Sentences with phrase «religious establishments»

It may also be necessary to engage larger societal systems including educational institutions, social service agencies, law enforcement and criminal justice proceedings, religious establishments and governmental regulation.

They are commonly used in business, classrooms, religious establishments, mentoring programs, and rehabilitation programs.

Conservatives have always resisted such gross rationalization of society, however, and insisted that local knowledge channeled by evolved social institutions — from families and civic and fraternal groups to traditional religious establishments, charitable enterprises, private companies, and complex markets — will make for better material outcomes and a better common life.

Mongols exempted from taxation, the religious establishments, like the Confucian temples, of the Buddhist, Taoist and Nestorian faiths.

Behind the argument lies the uncomfortable feeling that there is an authoritative teaching which dares to confront what Newman termed the «wild, living intellect of man» as well as acting against «that universal solvent which is so successfully acting upon religious establishments.»

Newman's journey into Catholicism (see James Tolhurst's article later in this issue) involved a deepening recognition of man's need for God's Word of authority, not least to arrest the «wild, living intellect of man... that universal solvent which is so successfully acting upon religious establishments.»

Yeah yeah, we know that human government has a long history of backing up religious establishments for just this reason — to keep the lowers orders in line.

The religious establishments are restricting THEIR rights, as people, to get certain medications.

People work under these religious establishments.

This right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Constitution and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation»; it is working intently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms, is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

The right - wing faction has promoted the school prayer amendment to the Consitituion and similar initiatives to declare America a «Christian nation;» it is workingintently to bring about a constitutional convention at which its representatives could propose curtailments of various freedoms; is drafting laws to confer official favor on specific religious establishments.

Here I have in mind specifically those immediate social effects that can account for changes in religious establishments perfectly well by themselves.

To urge that we incorporate a global perspective to contribute to our understanding of religious establishments, then, is to pursue only a marginal increase in understanding, not a wholesale replacement of our standard theories and methods of data collection.

How might a shift in perspective of this kind lead to new ideas about the functioning of religious establishments?

To the extent that they are valid, though, they suggest some of the ways in which religious establishments in the United States may have been affected by changing features of the broader world order during the twentieth century.

As these examples suggest, world - order perspectives can be useful in understanding changes in religious establishments even when more proximate factors provide the most parsimonious accounts.

Following are some ways in which a global perspective might assist in gaining a clearer understanding of the nature and dynamics of contemporary religious establishments.

In an upswing - downswing scenario, the fate of religious establishments, it is likely to be argued, will depend chiefly on the countercyclical functions of religious compensations.

It can not be restricted to a particular locale or people, regardless of formal religious establishments or the enshrinement of pious references to the deity in historic statements, public documents, and speeches by politicians.

This struggle brings about personal suffering, in the giving up of luxuries for oneself for the common good and in facing the determined opposition of the organized forces of social injustice, often consciously or unconsciously backed by the religious establishments.

On the most immediate, practical level, these men saw the necessity of protecting the free conscience from its own tyrannical tendencies, which protection they achieved by separating the power of religious establishments from the power of the state.

There is no where in any part of Quran or Sunnah where it says people or youth are to be chained... and kept in dungeons... Thisnis ignorance, arrogance and conspiracy done by ill hearted people in the name of religion when it is by no mean a part of religion... I have seen such cases only at remote poor areas when they have mentally sick youth or people who could be dangerous for others and can not afford to hospitalize are being kept chained like that but not in religious establishments, rather at places where fraud witch doctors who claim that those are possessed...!!!

To end a millennium of repressive religious establishments, we are taught, Jefferson sought liberty in the twin formulas of privatizing religion and secularizing politics.

If a further confirmation of the truth could be wanted, it is to be found in the examples furnished by the States, which have abolished their religious establishments.

... The example of the Colonies, now States, which rejected religious establishments altogether, proved that all Sects might be safely & advantageously put on a footing of equal & entire freedom; and a continuance of their example since the declaration of Independence, has shewn that its success in Colonies was not to be ascribed to their connection with the parent Country.

But while the announcement emphasized the economic benefits, past mega-projects to diversify the economy have struggled to get off the ground, and questions are likely to be raised over how acceptable the plan is to the kingdom's influential religious establishment.

the only thing that keeps me away from going to a religious establishment for congregation is I don't like being told how to think.

Some of my colleagues refer to the problem as «Christless religion»... and I think David's cartoons really magnify the importance of this, often setting off Jesus or the Trinity against the religious establishment or church - as - status - quo.

I'm sure you also know anyone who's «verified the accuracy of the bible» is just a shill for some religious establishment?

Another pitch of the religious establishment that shameless acknowledges the abuse they do on the weak and ill.

He cared about people more than His own reputation with the religious establishment.

Like Jesus, who agonized in prayer before facing the political and religious establishment of his day, it would pray for days and weeks for the transforming presence of the Holy Spirit before initiating a nonviolent campaign.

He didn't exactly make the religious establishment happy, if anyone has read the Gospels and noticed anything more that the miracles, they understand that.

But Madison's argument against religious establishment speaks powerfully to our situation, and can help those traditionalists understand it better.

It was the Universal opinion of the Century preceding the last, that Civil Govt could not stand without the prop of a Religious establishment, & that the Xn religion itself, would perish if not supported by a legal provision for its Clergy.

Contemporary American intellectuals, including especially those who speak for the old - line religious establishment, consistently assign the nation a failing moral grade.

Her view, it would say, reflects a heritage rooted in religious establishment, even if today it wants to establish a radical theology instead of a conservative one.

He would bring in the lawyers on opposite sides of the argument over religious establishment and the question of driving religion from the public square.

He who stood against the intolerance of another religious establishment of another day, bent as surely as this one on stopping the free flow of religious communication.

They are the religious establishment that Jesus so railed against in the gospels.

«The church» might mean the religious establishment, but in its truest sense, it is the very «Body of Christ» with each of us as members.

There are some in the churchwomen, gays and lesbians, racial and ethnic minorities — who have experienced what it is like to suffer at the hands of the civic and religious establishment.

Indeed many things have been done in Christendom, although often at the behest of the political / religious establishment to further their causes, that do not follow the example of Jesus or the principles set forth in the Gospel.

And for that he faced the wrath of the religious establishment.

Against the intense pressures of the three major principalities and powers... the religious establishment (the Pharisees),...

Yes, Jesus clearly speaks against becoming enslaved to the archys (the religious establishment, the government, the education system and others).

He responded by relating the parable of the Good Samaritan, one of my personal favorites... bear traps are hidden, and often unseen till bear or human are caught in them... the traps are deliberately placed, they don't just suddenly appear... the answer to the question was the man who had compassion on the man taken by robbers... he was a social and spiritual outcast who had compassion on someone who in normal circumstances would have hated his guts... because his doctrine and «lifestyle» were not acceptable to the religious establishment... I have had life experiences that bear this out, experiencing love and compassion from people whom today's religious establishment demonizes and looks down upon... any reading of the Good Samaritan story should be followed up by a reading of 1 Corinthians 13....

This anti-Semitism comes from the holy texts of Islam and from the entire Islamic religious establishment.

We have noted how he valued solidarity with those whom he saw as potential members of the new Israel, however alienated they might be from the religious establishment.

The hard part is seeing that Jesus is against not only the people I'm not very fond of in the religious establishment, but me as well.