Sentences with phrase «religious institutions»

Practical theologians attend to the sociology of congregations and to the studies of the changing role of religious institutions in American public life.

It will remain difficult to project the future of any changes in church - state relationships until a new shape for religious institutions comes into clearer focus.

Curriculum strategies for such teaching deserve support from religious institutions and agencies even though they can not sponsor them directly.

However, there are some career options to avoid paying into (or getting paid out of) social security including jobs with religious institutions.

Marriage is an institution created by government (as well as by religious institutions) to provide legal rights to both spouses and to children.

The definition of «person» includes religious institutions, businesses and associations, which opponents say is effectively opening the door to state - sanctioned discrimination against LGBT individuals.

The 6th section of the charter prohibits the use of government funds to support religious institutions.

The rapid decline in birth rates from 1960 to 1980 and the extended life span of people 65 and older have changed the face of many religious institutions.

The faster every last religious institution on the planet is burned to the ground, the better off we will all be.

But Republican lawmakers spent much of the week negotiating changes to the marriage bill to protect religious institutions, especially those that oppose same - sex weddings.

If not, what kinds of regulatory standards could also facilitate a «low» policy that respects existing cultures, encourages critical discourse, values history and empowers even religious institutions?

He will defend the rights of individuals and religious institutions who choose not to perform gay marriages.

Traditional religious institutions continue to have a role in supporting and supplementing what parents can do.

This claim is also made about religious institutions and teachings.

This situation must change if religious institutions are to continue to attract gifted persons to their company.

A few small private schools without connections to religious institutions also engage in fresh explorations of what higher education should be about.

The issue was just whether religious institutions should pay for birth control in health insurance policies.

The goal is to prohibit religious institutions and organizations from being sued for not serving same - sex couples.

Yet there too there is empirical evidence of new forms of religious expression, even new religious institutions, that resemble the «weak» American model.

Senior government ministers wore their faiths on their sleeves but would occasionally come into conflict with conservative religious institutions.

In this way, for - profit companies aren't true religious institutions — they seek to maximize profits and therefore have to play according to the market's rules.

Men continue to dominate religious institutions, and use them to judge whether women can be in religious leadership or change faiths.

Separation of church and state demands that the government needs to be out of the purely religious institution of marriage.

And the absence of vital and healthy institutions elsewhere, particularly religious institutions, leads to a general dependence upon the state as the provider of social goods.

It is something religious institutions have no business doing.

I guess this is easier to see in the corporate world and in the machinery of government, but I see no reason why we should imagine religious institutions are any different.

The added language only covers religious institutions, not municipal officials opposed to the law based on religious or culture grounds.

Schools, community agencies, neighborhood organizations, and religious institutions depend on one another.

Why would any government or religious institution advocate to increase regulations and raise energy prices based on flawed computer projections of climate change that will never come to pass?

Why would any government or religious institution advance policy that seeks to destroy jobs, rather than to promote them?

And why would national governments or religious institutions actually «bite the hand that feeds them»?

We understand the demands religious institutions face across their operations.

The law treats religious institutions and spiritual leaders differently than it treats secular institutions and other individuals.

Not so: in some, like Islamic religious institutions, there have been relatively few reports of abuse to date.

In fact, all of the above apply to federally certified religious institutions that perform regular fund - raising and have an active congregation.

We still haven't seen any language to reflect the ongoing negotiations over exemptions for religious institutions and individuals.

... what might be the role of religious institutions in this era of extended life?

Constitutional and statutory provisions create a special legal regime for churches and other religious institutions.

In his account, the no - establishment rule serves religious freedom by protecting the autonomy and independence of religious institutions from government interference.

There was much greater emphasis on the need to undermine religion by social and economic action rather than by direct confrontation with religious institutions and believers.

In my view, there is no viable federal constitutional argument that states are required to fund religious institutions, including religious schools.