Sentences with phrase «secular state university»

Thanks to Dr. Mann, Bishop O'Connell students will be able to continue studying real science if they attend a secular state university in Virginia.

Second, because I teach at a very large secular state university, one of the largest in the nation in one of the largest states, with a growing multicultural population, I am constantly required to think about religion (and what my own Christian faith means) in a pluralistic setting.

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Those seeking church positions are often regarded as too liberal theologically or lacking the ascetical formation emphasized by church seminaries; graduates of departments such as sociology find that employers often prefer students of state universities whose training has been entirely secular.

Bruce A. Ackerman, in Social Justice in the Liberal State (Yale University Press, 1980), arguing for an astringently secular, rational model, is faithful to the framers at least in the proposition that «nobody has the right to vindicate political authority by asserting a privileged insight into the moral universe which is denied to the rest of us.»

A revised and expanded version of the Henry L. Stimson Lectures that Walzer gave at Yale University in 2013, his new book seeks to explain how secular national liberation movements, which built independent states in Algeria, India, and Israel following World War II, eventually spawned «religious movements that challenged the achievement roughly a quarter century later.»

In the United States as a whole, the enrollment rate for youths in all secondary schools - public high schools, private secular and religious high schools, and the preparatory departments of colleges and universities - soared from 1910 to 1940 (see Figure 2).

Under that measure, groups that could petition the state Board of Education to open a charter school include universities, government entities and nonprofit organizations that are secular in nature.