Sentence examples for terms of prayer from inspiring English sources

In sharp contrast, immigrants in European countries are more active than natives in terms of prayer.

In the United States, there is evidence of 'religious assimilation' and the second-generation immigrants are not significantly different from natives (in terms of church attendance and in terms of prayer).

In the United States the results are weaker: first-generation immigrants seem to be more religious in terms of church attendance, but less religious in terms of prayer (indicating a 'bridging' factor of religiosity – see below).

Each year in what is termed a "pilgrimage of prayer" the Community of Sant'Egidio works with a city and, because it does so in the context of the Catholic Church, the Catholic diocese there.

"In terms of the services and prayer meetings, it was very realistic, more or less a documentary approach," he said.

As Table 3 shows, while the latter behave like the native populations (in terms of church attendance, their prayer practices are more intense only at a 10percentt significance level), there is a revival of the two dimensions of religious performance among second-generation immigrants.

Today, the synagogue -- affectionately called the "the shtiebel with a steeple," using the Yiddish term for a small house of prayer -- has grown to 175 households and the Hebrew school is bursting at the seams.

Society creates and regulates social and religious rites and liturgies to express its beliefs, but to explain the origin of prayer solely in terms of an environmental context would be to neglect the inner, personal origins of prayer.

Sociologists often explain prayer in terms of the religious environment, which plays an indubitable role in spiritual behaviour.

Shias have tended to cluster in small, often isolated communities in the centre of the Muslim world in the Levant, the Indian subcontinent, Yemen and the Gulf and on the Arabic-, Turkish- and Urdu-speaking fringes of historic Persia.In terms of basic rituals, such as prayer and fasting, the two are not radically different.

This is the most complex part of the prayer in terms of rules, so be sure to familiarize yourself with them before beginning.