Sentences with phrase «religious authority figure»

Lebanon's Grand Mufti Sheikh Mohammad Rashid Qabbani called for the archbishops» release, and condemned any act that would «harm any religious authority figure regardless to which sect he belongs.»

Because of his symbolic role as a religious authority figure, the minister naturally attracts a circle of dependent persons who gain strength by identifying with him and with the group which he leads.

Because he is a religious authority figure, people spontaneously project on him a rich variety of associations from their early life, including powerful feelings about such matters as God, heaven, hell, sex, parents, Sunday school, death, sin, and guilt.

After a few months of repeated failures, the students are invited to bring along their priests, ministers, rabbis, imams, and other religious authority figures to lead their prayers.

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All of the authority figures in our lives endorse religious views.

Furthermore what you've already quoted above over and over again is that Lenin and later Stalin were two such communists who enforced atheism to consolidate power, the specific targeting of religious folks was so they can bring the proletariat to them rather than let the masses have a separate authority figure.

The Department for Education (DfE) has been forced to amend its education green paper by the UK Statistics Authority, following a complaint made by the British Humanist Association (BHA) over the «misleading» figures it presents on the impact of religious selection at «faith» schools.

Unifying and polarizing scientific issues, perceptions of motivations, and the influence of authority figures in both religious and scientific communities in shaping attitudes toward each other will be discussed.

Qualitative focus group follow - up studies showed that acceptance is heavily conditioned by authority figures (teachers, TV personalities, religious figures) and the correlation between the students» understanding of evolution and their acceptance of it is weak.

Schools should be safe spaces — allowing outside authority figures to probe young girls» choice of religious expression is precisely the wrong approach to take, argues Zubeda Limbada...

In that case, the communication would be religiously motivated and made to satisfy a spiritual need or purpose... The situation of a suspect who thinks he is speaking to a religious or spiritual figure for spiritual counselling or guidance is very different from that of a suspect who seeks assistance in thwarting the authorities.

Our parents, teachers, religious leaders and assorted authority figures throughout our young lives, particularly during the formative years up to the age of seven, have huge power over the development of our individual personalities.