Sentences with phrase «religious community required»

Plans are being laid out which could see pupils who come from a single ethnic or religious community required to mix with children from other backgrounds.

Not exact matches

Guiding Principles Religious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of aReligious and theological studies depend on and reinforce each other; A principled approach to religious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious values and faith demands the intellectual rigor and openness of quality academic work; A well - educated student of religion must have a deep and broad understanding of more than a single religious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of areligious tradition; Studying religion requires that one understand one's own historical context as well as that of those whom one studies; An exemplary scholarly and teaching community requires respect for and critical engagement with difference and diversity of all kinds.

The growing interaction between religious communities in the post-Enlightenment world requires all of them to engage in self - critical reflection, which in order to be fully theologically informed must extend beyond theology proper into the areas of philosophy and history.

While it's probably acceptable that public schools should go out of their way to blacklist MAJOR religious holy days from exams or deadlines (some kind of authoritative national list would be required, but I'll bet even with community involvement it won't please everyone, sheesh) I don't buy having our public school system bend over backwards for religion.

It requires an awareness of certain presuppositions, having to do with the nature of the Christian community to be sure but also with respect to the whole enterprise of religious faith.

As such, it will require of us new understandings of religious community and new holistic forms of Christian education.

European societies through 14 centuries had assumed that a political community requires religious uniformity, and the logic of that assumption seemed impeccable: Religion involves the most fundamental commitment of people's lives, their conviction about what makes life ultimately worthwhile; consequently, religious diversity within a political community opens the possibility of serious political conflict.

The evidence covers partisan political activity and nonpartisan community activity; it covers religious activity and secular activity; it covers high - commitment activities and low - commitment activities; it covers things one can do as an individual as well as things requiring the cooperation of others; it covers informal socializing as well as participation in formal organizations.

I remember one morning I saw a bishop wearing the simple dress of his religious community instead of the bishop's cassock required for formal gatherings.

It has been difficult to resolve the uneasy tension between loyalty to the local community, whether ethnic or religious, and that to the larger human community, which globalization requires.

The larger, established, mainline denominations generally held the view that broadcasters should provide time on the air for a balanced presentation of religious views, roughly representing the proportion of various religious groups in the community, even if this required stations to supply the time without charge, and that this was consistent with the understandings reached between Congress and the broadcasters when the allocation of nonprofit stations was defeated.

It will require restoring what Russell Hittinger describes as the three necessary societies: family, nation, and religious community.

So in the first place — prior in some sense to submission to a community of religious practice — the new integration you look for requires an inner life?

Opening last night's debate, Lord Harrison, argued «that the BBC has failed the humanist community in Britain both in the spirit and in the letter of the Communications Act 2003, which requires the BBC to schedule programmes on religion and other beliefs, including humanism... The truth is that religious public broadcasting is growing while Anglicanism contracts.»

Mainstream religious communities have a central role to play; whilst extremist narratives require compelling counter-narratives that have a strong theological and ideological foundation.»

Despite Britain's multi-faith society, schools are still required to include a collective act of worship of a Christian nature, while faith schools and religious academies have raised fears about community cohesion and covert selection.

While legally required to offer a public - school - equivalent education, there is an ongoing New York City investigation into practices at some schools in the highly insular ultra-Orthodox community, with claims that more than a few used by the Hasidic religious group prioritize religious studies to the point that many students graduating 12th grade are near ignorant when it comes to anything more than basic math, grammar, science or history, leaving them all but unemployable.

In our 2015 regulatory round - up (here), we described the ongoing dispute arising in the Trinity Western cases, where three professional regulatory bodies — law societies in three provinces (B.C., Ontario and Nova Scotia)-- refused to accredit a religious university which required that students sign a «community covenant» requiring that they abstain from sexual intimacy outside of marriage between one man and one woman.