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No, no, no, I'm not saying that theistic beliefs are a prerequisite for coming up with a jim-dandy moral code.
Many of these cults offered beliefs in the resurrection of the body after death.
Mr. Shi's time in the labour camp was prolonged many times, as they failed to force him into giving up his beliefs.
Traditional Maori beliefs are, for example, that all objects, both animate and inanimate, have a life force, a mauri.
Thai beliefs actually reflect a mix of Theravada Buddhism, Hinduism, and animism.
If I wish an organization to lobby for my political beliefs, I will join such an organization.
Above all fascists and their friends found an echo in ruling circles for their pro-Hitler, anti-Jewish, anti-communist beliefs.
These beliefs mark the outer limit of diversity in the generally antinomian culture of contemporary American liberalism.
So did it mean then that her party sister was usurping her own personal, spiritual beliefs in lieu of civic duty?
The son seems to have made posturing against his father's accomplishments and beliefs his life's work.
Do we insist upon patients accepting life-saving treatment which is contrary to their strongly held religious beliefs?
Mr Toews has run a positive campaign and presented his ideas and his beliefs for the riding and for Canada.
He appears to have resolved these anxieties by stressing the moral gulf between his characters and his own beliefs.
Wilde, who could never resist an aphorism, frequently undermines the seriousness of his beliefs by his brilliant and paradoxical style.
He has resigned because he no longer believes that the strategy of our party is reconcilable with his republican beliefs.
You know, I've had to say over and over again that I find his beliefs totally abhorrent, appalling.
Funerary rites involve either a church service or a civil ceremony, depending on the beliefs of the deceased and his or her survivors.
Their monuments stand in testimony to their beliefs and even today one is wonderstruck at their foresight.
This act allows family disputes to be resolved outside of court by arbitrators according to their own religious and cultural beliefs.
You do not really need to have actual witches around to have very firm beliefs about the existence and powers of witches.
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That begins a chain of events that leads him to re-evaluate his life and beliefs.
True gypsies, or Romanies, were perceived and defined as a separate nomadic people possessing their own language, customs, and beliefs.
The lecture will examine the faith and beliefs of 17th century Quakers and their relevance to today's society.
In line with his Quaker beliefs he declared himself a conscientious objector so he could not be drafted into the military.
Indeed, to cultivate altruism is easier said than done and to do away with time-honoured beliefs is almost hopeless.
Not everyone is going to accept us for our beliefs, but so long as we try to embrace them and let them learn we are in the right.
The simple truth is, most people I've come across HAVEN'T accepted me or my beliefs.
In our age, the term has become almost synonymous with an irrational acceptance of beliefs for which we lack evidence.
They're not philosophical concepts, beliefs or descriptions of an ultimate truth or divinity.
Not sure how I've missed this before as it's something that accords with my own thinking and beliefs.
Marriage is all very well and good if it accords with the beliefs of two people who want to commit to each other for life.
As the immigrants became acculturated into the American society, these beliefs and superstitions were forgotten.
Only when beliefs conflict with personal experiences will most people start questing the truth of their beliefs.
Mired in depression and doubt, he started to question his most fundamental beliefs.
Each of the wise men had their own beliefs about the Holy Mountain and, of course, their own way of getting there.
The argument is effectively advocating locking up priests, rabbis and imams for doing nothing more than professing their beliefs.
Over the course of the years most of my rabid political beliefs have been tempered somewhat by increasing understanding of the situation.
His campaign skillfully spun a web, not of political opinion, but of beliefs and feelings.
When do such actualities in the real world of our experience necessarily reshape beliefs inherited from another world and time?
Many were being misled by the reasoning and beliefs of the Judaizers as to what salvation consisted of.
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He made a major impression on Descartes with both his scientific and Rosicrucian beliefs and influenced his thinking.
He has given no definitive proof for any of his beliefs and most of his rantings are nothing more than far left propaganda.
Rooted in immemorial folk beliefs, ghost stories, as a literary genre, have their own conventions and are a comparatively recent development.
The Portuguese have a variety of folk beliefs, many of which coincide with those of other cultures.
According to folk religious beliefs, babies up to one year old don't have souls and can be considered like small animals.
