Sentences with phrase «traditions creation stories»

For example, in some legal traditions creation stories carry significant weight in determining the degree of attachment of certain peoples to particular places.

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The common «creation story» emerging from the fields of astrophysics, biology, and scientific cosmology makes small any myth of creation from the various religious traditions: some ten billion or so years ago the universe began from a big bang exploding the «matter,» which was infinitesimally small and infinitely dense, outward to create the untold number of galaxies of which our tiny planet is but one blip on the screen.

These two competing strands of orthodox Christian tradition (the ontological - difference strand and the gender - as - compromise strand) both claim the Genesis creation stories for themselves.

It is only in the editorial expansion of the Priestly writer that the Sabbath tradition is identified with the creation story.

(2015) uses sound and light to tell the Diné creation story, a chronology long rooted in oral tradition.

It mixes scientific history with creation stories belonging to religious (Hindu, Buddhist, Jewish, Christian, Islamic, etc.), hermetic (Kabbalah, Freemasonry, etc.), and oral (Dogon, Inuit, Navajo, etc.) traditions in a joyous syncretism.

The work combines scientific history and the myths and stories relating to creation that have disseminated through religious and cultural traditions.

From the foundations of time, the big bang, and the creation of the cosmos, to the fate of the earth as predicted by leading scientists and the sacred stories and traditions of Native peoples, this acclaimed collection of the world's wisdom shows that the future of the planet lies in listening to both these worldviews.