Sentences with phrase «role in public life»

So what might appear at first pass as an inconsequential squabble on the internet between an arrogant researcher and recalcitrant bloggers in fact has significance for the debate about science's role in public life.

The project was a model where gender prospective approach enabled in understanding substantial women role in the public life of Darfur encouraging creating social relation where women and men joined together discussed the factors barriers women to play its role in public life especially cultural and socio - political barriers.

Up to July 2015, he worked in Parliament through the All Party Parliamentary Group APPG for East Asian Business which he chaired, the All Party Parliamentary China Group [32] of which he was the vice-Chair (special focus on Hong Kong), and the All Party Parliamentary Group for Trade and Investment [33] of which he was treasurer to promote better trade and political and cultural links between the UK and East Asia and work to encourage the next generation of East Asians and other diaspora to develop the leadership skills to play a greater role in public life, in society, and business, and in harnessing the resources that East Asians have globally and locally both financial and non-financial to address global and local problems today.These groups were discontinued after the May 2015 election.

«I feel I have assumed a new role in public life which allows me to work in a number of ways for the future of Scotland,» he told Holyrood Magazine.

When religion has a role in public life, it enables us to look at our economy and refer to the Christian principles on which our markets were founded.

He won New Hampshire because of his advantage among voters who thought that religion should play a large, or somewhat large, role in public life.

Academics can publish pseudo-scholarly essays excoriating «fundamentalism» and its role in public life, but scholars who criticize feminism or race - based policies or any other liberal piety make many professional enemies.

But theological ethics as principle and procedure is crucial if practical theology is to equip the church to take a thoroughly critical role in public life.

The underlying problem is our society's movement toward a Rousseauian, and away from an authentically American, conception of religion's role in public life.

They imposed a religious test not just for public office but for any sort of role in public life.

In between, we are given snapshots of a vanished America where religion and culture still played a vital role in public life, as well as odd and unexpected little tidbits: a craze for church bell towers in the 1920s; Cram's home life with his beloved wife, Bess, and their children; the messy business breakup with Goodhue; Cram's mildly embarrassing foray into the horror genre, Black Spirits and White; his strange proposal for an island to be raised ex nihilo in Boston's Charles River; the problems inherent when working with rich Swedenborgians; and a Japanese Christian university he designed on a mix of Oriental and Dutch Modernist themes.

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The events of 2008 and 2009 changed the role of central bankers in public life.

Two decades after the bloodshed that tore apart communist Yugoslavia, the men convicted for their destructive roles are increasingly present in public life, especially in Serbia, where many of them remain popular.

However, once her relationship with Prince Harry became public knowledge, the actress has mostly remained out of the limelight — presumably, in part, because of the difficult role the media played in Diana's and Harry's own life.

Although I frequently find myself at odds with First Things over issues pertaining to economics and the role of government in public life, I usually find its critique of American social mores and ethics to be insightful and illuminating.

The idea of a greater role for religion in public life has widespread support in Turkey.

That's true for the role of religion in public life.

Midway through the Bush presidency, Americans became more wary of the role of religion in public life.

As the head of Americans United for the Separation of Church and State, he now talks as if the churches do not have any conceivable role in American public life.

All can be seen as genuine reflections of Obama's faith and his appreciation for the role of religious leaders in public life.

Garlow is one of a growing number of Americans who say that religion should play a greater role in politics, according to the findings of a recent study by the Pew Research Forum's Religion & Public Life Project.

In other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public lifIn other chapters, Wuthnow examines further significant questions, such as who goes to church or not, why different religious traditions are gaining and losing members, faith and the Internet, recent trends in religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public lifin religious beliefs and spirituality, the role of families in faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public lifin faith formation, and generational differences when it comes to religion and public life.

The IME and WB insist on reducing the role of the State in economic life and in public social welfare.

But the danger is that the Court is obscuring the singular role of religion in our public life.

Clearly, they wanted the two to remain separate... There is, of course, nothing in the U.S. Constitution which says that religions can not play a vital, visible role in American public life.

