A number of religions also satisfy for many the need of being linked with the ultimate and eternal.

Writing to his colleague George Herbert Palmer -- `` Glorious old Palmer '', as he addresses him -- James says that if only the students at Harvard could really understand Royce, Santayana, Palmer, and himself and see that their varying systems are `` so many religions, ways of fronting life, and worth fighting for '', then Harvard would have a genuine philosophic universe.

Giving alms to the poor is often considered an altruistic action in many cultures and religions.

It is a traditional virtue in many cultures, and a core aspect of various religious traditions, though the concept of ' others ' toward whom concern should be directed can vary among cultures and religions.

Many religions, whether they believe in the soul's existence in another world like Christianity, Islam and many pagan belief systems, or in reincarnation like many forms of Hinduism and Buddhism, believe that one's status in the afterlife is a reward or punishment for their conduct during life.

Animism is a belief held in many religions around the world, and is not, as some have purported, a type of religion in itself.

Symbols of many religions on a pillar of the Bahá ' í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois, U. S.

Abrahamic religions, such as Christianity, traditionally condemn male homosexual behavior, although many denominations have instead developed accepting views.

In the wake of these changes new religious and philosophical movements have drawn freely upon many of the world's religions to attract new initiates.

Secular or atheist feminists have engaged in feminist criticism of religion, arguing that many religions have oppressive rules towards women and misogynistic themes and elements in religious texts.

Spurred by the perception that women were not treated equitably in many religions, some women turned to a Female Deity as more in tune with their spiritual needs.

Faith Healing claims have been made by many religions and the sick have visited their shrines in hopes of recovery.

In addition, he spoke up for tolerance of the other world religions in many arguments with representatives of the predominant schools of thought ( e. g. within the " Anti-Goeze ").

Often referred to as Gaianism, or the Gaian Religion, this spiritual aspect of the philosophy is very broad and inclusive, making it adaptable to other religions: Taoism, Neo-Paganism, Pantheism, Judeo-Christian Religions, and many others.

Again in second-wave feminism in the U. S., as well as in many European and other countries, religion became the focus of some feminist analysis in Judaism, Christianity, and other religions, and some women turned to ancient goddess religions as an alternative to Abrahamic religions ( Womanspirit Rising 1979 ; Weaving the Visions 1989 ).

Kidder notes that this concept's framework appears prominently in many religions, including " Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Zoroastrianism, and the rest of the world's major religions ".

The " Declaration Toward a Global Ethic " from the Parliament of the World ’ s Religions ( 1993 ) proclaimed the Golden Rule (" We must treat others as we wish others to treat us ") as the common principle for many religions.

The Christmas and holiday season surrounds the winter solstice, Christmas and other holidays, and is celebrated by many religions and cultures.

In many religions, entrance to Heaven is conditional on having lived a " good life " ( within the terms of the spiritual system ) or " accepting God into your heart.

Some religions uphold the belief that other forms of afterlife exist in addition to heaven and hell, such as purgatory, though many hells, such as Naraka, serve as purgatories themselves.

Too many people think that the primary purpose of a higher education is to help you make a living ; ;

As it is in so many affairs of the heart, a man and a woman meet and something clicks.

I want the room in the attic prepared for him He is a most unusual lad, quite precocious in many ways.

There is much truth in both these charges, and not many Bourbons deny them.

They are huge areas which have been swept by winds for so many centuries that there is no soil left, but only deep bare ridges fifty or sixty yards apart with ravines between them thirty or forty feet deep and the only thing that moves is a scuttling layer of sand.

Isfahan became more of a legend than a place, and now it is for many people simply a name to which they attach their notions of old Persia and sometimes of the East.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

The street that is full now of traffic and parked cars then and for many years drowsed on an August afternoon in the shade of the curbside trees, and silence was a weight, almost palpable, in the air.

After how many generations is such wealth ( mounting all the while through the manipulations of high finance ) purified of taint??

The same command is repeated as many times as there are levels in rank from general to corporal.

Of course, there must be clarity: a single distinct impression is more valuable than many fuzzy ones.

If many of the characters in contemporary novels appear to be the bloodless relations of characters in a case history it is because the novelist is often forgetful today that those things that we call character manifest themselves in surface behavior, that the ego is still the executive agency of personality, and that all we know of personality must be discerned through the ego.

