Sentences with phrase «supernatural system of belief»
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«Émile Durkheim understood religion not as belief in the supernatural (as the popular conception would have it), but as a system of beliefs and practices relating to sacred things.
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Religion is an organized system of supernatural beliefs — particularly in some sort of god or gods, atheism is — precisely NOT that!
«The children's books... were a sort of sluicing of the system which... represented a conversion every bit as deep as the conversion to a belief in the supernatural and the divinity of Jesus Christ which occurred in 1929 - 1931.»
As an educated person, I can not believe that these types of supernatural belief systems hold any relevance in today's society.
Religion is simply a system of beliefs regarding the supernatural, or lack thereof.
The team considered two classes of religion: MHGs and a broader belief in systems of supernatural punishment (or «BSP») for social transgressions, such as those enacted through ancestral spirits or inanimate forces such as karma.