The image of the Buddha is assuredly going to give to religion the most brilliant importance in five lands, that is in Lankadvipa ( Sri Lanka ), Ramalakka, Dvaravati, Chieng Mai and Lan Chang ( Laos ).

In fact, one important aspect of their very religion is the annihilation of men ''.

When decision makers act within this frame they determine whether a claim put forward in the name of religion is to be accepted by the larger community as appropriate to religion.

I am not aware of great attention by any of these authors or by the psychotherapeutic profession to the role of literary study in the development of conscience -- most of their attention is to a pre-literate period of life, or, for the theologians of course, to the influence of religion.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

To Adams that age in which religion exercised power over the entire culture of the race was one of imagination, and it is largely the admiration he so obviously held for such eras that betrays a peculiar religiosity -- a sentiment he would have probably denied.

It is both great writing and profound religion.

The place of religion in the simple, preliterate societies is quite definite ; ;

If the inner functions of religion are performed, the individual is a composed, ordered, motivated, and emotionally secure associate ; ;

In the last analysis, religion is the means of inducing, formulating, expressing, enhancing, implementing, and perpetuating man's deepest experience -- the religious.

In providing for these inner individual functions, religion undertakes in behalf of individual peace of mind and well-being services for which there is no other institution.

In America also all of our major religious bodies officially sanction a universalistic ethic which is reflective of our common religion.

The religion, in fact, is an expression of the unity of the group, small or large.

His view is that every religion pertains to a community, and, conversely, every community is in one aspect a religious unit.

The unifying effect of religion is also brought out in the fact that historically peoples have clung together as more or less cohesive cultural units, with religion as the dominant bond, even though spatially dispersed and not politically organized.

The tenacity with which present metaphysical attitudes fetishize private intuition offers the strongest evidence that the gulf between scientific and delphic ways of philosophizing is built into the present conflict over the limits and purpose of science, religion and ideology.

Conscience and religion are concerned with private sin: The civil law is concerned with public crimes.

The truth is that any revival of traditional and indigenous religion will serve to promote that sense of identity and Volksgeist which these young nations very much need.

" Many would agree with the Dalai Lama that Buddhism as a religion is kindness toward others.

Altruism is essential to the Sikh religion.

Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Apollo ( Attic, Ionic, and Homeric Greek:, Apollōn ( gen .: ); Doric:, Apellōn ; Arcadocypriot:, Apeilōn ; Aeolic:, Aploun ; ) is one of the most important and complex of the Olympian deities in ancient Greek and Roman religion, Greek and Roman mythology, and Greco – Roman Neopaganism.

The function of Apollo as a " healer " is connected with Paean ( Παιών-Παιήων ), the physician of the Gods in the Iliad, who seems to come from a more primitive religion.

American democratic thought, pointed up the relation between the Protestant movement in this country and the development of a social religion, which he called the American Democratic Faith.

If there was ever a thought in her mind she might devote her life to religion, it was now dispelled.

Courses are offered in ethics, the philosophy and history of religion, Christian thought and history, and the Bible.

It was a good thing that she clung to her religion, he thought.

As Moism lost support by the time of the Han, the main philosophical contenders were Legalism, which Confucian thought somewhat absorbed, the teachings of Lao-tzu, whose focus on more mystic ideas kept it from direct conflict with Confucianism, and the new Buddhist religion, which gained acceptance during the Southern and Northern Dynasties era.

In the past historians of religion and other students of myth thought of them as forms of primitive or early-stage science or religion and analyzed them in a literal or logical sense.

* John R. Hale, et al., " Questioning the Delphic Oracle: When science meets religion at this ancient Greek site, the two turn out to be on better terms than scholars had originally thought ", in Scientific American August 2003

Article 9 provides a right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion.

There are many divergent schools within the religion, and even people within the same current of thought will sometimes rule differently on a difficult issue.

Islamic philosophers such as Al-Kindi ( Alkindus ), Al-Farabi ( Alpharabius ), and Averroes ( Ibn Rushd ) reinterpreted Greek thought in the context of their religion.

Many believed religion had been used as a source of conflict since time eternal, and that logical, rational thought was the way forward for mankind.

The school of religious history called the Religionsgeschichtliche Schule was a 19th century German school of thought which was the first to systematically study religion as a socio-cultural phenomenon.

'" Rousseau, who thought he had been defending religion, was crushed.

He declared that the aims of the congress were freedom of religion, right to form associations, freedom of expression of thought, equality before law for every individual without distinction of caste, colour, creed or religion, protection to regional languages and cultures, safeguarding the interests of the peasants and labour, abolition of untouchability, introduction of adult franchise, imposition of prohibition, nationalisation of industries, socialism, and establishment of a secular India.

He observed the effects of superstition on the lives of the Indian people and wrote of religion that “… it shuts its eyes to reality .” Nehru thought that religion was at the root of the stagnation and lack of progress in India.

He thought the religion and issues associated with it were not just a condition of the belief system.

Adler divides these second-order philosophical problems into two branches: one addressing the objects of thought, such as Being, Cause, Change, Infinity, Destiny, and Love ; the other addressing the subjects, or procedural domains, of thought, e. g. philosophy of religion, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, philosophy of science.

The source or justification of this system may be thought to be, for instance, human nature, shared vulnerability to suffering, the demands of universal reason, what is common among existing moral codes, or the common mandates of religion ( although it can be argued that the latter is not in fact moral universalism because it may distinguish between Gods and mortals ).

Not having shown interest in religion before, he became interested in religious thought.

The concept of theodicy was expanded mainly with the thought of Weber and his addition of ethical considerations to the subject of religion.

This is not to say that all modernists, or modernist movements rejected either religion, or all aspects of Enlightenment thought, rather that modernism questioned the axioms of the previous age.