Sentences with phrase «with adherents»

Unfortunately Gaia is often misrepresented as a conscious super-being deserving of religious devotion, with some adherents even advocating Gaia should replace the earth's major religions.

During the 20th Century movements such as CoBrA and ZERO were, by definition, international with adherents practicing in different European cities and an exhibition programme touring the world.

It is controversial, with some adherents claiming every kind of benefit possible and detractors pointing out problems.

During these explorations... I have come into the most intimate contact with adherents of all the great religions, Hindus, Muslims, Buddhists and Confucians.

At a conference in Japan, a pioneer of Christian dialogue with tribal peoples once observed that Western Christians tend to be at ease only with those adherents of other faiths who are as precise and sober as they are.

As we enter into dialogue with adherents of other religions, we must be courteous and kind.

What we are witnessing, I would suggest, is that the Holocaust is taking on some of the characteristics of a cult, with adherents promoting a dogmatic approach to a series of sacred events.

I think it is appropriate in our liberal democracy for Christians, along with adherents of other religions, to make decisions about political issues on the basis of whatever considerations they find true and relevant.

Few would have had clear knowledge of the tenets of Islam or much social interaction with its adherents.

We find ourselves in conversation with adherents of other religions, and the question whether Christ is the only way to God inevitably arises.

The confusion of a proximate, churchly, with the ultimate, divine, context and the attendant confusion of goals, lies at the heart of many dilemmas in which the Christian missionary enterprise is involved in its dealings with the adherents of other religions.

Equally suspect is the rational for this purge (designed, of course, to put David above political reproach), and David's calculated gesture of rapprochement with the adherents of Saul in the final disposal of all the mortal remains of the male Saulides (II Sam.

To understand other religions we need to spend time with their adherents — to listen, question and be friends with them also.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

Not exact matches

Sussman outlines four ways the app can unite the brand with Nike's most loyal adherents.

Each of these ideas has its own body of adherents — management thinkers pushing a particular point of view, and practising executives experimenting with a different way of working.

Both Bitcoin and its blockchain are gaining imitators as well as adherents, along with plenty of critics, including Jamie Dimon, the chief executive officer of JPMorgan Chase & Co..

And, by your standards, the Jewish community, with roughly 6 million adherents in the United States, and 12 million worldwide (comparable to the Mormon community), isn't «relevant on the global scale» either.

The researchers found Illinois to be the most Muslim state with around 2.8 percent of the population identifying as Muslim adherents.

As Christianity grew, its adherents were rich and wealthy, who dealth with Christians exclusively in loaning money and investing in business.

Strong discontent with the Chinese government brought him many adherents, especially among the poorer classes, and the movement spread with great violence through the eastern valley of the Chang River.

Also, replace the word «god» in that sentence with the name of ANY of the 10,000 gods mankind has worshiped over time and that god's adherents would have made the EXACT SAME claim.

But, to my surprise, I learned through my reporting that as Christianity finds its place in Chinese culture, its adherents are less defined by how they cope with state - sponsored adversity.

Many other religions are replete with miracle stories and require of their adherents the suspension of ordinary historical reasoning.

Not my idea of healthy but then again if the adherent was a free thinking person with intelligence they would not think they were an atheist.

Note to anyone wishing to persuade former adherents to literal or fundamentalist theology to «return to the fold» — you'll catch more flies with honey than vinegar — and if your aim is to catch «em rather than kill «em, you might want to avoid using a flyswatter.

well I heard you were looking for a place to fit in full of adherent people with the same objective a family to cling to and call brethren come join us

... The reality is that the adherents of this view of Islam are numbered in many millions, have in some countries, elements of official support, and are systematically teaching it to millions of young people across the world... even in its more moderate and non-violent form it has a way of thinking that is still inconsistent with the pluralist and open - minded view of the world that defines the only way it can work peacefully in the 21st century.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

The myth has more adherents with it than it would if hell were not included in it.

He seems to have entered Jerusalem with a crowd of enthusiastic adherents; all were full of joy and of confidence that now the Kingdom of God was beginning.

Even though we live in a time where Islam is the world's second largest religion, with over 1.5 billion adherents, Islam is also probably the planet's most misunderstood religion.

But there is no doubting the popularity and fruits of the charismatic influence, with many of its adherents being instinctively on the side of orthodox belief and moral precepts.

During the 1990s the influence of Buddhism grew markedly with a large increase in adherents (800,000 in 1983 to 4.9 m in 1995).

Adherents of the great historic religions are usually too much concerned with the primary historical events rather than with the universal truth discovered through them.

The danger of this position is that it leaves its adherents as a puzzle to themselves, because their beliefs about themselves will be at variance with their true nature.

From the pulpit of a church, speaking to a live audience about religious diversity, Obama sarcastically belittled America's Judeo - Christian heritage and degraded its adherents with trite remarks typical of any atheistic antagonist, saying things like: «Whatever we were, we are no longer a Christian nation,» «The Sermon on the Mount is a passage that is so radical that our own defense department wouldn't survive its application» and «To base our policy making upon such commitments as moral absolutes would be a dangerous thing.»

The task of the missionary today, it was maintained, is to see the best in other religions, to help the adherents of those religions to discover, or to rediscover, all that is best in their own traditions, to cooperate with the most active and vigorous elements in the other traditions in social reform and in the purification of religious expression.

Adherents of the Christian faith may continue to love these enemies of the Divine, but as a Jew I believe that the bin Ladens of this world chose their path freely, and that, like David, we ought to «hate them with perfect hatred» — for they know well what they do.

You are not so moral... and the recent events with in the catholic church, and the amazing silence from its adherents to the pope to clean house, is proof that the church holds society to a higher standard than it is able to meet itself..

«9 Yet, in a later verse of the same Gatha, mention is made of the final attainment of perfection, when «the blow of destruction shall fall upon the Demon of falsehood, and her adherents shall perish with her.

No, my research has turned up the fact that Hitler was in fact an adherent to a strange mixture of old Teutonic paganism mixed with Hinduistic belief in reincarnation, New Age, belief, relicism, etc..

Here it suffices to say that adherents typically proved themselves tireless toilers in the Lord's vineyard and viewed the end of history with anticipation, not apprehension.

Proposals for transcending the nation - state with a world government have been around for centuries, and gained many adherents following the catastrophic breakup of the world system in World War I.

Since these «mixed» ventures may not always be the churches» most direct or effective way of fulfilling their central function of explaining the ultimate meaning of life to their adherents — and certainly not if muffled by the requirements of public fisc — perhaps churches should be less eager to enter into what can at best be but a very unequal partnership with the public, and less tenacious in clinging to «mixed» institutions rather than letting them spin off to nonsectarian auspices.

Americans in the two opposing strains of Protestantism, the evangelical and liberal, along with many adherents of Pentecostal and holiness cults, would agree that religious knowledge is special knowledge that can not be taught or learned by ordinary means (Philip J. Lee, Against the Protestant Gnostics, 113).

The televangelists have used this power to join forces with the political right in order to bring about a nation more in conformity with what its adherents believe to be the will of God, or at least the demands of Christianity.

Were it to be otherwise, he maintains, «in the name of toleration, the believer is asked to associate on a common level of total acceptance with the atheist, the pervert, the criminal and the adherents of other religions.»

Islam is now or soon will be the second largest religion in the U.S., with approximately 7 million adherents.

As I have never been a christian or an adherent of any religion, past experience is not an issue with me.