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  Civil religion Info - Bored Net - Boredom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Civil religion is a name given by sociologists of religion to the folk religion of a nation or a political culture.
Civil religion tends to be problematic from a theological viewpoint.
The aggressive civil religion of the United States of America is an occasional cause of political friction between the United States and its allies in Europe, where civil religion is relatively muted.
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 Religion - Gurupedia
Religion is subject to much study and discussion in the fields of theology, sociology, anthropology, and among ordinary people.
Institutional religion came into being about 4000 years ago, roughly coincident with the invention of writing, and writing was long the exclusive preserve of the priestly classes, and as such served to preserve their power and privilege.
Religions of pre-industrial peoples, or cultures in development to industrial conditions, are similarly observed by the anthropology of religion.
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 Ecclesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ecclesia (Church), the Christian Church, which is composed of Ecclesia Militans (the "Church Militant"), and Ecclesia Triumphans (the "Church Triumphant").
Ecclesia (sociology of religion), a concept in the typology of religion.
The Ecclesia, the healing temple of The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Mount Ecclesia.
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 Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Religion is belief in the divine supernatural or sacred that results in worship ; that worship itself; the institutional or expression of that worship; or some combination these.
Institutional religion came into being about 4000 years roughly coincident with the invention of writing and writing was long the exclusive of the priestly classes and as such to preserve their power and privilege.
Religions of pre-industrial peoples or cultures in development to industrial conditions are observed by the anthropology of religion.
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 Religion - Theo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Religion is belief in the divine, supernatural, or sacred that results in worship; that worship itself; the institutional or culturally-bound expression of that worship; or some combination of these.
From this standpoint, a "religion" is any set of beliefs that defines origins, present status (ontology), and the goal and means by which it is to be reached (teleology), giving reasons for individual worth and moral actions.
Two identifying features of religions are that to some extent they all (a) require faith and (b) seek to organize and influence the thoughts and actions of their adherents.
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 Qwika - similar:Cult
In religion and sociology, a cult is a cohesive group of people (often a relatively small and new religious movement) devoted to beliefs or practices that the surrounding culture or society considers to be fa...
The sociology of religion is – among other elements – the study of the practices, social structures, historical backgrounds, development, universal themes, and roles of religion in society.
An ecclesia is one of the four members of the most common sociological typology of religious groups -- the other three are the denomination, the sect and the cult.
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 sociology - Religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Religion, a term sometimes used interchangeably with faith, is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, and the moral codes, practices and institutions associated with such belief.
Occasionally, the word "religion" is used to designate what should be more properly described as a "religious organization" – that is, an organization of people that supports the exercise of some religion, often taking the form of a legal entity.
Religion utilises methods that are based upon subjective interpretation of personal intuition or experience, and/or on the authority of a perceived prophet or a sacred text.
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 Qwika - Sect
Sects have many beliefs and practices in common with the religion or party that they have broken off from, but are differentiated by a number of doctrinal differences.
In contrast, a denomination is a large, well-established religious group; however, in Islam, the large groups such as Wahabi, Shi'a and Sunni are referred to as "sects", not "denominations".
Sects, in the sociological sense, are generally traditionalist and conservative, seeking to return a religion to its (perceived) original religious or political purity of principle.
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 ecclesia religion sociology for West Greenway Baptist Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Ecclesia (sociology of religion) An ecclesia is one of the four members of the most common sociological...
In religion and sociology, a cult is a group with a religious...
A state religion (also called an established church or state church) is a religious body or creed officially endorsed by the state.
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 Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on religion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Religions of pre-industrial peoples, or cultures in development, are similarly called myths in the anthropology^ of religion.
In this way, religion can be seen as promotional of people pushing guilt onto others, or becoming fanatical (doing things they otherwise wouldn't if they were 'free' of religion), in order to shed their own guilt and fear ultimately generated by the religion itself.
Some believe that religion cannot be separated from other aspects of life, or believe that certain cultures did not or do not separate their religious activities from other activities in the same way that some people in modern Western cultures do.
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 WOMAN AND THE SHINTÔ RELIGION
Their new teachings on religion and values and their faith-healing claims appeal to the mass of the people.
In both cases the individual was so completely absorbed into the demands of ritual and religion that the power and the welfare of the state depended on and were guaranteed by her chastity.
Under the influence of changed political and social conditions and of alien religions it altered its own form without developing its philosophy and ritual, in contrast to Shamanism in Siberia, for example, and apart from a few exceptions, gradually disappeared from the foreground of history and became submerged in folk belief.
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In the church-sect typology they are described as newly formed religious groups that form to protest elements of their parent religion (generally a denomination).
Their motivation tends to be situated in accusations of apostasy or heresy in the parent denomination; they are often decrying liberal trends in denominational development and advocating a return to true religion.
Sectarianism is sometimes defined in the sociology of religion as a worldview that emphasizes the unique legitimacy of believers' creed and practices and that heightens tension with the larger society by engaging in boundary-maintaining practices.
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 Ecclesia
Ecclesia is one of the topics in focus at Global Oneness.
Ecclesia non novit sanguinem (Latin) The church knows not blood; formula used by the Inquisition when it handed over its culprits to the secular arm for punishment, ignoring another maxim of ancient legal jurisprudence qui facit per alium, facit per se (who does something through another, does it himself).
The glossary is in a hierarchical order, first giving terms for God and angels, followed by terms for human beings and terms for family relationships, followed by terms fo body-parts, illnesses, religious and worldly ranks, craftsmen, days, months, clothing, household implements, plants, and a few birds and insects.
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 Protestantism and the Quest for Certainty
Here were ecclesiastically appointed theologians who, without hesitation, approached their own sacred scriptures in a spirit of critical inquiry—not, as the philosophes of the Enlightenment would have intended, in order to destroy faith, but on the contrary in order to arrive at a better understanding of the meaning of faith.
Well, the sociology of American religion suggests an answer: Yes, such institutions may be "weak"; the commitment of their members may be rather unreliable; but, yes, they can survive—and sometimes they show a surprising vitality.
What I am suggesting here, contrary to much conventional wisdom, is that they may derive a measure of comfort from this very fact and that it is on the basis of this acceptance that they might rethink their mission in American society.
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 Sociology Of Religion Sources - Islam, Catholic, Jewish...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Sociology of religion Social scientists tend to assume no supernatural intervention in the formation of religions, viewing them in the same way they view the development of other social structures...
The Sociology of Religion Durkheim's earlier concern with social regulation was in the main focused on the more external forces of control, more particularly legal regulations that can be studied, so...
Sociology of Religion From TheoWiki Table of contents 1 History 2 Paradigms 2.1 Structural-functional 2.2 Social-conflict 2.3 Symbolic-interaction 3 As applied to religion 3.1 Structural-functional...
www.fakkreligion.com /sociologyofreligion   (1455 words)

