Sentences with phrase «religious identity of»

Without it, school administrators believe, the religious identity of the institution will be watered - down over time.

Her reply was that they prized the religious identity of the school and the fact that the school helped her stay connected to her Mexican heritage.

After 1971 it was widely presumed that Bangladesh had escaped the identity problems of Pakistan by replacing the religious identity of Islam with a linguistic - cultural one of being Bengali.

That the true religious identity of the world's most famous, most powerful man could remain a mystery to so many is itself a mystery.

Their differences on matters of biblical theology go back to more fundamental differences of religious identity of which neither scholar seems sufficiently cognizant.

James R. Rogers on the changing religious identities of Protestants and Catholics: While strong Protestants haven't gained in the overall population, despite gaining proportionally among self - identified Protestants, they also haven't lost ground in the overall population during this....

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Eighteen of the 34 universities and colleges that told the U.S. Department of Education that giving transgender students access to single - sex restrooms and facilities that correspond with their gender identity would be inconsistent with their religious tenets are controlled by the Southern Baptist Convention, according to public records obtained by both the Human Rights Campaign and the AP.

At least 24 of the 34 colleges and universities granted religious exemptions based on their beliefs about gender identity also received waivers allowing them to discriminate against gay and lesbian students and employees, citing faith - based prohibitions against homosexual sex, the Human Rights Campaign said.

Furthermore, major elements within Middle Eastern societies, including most religious movements, oppose such an embrace of secular Western identity to one degree or another, and only a small part of the population would commit to it.

As Henry Kissinger emphasizes in his new book World Order, the fundamental building block of all American and international engagement over the past hundred years — namely, the nation state and the Westphalian system in which states are embedded — is particularly weak in the Middle East due to fragile national roots and competing local and universalist identities, including pan-Arabic movements and messianic religious calls from the likes of Iran's ayatollahs and ISIS.

Contrast it with those women (or men) who go out of their way to let everyone know everything: their political stance, their religious beliefs, their sexual identity, their relationship status, their childhood, how they believe the company should be run, and more.

It is the policy of Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to provide equal opportunity in employment throughout the corporation for all qualified applicants and employees without discrimination against any person because of a person's race, color, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex / gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions and breast feeding), national origin, ancestry, gender identity, gender expression, legally - protected medical condition, physical or mental disability, age, military or veteran status, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information or any other basis protected by applicable law.

Loyola keeping a Catholic identity helps promote real intellectual diversity in American public life (and, again, I'd say the same as to other religious universities; I can imagine some religious belief systems that are so pernicious that, while they must be constitutionally protected, we can still say they hurt American life more than they help it, but I think that most of the traditions that found universities do have a good deal to contribute).

Religious Identity charities constitute the largest subcategory of Single - Issue Charities.

The number of donor - advised funds at Religious Identity SICs account for the vast majority of all SICs, totaling 41,911 or 84 percent.

It's absurd to imagine a separation of religious and ethnic identity in the Middle East.

Mass immigration has introduced new ethnic and religious loyalties (Arab and Muslim) and provoked nativist responses (white and at least culturally Catholic) that seek to curb immigration, restore traditional conceptions of national identity, and, at their most extreme, precipitate a supposedly inevitable civil war between natives and immigrants.

Part of the intention was to minimize religious identity and organize national life around ethnicity instead.

I hope their laudable objective will not be hindered by the fact that they've all apparently been assigned and branded with religious and ideological identities before they're even old enough to comprehend the meaning of them, let alone make an informed decision for themselves.

Roof and McKinney's final chapter tentatively recommends, in the neutral language of social science, that liberals counter this secular drift by sharpening their religious identity.

Although Calvin never lost sight of these themes, he is perhaps best remembered for his detailed exposition of the leading themes of the Reformed faith in his Institutes of the Christian Religion» widely regarded as the most significant religious work of the sixteenth century» and his wrestling with issues concerning the identity of the church and its place in public life.

Whittaker Chambers described his turning away from the Communist Party as the loss of a religious identity.

