The school appealed the IRS decision all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court, arguing that the University met all other criteria for tax-exempt status and that the school's racial discrimination was based on sincerely held religious beliefs, that " God intended segregation of the races and that the Scriptures forbid interracial marriage.

Pseudoscientific beliefs are widespread, even among public school science teachers and newspaper reporters.

" Its Teach the Controversy campaign aims to teach creationist anti-evolution beliefs in United States public high school science courses alongside accepted scientific theories, positing a scientific controversy exists over these subjects .< ref name = ForrestMayPaper >

According to Boas ' principle, which represents the mainstream school in contemporary anthropology, a culture's beliefs and activities should be interpreted in terms of its own culture.

Sylvan I. Alleyne, Velma LaPoint, Jennifer Lee and Harold W. Mitchell of The Journal of Negro Education stated that little empirical research exists regarding how effective school uniforms are in how effectively uniforms enhance academic performance and social environments, and also that little research exists regarding teachers ' beliefs regarding the nature of issues related to dress codes, and especially so regarding racial and ethnic minorities.

Research suggests that these candidates run solely to propagate their religious or moral beliefs as school policy.

The Cārvāka school of philosophy had a variety of atheistic and materialistic beliefs.

The school has made headlines several times, most recently when some of its pupils refused to study Shakespeare due to his alleged anti-Semitic views and the school's principal, Rabbi Abraham Pinter saluted the girls for having pride in their beliefs.

Long went to Hawaii in 1917 to work as an elementary school teacher, and became interested in the religious beliefs and practices of the kahunas, but none talked to him so he was unable to penetrate to the inner workings of this religion.

It is a community of people with common religious beliefs, with a panel of church elders who set policy for the community's common church, K-12 school, and private 4-year university, and a loose form of self-( municipal ) government.

Although his scholarly work was never subordinated to his early political beliefs, the school of thought he was associated with in interwar Romania, namely Trăirism, as well as the works of Julius Evola he continued to draw inspiration from, have thematic links to fascism.

During the trial, school superintendent Roudabush displayed contempt for the beliefs of the children, stating that he felt they had been " indoctrinated " and that the existence of even a few dissenters would be " demoralizing ," leading to widespread disregard for the flag and American values.

Story's belief in the need for an elite law school based on merit and dedicated to public service helped build the school's reputation at the time, although the contours of these beliefs have not been consistent throughout its history.

Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs.

His father, a strict disciplinarian with strong religious beliefs, sent the young John to a school in Hertford and then to John Eames's dissenting academy in London.

It is often said of this school of thought ( which dominated the field of psychology, at least in the Anglo-American world, for much of the twentieth century ) that it denied the existence of mental states such as beliefs, although at least in Skinner's original version it merely denied the theoretical utility ( or necessity ) of postulating such states in order to explain behavior.

Theosophy is an active philosophical school today, and through a process of schism has also given rise to other mystical, philosophical and religious beliefs and organizations.

The famous theological school of Edessa, of which, according to some accounts, Ibas was head, and to which the Christian youth from Persia and adjacent lands came for education, offered many opportunities for propagating Theodore's beliefs.

Philosophically, the Tendai school did not deviate substantially from the beliefs that had been created by the Tiantai school in China.

The University of Minnesota, Morris ( UMM ) Chancellor defended Myers, and stated: " I believe that behaviors that discriminate against or harass individuals or groups on the basis of their religious beliefs are reprehensible " and that the school " affirms the freedom of a faculty member to speak or write as a public citizen without institutional discipline or restraint.

The case was brought by the families of public school students in New Hyde Park, New York who complained that the voluntary prayer to " Almighty God " contradicted their religious beliefs.

The de Villettes were wealthy and took good care of the child, but they were ardent Protestants and they continued to school Françoise in their beliefs.

In Konin there are absolutely amazing, complete remains of what beliefs of Communists could bring to architecture-they are reflected in entire districts being built at that time with specifis array of streets and unique, morbid a little bit atmosphere of the town.

Mostly Dimasas inhabiting North Cachar Hills and Karbi Anglong districts are successful in preserving their age old traditional religious beliefs and practices in and through the celebration of several festivals, with some exceptions, due to being Hinduised.

The beliefs of a religion also reflecting the values are expressed in creeds, dogmas, and doctrines, and form what Durkheim calls a credo.

Respecting ethnicity and family beliefs are key to a family-centered and ethnically competent approach.

Archaeological interpretations of the Chaco road system are divided between an economic purpose and a symbolic, ideological role linked to ancestral Puebloan beliefs.

Their beliefs and behavior are difficult to decipher from physical materials, and their languages remain unknown as they had no known writing system.

One consequence of the Hindu and Spiritist beliefs is that our current lives are both afterlife and a beforelife.

According to those beliefs events in our current life are consequences of actions taken in previous lives, or Karma.

Both Spirit Prison and Paradise are temporary according to Latter-day Saint beliefs.

Articles of faith are sets of beliefs usually found in creeds, sometimes numbered, and often beginning with " We believe ...", which attempt to more or less define the fundamental theology of a given religion, and especially in the Christian Church.

The core beliefs of Jacobus Arminius and the Remonstrants are summarized as such by theologian Stephen Ashby:

Some of these beliefs, such as Pelagianism and semi-Pelagianism ( see below ) are not considered to be within Arminian orthodoxy and are dealt with elsewhere.

* Many traditional beliefs in the Philippines still practised to an extent today are animist and spiritist in origin in that there are rituals aimed at pacifying malevolent spirits or are apotropaic in nature.

Folklore consists of legends, music, oral history, proverbs, jokes, popular beliefs, fairy tales, stories, tall tales, and customs that are the traditions of a culture, subculture, or group.

The meanings of the sky vary from culture to culture ; nevertheless there are scientific methods which can be applied across cultures when examining ancient beliefs.

Bahá ' í beliefs are sometimes described as syncretic combinations of earlier religious beliefs.

In an article addressed to critics of tank warfare, he wrote " until our critics can produce some new and better method of making a successful land attack other than self-massacre, we shall continue to maintain our beliefs that tanks — properly employed, needless to say — are today the best means available for land attack.

Jasmuheen claims that their beliefs are based on the writings and " more recent channelled material " from St. Germain.

Though there are many important differences of interpretation and opinion of the Bible on which Christianity is based, Christians share a set of beliefs that they hold as essential to their faith.

Creeds ( from Latin credo meaning " I believe ") are concise doctrinal statements or confessions, usually of religious beliefs.

Among Christian beliefs, the death and resurrection of Jesus are two core events on which much of Christian doctrine and theology is based.

" Attributes that are seen as religious — such as ancestor worship, ritual, and sacrifice — were advocated by Confucius as necessary for social harmony ; however, these attributes can be traced to the traditional non-Confucian Chinese beliefs of Chinese folk religion, and are also practiced by Daoists and Chinese Buddhists.