Sentences with phrase «religious use»

Future planning for religious uses of television should take seriously those insights provided by empirical research both into general television use and effects and into specifically religious television use and effect.

Included in this strategic element is the need for ongoing research on the extent to which goals established for religious uses of television are being achieved.

Again very typical religious use of purple velvet the color of royalty.

They discuss lessons learned in their experience and provide a handful of tips for land use agencies reviewing applications for proposed religious uses.

«It is difficult, if not impossible for an outsider to identify the religious user... because religious use is barely distinguishable from recreational use.»

Without admitting the charge, the employer changed its absolute rule against religious use of drugs, and it paid Smith and Black some of their lost pay.

When we have exempted sacramental wine, and when Congress and some states have exempted the Native American Church, the courts can not invoke a desire for equal treatment as a reason not to exempt other religious uses of mind - altering drugs.

Funny how these same religious used their religion to back SLAVERY,..

I don't understand the selfishness and narcissism which many religious use to defend their beliefs in the face of tragedies.

If sincere religious use of mind - altering drugs is constitutionally exempt from the criminal law, then the courts must pass on all these claims to religious exemption.

It may be that as a practical matter religious use of mind - altering drugs will be limited to groups that can point to some substantial tradition and that limit the use of drugs to structured worship service.

It seems to me, then, that even though Tillich's theory of symbols dwells on religious uses, and his theological method starts from existential questions, his formal discussion of God is more strongly indebted to idealist philosophy than to either religious experience or the biblical tradition.

«We do not address religious uses of funding or other forms of discrimination.»

Even with religious use of flea preventatives, it is nearly impossible to keep this from happening if your pet leaves the house.

The practice note provides an overview of regulating religious land uses under RLUIPA for local government attorneys and discusses different ways local governments can regulate religious uses, the types of claims that can be brought, and strategies for training staff and handling applications under RLUIPA.

He has been involved in RLUIPA cases across the country concerning the permitting of a mosque, a rabbinical college, cemetery, and other religious uses.

Ms. Chaffee, Ms. Neeves, and Mr. Peloso offered insight on proactively planning for religious uses and educating local decision makers.

A review of the history of religious uses of television suggests that religious television at present is at a crossroads in its development.

Tom, I am against the use of public resources for anything but public use and am extremely against any religious use of public resources whatsoever that violates the letter and intent of the First Amendment.

A different result should obtain if the city were to give preference to religious uses, or waive the fee for use of the facility by a religious group, but that does not seem to be the case here.

The problem is when the religious use their religion as a reason to discriminate against gays, to take away the reproductive rights of women, and to try to teach creationism in the science classroom.

atheose: «The problem is when the religious use their religion as a reason to discriminate against gays, to take away the reproductive rights of women, and to try to teach creationism in the science classroom.»

The judicial question is this: if the Constitution protects the religious use of wine when legislatures believe that wine is so dangerous it has to be banned, does the Constitution also protect religious use of peyote at a time when legislatures believe peyote must be banned?

It should inquire into dangerousness only in the narrow context of religious use.

Why is it that the religious use of wine was exempt everywhere during Prohibition, but the religious use of peyote is exempt in only half the states today?

If Oregon may constitutionally punish the religious use of peyote, may it not also punish the religious use of wine?

Thus Tillich's theory of symbols stresses their religious use in expressing and evoking experience, and their role as vehicles of commitment and devotion.

I am more inclined to think that the task of our own generation, that battle having been largely won, is to break the hold of a paralyzing critical historicism in order to recover a theological and religious use of the Scripture that does not avoid criticism but goes through and beyond it.

To be sure, as Schmidt's chapter on the poor but prolific cartoonist Watson Heston notes, evangelical Christians pioneered the religious use of comic books and religious cartoons.

Louis Fisher surveys the full sweep of U.S. history» from colonial debates about religious liberty to modern judicial, legislative, and executive positions on the status of conscientious objection, compulsory flag salutes, school prayer, Indian religious practices, and the religious use of peyote.

What has been said above is not intended in any sense as an indictment of the religious uses of the radio.

The religious use of biblical language about masters and servants and slaves and redemption and bought with a price and bondservant and lord and service and unquestioning obedience, etcetera, all come from an age when slavery was an assumed, acceptable and even enviable way of life.

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The second objection to the religious use of mass media from within the church arises out of concern for the implications of the organization of the mass media themselves.

Given the dominant functions of television in status conferral and image creation, religious uses of television may more effectively be achieved through secular programming than through religious programming.

It is hoped that through this work a basis may be laid for a more accurate understanding of the effects and effectiveness of the religious use of television and a more informed consideration of its future directions.

Part II provides a survey of empirical research relevant to the various issues in religious television and through this survey clarifies many of the questions which have been raised in relation to the religious use of television.

(14) Similarly Carl Henry, the leading, distinguished evangelical theologian, sees the current upsurge in the religious use of mass media as «a des - tructive trend which neglects a systematic presentation of Christian truth.»

What can be seen from a study of religious uses of television in America is that over the past several years there has developed a marked imbalance in the presentation of American religious faith and culture.

@really: No, he's just using the exact same technique the religious use to indoctrinate their children, only in a highly compressed format.

His understanding of the major elements of contemporary philosophy, his careful and penetrating analysis of the multidimensional nature of the religious use of language, and his grasp of the tacit and mediated character of religious awareness and knowledge all exhibit a kind of thinking badly needed in religious circles today.

While such efforts may be commended for breaking into the monopoly held by the independent evangelical organizations, they must be deplored for their lack of imagination in tackling the persistent problems of the religious use of television.