Sentences with phrase «religious practices centered»

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Surrounded by Muslims and their religious practices — including the daily prayers, announced across the centers — Christians stick out as the exception, becoming easy targets for mockery and worse offenses.

Dannin also introduces what he admits is a «taboo» subject: that a portion of «African - American society has always been unchurched,» that African - American lodges have traditionally been centers of unchurched religious practices and beliefs,» and that since the end of the civil rights era unchurched African - Americans «have been moving more rapidly toward Islam.»

But despite this shared sense of religious devotion, as detailed in a new Pew Research Center report on what US Muslims believe and practice, survey data also show a huge gap in their perceptions of each other.

October 7, 2014 • Joined by special guests Pedrito Martinez (percussion) and Chucho Valdés (piano), the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra premieres new music by Wynton Marsalis inspired by Afro - Cuban religious practice.

Friends schools are distinct from many other religious alternatives in the extent of their person - centered practices.

They are in private practice, employee assistance programs, hospitals, community mental health centers, social service agencies, managed care organizations, courts, academic positions, and religious organizations.

His research centers on several main issues: (1) the implications of religion and spirituality for mental and physical health and mortality risk; (2) religious variations in family life, with particular attention to intimate relationships and childrearing; (3) the role of religious institutions, practices, and values among racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States; (4) the influence of religious factors on political attitudes and policy preferences; and (5) public opinion surrounding issues of race, ethnicity, and immigration in the contemporary United States.