Sentences with phrase «religious roles both of these institutions»

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The traditional role of religious institutions has been to declare the blessing of the gods on all other institutions.

They have also thereby provided a religious self - corrective for the abuses of religion by religious institutions, which is one of the main roles of prophecy in the Bible.

Because Troeltsch, at the beginning of this century, was keenly aware of many trends that became apparent to most observers only at its end: the collapse of Eurocentrism; the perceived relativity of all historical events and knowledge (including scientific knowledge); an awareness that Christianity is relative to its Western, largely European history and environment; the emergence of a profound global pluralism; the central role of practice in theology; the growing impact of the social sciences on our view of the world and of ourselves; and dramatic changes in the role of religious institutions and religious thought.

These include history and geography, schools of thought, mysticism, religious belief, religious practice, Islamic law, theology, philosophy and ideology, politics (dynastic states, political and religious roles, political concepts and terms), economics, culture and society (personal life, community life, arts and literature, science and medicine, communications, popular religion), Islamic studies, institutions, organizations, movements, biographies.

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

Research with such churches as this will clarify the general role of religious institutions in developing the mental health of involved persons.

Theories of modernization, despite the rather serious attacks to which they have been subjected in recent years, have been so prominent in the social sciences, and have played such an important role in our thinking about social change, that any effort to consider the changing relations between states and religious institutions must begin here.

Because of the epistemological assumptions in these traditions, world - system theory has paid little attention specifically to the role of religious beliefs or religious institutions.

There emerge types of religious leaders — whose lives the historian has illumined, whose intellectual and emotional makeup the psychologist has investigated, and whose social role the sociologist has explored — as well as types of religious groupings and religious institutions.

This approach attempts to trace the origin and growth of religious ideas and institutions through definite periods of historical development and to assess the role of the factors with which religion interacted during these times.

If you consider the fact that the Bible is still the most widely read book in the world, touching the lives of millions of people every day, and that it has served humanity as a guide for living for the past 3,000 years, it becomes clear that religious institutions could take a powerful leadership role in environmental repair.

The people who built liberal Protestant institutions such as national mission agencies, local churches, colleges, universities, social reform agencies and public libraries in the rural heartland were people secure in their social position who assumed a leadership role in society and whose sense of social responsibility was born of religious conviction.

In this context Hans Urs Von Balthasar observed that since the Council the Church has become more than ever a male institution, which without the Marian dimension threatens to become inhuman and irrelevant.9 It is essential that we rediscover the feminine, Marian dimension of the Church because viewing the Church as a mere organisational or institutional entity not only impoverishes her from within but also «severely diminishes her authentic religious appeal and misleads women who are seeking a legitimate and fruitful role».10 The loss of this feminine dimension of the Church gives rise to a false feminism in the Church - one which expresses itself in appeals for the ordination of woman.

His presentation, entitled «Government is Not the Enemy,» considered the role that government can play in helping religious institutions serve the needs of their communities.

They are interested in the diversity of religious experience as much as in religious institutions and leadership roles.

I encourage you to read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

I've also recommended that Francis watchers read «The pope as messenger: making climate change a moral issue,» an essay on The Conversation website by Andy Hoffman, director of the Erb Institute at the University of Michigan, and Jenna White, a graduate student studying the role of religious institutions in shaping humanity's response to global warming.

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.