Sentences with phrase «religious cultures where»

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

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So how, in a society like the United States where the right of an individual to worship or not worship the God they choose is a fundamental and constitutional right, does a religious person reconcile the sense of preeminence with a pluralistic culture?

This is increasingly evident in contemporary culture, where the search for religious truth is often supplanted by the idolization of supposed tolerance.

In a post — Cold War, post-9 / 11 world strewn with conflicts involving competing religious postures and contradictory global views, where supposed divisions on lines of race, culture, and faith are loudly promoted and violently exploited, the example of past wars fought in pursuit of religious idealism has proved seductive for some seeking false assurance from continuity with history.

Then Alexander the Great conquered the Persian Empire and tried to merge cultures, where by such religious ideas might be considered where they normally might not.

Don't think this religious / atheistic culture war thing is quite as pronounced where I come from....

It also means that churches and religious schools and seminaries must take a new and completely different view of the profound role television is assuming in our culture, unless they are prepared to abdicate their own role as the place where people search and find meaning, faith and value for their lives.

† Just because a Blind Christian has the need to feel as if they posses a traditional family lifestyle, religious holidays where the give their kids chocolate eggs, dvd gifts on christmas of movies full of women acting as the equals of men (Against the bible), a lack of understanding culture, and the feeling of belonging, does not mean all people need / want / or feel that way.

Now this may seem very startling, even shocking, to many in our religious culture, where there is a long tradition of doubting, or possibly even of being unable to tell, whether or not one is a Christian.

But in a family where baptism was considered only as «an entrance card into the community of European culture, these religious ceremonies did not mean much.

... So the question for us is how to offer a coherent vision of society, culture and the human being to people who would like to understand where to put these dimensions - the spiritual and religious and the scientific.»

Pope John Paul II also embraces this close connection, writing in his letter to artists (1999), «True art has a close affinity with the world of faith, so that, even in situations where culture and the Church are far apart, art remains a kind of bridge to religious experience.»

Otherwise, the churches of the Christian tradition will have nothing to say to religious seekers in a culture where people are free to believe anything they wish about God... and do.

Guess we should take an example of a successful country such as Turkey towards here multi cultured religious or non religious groups... how is that becoming more successful than those countries where confrontations are found as religions or in between branches of each religion or with secular groups...!?

There's a world where religious themes in pop culture get treated with more nuance than this, but Far Cry 5 doesn't go there.

In a culture where what constitutes a reasonable religion is shifting, it does no good to expect people to ratify traditional understandings of religious liberty.

Lest it seem as though I would subordinate religious to metaphysical language, thereby reinforcing the Western rationalistic critique of religion, I hasten to point out that in Hinduism, philosophy never developed in opposition to religion; the philosophical critique of energy that never ceases to preoccupy Western culture could not arise in a culture like Hinduism, where the language about the gods — what we call mythology — was never denied its rightful place in the scheme of things.

Just as Schleiermacher's Speeches on the Christian Religion to Its Cultured Despisers (1799) won great renown in Germany, so too James» Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) convinced many of Christianity's utility inside industrial civilization, where feelings were being crushed on the assembly line.

The problem is that in the context of American evangelicalism, where religious images are often absent, pop - culture representations of the faith can become the formative symbols and images that a faith community encounters.

The White House (CNN)- Welcome to the culture wars 2.0, where the front lines now are religious freedom and contraceptives.

Nowhere in such cultures as Islam and ancient Africa, which are deeply characterised by religious beliefs, or in those societies where the ruler and the ruled form an integral whole, like in China and Korea, can we find what may, even remotely, approximate the public and the private spheres presented by Arendt.

«This insight could prove important in an increasingly complex and interconnected world where taking the view of others, especially those from different cultures or with different religious backgrounds, becomes ever more difficult — and ever more necessary,» adds Böckler.

At the same time the sexual revolution is dawning, and the women in the stories are undergoing a sea change from the repressive religious culture of the early part of the century to a culture where love affairs are fairly central to life.

In his New Yorker article, Dalrymple states, «In the nineteenth century, India was still a place where traditions, languages and cultures cut across religious groupings, and where people did not define themselves primarily through their religion.»

Here you can visit the Old Believer's Village, where there is the opportunity to learn about the culture and history of these religious people as you are treated to a traditional meal and enjoy a concert featuring local musicians and dancers.

Here we visit the Old Believer's Village, where we have the opportunity to learn about the culture and history of these religious people as we are treated to a traditional meal and enjoy a concert featuring local musicians and dancers.

Prescribing to a Catholic school how to explain Catholicism to its students seriously interferes with freedom of religion, while representing no significant benefit to the Ethics & Religious Culture Program's objectives; and in the Québec context, where private denominational schools are legal, represents a disproportionate, and therefore unreasonable interference with the values underlying freedom of religion of those individuals who seek to offer and who wish to receive a Catholic education.

Islamicate is the discursive space where Muslim voices may take part in the conversation necessary to advance and mature British and, broadly speaking, western Muslim perspectives by examining religious and political cultures.

Children need and have the right to grow up in an environment where they are able to value their culture, religious background and language.

Culture, religion and language rights are contained in articles 11 - 13 of the Declaration: right to practice and revitalise their cultural traditions and customs, right to practice and develop their spiritual and religious traditions, customs and ceremonies; right to revitalise, use, develop, and transmit their histories, languages, oral traditions, philosophies, writing systems and literatures; and right to interpretation for political, legal and administrative proceedings where necessary.