Sentences with phrase «toward religion in public life»

I wonder if these results from the recent Pew poll of attitudes toward religion in public life don't foretell a real change, however partial, however qualified by any number of other factors.

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The underlying problem is our society's movement toward a Rousseauian, and away from an authentically American, conception of religion's role in public life.

While we can see firsthand some of the trajectories mentioned in these essays» for example, an increase in liturgical sobriety within Christian churches and an increased hostility toward religion outside them» the endpoints of those trajectories form the world in which we begin our engagement with public life.

While it may seek (in its sincere expressions) only neutrality toward religion, strict separationism in fact evidences a certain hostility toward religion — the effect of which is to deprive society of necessary moral and spiritual resources, to misinterpret and misrepresent the history of our culture, and to provoke anger and resentment among those who never consented to make our public life a «secular» enterprise.