Sentences with phrase «religious bodies found»

But our local interviewing encompassed the entire range of religious bodies found at the seven sites where we interviewed (Seattle, Albuquerque, Chicago, Nashville, Hartford, and clusters of rural counties in central Missouri and central Alabama).

Not exact matches

So what separates the American Founding — a compromise throughout between Lockean (Cartesian) abstracted or isolated personalism and Christian or relational personalism — from the thoroughgoing «republicanism» of the French revolution is that our understanding of religious freedom is freedom of the church (meaning organized religious body).

The aspect of science that bears on this is not one scientists opinion, its the body of scientific findings that conflict with many religious beliefs (Especially Christianity and Islam).

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.

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).

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.»

Tuteur has several complaints about the movement (whose proponents she compares to creationists and antivaccers): namely, it subverts actual science; it relegates mothers back to the home; it is founded on a few elderly white men's sexist and religious beliefs about controlling women's bodies; and it has created lucrative industries and lobbying groups that make the movement unduly influential.

Newberg and D'Aquili also argue that activities often found in religious rituals — like repetitive chanting — activate (and deactivate) similar areas in the brain, a finding that helps explain some of the more puzzling out - of - body experience reports, like those of the airplane pilots suddenly floating outside their planes.

If the Supreme Court had consulted the accepted body of scientific knowledge, however, they would have found that the companies» religious beliefs were not in conflict with the birth control methods they opposed, says Pratima Gupta, a doctor at the San Francisco Medical Center and former board member of the pro-choice network Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health.

(You don't have to literally believe that the Devil takes over bodies, but I assume those who find the film scary can tap into some ingrained religious anxiety.)

These members can be removed if they are found to be behaving in a way that is likely to bring the school, or governing body, into disrepute or in a way that is inconsistent with the ethos or religious character of a school.

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