Sentences with phrase «religious fervor in»

That may not mean much to those in the pre-50 age set, but it's astounding when we consider the lapse of time since the previous Jewish state and the constant boil of ethnic and religious fervor in the region.

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Hyper - religious fervor in THIS country?

But we need to ask ourselves, given the current hyper - religious fervor in this country, if we can take the chance of having evangelicals in positions of power — particularly the presidency.

Havana (CNN)- In a rare speech on state - controlled television, Cuba's Catholic cardinal said an upcoming visit by the pope would reignite the religious fervor in the island.

Assessments of religious fervor in Iran mark a dividing line in the United States.

Inasmuch as the growth of religious fervor in élite religious groups may lead to hierarchical development (order, sect), the sociologist of religion may combine his study of intensity and size with that of the structure of the group.

Not exact matches

Justin Wolfers, an associate professor of business and public policy at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, argued those working in the field of happiness economics mistakenly imagine that the world is run by legions of politicians and economists whose love of GDP approaches religious fervor.

The Republican party realized this religious fervor of unquestioned belief and has used it to their advantage beginning with the Christian Coalition in the mid 1990's.

By reciprocating with religious fervor, we are engaging the radicals in their religious war making this a war over religion, not politics.

How many of the Nazi's that were caught up in the religious fervor atheists?

It's been a while since I've been to a game, and I confess that the vast sea of people, the music and singing and food, the giant elephant statue making it's way down the boulevard in the back of a pickup truck, and general religious fervor of the whole enterprise reminded me a bit of the Ganesh Chaturthi festival in India, which honors the Elephant deity.

He would like to see liberation theology take its cues from base communities» populist «grass - roots communitarian democracy» and then extend this «populism» into a liberalism that, contra Marx, offers «democracy and equality to all human beings, regardless of sex, race or social class (Rousseau)» Sigmund's agenda would purge liberation theology of much of its «early revolutionary fervor,» but in its dialogue with liberalism it would still perform «a radical «prophetic» role in reminding complacent elites of the religious obligation of social solidarity, and in combating oppression.»

«You may call me an (agnostic)... I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth.

«Nowhere was the religious fervor of the Revolution more apparent than in the secular propagandistic painting of José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera, and David Siqueiros.

We are indeed so like the Greeks, «religious» in every way, but blinded by that very fervor to the life and truth that is closer than our next breath.

Religious fervor creates the will to live the Christian life in all its ramifications.

I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth.

Huffington Post: Hispanic Churches, Historically Spanish - Speaking, Adopt More English To Appeal To U.S. - Born Latinos While it's become common wisdom that English - speaking churches will shrink as younger generations, who are typically less religious, become the majority, the Spanish church - known across denominations for its religious fervor - is battling to keep its youth in the faith.

Early in 1909 Boston was seething with religious fervor and excitement.

Put these attitudes in the context of a religious environment and you can multiply the fervor about a hundred times, for the will of the parents translates into the will of God.

Concretely, the church must exhort its more committed members — the gathered remnant — to ever more strenuous work in the service of social justice, work which will reveal to both the world and its wavering members the fact that religious fervor is conducive to true social progress.

And in recent centuries we've come to embrace our selfishness — our hyperindividuality — with an almost religious fervor.

In Spiritual Sobriety, Elizabeth explores how religious fervor can become religious addiction and lights the path forward for those longing for sobriety.

What I found in both instances was like a gigantic revival meeting, with speakers encouraging everybody to stay converted and members greeting one another joyfully — all in an overall spirit of religious fervor.

Its religious consequences were also negative, as for instance in the crushing of Sarpi's «national - popular» Catholicism in Venice.20 The externality and legalism of Trent encouraged not a deeply internalized piety but only the theatrical and mannered religious fervor of the baroque.21 Yet within the pores so to speak of Tridentine Catholicism other possibilities were growing.

And all evoke in their followers if not total dedication, at least a fervor and commitment (I previously called it «obsession») uncharacteristic of major American religious bodies.

«I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one.You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from religious indoctrination received in youth.»

You may call me an agnostic, but I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth.

