Sentences with phrase «religious studies there»

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There have been studies linking brain atrophy with born - again / later - in - life religious conversions.

He said that the latest study (Professor Jordan Grafman, from the US National Inst - itute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke in Bethesda,) suggests the brain is inherently sensitive to believing in almost anything if there are grounds for doing so, but when there is a mystery about something, the same neural machinery is co-opted in the formulation of religious belief.

Religious Studies is history not THEOLOGY there is a huge difference!

true, there is very little in medical study that would contradict religious belief.

As an adult at a Christian university working on a religious studies degree, I was unsettled with both sides, not realizing there was alternative until coming across Free Grace Theology and discussed my concerns with Dr. Radmacher — who said it was the Holy Spirit who caused me to be unsettled.

@BillyD: «I am not conversant enough with the studies on MRI to substantiate or refute them» «my stance is that if religious belief were a mental illness, there would be a brain signature for it.»

So one might say there is nothing new in the study, except that increased «fluidity» might be bad news for those traditions, such as Catholicism, with a strong connection between religious identity and ecclesial adherence.

There also are institutional challenges to be met if the delicate ecology of theology and religious studies is not to succumb to the commodification of education, to ideologies with no room for theology (least of all for its celebratory mode), or to absorption in a range of other disciplines.

compared to the old there seems to be a whole different god or that god has changed i think i am going to trust studies — at least they state the margin of error, the religious stand by the bible as fact, the word of god... it would seem your god is a moron who can't keep his story straight.

But the Civitas study, by the academic Islamic specialist Denis MacEoin, estimates that there are in fact at least 85 working tribunals and he says that the principles on which most Sharia courts work are indicated by the fatwas — religious decrees — set out on websites run by British mosques.

There is a need to draw attention to the bias and hidden assumptions contained in the text books — and not just in religious studies, but in subjects across the curriculum where political indoctrination is taking place.

I agree, that there is not problem with «sect», which is the religious studies word for what Protestants call denominations or in German you may say:

ruined.and in an oford study, they found, in there college, 30 % were religious.

Despite the publication of numerous Schweitzer biographies, there still remains to be written a critical study that will locate him within the turbulent currents of social protest and religious innovation in Europe at the turn of the century.

Where there is no love, the study of Scripture is nothing more than an empty religious exercise.

Thus there were two quite distinct styles of religious instruction on the campuses: disinterested, non-normative studies, conducted in a regular academic department, and ministerial studies based on an assumption of shared commitment, in marginal divinity schools.

did anyone take the quiz... there is a question about what is the religion of most people in indonesia... the answer is muslim, yet... the picture that goes along with the question and answer is confused... i think i saw an elephant trunk on the idols face... maybe the folks who put together the quiz and slide show should brush up on thier religious and cultural studies as well...

However there do seem to have been multiple studies saying that the religious self - evaluate as happier than atheists, I think.

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

Lancaster was home to England's first «religious studies» department, in the sense that theology was taught there from a critical rather than a confessional perspective.

No serious scientist out there actually believes that they've learned all that is knowable within their field of study, and that they have all the answers, like some religious folks seem to insist upon.

We have noted that historically there have been a variety of subjects whose study has been taken to be the best indirect way to come to understand God more truly: scripture, tradition, «salvation history,» liturgy and the dynamics of worship, religious experience, the historical Jesus, and so forth.

Or perhaps there are those who have lost interest in the church and who either follow Altizer or take religious studies as their context.

There are others that maintain a certain religious ethos and an emphasis on the study of religion without restricting freedom of inquiry.

Furthermore, after he had been teaching at Stony Brook for several years he helped to establish a Religious Studies Program there.

BTW, Gary, there are lots of psychological studies showing the difference in thinking between religious believers and non-believers.

There are neurological correlates for every form of mental activity and, as Biovin himself acknowledges, just because imaging studies show that religious experiences are correlated with activity in a particular part of the brain, it does not follow that that activity is the cause of religious experience.

