A new exhibition there, for example, "California Dreaming: Jewish Life in the Bay Area From the Gold Rush to the Present," is an affirmation of religious experimentation and assimilative possibility.
Written in an era of great religious experimentation, Thomas's texts think with and through the bodies of particular figures: the narrative of the holy person's life becomes a site of theological invention in a variety of registers, particularly the devotional, the mystical, and the dogmatic.
"The late 1200s was a time of substantial social, political and religious ferment and experimentation," said William D. Lipe, an archaeologist at Washington State University.
In religious art, variety and experimentation were the names of the game, within certain bounds.
I imagine a religious space that celebrates doubt, encourages experimentation and allows one to utter the word God without embarrassment.
This article brings both academic debates together, systematizing and describing three types of religious agency from a transitions perspective: experimentation, upscaling, and regime support.
It was also open to discover new sources of moral authority and sacred experience, a predisposition that led to increasing experimentation with drugs but also intimate religious engagements with popular cultures associated with music, film, and television, initially.
During the 1950s and 1960s, for example, Yoga and Zen meditation were serious religious options for some Westerners and a form of experimentation for large numbers.
-What, if any, role should religious beliefs play in determining what is permissible in scientific experimentation?
These findings suggest the need for further research and experimentation in how tobacco control officials can work with religious communities on shared goals of public well-being.
All the drugs, music, dancing, experimentation, tripping, love, and freedom made a deep, impressive mark on American religious cultures.