This is a fervor that goes far deeper than any sporting enthusiasm, for it is rooted in the bitterest religious bigotry in modern Christendom.

And yet, even though we follow all these rules with a religious fervor not seen since the Crusades, our kids (and adults) aren't any healthier than people in any other developed country.

Where we fall short is in our dedication to our particular brand of training, a commitment than can border on religious fervor (if you think nutrition discussions can get heated, just check the comments section on any controversial fitness blog).

Endo's 1966 novel «Silence,» a stern, exquisite piece of historical fiction about Portuguese Jesuit priests persecuted for their beliefs in 17th century Japan, walks a thin line separating West from East, religious fervor from spiritual skepticism.

If anything, Scott sidesteps the Christianity vs. Islam debate entirely, instead choosing to uphold a belief in moderation, where people can cut through the fervor in order to see the reason of the situations, and not let blindly religious or vengeful personal beliefs lead them to brutality.

He may work his employees to the bone, but he also gives them inspirational speeches that breed a sort of religious fervor among them that falls just short of dancing and speaking in tongues.

The jolting, mechanical destruction of a building in one closing scene is matched with a brilliant closing montage of religious fervor involving disreputable characters that puts an overwhelming cynical punctuation mark on everything leading up to it.

Among the multiple lines of critical and cultural discourse surrounding the film, however, one particularly stands out: the notion of There Will Be Blood — with its central conflict between cutthroat oil prospector Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day - Lewis) and zealous small - town preacher Eli Sunday (Paul Dano) in 1911 California — as a kind of demonic origin tale for the state of contemporary American political culture, with narrow - minded religious fervor and bald - faced capitalistic excesses forming two sides of the same tarnished coin.

Blacksburg, Va — Called together to comment upon what one speaker called «the current fervor to enhance the moral influence of the public school,» experts in the study of values suggested here this month that schools should resist external pressures to «narrow their focus» to the teaching of specific religious or moral doctrines.

While projecting a unique and expressive voice in Jacob, Hautman sensitively and gracefully explores powerful ideas about faith and church communities, keeping a deft balance between criticism of religious fervor and deep respect for faith and belief.

Brimming with betrayals, religious fervor and war - torn streets, The Palace of Illusions is a journey experienced from the vantage point of Panchaali, a powerful woman driven by love, honor and, in the end, a fate that unfolds despite her resolve.

«Bray illuminates the dark side of the American Dream in her long - awaited sequel to The Diviners (2012), weaving xenophobia, industrial progress, Jazz Age debauchery, government secrets, religious fervor, and supernatural horror into a sprawling and always entertaining narrative.»

Fluxus and the Happenings in New York City in the 1960s drew miniscule crowds, fewer than ten people as often as not, but you'd be hard - pressed to find a student of contemporary art history who doesn't speak of the events with an almost religious fervor, something it seems Golia desires to emulate.

Having a vivid interest in color, structure and volumetric line drawing, the artist's iconography is drawn from modernist architecture, Christian religious fervor, and the adolescent imagination that glamorizes one's own beliefs.

His art connects with a centuries - old Gothic lineage of horror, agony, and the grotesque originating in classical art inspired by religious fervor and the narratives of Christianity, and continuing through to contemporary art.

Rossetti and Brown are two of the three founding members of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (PRB) that, piqued by religious and Romantic fervor in mid-19th-century Victorian England, renounced classicism in favor of the flattened mystery of quattrocento painting.

But alas, he has shown conviction, perseverance, even fervor of the sort one sees in religious revivalists.

Though the activists have attempted — falsely and improperly — to convey the impression that it is somehow illegal, immoral or damaging to the planet to vote for the Republican party's candidate in the forthcoming presidential election because he disagrees with the totalitarian position on the climate question that they espouse with such religious fervor and such disregard for science, in truth it is not the business of scientists to abuse the authority of their white lab - coats by collectively suggesting that «Science» demands the voters should or should not cast their vote in any particular direction.

The dogmatism of believers in human - caused climate change, despite overwhelming contradictory evidence, is religious in its fervor.

From the platonic «Back to the Golden Age Utopia,» arresting change to fervor of religious seer and politician who foretell the operation of natural laws in history or dominance of a master race.