Sentences with phrase «religious eclecticism»

The show even lampoons its own religious eclecticism.

Indeed, it has sometimes seemed as if the study of Pauline and Johannine thought, in particular, might resolve itself into a study of religious eclecticism.

In the face of his predecessor Sydney Ahlstrom, who made much of the Puritan thread in American religion, Butler announces a program that attaches less importance to Puritanism and more to what he calls throughout the book «religious eclecticism.»

Still, his case is compelling, and he makes it with such effect that the reader is likely to go looking with fresh spectacles for traces of this «religious eclecticism» and «spiritual hothouse» effect in contemporary America.

But the ability of the white, male Protestants of certain denominations increasingly to «run the show» did not mean that during those eighteen decades the dominators - on - the - rise successfully purged «religious eclecticism.»

Not exact matches

In the Salvation Army we saw a certain eclecticism in which the resources of other professions were drawn on as supplements to the basic religious approach.