Many folk beliefs involve methods for keeping ghosts, or duppies, from returning to haunt living people.
There may be rationales for such beliefs, but the weight of the evidence I've seen does not convince me.
I don't consider an insensitive person who won't pick up after their dog an affront to my personal beliefs.
Bangkok overloads you with life, with white heat and hassle, with seediness and enterprise, with extortion and ancient beliefs.
Each group has its own particular beliefs concerning the afterlife and death.
We don't have to give up our values, beliefs or principles but we do have to move on.
These markers invoke public consciousness about what values, beliefs, and capabilities people have.
Such a state of confusing dilemma caused heavy blow to the age-old traditions and beliefs of these cultures.
Modern Wicca, hybrid Asiatic astrologies, and new geomancy beliefs, are perhaps too new.
His benign nihilism seems only logical within a society consumed by conflicting and destructive beliefs.
More and more, I have come to believe that the keystone of the whole process is the set of beliefs within the employee population.
Those from Switzerland were kicked out of the country for their beliefs and were relocated to Prussia, which is now part of Germany.
Given the choice to recant, martyrs chose instead to face their murderers and stand in witness to their beliefs.
I think they are often wrong-headed and foolish, but nobody deserves to be indiscriminately beaten because of their political beliefs.
Thus began a long correspondence and professional friendship based on reciprocity and shared artistic beliefs.
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A creed is meant to summarize the explicit teachings or articles of faith, to imbed and thus protect and transmit the beliefs.
A number of historians, notably Sir Steven Runciman, have seen links between gnosticism, the Albigensian beliefs and the Templars.
These serials help perpetuate superstitions and blind beliefs in witchcraft and sorcery, in magic and animism.
He followed no strict religious beliefs, yet was quite a student of Lao Tsu and the philosophy of yin and yang.
Therefore, in our study, symbolic beliefs do not mediate the relation between prior contact and attitudes.
In addition, symbolic beliefs did not mediate the relation between prior contact and attitudes for either group.
The gay marriage thing is not so much about beliefs as about politicians saying yea or nay to this, it's not really about the church.
I feel that religion or religious beliefs should not be used as an argument against the rights given to private people.
Regardless of your religion or personal beliefs, I will always stand against censorship.
Wicca is a nature religion based upon beliefs and rites believed to be rooted in ancient practices.
The result was a matted, knotted hairstyle that honored the Rastafarian religious beliefs.
A complex woman of strong character and independent thought, Wells was shaped by firm moral convictions and profound religious beliefs.
One can also learn more about the religious beliefs and practices of these families.
We practice our religious beliefs, but I still have a problem with bringing a child into this sinful, dying world.
Security, dignity, and freedom to be educated and to practise cultural and religious beliefs are essential to preserving a sense of identity.
Grounded in religious beliefs and faith, watermen feel that man cannot and need not fully understand the blue crab.
My own religious practices and beliefs have nothing at all to do with the perception of those around me.
Rational beliefs tend to be moderate, flexible, and adaptable to life events.
Further, among married couples and those with children, religious beliefs and practices hold increased levels of significance.
His congregation believes same-sex unions go against basic Anglican beliefs.
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Although people have deep religious beliefs, they follow the dictates of their own conscience in church matters.
We have been allowed to continue practicing our religious beliefs as we choose.
Let us hope that prisoners who wish to observe their religious beliefs and practices will now be given the means and opportunity to do so.
In other words, only those possessed of deep religious beliefs are capable laying down their lives for their country.
Postmodernist beliefs therefore tend to a multiculturalist pluralism and relativism.
They could call me to account when my actions didn't match my professed beliefs.
I therefore felt somewhat of a hypercrit to be making vows in God's house when I'm not altogether sure of my beliefs.
For folklorists generally, folk beliefs and practices were regarded as the fragmentary and often obscure remnants of older systems.
Who's to say I'm wrong if I don't find modern physics very satisfying and would prefer the spiritual beliefs of the Azande?
With these axioms in focus, Zarathustrians consistently make a concerted effort to learn and comprehend the nature and beliefs of other faiths.
His appeal is his integrity and an almost zealous commitment to his beliefs.
Whatever the laudability of the Buddhist beliefs, or un-laudability, most westerners join up to appear cool.