The more one catches sight of the decisive role the kerygma played in bringing the quest to an end, the more one recognizes the relevance of C. H. Dodd's attempt to show that the kerygma contained something corresponding to a life of Jesus, namely a sketch of the public ministry?

But consider the three that regularly come to the fore: the role of religion in public life, gay marriage, and abortion.

We concluded that there are several reasons that could be used to support an argument for choosing Jesus as our compass, for granting him a sacred role as meaning - giver: first, we are not aware of any especially good alternatives; second, his ability to serve in this role has been confirmed in many faithful lives; and third, in choosing him we align ourselves with a compass which is in the public domain, and as such our interpretation is subject to the correction of tradition and public debate.

President Obama has been a leader on so many of the issues and values religious Americans are passionate about — from comprehensive and just immigration reform to the Affordable Care Act to maintaining and supporting the critical role of faith in public life.

Most Americans believe, when they think of the issue at all, that our disputes over the role of religion in public life and discourse are pretty heated» though for some of us they aren't nearly hot enough.

After exerting influence on state affairs under Czarist rule, the church found itself overnight banished from public life, its property confiscated, its worship repressed, and its role in the educational system ended.

He has written with devastating persuasiveness about the the way in which white liberal guilt insists on making racism the primary source for black identity in public life, creating roles for black men and women to play — those of the challenger and bargainer.

But the sermon is the most consistent and public statement of the Christian vision and thus plays a crucial role in the social life of the community.

It follows that woman in public and social life may legitimately aspire to no other role than that of a true helpmate to man.

Another headline from the study, conducted by the Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism and the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life: For the first time since 2007, neither the Roman Catholic Church nor religion's role in U.S. politics were the No. 1 topic of faith coverage among major news media.

In the end, the role of religion in public life is a prism through which to observe the survival — or atrophy — of American JudaisIn the end, the role of religion in public life is a prism through which to observe the survival — or atrophy — of American Judaisin public life is a prism through which to observe the survival — or atrophy — of American Judaism.

The role of religion in American public life is likely to remain what it has always been: pervasively Christian, yet prudently concealed.

For another example, in these five years there has been a marked change in thinking about church - state relations and, more generally, about the role of religion in public life.

Thus, the issue of the role of religion in public life is an important one which deserves the public's attention.»

Judge Graham expresses in his decision thoughts that by now should be quite familiar to our readers: «The Justices of the Supreme Court disagree among themselves on the proper role of religion in public life and the extent of the Court's authority to decide these issues under the Establishment Clause.

And this played a key role in Richard's life and career as a priest and a public intellectual, for his constant contact with Jews went hand in....

Liberalism began as a political project that sought to curtail the role of religion in public life.

Such a basis for public policy is not consistent with either a humanitarian tradition or a Christian view, nor does it acknowledge the diversity of beliefs that exist concerning the role of sex in human life.

I would also need to look at religion, following today the brilliant sociological analysis Tocqueville made of the role of religion in our public life, a role all the founders of the republic discerned.

Richard John Neuhaus, a young associate, went on to devote his life to defending the role of religion in «the public square,» as he called it.

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.The book that got it all started was Hiding from Humanity: Disgust,....

Martha Nussbaum, one of America's leading public intellectuals, has devoted considerable attention in the last few years to the role that disgust and shame play in our individual and collective lives, particularly in the law.

Although almost all of them affirmed the role of religion in moral formation and saw Providence at work in America's founding, their belief in the moral governance of the universe was more a reflection of their assumptions as Enlightenment thinkers who did not separate religion from public life than a sign of heartfelt Christian belief.

But, then, why did he recognize a significant and positive role for public authority in the functioning of the economy and why did he advocate reasonable wages and living standards for the workers, instead of leaving these to be determined by the economic processes themselves?

It does not matter whether one is by God's providential decree placed in the role of politician, engaged in public action for the common good, or in the role of a lover of wisdom (philosopher), engaged as a private person in contemplation of eternal truths, or in some combination of the two: «A man can still lead a life of faith in any of these three lives and reach the eternal rewards.