The wider issue is that worries over identity have been exacerbated by globalization and a wave of religious revivalism across the board.

Together these goals serve to prevent any loss of identity to a homogenous «common ground,» while they resist the tendency in public discourse, exemplified in the Charlie Ward episode, to seek harmony through the diluting of religious passion.

«But to any foreign aggression the country is always strong and united, irrespective of ethnic or religious identities.»

The «religious» questions are there in the parable of the Wedding Feast — the identity of the king and the relation of Jesus to the parable — but they are given only in «soft focus.»

Children do not choose religious identity a la carte, but by utilizing the traditions of rationality that have taught them how to think.

Finally, the religious act of belief offers identity, security and freedom to reason.

To millions, it is perhaps the only real contemporary religious event; for hundreds of thousands of Jews, it has served to define their Jewish identity, taking the place of everything else.

Premier Markus Soder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a «clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values».

Just as reflection is the doubling up and maturation of instinct and is the attainment of its identity and security through conscious self - direction, so the religious act is the doubling up and maturation of reason resulting in the full possession of itself.

In other words, is religious belief the ultimate center of convergence and organization for reason: its stage of maturation, source of identity, place of survival?

While conservatives may balk at her religious identity for any number of reasons — and have done so, no citation needed — Christian leaders Perry Noble to megachurch pastor Zachery Tims have both publicly suffered from addiction (the latter eventually succumbing to the disease).

The bill's primary goal is to prevent colleges that receive state funds from enforcing codes of student conduct that reflect the college's religious beliefs about sexual identity and the confining of marriage to male - female relationships.

Like those religious fellowships of Liberia and Sierra Leone, the north Georgia congregations conveyed their culture (later he used the more precise term «subculture») by means of distinct idioms, symbolic dialects constructed both to express and to maintain group identity.

Its emphasis on social and communal relationships as the defining element in its religious worldview made it the most attractive option for the growing number of suburban Jews looking for a sense identity and tradition in suburban yenemsvelt.

To be sure, the inbreaking of the Kingdom meant the transvaluing of all previous religious and cultural values; but this transvaluation was one of completely reconstituted relationships, not one of mystical identity.

Whereas peoplehood was the bedrock of Jewish identity in the twentieth century, the concept today is being defined by means of the religious - existential question posed above.

Again, what Miola calls «a simplistic notion of religious identity» in a muddled age may itself be called simplistic, in view of the formidable arguments brought forward by such «revisionist» historians as Eamon Duffy, who show that traditional Catholicism was strong in the hearts of the people till well on into Elizabeth's reign.

I am glad my parents are not religious... they ask why I don't go to church anymore simply because it was a part of my social life and identity.

The Weavers gradually absorbed not only the racist religious doctrines of Christian Identity, but became familiar with the world of UFOs and alien intelligences, the supposed machinations of the Bilderbergers and the Illuminati and, most of all, the alleged conspiracies of those who were said to be the literal offspring of Satan, the Jews.

Hardly any groups are now so ignored in the curriculum as are religious sub-cultures — which provide many Americans with their deepest sense of identity and meaning.

In sum, Wyschogrod believes that the problem of supersessionism turns on the church's capacity to understand its own identity in terms of the abiding religious significance of the distinction between Jew and gentile.

«We've been clear that people need to be able to feel strong in their religious identities and are making sure that the voices of people of faith are heard in Government.»

Not all the authors who make the list have a clear religious identity, but, of those who do, there are six Roman Catholics, five Anglicans, one Orthodox, and five mainline Protestants.

These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

For instance, several seminal organizations began tabulating the number of religious adherents in the middle of the century, including the United States Census Bureau, something that widely attests to the importance of religious identities.

Beyond this appraisal of the literature, philosophy and strategy of TM, if one looks at the overt practices of TM, its covert religious identity is clearly revealed.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

Is it akin to the post-Holocaust Jewish - Christian dialogue in the U.S., within which people find their own religious identity strengthened as they abandon a negative portrait of the other religion?