Sentences with phrase «religious ethos»

There are others that maintain a certain religious ethos and an emphasis on the study of religion without restricting freedom of inquiry.

The National Maternity Move to St Vincent's campus has exercised anyone who has an interest in a maternity service that is woman centred, evidence based and free from religious ethos and bias.

it is disappointing to watch a country as great as yours formed on a basis of separation of church and state, slide so far backward into the abyss of religious ethos in politics... if your society fails it will be because of this more than any other reason... to have come so far, and then fall to decline would be a shame...

One of Butler's most provocative chapters has to do with the African «spiritual holocaust,» during which time white Christians worked to uproot and proscribe the African religious ethos in slaves before they took pains to offer Christian alternatives.

The modern pluralistic religious ethos has provided materials for a quantum leap in ideological justifications, and has made the task of honest discernment of social policy more difficult and all the more necessary at all levels of the church.

It is a more specifically religious ethos than the so - called «secular» faiths which history in our tragic age has refuted.

Historically it has proved itself capable of adjustment to the greatest variety of cultural conditions instead of being one kind of religious ethos exported from Rome.

In the modern world, the happiest, healthiest, most successful, most highly educated countries with the lowest rates of violence are predicated on democratic secularism — NOT religious ethos.

How the national religious ethos has developed since the court's 1963 decision was a first consideration for both the Baylor and Indianapolis meetings.

The decline of the religious in U.S. Catholic schools: The effects of the changing religious ethos on high school seniors.

Of the 24 free schools opening this month, nine are faith - based or have strong religious ethos, six are parent - or teacher - led and five will be run by trusts already running academies.

Rabbi Jonathan Romain, the chair of this year's judging panel, told The Guardian newspaper: «Walthamstow shows how state - funded faith schools and schools with a religious ethos can both be true to themselves and serve the wider community that funds them.»

His own position of seeing the economy as «embedded» in sociopolitical contexts and social values opens the door for dialogue about the cultural - religious ethos and ethical, even explicitly theological, assessment of global processes.

Faith schools have argued that a religious ethos, a focus on pastoral assistance and support from church - going families is behind their successful results.

I was the Protestant Chaplain of Boston University and my title expressed something of the religious ethos of that period.

The league tables show schools with «a religious ethos» make up 62 % of the schools that reached the government's targets for pupil's levels of reading, writing and maths.

Currently, faith schools are limited in the number of pupils they can admit who share the religious ethos of the school.

There were notices that explained Shinto, the religious ethos and structure that supported Japanese nationalism and militarism.

We would question the legality of extending the faith of a school's curriculum beyond RE and Collective Worship, as parents are often forced to send their children to a «faith» school and these parents and children will have their human rights broken if they are not able to escape from the religious ethos of the school.

Religious schools tend to have a religious ethos, and their teachers do often have an enviable confidence in their moral values and invaluable moral support from parents.

Five schools are expected to become part of a multi-academy trust (MAT) proposed by the Church of England, but only one has a religious ethos.

«bring pupils together from different ethnic or faith groups»: does this mean that there will be a halt to the increase in «free» schools with a religious ethos, which segregate rather than integrate?

I have grave concerns about the possibility of any non-faith school being forced into a MAT with other church schools, which have the protection (within the MoU) of their religious ethos being upheld.