Shared rituals thus strengthened cohesion between groups professing different beliefs.
National structures made strong efforts to incorporate regional initiatives, and reach consensus and strengthen cohesion, but the large differences between regions show that there is still work ahead.
Their interlocutors see themselves as having a different function in Prevent: strengthening community cohesion.
"The headteacher made important contributions to equality issues, tackling discrimination and strengthening community cohesion across Birmingham, nationally and internationally.
But while Arsenal are this prolific as an attacking force the management can work on strengthening defensive cohesion on the quiet.
The arts have been integral to the human experience fostering innovation in social arrangements, strengthening group cohesion, and merging esthetics with the utilitarian properties of technology.
The Gillingham Mosque, in Canterbury Street, is run by the Kent Muslim Welfare Association, which is a registered charity listing aims including "serving the wider host community and strengthening community cohesion".
Our paper has traced and discussed important drivers, such as environmental concern, local economic development, strengthening social cohesion and disappointment with centralised government coordination.
We can see that, after Turner's extension, the rite of passage has the function of strengthening social cohesion, which is consistent with the main point of religion in Durkheim's Les formes élémentaires de la vie religieuse (Durkheim, 1912).
It focuses upon two important debates about the implications of social and cultural pluralism to conceptions of citizenship: first, should they recognize, rather than transcend, difference and, if so, does this recognition affect citizenship's purported role in strengthening social cohesion?
