Sentences with phrase «upon religious practices»

She is less certain and committed to the religious practices they avow, and seems somehow caught between saving her son and saving her marriage (which appeared to be dependent upon religious practices she was less committed to).

For it to play that role, theologians must be engaged in reflection upon religious practices.

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil restraints placed upon religious practice.

Not exact matches

Restorative punishment, much like other practices of reconciliation, retrieves the distinctive logic of a religious tradition and brings it to bear upon modern liberal democracy.

Many of us who have ditched religion did so upon realizing that religious dogma, religious practice, and biblical scripture is illogical, impractical and can not hold up under any rational analysis.

A «neutral» law, the Supreme Court has explained, is one that does not «target -LSB--RSB- religious beliefs as such» or have as its «object... to infringe upon or restrict practices because of their religious motivation» (Church of the Lukumi Babalu Aye, Inc. v City of Hialeah, 508 US 520 [1993]-RRB-.

These profiles are sufficiently different, that one can make a fairly accurate guess of the individual's religious practices and beliefs, based upon their personality profile.

The sociologist of religion will have to examine the character of this twofold relationship in the case of each individual group because the nature, intensity, duration, and organization of a religious group depends upon the way in which its members experience God, conceive of, and communicate with Him, and upon the way they experience fellowship, conceive of, and practice it.

well just thinking about these wars in the muslim / mid-east world over religious differences (which may reflect mental states in many ways) in a world where most realize that living in the present moment is best way to happiness and being in the moment in non-strife and awareness through the teachings of masters such as found in the buddhist, taoist, zen, etc., etc., etc. spriritually based practices of religious like thought and teachings, etc. that to ask these scientifically educated populace whom have access to vast amounts of knowledges and understandings on the internet, etc. to believe in past beliefs that perhaps gave basis and inspiration to that which followed — but is not the end all of all times or knowledges — and is thus — non self - sustaining in a belief that does not encompass growth of knowledge and understanding of all truths and being as it is or could be — is to not respect the intelligence and minds and personage of even themselves — not to be disrespected nor disrespectful in any way — only to point out that perhaps too much is asked to put others into the cloak of blind faith and adherance to the past that disregards the realities of the present and the potential of the future... so you try to live in the past — and destroy your present and your future — where is the intelligence in that — and why do people continually fear monger or allow to be fear — mongered into this destructive vision of the future based upon the past?

Of course, the influence of religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, science).

Dependence upon the practice, rhetoric and norms of secular education is risky business, for, I suggest, there is something unique about education in religious communities.

In another context we have said that the nature, intensity, duration, and organization of a religious group depends upon the way in which its members experience God, how they conceive of and communicate with Him, and how they experience fellowship, conceive of it, and practice it.

Such dialogue is also a practice that ought to cease: it has no discernible benefits, many negative effects, and is based upon a radical misapprehension of the nature and significance of religious commitments.

By the revival of religious emotions, by surrender to God, by commitment to an unselfish life of honesty, purity, unselfishness and love, by a renewal of the practice of confession and by the sharing of religious experiences, by reliance upon divine guidance and by a revivification of first - century immediacy and spirituality, it proposes, and claims to solve, the problems of the religious crisis in a practical manner.

In 1972, the Supreme Court declared in Wisconsin v. Yoder that the state violates free - exercise rights if it infringes upon a sincerely held religious practice in such a way as to affect its exercise.

That's not even including the millions upon millions of individual victims of ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and the centuries of human sacrifice practiced by cults around the planet.

In this method of examining a particular religious tradition, stress was laid upon determining what social needs were being met through religious beliefs and practices by a culture at a particular point in its history.

If you read the comments and ask family members who were in attendance of the practice and actual graduation, you will see an overwhelmhing response that he WAS NOT ordered and / or asked to do anything that would infringe upon his religious beliefs.

If you do believe this, why practice Mormonism, which has in its primary religious text: And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity.

We have also spoken of the power of religious naturalism, especially drawing upon Bernard Meland, to develop the theory and practice of a sensitive discernment, the key component in a land, water, and sky aesthetic.

All it prevents them from doing is imposing the religious practices of one group upon others, out of concern they might feel uncomfortable.

Drawing upon folklore, masquerade traditions, religious practices, food, and Nigerian popular aesthetics, Saro - Wiwa's work shuttles between documentary and performance, testing art's capacity to transform and to envision new concepts of environment and environmentalism.

Parents often emphasize in the agreement that neither parent will change the child's current religious affiliation, impose any religious practice upon the child, or initiate or terminate religious education for him, except upon the prior consent of the other.