Sentences with phrase «role of religion»

A great deal is being written these days about the increasing role of religion in American life, and in particular, its political life.

The debate over the appropriate role of religion in the public square was the most interesting church - state controversy of the 1980s.

This very important and central role of religion in human life is clearly a benefit to Asian culture.

Leading thinkers on both sides of the debate offer their take on the declining role of religion in British society.

The project aims to create an enabling environment for knowledge - sharing and production on the complex role of religion with particular emphasis on sustainable environmental issues.

The temple from which the figure comes can also prompt inquiries about the role of social and political role of religion in Greek city states.

Members of the coalition government — Eric Pickles and Baroness Warsi alongside Cameron and Gove — speak confidently about the positive role of religion in society, with a particular emphasis on the UK's historical Christianity.

These are worrying signs of a failure to appreciate not only the rights of believers to freedom of conscience and freedom of religion, but also the legitimate role of religion in the public square.

Like his predecessor Cardinal Pio Laghi, Pietro Sambi realized that the unique role of religion and faith in the United States has much to offer the world, and succeeded in conveying this realization to a heavily Europeanized Church leadership.

I continue to ponder the discussion in First Things of the civic role of religion in America.

This «corrective» role of religion vis - à - vis reason is not always welcomed, though, partly because distorted forms of religion, such as sectarianism and fundamentalism, can be seen to create serious social problems themselves.

Over several decades, the partisanship of the liberal oldline churches brought the public role of religion into deep discredit.

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

I mentioned one of these when I cited several characteristics of Mexico that would seem to have facilitated a civil religion: the strong nationalism, the powerful role of religion in its history, the recognition of a «Mexican» people that has emerged out of a diverse ethnic situation, and the deliberate campaign to erect a civil religion.

As social power and authority shifted from the church to the state, nationalism developed its own self - aggrandizing tendencies and even assumed the ideological role of religion.

Rather than preaching the ruling role of religion in public life, he champions governmental noninterference in «traditional» religious and family life.

Still, despite the clear role of religion in current and previous international conflicts, our political and diplomatic approaches can downplay and even ignore faith as a factor.

Meland retained a certain distance from this, emphasizing the subtle role of religion in the total cultural life and calling for the culture as a whole to become more appreciatively aware of the spiritual depths in what is happening.

Featuring a variety of scholars and leaders in the field of peace and conflict studies, international development and theology, the conference aimed to «deepen the understanding of the paradoxical role of religion and spirituality in the contemporary social and political context, and its potential to shape global governance.»

3 The report noted the positive role of religion in pressing for non-violent resolution of conflicts and that «very few, if any, wars in the past 100 years have been purely religiously motivated wars».

Greenawalt's moderate and nuanced position about the proper role of religion in secular political discourse rightly addresses these questions of political good manners.

Burke also has much to teach about the central role of religion in modern democratic states.

In most media accounts, references were made to two speeches Cuomo delivered in 1984, one at the Democratic National Convention in San Francisco where Walter Mondale was nominated for president, and the other at the University of Notre Dame where Cuomo spoke about abortion and the «proper» role of religion in politics.

After a while in office, President Obama, got to realize how dramatic the role of religion, more like bigotry, still plays in American society and politics.

I don't minimize the importance of his insights on the role of religion in the public square, but I suspect his greatest and most enduring legacy will lie in his contribution to the unity of the Church, for which he fervently prayed.

I believe (hope) that everyone, including those evil atheists, will support your right to propose a change, although I suspect (and hope) that any attempt to increase the role of religion in government will fail miserably.

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 role of religion gradually dwindles, their desperation for wanting their beliefs to have a significant impact on reality will increase.

Investigations into a so - called Islamist «plot» in Birmingham schools have raised questions about the role of religion in education in Britain.

The major research and polling organization Gallup is conducting «ongoing research» about the role of religions in Americans» lives.

De Waal recently published a book called «The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates,» which synthesizes evidence that there are biological roots in human fairness, and explores what that means for the role of religion in human societies.

CNN's Poppy Harlow interviews religious leaders from Christianity, Islam and Judaism about the role of religion in the Mideast conflict.

However, in the long history of the fruitful interaction of science and religion, from Pythagoras to Paracelsus and from Newton to Einstein, the role of religion (though not necessarily of religious authorities) in freeing human powers has generally been recognized.

The role of religion in the lives of individuals and societies depends greatly upon personal and historical experiences and developments.

Many Americans have embraced one of two myths concerning the role of religion in the American founding.

Top of the agenda for an October conference in Hungary for Catholic, Protestant and Muslim leaders in Europe will be «the role of religions in secular society» and relations between Christians and Muslims.

Among numerous non-Catholic constructive responses to last Year's Islamic Open Letter «A Common Word» the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and Russia, Alexy II, has suggested that future dialogue be «on the doctrinal level, on important questions like God, Man and the world... and (on the practical level) on the defence of the role of religion in social life, the opposition of xenophobia and intolerance (and) the promotion of common initiatives for peace»

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

Our remit: Understand issues pertaining to religious freedom and violence in India and take stock of the role of religion in social and economic development.

Not that he is inattentive to the role of religion.