Sentences with phrase «thinking about religion»

Despite being born and raised Jewish, I am agnostic and therefore don't spend too much time thinking about religion.

We aim to create a new way of thinking about religion in American culture and politics, one that challenges last century's media dominance by an ultra-conservative fringe, that invites free discussion of religious ideas once they've hit the public square.

This approach is entirely appropriate given that religious freedom is a fundamental right that delineates one's outlook in life and that religious diversity requires thinking about religion's many manifestations on its own terms.

«that far from achieving the neutrality of the state, the new law creates a state preference for certain religious practices, and makes public servants start thinking about the religion of the people in front of them when they are not supposed to do that.»

It gave me an opportunity to work thinking about religion, spirituality and politics in a way that I hadn't really done before.

And it gives us a way of thinking about religion that helps us understand how and why religions are different, and how we can cooperate across ethnic and religious differences to cocreate a thriving world together.

Religious belief may seem to be a unique psychological experience, but a growing body of research shows that thinking about religion is no different from thinking about secular things — at least from the standpoint of the brain.

Yet these sociological excursions, as it turned out, had an indirect effect on my thinking about religion.

He also states that for a long period after his return he spent a great deal of time thinking about religion.

This got me thinking about religion.

It also bears mentioning, in closing, that the gains from thinking about religion from a broader global perspective accrue not only to the academic researcher in pursuit of recondite problems to study but also to the practitioner of religion and to those whose interest in world affairs resides simply at the level of informed citizen.

My own experience in teaching religion and theology to middle - and upper - middle - class undergraduates and graduate students in America for the past decade or so certainly suggests that this way of thinking about religion fits neatly with a strong tendency toward the kind of knee - jerk relativism that is also widespread among those in the same social strata.

First, I am a professor of philosophy and a professional philosopher, I guess you could say, privy to the philosophical movements of the twentieth century, many of which, for better or worse, have had an influence on theology and thinking about religion.

Islam advocates education and rationaly thinking about your religion.

Berger has subsequently and substantively changed his thinking about religion and secularization, but the theory set forth in that book continues to have enormous influence on the discussion of these questions.

The consequence has been the widespread relativism in most people's thinking about religion and morals in our society today.

I, for one, do most of my thinking about science out of one mental box and my thinking about religion out of another.

These teachings — for better, and sometimes for worse — contributed to a largely monolithic way of thinking about religion and morality.

He is an influential and thoughtful person, and his way of thinking about religion and public life holds broad sway among our cultural elites.

If you had been born to atheist parents you would very likely be thinking about religion and probalby not accept the bible?

Here's a website that has many quotes from our founding fathers about exactly what they thought about religion.

I hope one day you find the freedom in it and not think about religion or man and trust Christ to help, love, and guide you.

Most people don't even think about the religion itself, they simply repeat rhetoric.

I had never thought about religion before; I had taken it for granted.

Such is the larger context in which we are invited to think about religion, culture, and secularization.

Who that person is and what he or she may think about religion are thus weighty questions, not just for science and the academy, but also for communities of belief, and indeed, the entire moral and spiritual fabric of our culture.

So, I don't think most people really think about their religion on a deep level, and that's okay... it gives them comfort.

Think about religion as a drug addiction.

So, instead of becoming traditionally «religious,» he changed how he thought about religion.

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.

Furthermore, as people have taken advantage of the opportunity to tell me just what they think about religion and politics, I've really struggled with the idea that they might think they've actually changed my mind.

When I read Atlas Shrugged I never once thought about religion.

Think about religion as another drug addiction.

During the college years a student's religion must fight its way against the high - pressured tempo of the modern campus, the welter of competing social claims, the campus gods of football or fraternity or romance that leave little time or energy to think about religion and the Church.

There is not much time or energy left to think about religion or the church.

I don't care what these guys and women in politics think about religion, I really don't.

Until the guy who paid for these billboards grabs a laddle or gets himself in the kitchen heating a pot, I frankly don't care what he thinks about my religion.

Survey research in particular, through the work of Gerhard Lenski, Joseph Fichter, Charles Glock, Rodney Stark, and others, was beginning to shape the ways in which sociologists thought about religion, on the one hand, while on the other hand Parsonian theories, speculative and comparative work in the classical tradition, and some of the newer perspectives of phenomenology posed challenges to empirical positivism.

«The purpose of the study has been to discover the underlying cognitive structure of religious beliefs — to find out what cognitive processes take place when religious and nonreligious people think about religion,» Kapogiannis tells me.

We think about religion and politics as personal.

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As a result, she has developed a set of tools about how to think about religion that she feels is not only beneficial to those who teach religion, but also to the general public.

This resource is great to stimulate thought about religion in its widest aspect or to set the scene for any new Scheme of Work.

Priming students to think about religion increases students» willingness to delay gratification as well as their political tolerance.

So, the priming worked in getting students to think about religion, even though changing only 5 words out of 50 is very subtle and the students were not consciously aware of the nature of the manipulation.

They find that priming students to think about religion increases students» willingness to delay gratification as well as their political tolerance.

Prior research had found that students primed in this way to think about religion demonstrated higher levels of self - regulation.

In an effort to transform the way in which people talk about religion and thereby the way they think about religion Tippett encourages readers to reevaluate religious truths and explore the many facets of spirituality and essential human questions.

As with his previous work, the premise is anything but usual: Blending three storylines that cover most of the 20th century, the novel is set both in Lisbon and the mythical mountains of the title, which just might contain an artifact that will change the way the world thinks about religion.

However, people recall terrorist when they think about the religion of Islam.