Sentence examples for prevailing religious from inspiring English sources

In times past, the public image of primates was largely dictated by prevailing religious beliefs.

The ebb and flow of these reform paradigms, Fogel says, has turned on whether the prevailing religious ethic viewed poverty and disadvantage as the wages of sin, or as the by-product of broader flaws in society.

In Europe, explains Shunga curator Clark, "since at least the Renaissance … prevailing religious and social bans have made it well-nigh impossible for leading artists to produce works that are explicitly erotic".

Indeed, Scalia's meditation on the Court's lack of religious diversity was part of a larger argument that the Court's decision on same-sex marriage did not reflect prevailing religious and moral values.

By whatever name, Mary's discoveries challenge the prevailing religious orthodoxy — that God created everything in the world at a point some 6,000 years in the past — and are made more challenging by the fact that a woman has done the discovering.

If some capitalists were, by virtue of their skepticism, able to escape the guilt feelings that the prevailing religious ethos dictated, it was nevertheless a fact that no other religious tradition had ever caused people to see the accumulation of capital (saving money) as a sign of God's everlasting grace.

In his Mishneh Torah, his influential code of halacha, the Jewish version of Shariah, as well as in his philosophical masterpiece "Guide for the Perplexed," Maimonides cites numerous Muslim thinkers, and all his works clearly mirror the then-prevailing religious and intellectual trends in the Islamic world.

The church was almost bound to lose influence over the last half-century, in common with a western world where the secular is generally prevailing against the religious.

And this question can be posed in a more personal way: who am I? As we might by now expect, Spinoza's view of the human being challenges commonsense opinions as well as prevailing philosophical and religious ideas.

The fundamental truth of Nanak is conveyed in the opening verse of Sikh Scripture where he questions the prevailing modes of religious formalism and ritual, warning us that no ritual, undertaken for its own sake will bring fulfillment.

Analysts of the national political environment for family planning policy in Kenya contend that commitment to the issue by policy elites tended to be ambivalent during the 1960s and 1970s, and that this was strongly influenced by contextual factors such as prevailing cultural and religious attitudes.