Sentences with phrase «religious functionary»

The constitution regulates the duties and rights of the religious functionary (clergy) and of the laity, and the order of the former.

The following mythography which encapsulates the origins of Ellaiyamman may be a good example It is a version that was sung to me by a Paraiyar religious functionary from Malaipallaiyam.23

Religious functionaries lose some of their unique claim to power as a result of competition from secular professionals and in conjunction with a more general rise in education and values stressing individual discretion.

Central regimes would build roads, but local religious functionaries would still administer welfare relief.

While in some religious communities only men may be religious functionaries, in others this role is reserved for women, and in still others both sexes are eligible for such service.

Not exact matches

It is, again, naive to assume that religious leaders operate entirely within their own domains while political functionaries stay exclusively within theirs.

In these settings a small corps of priests or other functionaries, or perhaps a single religious leader, provides ceremonial proficiency and continuity for a larger lay populace whose participation, while not casual, tends to be more occasional and informal than the ordered activity of church attendance.

The normal daily use of the terms described the political, religious, and economic structures and functionaries with which people had to deal.

Thus were the more or less inadequate, casual or corrupt officers of the European Myth exposed as functionaries of a social machine, rather than servants of men in their religious affairs.

Dignitaries from all walks of life, including traditional rulers, religious leaders, top government functionaries, women groups and students attended the 2017 Ramadan Lecture.