Sentence examples for generate religious from inspiring English sources

Consequently, he resists apologetic attempts to generate religious belief from philosophical premises.

The latter generate religious awe: a complex of fear and exaltation (see d'Aquili and Newberg, 1993, 195).

It made him more empathetic, he has said, but also generated fresh religious faith in him and he joined a conservative, breakaway branch of the Anglican church in Ohio.

Those funds and others are suspected of having been generated by religious leader Ching Hai from followers who in some cases did not have bank accounts and did not appear in a position to donate thousands of dollars.

Stephen Dear, executive director of People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, an interfaith advocacy group based in Carrboro, N.C., said his group also planned to use the momentum generated by religious leaders who opposed the Davis execution to galvanize broader opposition.

Anthropologist Ávila Meléndez says that the membership numbers reported by La Luz del Mundo are plausible given the great interest it has generated among "religious authorities" and the following it receives in Mexico.

Its historical past, its subsequent decline and its traditions (many of them religious) generate a range of perceptions among local society as to what the city should be.

However the idea of evolution contradicts many religious beliefs and thus generates conflicts with religious fundamentalists who advocate for literal understanding of the Biblical story of creation (in the case of Christian fundamentalists; other religions have other creation stories).

But religious rituals "generate greater belief and commitment" because they depend on belief rather than on proof.

Pronatalist religious cultures generate the most extreme myths because their focus on procreation as the sole reason for sex leads them to classify recreational sex and gay sex as dangerous perversions.

Or — it all depends — they might be beneficial, because liberal civilization's flourishing has often depended on forces that a merely procedural order can't generate, on radical and religious correctives to a flattened view of human life.