In a world that was hostile to their practices and beliefs, the Anacreontic tradition will have given them a more sympathetic imaginary home.
For all the fierceness of his republican beliefs, he has repeatedly stated his willingness to talk to the killers of his father and brother.
The danger is that we should confuse the reputability of beliefs, and the reputability of those who professed them, with depth or shallowness.
Thirdly, English witchcraft beliefs made the suspects very individualistic.
As a result, postwar peace movements have abandoned pacifism as a central aspect of their beliefs.
And having explored these beliefs and practices, she came to accept God and Zoroastrianism as her religion.
His responsiveness to nature recalls one of Atwood's beliefs about qualities extant in much Canadian literature.
Each side has deeply seeded beliefs that are based on directly opposing ideologies.
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Enveloped in duende, the nihilism of Levis's poetry negated beliefs and consolations, but it did so to revivify our humanity and refresh the abilities of poetry.
He would rather endorse someone with genuine doubts than someone with disingenuous beliefs.
Family role models, media and literature images, and social reinforcement also help develop the attitudes and beliefs that underlie abusive behaviour.
The goal should be to teach politics, rather than to indoctrinate students in a narrow set of political beliefs.
If Sonntag is right, the average acceptance of these beliefs should be the same between groups of students from scientific versus humanistic studies.
His appearance seemed to lend a whiff of legitimacy to the claim of the Raelians, who happen to think, among other weird beliefs, that humans are clones of extraterrestrials.
Of all the religious practices and beliefs concerned with feminine divinities it is Shaktism which gives the Goddess a place of supreme importance.
While we recognize the relativity of any system of beliefs, we do not want to give up on them all, lest we give up on the hope of changing the world.
He was a Rosicrucian, a brotherhood combining elements of mystical beliefs with an optimism about the ability of science to improve the human condition.
His arguments were well grounded, and his beliefs gradually gained supporters inside the army and in Congress, but his untimely death in 1881 stalled modernization progress.
On the other hand, faith changes those who hold fast to their beliefs.
In contrast to past beliefs, repetition may reduce the fidelity of memory representations.
They can accept that conservatism or rightism is an ideology that carries with it certain values and opinions, beliefs about the past, goals for the future.
She didn't mean religious beliefs, only faith in some higher values, in some higher reality that made them feel secure in a very insecure situation.
Batman is a thought form dreamt up by Bob Kane, which has accreted beliefs and views over the decades to become the Batman we know today, independent of the original.
Both father and son share a passion for politics and strong beliefs in the importance of family values, although they have not always been of a like mind politically.
That there is some truth in these beliefs on both sides adds to the complexities.
When we are in-phase with unconscious negative beliefs we create a reality based on limitation that prevents us from achieving our full potential in life.
Even so, they can offer accurate representations of people's beliefs.
Sociologists such as Berger point out that religion fulfills its role in part by devising a set of beliefs that together constitute the specifically religious Weltanschauung.
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Until recently I knew very little about Mennonites, the diversity of their religious beliefs and practices, and how most lead quite contemporary lives.
A dogmatic person will entrench himself in his dearly held beliefs and vigorously fight that truth.
If Warners does not accept the Hindu demands, the Hindu community will not be a silent spectator to the humiliation of its religious beliefs and scriptures.
Warren might have gamed the media somewhat, but he has never lied to reporters about his core beliefs.
But what about the philosophical beliefs of thousands of incarcerated pregnant women across the United States?
It is not hard to see how this debate calls into question deeply personal religious and philosophical beliefs.
He roamed the streets of Athens asking people provocative questions that exposed uncomfortable contradictions in their beliefs.
Just like Watson, Ansari is daring to elicit antagonism and ignorant accusations on account of his feminist beliefs.
She was ostracized from the scientific community for many years because of her radical political beliefs.
Interesting that those who sat in judgment of him found those two sets of beliefs to be incompatible.
Avatars, or alter egos that people create for on-line games or singles spaces, would no doubt confirm his beliefs about the self-seduction of the masses by simulations.
It is ludicrous to even consider that advanced extraterrestrials are traveling millions of light years across the universe just to recondition our spiritual beliefs.
Whatever the reason, and however absurd their beliefs may seem, American evangelicals are deadly serious.
