Sentences with phrase «religious change»

Similarly, one may argue for the importance of economic resources to any episode of religious change but acknowledge that these resources may be constrained by organizational arrangements specific to particular societies.

Rather than depicting religious change as a simple decline in the importance of religion, these theories emphasize qualitative changes in the character of religion.

The ideas of evolution and historical development in the distant past were barely accepted, before the current process of cultural and religious change gained momentum.

It is for this reason that some effort to review the main theoretical frameworks implicit in studies of contemporary religious change seems in order.

Carol Harris - Shapiro, a Reconstructionist rabbi who teaches at Gratz College in Philadelphia and wrote Messianic Judaism: A Rabbi's Journey Through Religious Change in America, attacks Sparks's metaphor head - on: «Both ends of the supposed bridge are on the Christian shore,» she argues.

Dropouts, Returnees: A Study of Religious Change Among Catholics (Pilgrim, 1981], pp. 90 - 101).

«At the same time, understanding religious change among Latinos is important for understanding how this growing group may be reshaping the American religious landscape more broadly.»

«He has undergone a pretty significant personal religious change in his first term.»

At the other extreme, some variants of modernization theory have examined religious change solely within the context of its own internal unfolding; in such treatments, specific forms of doctrinal innovation seem to depend more on previous levels of ideological development than on any features of the economy or polity.

Whoever has read about religious change almost anywhere in the world has to be impressed how this shift occurred in America with no dead bodies, no (to my knowledge) physical wounds from intergroup squabbles, and fewer psychic scars than one could have expected.

Though Eire recognizes and explains the political and practical considerations that often drove religious change, he insists on the centrality of theology in any explanation of the power and appeal of the Reformation.

Religious change engine oil at 3750 miles.

A review and conceptual model of the research on doubt, disaffiliation, and related religious changes.

But is this religious change more symbolic than real?

Instead of depending on religious thrill and a sudden, dramatic conversion, Emmanuel therapy relied on the gradual type of religious change.

That the Bible is the record of centuries of religious change, that its early concepts are allied with primitive, animistic faiths, that between such origins and the messages of Hebrew prophets and Christian evangelists an immensely important development is reflected in the Book — this general view is the familiar possession of many in both synagogue and church.

(2) The Nixon - Graham doctrine assumes that a religious change of heart, such as occurs in an individual conversion, would cure men of all sin.

One comes away with the feeling that a plausible set of connections between social conditions and religious change has been identified.

Scientific change is a kind of religious change... There are no rational standards for their comparison.

I'm so grateful for my parents, and for my sister and for Dan, who have loved me through a whole lot of religious change — which has often been public and often been clumsy.

The enduring legacy of this ambivalence continues to be played out today in Latin America, South Africa, Poland, Northern Ireland and throughout the globe, as Christians seek to enact this revolution of values amid great conflict about appropriate Christian political strategies, focusing precisely on the contents of this prescribed «ethical and religious change and renewal.»

Domestic Christianity provided Protestants and Catholics with a sense of stability in a climate of social and religious change.

As in his previous works — including his pioneering Mainline American Religion (l987), coauthored with William McKinney, and Generation of Seekers (1996)-- Roof tries to map the religious changes that occurred during the second half of the 20th century.

When he turns to evaluation, he identifies how each of these theories clarify assumptions and suggest fresh ways of approaching careful analysis of religious change.

Robert N. Bellah's theory of religious change was published as a brief article in the American Sociological Review in 1964.

Rather than trying to bring this entire theoretical armamentarium to bear on the question of religious change, however, I will content myself with a brief foray into the ideas of three representative theorists whose work on modern religion is unrivaled in subtlety of argument and appreciation for the nuances of cultural analysis: Robert N. Bellah, Jurgen Habermas, and Niklas Luhmann.

At the same time the civil government in an increasing number of towns acquiesced in religious changes.

In Chapter 5 I consider the contributions of five recent studies in the Weberian tradition, showing similarities among them and suggesting some general issues that students of religious change may wish to examine.

Modern chicken traits appeared 1,000 years ago in Europe, apparently as a result of social and religious changes.