Sentence examples for development of religion from inspiring English sources
The development of religion from the Stone Age to now.
This led to the development of religion, art, and, among other things, humour.
A pioneer work in a specialized field was Development of Religion and Thought in Ancient Egypt (1912).
During the 19th century, when various evolutionary theories were in vogue, prayer was viewed as a stage in the development of religion from a magical to a "higher" stage.
Protagoras wrote "concerning the gods, I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist nor what they are like in form," and Prodicus offered a sociological account of the development of religion.
Partly because of his philosophical presuppositions, borrowed chiefly from Husserl, van der Leeuw held the disputable doctrine that Phenomenology knows nothing of the historical development of religion: it picks out timeless essences of religious phenomena.
This is a major part of the development of religions into a dialogue with the sustainability movement.
Max Weber argued in The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism that Protestantism created a capitalistic spirit and that the great historic development of religions took place when magic was eliminated from the world, which included the sacramental force as a means for salvation.
Meinong suggested that historians (and not priests) should instead teach the history of the development of religions and the various ways of satisfying religious needs.
-- Efforts of Third World countries to moderate, via NAM and G-77, Third World positions on development, defamation of religion, or human rights issues.
