Sentence examples for study of faith from inspiring English sources

By definition you can't do a scientific study of faith, since the two paradigms are utterly different.

The advent of settled, agricultural societies, at least 10,000 years ago, led to a new division of labour, in which priestly castes tried to monopolise access to the divine, and the authorities sought to control sacred ecstasy.Still, the modifications that religion has undergone should not, in Mr Wade's view, distract from the study of faith's basic functions.

George moved back to the U.S. in 1987 to become the coordinator of the Circle of Fellows at the Cambridge Center for the Study of Faith and Culture in Massachusetts.

After his years in Rome, George moved back to the U.S. in 1987 to become the coordinator of the Circle of Fellows at the Cambridge Center for the Study of Faith and Culture in Massachusetts.

The child welfare system in New York offers a perfect case study of faith-based antipoverty work.

To determine the optimal databases to search for studies of faith-sensitive interventions for treating depression.

It is ignorance which causes hatred between faiths and study of other faiths helps to understand and respect other religion.

Sometimes judged "dated," because of their schematic construction, Odets's later plays, with their study of bad faith, bear witness to a certain kind of American emptiness that is evergreen.

Sartre's study of "bad faith" (self-deception) is driven by striking vignettes like that of the woman torn between her psychological desire for a man's attention and her lack of sexual interest in him, who allows him to caress her while thinking of herself as a pure consciousness, with no essential tie to the body he is touching.

Study of the faith of the other is foundational.

The in-depth study of two faiths – choosing from Buddhism, Christianity, Catholic Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Judaism and Sikhism – makes up half of the new GCSE.