  
 CultureArtReligionLogicLanguageEtc   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Religion is commonly defined as belief concerning the supernatural, sacred, or divine, often resulting in worship, and possibly including related institutions and organizations.
Cultural studies developed in the late 20th century, in part through the reintroduction of Marxist thought into sociology, and in part through the articulation of sociology and other academic disciplines such as literary criticism, in order to focus on the analysis of subcultures in capitalist societies.
Following the non-anthropological tradition, cultural studies generally focus on the study of consumption goods (such as fashion, art, and literature).
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 civil religion
Beyond that, Rousseau affirmed that individuals' religious opinions should be beyond the reach of governments.
These facts have made public displays of religious piety by political leaders important to a large sector of the population; lacking an established church, they need public assurance of those leaders' religious beliefs.
The almost mythic origins of Thanksgiving begin with the encounter of strangers who shared the bounty of a harvest together.
www.measuroo.com /soc-C/civil_religion.php   (1472 words)

  
 A sect is a small religious group that has branched off...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
A sect is a small religious group that has branched off...
A cult cult, by contrast, also has a high degree of tension with the surrounding society, but its beliefs are (within the context of that society) new and innovative.
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 france religion school for West Greenway Baptist Church   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
And it is reenergizing a debate about the status of religion in...
Religion News Blog : France's first Muslim high school opens
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 Ecclesia - Article from FactBug.org - the fast Wikipedia mirror site
The popular assembly in ancient Athens, see Ecclesia (ancient Athens).
The Christian Church, composed of Ecclesia Militans (the "Church Militant"), and Ecclesia Triumphans (the "Church Triumphant"), see Ecclesia (Church).
A concept in the typology of religion, see Ecclesia (sociology of religion), ecclesiology.
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 Sect
sect, Sect, cult, denomination, ecclesia (sociology of religion), sectarianism
Dugpa 'drug pa dug-pa (Tibetan) Adherents of the Buddhist religion of Tibet who, previous to the reform by Tsong-kha-pa in the 14th century, followed sorcery and other more or less tantric practices, which are entirely foreign to the pure teachings of Buddhism.
In theosophical literature dugpa has been used as a synonym for Brother of the Shadow -- especially in The Mahatma Letters.
globaloneness.com /sect   (1135 words)

  
 Sect information - Search.com
A sect is in a non-Indian context generally a small religious or political group that has branched off from a larger established group.
Sociologists Starks and Bainbridge use the general definition and additionally assert that "sects claim to be authentic purged, refurbished version of the faith from which they split"
McGuire, Meredith B. "Religion: the Social Context" fifth edition (2002) ISBN 0534541267 page 338
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