A perfect counter-example is Hinduism, which by construction is more spiritual than religious — it's adherents do not have strict rules or norms, and there is incredible diversity of norms within one umbrella (some who believe in caste system, even though a large majority of urbanites study in Christian missionary schools; some who believe cows are sacred though 2/3 of Indians are actually non-vegetarian).

It must be severely offputting to quite a lot of Christians when they finally realize that there are thousands of years of study commentary and writings on what they consider the «Old Testament» — written by the people for whom it was their religious writings, first.

Then there's the study out that people who just act religious but aren't true believers suffer from mental illness.

I went down there from Canada to study religious music.

There is little systematic study, however, of religious belief and identity among academic scientists at eliteinstitutions, leaving a lacuna of knowledge in this area.

Obama attended the Indonesian - language government - run Besuki School for part of 3rd grade and for 4th grade (there was a bit of religious studies on Islam included as elective, but he was what?

The directive of the churches represented in Faith and Order — that a study of worship be pursued over a number of years — indicates a recognition that there is a giveness to Christian worship, and that the common degradation of worship into gimmicks for religious mood - engendering is a kind of impoverishment, a failure, a positive disobedience hiding behind the face of individualism, spontaneity, freedom.

As a reference point I was a religious studies minor (and would classify myself as a follower of Christ) and have read Atlas Shrugged several times — and yes I do believe there is more similar than different.

Such a system had serious drawbacks because the teaching materials were several centuries old, the study of Arabic — and no Chinese — was inadequate, so the students could read only a limited amount and could not speak the language, there was no general educational background for the religious courses, and the freedom allowed to the students often led them to form bad habits.

In both Appleby's and Juergensmeyer's volumes, there is a conflict between the use of religious - studies vocabulary and the urgent desire to make that language serve particular ethical ends.

There are many recent novels in English, written by Indians, which reveal new dimensions of Indian religious life and illuminate the historical, philosophical, and religious studies of Hinduism: R. K. Narayan is one contemporary novelist whose works have excited students to further study of Hinduism and Indian culture.

In Japanese Music and Musical Instruments, by William P. Malm, there is a brief chapter on Buddhist religious music, and a little information can be gleaned from the notes accompanying recordings of Japanese music by Folkways (FR8980), but the study of music in the Buddhism of China, Japan, Korea, and Tibet has not yet been written.

As the priest in Rudy said, «Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and I'm not Him.»

There is a studied ambiguity in such colleges» attempt to maintain some religious identification for the church constituency, and at the same time come across as open and nonthreatening to non-Christian constituencies.

There is no future in universities for theology that is confessional in a narrow sense (not being open to the range of disciplines and of religions); but neither is there a future for religious studies in a supposedly ideologically neutral sense, which fails to engage with truth - and - practice questThere is no future in universities for theology that is confessional in a narrow sense (not being open to the range of disciplines and of religions); but neither is there a future for religious studies in a supposedly ideologically neutral sense, which fails to engage with truth - and - practice questthere a future for religious studies in a supposedly ideologically neutral sense, which fails to engage with truth - and - practice questions.

And there has been studies on «curses» as well, on both the religious and scientific.

I grew up as a JW and have since left and gained enough perspective (through lived experience and university study) to understand that the religious organization (while insular) is no more so than any other anti-interdenominational religion of which there are quite a few: Baptists who won't sit down with Methodists.

There is nothing in this study to indicate that Whitehead got any of his philosophical or religious ideas directly from his contact with the Bible.

(13) Stuart Johnson, in a study of the distribution patterns of evangelical radio programs, found that when a station with a «religious» format opens in an area, there is a tendency for religious programs in the area to begin to appear on these stations.

Where schools and Academies are not offering Religious Studies, GCSE pupils are being denied the opportunity to study an important and valuable subject, and there are serious concerns that the school is struggling to meet its legal obligations.

There have been no studies yet which draw specific comparisons between the total amount of religious programming on television in different historical periods.

This much at least may be conceded, that along with the academic tradition of detached secular study of religion, there is growing in both Christendom and elsewhere a religiously related scholarship of religious diversity.30 To some extent in the future these studies, it would seem, are to be carried out by religious people for religious people.

There have been only limited studies concerning other areas of religious television.