Sentences with phrase «symbols of religious»

In the past, UK courts have reflected a tendency to side with the employer against the employee where symbols of a religious nature were concerned.

The artist's contemporary works draw from «divine symbols of religious myths, worldly folklore and current social dynamics,» according to his artist statement.

THEY might be ancient graffiti tags left by a worker or symbols of religious significance.

He will most certainly not object at all to the public display of his friends» symbols of religious faith.

Deliteralization (or «demythologizing,» to use Rudolf Bultmann's term) should not deprive a congregation of the opportunity to participate in the universal symbols of our religious tradition.

They also often return to the sacred stories and symbols of their religious heritage but without being stuck in a theological box.

The Christian Council of Korea (CCK) wanted the new Christmas tower to be a symbol of religious freedom and peace.

But, in a time of unprecedented religious violence — Christian persecution has never been more widespread, and Muslim communities around the world are frequently targeted by radicals and terrorists — celebrating a symbol of religious violence isn't just misguided; it sends the wrong signal about Christianity.

However, phenomenologically baptism belongs both to the category of ablution rites, in which water is used as a symbol of religious purification, as well as to the rites of initiation, involving a symbolic dying to the old self and rising to a new state of existence.

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In a speech at Gracie Mansion this week, Mayor Michael Bloomberg heralded New York City as the ultimate symbol of religious tolerance.

In the Middle Ages Toledo became the symbol of religious tolerance where followers of the three main religions - Judaism, Islam and Christianity all coexisted peacefully.

The five - pointed star is a symbol of religious significance and the plastic mesh covering the figure evokes the metal screens commonly found in confessionals in Roman Catholic churches.

Taking L' H - D's analysis at face value, she should agree that a law requiring all people employed by the Quebec gov» t to work nude is at least prima facie constitutional (under that analysis) since all clothing can be seen as a merely a symbol of some religious belief.

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Xinjiang, home to China's Muslim Uighur ethnic minority, restricts religious practises — such as growing beards, wearing headscarves, and fasting during Ramadan — that are seen as symbols of «Islamic extremism.»

1) Approval of Charter: «Quebec has proposed a Charter of Values to promote secularism, which would prohibit public servants from wearing religious clothing and symbols.

However to privelege one belief system above another is not; this would include the display of religious icons / symbols on public property maintained with taxpayer dollars.

The religious among us keep trying to chip away at the separation of church and state by making people recite the pledge of allegiance with the God clause, installing religious symbols and displays on public property, holding prayer breakfasts for politicians, berating the removal of prayer in public schools, trying to pass laws limiting women's access to birth control, and trying to get an amendment passed outlawing abortion (since in their view God creates a soul the moment a sperm enters an egg).

The people that died are of MANY religions so there should be no religious symbol.

The American religious - political symbols of Bible, oath, prayer, benediction, and evangelist, all of them together suggesting the theme of America as a holy, (Judeo?)

Only a Christian could take a common act of kindness and compassion and transform it into a symbol of deep religious nonsense.

It has NOTHING to do with Santa and Religion, it has everything to do with the fact that JWs do not celebrate ANY holidays including, Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving, Memorial Day or their own birthdays - it is part of their religion and they should not be forced to wear ANY symbol of ANY holiday whether secular or religious.

It is presumably the only religious symbol in a museum that is receiving millions of tax dollars.

Why not display other religious symbols alongside this as a sign of respect for the people of other faiths who also died in the towers?

>> Nothing scares us about a cross but if you're going to place a cross then you must also place a religious symbol to represent the belief's of all the people who lost their lives that day.

as far as the cross at the twin tower site, just place the religious symbol of all whom died there and we can call it fair, until then it is endorsing one religion over the others.

You are probably the same guys who want that mosque down the street from the center just because You like to upset people.here's news for ya - you do nt have to look at any religious symbols and you do nt have to believe BUT you do have to respect the majority and we will not be nonbelievers because of you

But i do wonder if we really need religious symbols at a memorial to a tragedy spawned by centuries of religious intolerance from both sides.

Stop whining everytime you see a religious symbol and try appreciating the richness of pluralism.

If Jesus had been hanged instead of crucified would Christians revere the hangman's noose as a religious symbol?

As a Catholic I might give some consideration to the comments of professors, priests, nuns, et al. who parade their Catholicism if any can show they came foward to critic Georgetown University when it bowed to President Obama when he decreed a religious symbol must be covered before he would speak there.

The opacity of the African American's religious symbol is buried deep in this religious consciousness.

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

Behaviour considered idolatrous or potentially idolatrous may include the creation of any type of image of the deity, or of other figures of religious significance such as prophets, saints, and clergy, the creation of images of any person or animal at all, and the use of religious symbols, or secular ones.

This model invites students to see the New Testament as the product of a profoundly human process of experience and interpretation, by which people of another age and place, galvanized by a radical religious experience, sought to understand both that experience and themselves in the light of the symbols made available to them by their culture.

New England Puritan society was built upon and grew out of a center composed of certain basic religious symbols, beliefs, and attitudes.

An inevitable temptation of Christian theology, and particularly so in our own time, has been to think that the idea or symbol of an actual end of the world was no part of the original proclamation of Jesus, and rather derived either from the apocalyptic religious world that so dominated Jesus» disciples or from the all - too - human or fleshy component of their minds and hearts, which was impervious to the higher call of the Spirit.

Premier Markus Soder said crosses should not be seen as religious symbols but as a «clear avowal of our Bavarian identity and Christian values».

In short, technologies are becoming religious symbols and are in the process of destroying the cultural and anthropological balance between energy and form, spirit and structure.

There's a comment to be made about not grasping the weight that comes with the symbol sometimes, but I'd actually go in the direction of Christians (and other religious) having a problem with appropriating from others in that regards.

And the religious response to this suspicion is in each case the same: the formulation, by means of symbols, of an image of such a genuine order of the world which will account for, even celebrate, the perceived ambiguities, puzzles and paradoxes of human experience.

In his essay «The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol,» Altizer continues this same theme: «The sacred can be actualized only by means of a dissolution of profane existence.

Thomas J. J. Altizer, «The Religious Meaning of Myth and Symbol,» in Thomas J. J. Altizer, William A. Beardslee, and J. Harvey Young, eds., Truth, Myth, and Symbol (Prentice - Hall, Inc., 1962), p. 93.

Wilson said RFRA works best in clear cases of laws that clash with religion, such as laws that ban steel wheels on Amish buggies or bans on religious symbols at cemeteries.

Their distrust of religious symbols, myths and teleological hypotheses is bound up with a failure to consider the possibility of a primary kind of perception in which beauty, value, significance and purpose constitute ontologically «real» data of experience rather than products of wishful thinking.

One of their prisoners gained unprecedented notoriety, partly as a result of his execution at their hands, and today the Roman equivalent of the electric chair is a religious symbol for hundreds of millions of Christians.

It tells us that Jesus regarded it as a time of release from normal religious obligations, a time of rejoicing, and since «in the symbolic language of the East the wedding is the symbol of the day of salvation», (J Jeremias, Parables of Jesus [rev. ed., 1963], p. 117) a time of the enjoyment of the fruits of God's decisive activity on man's behalf.

The result is to move in the opposite direction from religious symbolism, emptying symbols of their amplitude of meaning and power, reducing the cosmic dance to a calibrated discussion.

As a religious leader, the minister counselor can use the healing symbols of Christianity by which such guilt can be transformed.

1971), that the clown is the appropriate religious symbol for our time, as «the personification of festivity and fantasy.»