There is evidence to suggest, in fact, that many authors of the humorous sketches were prompted to write them -- or to make them as indelicate as they are -- by way of protesting against the artificial refinements which had come to dominate the polite letters of the South.

It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.

Each man, that is, is both one and many.

The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.

Third, the United States is pressing forward in the development of large rocket engines to place vehicles of many tons into space for exploration purposes.

Outstanding among these is the idea of human nature itself, including the many definitions that have been advanced over the centuries ; ;

The other is that the charge for cabanas and parasols, though modest from an American point of view, still is a little high for many Athenians.

Arminius held that God's justice was satisfied individually, while Hugo Grotius and many of Wesley's followers taught that it was satisfied governmentally.

Though the only accounts of his lectures seem to show a sort of eccentric style and approach, he was said to have been good friends with many other masters at the school in Paris, and taught there, as well as some time in southern France, into his old age.

He also visited and taught in many other Jewish towns ( Yer.

Certain basic teachings appear in many places throughout the early texts, so most scholars conclude that the Buddha must at least have taught these teachings:

Coolidge Senior engaged in many occupations, and ultimately enjoyed a statewide reputation as a prosperous farmer, storekeeper and public servant ; he farmed, taught school, ran a local store, served in the Vermont House of Representatives and the Vermont Senate, and held various local offices including justice of the peace and tax collector.

At many universities, control engineering courses are taught in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Mechanical engineering, and Aerospace engineering ; in others it is connected to computer science, as most control techniques today are implemented through computers, often as embedded systems ( as in the automotive field ).

It is taught as part of the undergraduate curriculum of any chemical engineering program, and employs many of the same principles in control engineering.

In contrast to Judaism and many other traditions, he taught that there is a place for voluntary singleness in Christian service.

Jews and Christians accept as valid and binding many of the same moral principles taught in the Torah.

When the Polish words and melodies started to become popular, including many new secular pastorals ( pastoralka, or shepherd's songs ), they were not written down originally, but rather taught among people by heart.

Today it has campuses in Alexandria, Cairo, and various dioceses throughout Egypt, as well as outside Egypt, in New Jersey, Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne and London, where potential clergymen and other qualified men and women are taught many subjects, among which are theology, church history, missionary studies, and Coptic language.

One such algorithm is long division, taught to many school children.

Drawing the underlying construction is a fundamental skill for representational art and is taught in many books and schools, as its correct application will resolve most uncertainties about smaller details and make the final image look self-consistent.

Jones however was the one who is generally credited with having gone much of the way towards a practical solution through his scheme of ' Cardinal Vowels ', a relatively simple system of reference vowels which for many years has been taught systematically to students within the British tradition.

More specifically, a modern kit ( for a right handed player ), as used in popular music, taught in many music schools, and for which qualifications are available from Trinity College London consists of:

According to the Buddhist tradition, the Buddha first taught the four noble truths in the very first teaching he gave after he attained enlightenment, as recorded in the discourse Setting in Motion the Wheel of the Dharma ( Dharmacakra Pravartana Sūtra ), and he further clarified their meaning in many subsequent teachings.

In recent years flamenco has become popular all over the world and is taught in many countries: in Japan there are more academies than there are in Spain.

Homeschooling can be an option for families living in isolated rural locations, living temporarily abroad, to allow for more traveling, while many young athletes and actors are taught at home.

Italian is widely taught in many schools around the world, but rarely as the first foreign language ; in fact, Italian is considered the fourth-or fifth-most taught foreign language in the world.

By the end of the 15th century was widely professed and taught in many theological faculties, but such was the influence of the Dominicans, and the weight of the arguments of Thomas Aquinas ( who had been canonised in 1323 and declared " Doctor Angelicus " of the Church in 1567 ) that the Council of Trent ( 1545 – 63 )— which might have been expected to affirm the doctrine — instead declined to take a position.

His mother, Ruth Hilda ( née Holmes ; 1916 – 1991 ), taught at an elementary school and was a liberal activist, while his father, Edmund Norwood Bacon ( May 2, 1910 – October 14, 2005 ), was a well-respected architect and a prominent Philadelphian who had been Executive Director of the Philadelphia City Planning Commission for many years.

In many styles of T ' ai chi ch ' uan, crescent kicks are taught as tripping techniques.

The sequence NOM-VOC-ACC-GEN-DAT-ABL has been the usual order taught in Britain and many Commonwealth countries since the publication of Hall Kennedy's Latin Primer ( 1866 ).