Sentences with phrase «religious bodies as»

This stems from the fact that already they made it obvious that the two gentleman ought to be deported to the USA where they came from and I believe strongly the clergy and other religious bodies as well as Think - tanks which have become Water - tanks are watching closely what the next step of the Commander - in - Chief of the GAF will be.»

Ralph M. Jennings, «Policies and Practices of Selected National Religious Bodies as Related to Broadcasting in the Public Interest,» Ph. D. dissertation, New York University, 1968, p. 117.

One hopes that the Supreme Court will interpret the word «religion» broadly to cover the moral teaching of religious bodies as well as worship and rituals.

Why privilege contemporary evangelical and Pentecostal religious bodies as somehow closer than «church» types of religious organization to the original meaning of Christianity?

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Jim Al - Khalili says that he doesn't have a «religious bone in his body» — despite being brought up by a Shia Muslim father and a mother whom he describes as a «born again evangelical Christian».

Merriam Webster defines a cult as, 1: formal religious veneration: worship 2: a system of religious beliefs and ritual; also: its body of adherents

The Secular City helped accelerate the secularization of American elite culture, which created not only new openings in the public square for more - traditional religious bodies but also new fault lines in our politics» fault lines that are as visible as this morning's headlines and op - ed pages.

Although it would be foolish to demarcate too rigidly cultic and other depictions of the emperor, as in some way all imperial ideology was pervaded by religious conceptualizations of the imperial figure, the emperor was more than the cult, and imperial ideology was embodied in other forms and practices, many of which still require extensive examination (for example, its significance in the ideological construction of gender in the empire, and particularly of the body, is only just becoming visible).

Theism explains everything we observe, argues Swinburne, including «the fact that there is a universe at all, that scientific laws operate within it, that it contains conscious animals and humans with very complex intricately organized bodies, that we have abundant opportunities for developing ourselves and the world, as well as the more particular data that humans report miracles and have religious experiences.»

Religious language is also historical and evolutionary: it depicts the people of God as on a journey to the holy land, the Church as a mystical body evolving toward the fullness of Christ, the liturgy as consisting of cycles of growth, the Christian life as an exodus, grace as growth in the fullness of Christ, dogma as evolving, etc..

From this perspective it would even be possible to understand Christendom's religious reversal of the movement of Spirit into flesh as a necessary consequence of the Incarnation, preparing the way for a more comprehensive historical realization of the death of God by its progressive banishment of the dead body of God to an ever more transcendent and inaccessible realm.

Its narratives Contain many echoes of the stories in Mark and some of those which occur in Luke, and the evangelist has modified and added to the earlier traditions (his Gospel is generally agreed to be the latest of the four) in such a way as to make them the vehicle for a great body of deep religious truth.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

For the last two years I had heard about some believers whom God led to give up the religious structure they had become part of to live as the body of Christ together in this region of the world.

«The church» might mean the religious establishment, but in its truest sense, it is the very «Body of Christ» with each of us as members.

The 1977 Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches identified the Salvation Army as the fastest - growing religious body in America.

The church, into which one is born (like the medieval Catholic Church), is distinguished by an ethic of conservation and compromise in its relationship with the surrounding society; the sect, which one must join as an adult (like the Anabaptists), rejects the surrounding society and has an ethic of rigor, perfection and transformation; the mystic is primarily a subjectively religious person who is not linked to any particular religious body (or, if linked to one, does not find it very important).

When the Carnegie Foundation inquired as to «whether denominational connection or control ministers to the religious or intellectual life,» the respondents in the denominational colleges declared «almost without exception that such connections played little, if any, part in the religious or intellectual life of the student body.»

In matters of some significance, such as congressional «representation» of religious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in treligious groups, the enormous and disproportionate visibility of the oldline bodies continues (in 1984, 67 Episcopalians, one Pentecostal); the «losses» have been to Roman Catholic and Jewish representation, not noticeably to right - wing or even «evangelical» Protestantism (Albert Menendez, «The Changing Religious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in tReligious Profile of Congress,» Church and State [January 1983], pp. 9 - 12; Christianity Today, «Members of Congress Hold Ties to 21 Religious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in tReligious Groups» [January 18, 19851, pp. 61 -64) Even in the membership sweepstakes it appears that the NCC bodies may do reasonably well in the 1980s.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

I am a Christian, yet I recognize that moral values are not only Christian, not only Catholic, not only evangelical, and in fact are not defined by any religious body or individual for the nation as a whole.

Though he presses the analogy of the religious body with the physical organism and though his concept of the «divine society» is open to criticism, de la Grasserie does offer helpful categories for the understanding of «external religious society,» and particularly of the «societies to the second power,» as created by prophets and saints.

Conversely a universal orientation may be qualified by national, social, or other criteria, as in the case of the national religious bodies in Eastern and Western Christianity, in Islam, and in Buddhism.

The only way religious people are going to be convinced is for them to die and see for themselves — assuming that they will be able to do anything so complicated as form an opinion, perceive anything, or feel anything without a body and a brain for them to misuse.

