At this level culture and religion function almost as regulative ideas.
Ilmarinen, one of the chief deities in Finno-Ugric religion, functioning both as creator deity and as weather god.
In order to understand how religion functioned in the past, "we really need to look at different kinds of supernatural agents and different kinds of religious features".
As a result, Reid's reference to beliefs held in common across time and place, across culture and religion, functions as an empirically justified generalization about species-typical features of human cognition.
Some recent reconstructions of Kant's view in which religion functions non-reductively with respect to morality can be found in the work of Ronald M. Green (1978 , 1988 and of John Hare (1997).
In many ways, a religion functions as a tribe.
Fourth, migration-related factors, i.e. families' history of migration, their different ethnic origin and religion, functioned as additional sources of hope and influenced families in claiming end-of-life decision-making power.
So is the bill entirely based on legal concerns about the potential of the development of "quasi-legal" courts, of any religion, that function outside mainstream UK law, or is it primarily addressing sharia courts?
"It speaks to a lot of ways that we expect religion to function," said sociologist Jeffrey Seymour of Gustavus Adolphus College.
Or is it in fact a fairly typical form of that engagement, just exceptional enough to make people reassess their assumptions about how religion actually functions in political life?
