Sentences with phrase «traditional belief structures»

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This prejudice favouring traditional religions demonstrates a degree of imperial ethics... Sometimes, while not based on established jurisprudence, the perception is that we are prepared to challenge in the courts a newer religion with different belief structures but are prepared to accept the more established religions.

More recently, the idea of plausibility structures has been employed in several studies concerned with the question of how American evangelicals are able to maintain their traditional religious beliefs within the secular, pluralistic context of modern culture.

One that was based on a survey of mainline church members, for example, suggested that identification with the local community served as an important plausibility structure for traditional religious tenets.13 Furthermore, those who made such localistic identifications were considerably more likely than «cosmopolitans» to espouse traditional religious beliefs (controlling for a variety of other factors) and to allow these beliefs to influence their thinking on racial and social questions as well.

The third of the major functions of traditional religious faith is to provide a body of belief structures which serve to harmonise the many disparate ideas, experiences and institutions within society in such a way that individual as well as corporate needs and aspirations are given expression.

I suggest that by refusing to demonise the incumbent, Syllenhaal isn't just challenging our beliefs around politics but also the traditional structure of a Hollywood screenplay, which usually coerces viewers into an emotional response by ramping up the evil of the villain.

Noah Purifoy's work amasses found objects — chair - casters, pipes, shoe lasts — into mysterious totemic structures that tap into a vein of traditional African belief that runs deep in American culture, while Betye Saar brings a chilling political twist to the form with the likes of Sambo's Banjo, where she dangles the image of a lynched man inside a «Sambo» banjo case.

I think you are going to need to back up the rest of your belief structure with data regarding how development of such low - density, intermittent, environment - «taking» farms of mirrors, panels and bird - blenders can actually be achieved without the baseline backup of traditional power - stations.