Religious communities as different as the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of the Latter - Day Saints are ecclesiastical bodies.

In a body, a «senate,» the aged may function as a «presbytery,» as «elders»; but as individuals the old seer, prophet, teacher, and master will play an important role in the group, whether it be a natural group or specifically religious.

Peace and Ramadan Kareem to all Muslim Brothers and Sisters... Inshallah fasting from Monday Dawn to SunSet... Just wonder in Christians or non Religious have tried fasting as Muslims do... am sure with time they will adopt it as a system for the health benefits it holds health and body... it is told it helps the body to discharge and burn out the poisonous chemicals from our bodies other than controlling weights... Some say they can not because of smoking other for water or food... but other than that is controlling anger or bad mood of the empty stomach, controlling one's tongue from hurting any one, to control eyes from staring at desire... Above all those to a Muslim he is to Maintain Prayers and Quran Reciting which of course beside it being a spiritual matter it is meant the body exercise by the up's and down's of prayers... as well as training of tongue & lungs by the Quran Recitation... these beside Tasbih «Praise of Glorify» helps to control one's breathing..

Illustrations presented male and female bodies as objects for study, not as subjects of religious experience.

It is crucial for us to understand that the child of faith will not be harmed «if the body is clothed in secular dress, dwells in unconsecrated places, eats and drinks as others do, does not pray aloud, and neglects to do all those «religious» things which some decree... one thing, and one thing only is necessary for us to know righteousness, life and freedom.

You are now attempting to take the practice of «meditation,» which is typically understood, and defined and practiced, especially in the Easter Religious context as a «quieting, and stilling of the body and mind, to clear the mind of negativity, and create states of peace, harmony, joy, etc...

''» will, inevitably, be used to punish religious bodies that do not recognize any such thing as same - sex «marriage»: by taking away their tax - exempt status, denying their ministers the legal capacity to act as witnesses of marriage under civil law, or both.

new questions such as released time for religious instruction, prayer and Bible reading in the public schools, tax exemptions for churches and other religious bodies, and the very meaning of religion itself occupied the attention of jurists.

You might even hurt millions, or billions (and its just plain dumb luck, as you can see from the war mongering and stupidity of «religious» political leaders, like McCain, et al, who have said it would be a dandy idea to nuke Iran, that the body count has been higher due to people with lots of weapons, and countries full of people, who where duped into following insane people, because they where tired of the failure of priests to make the world better.)

Nonetheless, as in the nineteenth century so in the twentieth, a number of lay men and women have made intellectual contributions to religious discourse of such magnitude as to place not just Roman Catholics but the entire body of Christians in their debt.

It is only slight exaggeration to state that he feels the traditional Western religious and philosophical understanding of God to be such a mass of errors and inconsistencies as to require removal in toto from the body of metaphysical thought.

Their student bodies represent diverse religious and denominational traditions, none of which functions as the reigning source of the views about church and ministry that are behind the curriculum.

The Healing Community also serves as a resource center for religious bodies and is encouraging international extension of its concepts.

Religious groups, expecially if they include signigicant cultural diversity within themselves, can be islands of civility, settings where, as Richard Mouw says, democratic interchange can be modelled, kept alive for the larger body politic.

Members of these religious bodies today are children of the people who, coming to majority after World War II, finally lost the capacity as citizens to be genuine political actors in America.

He will, like every man of sound mind and body in the country (except for the extremely religious), continue in this way to fulfill his obligation as a member of the reserve until he is fifty - four years old.

Indeed, as a result of the perfect freedom and the voluntarism born of pluralism, the American church boasted a vital, generous membership served by a necessarily vigilant and attentive body of priests and religious.

If, as a body, they assume the intrinsic goodness of religious freedom and the intrinsic evil of slavery, perhaps that is because the development of Christian doctrine has rightly tended in that direction — and thus steered between dangers that are theological as well as political.

As to the reasons for this alignment of different religious bodies, they could not be simpler: the main reason, of course, is the class character of the respective constituencies of these bodies.

This topic is now before Congress, but it is also a local concern, and religious bodies can provide creative alternatives such as homemaker services and adult day - care centers to enable older folk to continue their lives in familiar surroundings.

All great Christian writers assign considerable significance to such experience, Luther and Calvin as well as Teresa or John of the Cross, and for good reason, for without some experience, however humble, few people would be religious, particularly today now that the social pressure for actively belonging to a religious body has become so much weaker.

Jeremy Kosky, chairman of the school's governors, told The Times: «The governing body is proud to have a non-Jew as its head teacher and prouder still that he has been able to find time to take his own religious beliefs to the next level.»

We have always been a nation that recognizes the existence of God and includes prayer in public ceremonies but not as a unified body under any one religious organization.

@GOPer My hope, though I will never see it, that all crazy religious practices such as the taliban beheading youngstesr because they chose to party, the muslim brotherhood attacking koptik christians, the vicar of christ condemning condoms and the resulting spread of aids, the right o a woman to control her own body, etc. the horror done in the name of religion still goes on.

For as long as the religious bodies remained vital and central in our public life, the evasion was (at least partially) successful.