or society of its
religious activities or to an educational
institution with respect to the employment of individuals to perform work connected with the educational activities of such
institution.
Nothing in this subchapter shall prohibit a
religious organization, association, or society, or any nonprofit
institution or organization operated, supervised or controlled
by or in conjunction with a
religious organization, association, or society, from limiting the sale, rental or occupancy of dwellings which it owns or operates for other than a commercial purpose to persons of the same
religion, or from giving preference to such persons, unless membership in such
religion is restricted on account of race, color, or national origin.
If TWU is identified as an education or
religious institution «primarily engaged in serving the interests of persons identified
by a prohibited ground of discrimination [i.e., Christians, or people willing to abide
by what TWU identifies as Christian beliefs —
religion being a prohibited ground]» (which it almost certainly is) the fact that TWU may limit attendance to people who subscribe to similar beliefs is not necessarily discriminatory.
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Religious Studies promotes descriptive and comparative studies of
religion by describing and analyzing cross-cultural beliefs, practices, and
institutions, both past and present.