Sentences with phrase «religious culture»

Without a doubt, there is merit to noticing that, particularly in a film so steeped in religious culture.

The second effect to be considered is that on American religious culture as a whole.

This would allow us to trace the marvelous influence of various religious cultures on Buddhist art over a thousand years and a thousand miles — a fabulous journey into the past.

The significance of this domination for religious culture lies not in its individual characteristics, but in its relationship with the media themselves.

An employer with strong religious culture or family values might look at a married mother applying for a job more favorably than a single mother.

Questions of a particular religious culture or theological position may be important to understand.

With a few bolder claims, this book might have done more to help us understand our own religious culture.

It is a very black and white religious culture here.

He found instead a thriving religious culture that challenged his own faith.

We all belong to various cultures, whether that is our ethnic background, family culture, gender culture, sexual orientation, or religious culture etc..

Perhaps most important, he does not reject his own religious culture.

Those that pose a real challenge today are (a) the frontier of religious cultures which define a people and (b) the frontier of power.

Charter: Freedom of Conscience & Religion Is an ethics and religious culture program mandatory in Quebec schools, replacing Catholic and Protestant programs of religious and moral instruction.

How are we to make of Jesus, God, the Sprite, the church and its task and mission in a society shaped by religious cultures other than that of Christianity?

It was fun and enlightening discussing issues related to the Bible, gender equality, and faith with women coming from a somewhat different religious culture.

Yet despite the sumptuousness and secular cast, the magnificence, luxuriousness, and theatricality of his works, Veronese was a masterful and empathetic storyteller and observer of human emotion, carefully attuned to the highly poetic yet also deeply religious culture for which he made his art.

Aggressiveness is part of conservative religious culture; it's both the secret of its effectiveness and its downfall.

A historian with a hand on the pulse of contemporary religious culture, I admire her like crazy, so when she expressed some disagreement with my post at CNN, «Why Millennials Are Leaving the Church,» my first instinct was to curl up in a ball and cry.

In a striking large - scale portrait of Jung he is embedded in various religious cultures and mythologies growing wild.

A Chinese university has banned Christmas in order to help young people resist the «corrosion of Western religious culture.

That is true of great religious cultures like Christendom and Islam, even though their respective fundamentalists think otherwise.

Greaves said black Masses began as a protest by people who felt oppressed by their local religious cultures.

Dan and I were both raised in loving, grace - filled homes, but in a fundamentalist religious culture that required total acquiescence to a strict set of theological beliefs and left little room for mystery.

The dominance of religious television by this one minority expression of American religious culture assumes more serious implications when it is considered with the factors that have influenced it, which is the substance of our next chapter.

I think cultural diversity was built into the Christian faith with that first great decision by the Council in Jerusalem, recorded in Acts 15, which declared that the new gentile Christians didn't have to enter Jewish religious culture.

Which got me thinking about how the dominant religious culture, even the dominant expression of Christianity and church that we are exposed to, attempts to set the rule.

Timothy was sent to Ephesus to counter the effects of the Artemis / Diana religious culture.

Even the «traditional» form of Christianity as practiced today is full of traditions that came not from Scripture but from Greek and Roman religious culture.

Genuinely religious cultures, too, may take many forms.

Chernus reminds us that Christian religious culture has long hoped for rather than feared the prospect of the world's end.

Whether it involves a memorial in Little Rock, Arkansas, to a victim of the Trail of Tears, the Hawaiian tradition of pono (righteousness and balance), California New Age groups borrowing Indian rituals or New Mexico tribes arguing for the return of their sacred sites, the story of regional religious culture has to acknowledge these rich (and often contentious) roots.

The faster we extend religious culture across geographic space, the more it seems to dissipate through time.

John Charlot observes in Chanting the Universe: Hawaiian Religious Culture that sacred chants were traditionally practiced on the beach so as to reproduce the modulations of wind and waves.

Traditional cultures in Asia have been religious cultures where there has been an unbroken unity between society, politics and religion.

So, some of the most absorbing sections of the book deal with the place of miracles and mysticism in post-Tridentine Catholicism, with the role of demonology and witchcraft in the new landscapes of belief in seventeenth century Europe, and a fascinating — and hair - raising — treatment of the importance of hell in Baroque religious culture.

In fully realized religious cultures, however, the religious imagination is not capricious.

In the event, the turmoil in Iran forced me to change my travel plans and fly directly to India — my first visit there, one that immersed me more completely than ever before in a non-Western religious culture.

Since so many of us either came from or continue to identify with the evangelical religious culture, I thought it might be interesting to discuss the results of a pew forum study released last week.

According to Martin (1978), the «American pattern» is of generalized denominationalism, with no established church but an almost unlimited pluralism associated with a popular and almost universal religious culture.

To a large extent this means that instead of creating a more holistic alternative, such feminist spiritualities succumb to the suppressed animus of patriarchal religious culture.