Sentences with phrase «religious loyalty»

To stand with the solidly coherent group had been at first both ethics and religion; now neither ethical excellence nor the highest religious loyalty was possible without standing out from the group.

According to him, identity politics founded on religious loyalties rather than competence and commitment to unity is a threat to our democracy and progress.

Except in the modern Western world (cf. H. Schneider's Religion in Twentieth Century America), religious loyalty outranks any other loyalty.

132, clearly point toward a genuinely Jewish religious loyalty on the part of the leading element in the population of Galilee.

It demonstrates similar traits to totalitarian regimes — denying people the right to a religious identity and failing to understand the relationship between religious loyalty and loyalty to the state.

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.

They both argue that the world is heading for chaos as a result of the breakup of nation states; the intensification of tribal, ethnic and religious loyalties; the spread of international terrorism; and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

Can religious loyalties, he asks.

The religious loyalties of Ukrainians are unevenly distributed and in many cases difficult to determine precisely.

This blending of national and religious loyalties is a pervasive feature of most contemporary political ideologies.

In much the same way that denominations can no longer assume that people will take on the religious loyalties of their parents, they can no longer assume that today's church leaders will continue the funding patterns of previous generations.

Separation of church and state also engineers a barrier to foreign rule under the guise of religious loyalty.

While the Church in Europe was losing the working class during the Industrial Revolution, American Catholicism, against the historical odds and in the face of vicious nativist opposition, brokered the passage of ten million immigrants into mainstream American society while retaining the religious loyalties of the overwhelming majority of these new citizens.

Huge swathes of populations abandoned the Roman Catholic Church and wars of religion erupted within and between nations, as political leaders made calculations about where their religious loyalties should lie.

When the story circulates about the church's kid gloves treatment of molester Father John Geoghan, the paper's editor - in - chief Marty Baron (Liev Schreiber, «Pawn Sacrifice»), newly arrived from The Miami Herald and not bound by local «traditions» or religious loyalties, assigns the Spotlight unit to dig into the story.