The teacher was accused of forcing his political beliefs on impressionable teenagers.
Instead, he is cruelly jailed solely for the peaceful expression of his beliefs.
Liberals either boast or comfort themselves that their own beliefs push humanity forward.
His religious and political beliefs are not always separable from each other.
Once limiting beliefs are discovered you are in a position to remove them.
In this view, the individual achieves freedom only through renunciation of his or her desires and beliefs as an individual and submersion in a larger group.
However, all the contemporary examples she quotes show folk beliefs as an active element of people's lives, not as unchanging fossilised remnants.
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There is room for biblically held beliefs with regard to sexuality, but we need to change how we talk about them.
It also states that as the two churches share the same beliefs about the presence of Christ in communion, Anglicans should not be excluded from receiving the Roman Eucharist.
The issue of whether or not paranormal beliefs can be verified by scientific, empirical research methods is held in abeyance as a secondary concern.
The central government has since been wary of groups that could manipulate the beliefs of the general populace.
It forbids forcing every American to kowtow to the beliefs of any sect.
They seem to contain many popular beliefs and customs, perhaps as practiced by the non-Aryan locals, and were later accepted by the aristocracy and the priestly class.
One set of beliefs expresses the commitment of a democratic society to the liberal values of justice, individualism, egalitarianism and freedom of expression.
The Good Wife leaves us wondering how many people have sacrificed their beliefs for their careers.
They are people for whom holding Marxist beliefs is simply unimaginable.
It has a lot of folk beliefs and fairly primitive religion mixed in.
The moment one of the partners is expected to give up their beliefs and to fit in with an alien culture against their will, we no longer have a healthy marriage.
The spirituality in Star Wars is so universal that many world religions, from Adventism to Zoroastrianism, have found their beliefs reflected in the movie.
This allows room for folk beliefs to flourish and perpetuate.
This is also in accord with beliefs concerning a white ibex or deer in the Caucasus Mountains, although these concern the animal's meat or milk rather than its horn.
In the mindset of the coexist camp, those abstract beliefs have become twisted things, wrapped up with hate.
We must settle for nothing less than leaders who care and exude character and maturity as they rebel against the beliefs and models that no longer work.
It was endlessly adaptable to the changing social and economic landscape, and ruthless at ditching beliefs or leaders which stood in the way of power.
It excludes children and families of minority faiths and beliefs and creates a hostile environment for them.
Over a period of more than 2,500 years, Egyptian beliefs about the nature of the afterlife evolved constantly.
Many of these beliefs were recorded in hieroglyph inscriptions, papyrus scrolls and tomb paintings.
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The Egyptian Book of the Dead compiles some of the beliefs from different periods of ancient Egyptian history.
Milton's own beliefs were in some cases both unpopular and dangerous, and this was true particularly to his commitment to republicanism.
The beliefs, legends and stories are as diverse as the people of the Philippines.
Many Chinese ghost beliefs have been accepted by neighboring cultures, notably Japan and southeast Asia.
Ghost beliefs are closely associated with traditional Chinese religion based on ancestor worship, many of which were incorporated in Taoism.
Later beliefs were influenced by Buddhism, and in turn influenced and created uniquely Chinese Buddhist beliefs.
Daniel underwent one round of chemotherapy in February but stopped after that single treatment, citing religious beliefs.
Concurrent with the spread of Sufi convents in Iran, a Shiitisation of Sufi beliefs occurred regarding the theory of sainthood in particular.
Some scholars have seen Locke's political convictions as deriving from his religious beliefs.
Thomas Paine's natural justice beliefs may have been influenced by his Quaker father.
Beside his beliefs concerning humanity, Johnson is also known for his love of cats, especially his own two cats, Hodge and Lily.
With regard to the socio-religious beliefs and values of the Gorkhas it is clear that they were not monotheistic or unisectarian.
First, individuals are more likely to abandon erroneous beliefs if they are engaged in an open exchange of ideas.
But as to the end of the world I hold beliefs which I learned from our forefathers, that Antichrist will come first.
The new translation would reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and traditional beliefs about ordained clergy.
The Native American communities, including the Hopi, Navajo, Zuni, Acoma and Apache, all regard the Peaks as central to their spiritual beliefs.
