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Mr. Gulen, 70, considers his teachings a bulwark against Islamic extremism.

It gives Trungpa, who founded the Naropa University in Colorado, and his teachings a respectful hearing, but it sounds few critical notes.

While a paper by researchers in Iowa seemed to confirm the Great Masticator's teachings, a study at Purdue University found that additional chewing actually boosted calorific intake in obese individuals.

The Narodniki embodied in their teachings a considerable amount of communist ideology gathered from Karl Marx's works, accepting, for instance, his ideas of communal ownership and production and his dislike for private enterprise.

And their religion was a set of skills, rather than a list of unalterable teachings — a "knack," as the Taoists have it, for navigating the mysteries of human existence.

He defended the place of "conscientious dissent" in the church, provided it followed an effort to assimilate official teachings, a process he said "must be prayerful, arduous, reflective, informed".

(Centesimus Annus) JPII, like Francis, was simply restating what popes through the ages have said: economic justice IS central to Catholic teachings, an integral part of the teachings on human life and dignity.

Or if one embraces the teachings of a Chinese poet, is he a communist?

In this sense, the Buddha's teachings are a method of investigation, or a science of mind.

The Teachings of Don Juan: A Yaqui Way of Knowledge was published in 1968 and quickly became a best-seller.

As a young man, Augustine followed the teachings of a Christian sect known as the Manichees.