Sentences with phrase «understanding of a particular religion»

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So all you can legitimately claim is that based on your imperfect partial understanding of some the world's religions none of those particular religions seemed to be true.

In fact religion is commonly understood as consisting precisely (from our viewpoint) in such relatively trivial and non-essential elements — as for example, the precise acceptance of particular historic doctrines, the reverencing of sacred books, or the performance of specific ritual acts.

erience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

I feel this piece is insulting, and shows very little understanding of what people who don't ascribe to a particular religion really «feel» (since this seems to be a bad word with this guy).

It's my experience that ONLY my friends who are not attached to a particular tradition, and understand the phrase «religion in the abstract,» will usually have read more than one of those book, taken more than one seriously, or shown any intellectual honesty or maturity about the subject at all...

By these methods it is possible to understand the rules and regulations of religion and to discover their proper application in particular instances.

It is a time when new leaders emerge who articulate a set of commonly shared beliefs and understandings — a new worldview — which the vast majority of the population accept because it makes sense in terms of their own experience, regardless of their particular denomination or religion or formal belief or affiliation.

We may end up with some generalizations, but we should move from the particular to the general, not from ideas about religion in general to the understanding of and response to particular traditions.

I hope that this brief summary of Islamic economics, and in particular Ibn - Khaldun, will help to promote the idea of interfaith dialogue, of mutual respect and understanding for other religions.

A religion is thus understood as the particular expression of a universal mode of human reaction to Ultimate Reality.

Furthermore, it must be kept in mind that the historian of religions is engaged in the religio - scientific inquiry of religions for the sake of «understanding,» and not for the service of the propagation of any particular faith.