Sentences with phrase «religion in public life at»

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In taking a retrospective look at the second millennium, it is therefore both inevitable and entirely proper to explore the continuing impact of the Reformation, particularly concerning religion and public life.

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.

He spoke from just a few notes, and sometimes none at all, pulling together effortlessly all the threads he had so carefully spun out in his decades of work on religion and public life.

Given that we're living in a time (as ever) where religion's place in American public life seems confused and controversial, if not gravely imperiled, the World Meeting of Families happened at exactly the right time, in exactly the right place.

About both of those dimensions of MLK's legacy, the acceptance of post-racialism and the exercise of religion in public life, the left is ambivalent at best.

I would also need to look at religion, following today the brilliant sociological analysis Tocqueville made of the role of religion in our public life, a role all the founders of the republic discerned.

Editor's note: Robert P. Jones is the CEO of Public Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and publicPublic Religion Research Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and education organization specializing in work at the intersection of religion, values and publicpublic life.

«What you have in American religion today are the nonwhite Christians and the Nones,» says Mark Silk, professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut.»

Although almost all of them affirmed the role of religion in moral formation and saw Providence at work in America's founding, their belief in the moral governance of the universe was more a reflection of their assumptions as Enlightenment thinkers who did not separate religion from public life than a sign of heartfelt Christian belief.

Spend some time on the Pew Center for Religion in Public Life website (religions (dot) pewforum (dot) org for a very detailed look at the relationships between religion and many factors in American life, including educational attainment and degree of religiosLife website (religions (dot) pewforum (dot) org for a very detailed look at the relationships between religion and many factors in American life, including educational attainment and degree of religioslife, including educational attainment and degree of religiosity.

As the legal specialist at the Indianapolis meeting remarked, religion can not be taken out of public education simply by court rulings; it will disappear from the schools only if it ceases to live in the «thoughts and hearts of citizens.»

When religion has a role in public life, it enables us to look at our economy and refer to the Christian principles on which our markets were founded.