Chaplin was given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1972, having been previously excluded because of his political beliefs.
Spurr shows how Anglo-Catholic practices and beliefs distinguish Anglo-Catholics from Anglicanism generally.
Thailand is a deeply superstitious place where animism and folk beliefs are deeply infused with Buddhism.
Popular Buddhism in Southeast Asia also reflects the importance of family and has incorporated animistic beliefs.
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In particular, the Vedic Hindus shared several beliefs and practices with their Iranian Zoroastrian neighbours just across the mountain ranges.
His followers are completely committed to their beliefs in and of Brian's divinity.
The protagonists of Nolan's films are often driven by philosophical beliefs, and their fate is ambiguous.
The remaining shorter pieces elucidate the ideas and beliefs informing Ashe of Rings.
For readers, remembrances are evoked, tensions are reexperienced and beliefs are reexamined.
God is Red is a call to members of indigenous nations to reify their traditions and traditional beliefs.
It argues that the two main formulations of the categorical imperative are relativized to agents according to their beliefs.
He does tend to chop and change his beliefs pretty quickly in his search for that elusive truth that lies beyond his quotidian existence.
Monis seems to have been both and dedicated to his psychotic beliefs.
These general beliefs about the varying degrees of reprehensibility of crimes are supported by empirical evidence.
Any improvement in teaching practices requisitely involves teachers modifying their beliefs or actions.
There are people with religious beliefs that disfavor all those groups.
Rites of passage show anthropologists what social hierarchies, values and beliefs are important in specific cultures.
With regard to his religious beliefs, Craig has been reluctant to discuss the matter.
A number of critics see Shakespeare endorsing cross-gendering. Shakespeare is, what might be called, a skillful exponent of metagender beliefs.
The Boethian solution denies that God knows what we will do before we do it by denying that God's beliefs are in time.
Other authors argue that there is a lack of evidence about Shakespeare's religious beliefs.
Books of hours, in both manuscript and printed versions, provide valuable clues to the beliefs and devotional habits of medieval people.
But a coalition stabilised by unifying core beliefs is better than a marriage of convenience between the Tories and Lib Dems.
Speakers are drawn from across Scotland and are chosen to represent the balance of religious beliefs according to the Scottish census.
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Followers of pseudosciences such as astrology often draw spurious parallels between their beliefs and established science.
Historians began to concentrate on the values, beliefs and behavior of the people at large.
Endymion, despite having a Whig as hero, is a last exposition of the author's economic policies and political beliefs.
These beliefs did not become widely shared because they offered the only accurate interpretation of wartime events.
During the Marian persecutions, three women, the Guernsey Martyrs, were burned at the stake for their Protestant beliefs.
Maxwell's religious beliefs and related activities have been the focus of a number of papers.
Some leaders had been transported to Australia, where they spread their beliefs.
By 1964 he had deserted his previously socialist beliefs, going so far as to launch a fierce attack on the Labour candidate in Smethwick.
Religious beliefs in the Eastern Empire and Iran were in flux during the late sixth and early seventh centuries.
Because of this, many different variations on the basic beliefs are considered within the scope of Judaism.
Pew Research Center's global study from 2012 noted that many of the nonreligious actually have some religious beliefs.
The sharing of beliefs can be highly significant, but it is not the full measure of the faith.
He hid his faith so well that scholars are still unravelling his personal beliefs.
Alternative medicine practices may be classified by their cultural origins or by the types of beliefs upon which they are based.
The transnational flow of culture has played a major role in merging different culture and sharing thoughts, ideas, and beliefs.
A collection of Waugh's journalism and reviews was published in 1983, revealing a fuller range of his ideas and beliefs.
He was confirmed into the Church of England at the age of 13, but began to grow sceptical of the beliefs.
The destructive lionly skepticism burns all bridges to prior beliefs and presuppositions.
A variety of sources illuminate the culture, activities, and beliefs of the Vikings.
Her Calvinism and folk beliefs were an early source of nightmares for the child, and he showed a precocious concern for religion.
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Cave paintings, undertaken with only the most rudimentary tools, can also furnish valuable insight into the culture and beliefs of that era.
In the area of Psychology there is Chris French who specialises in the psychology of paranormal beliefs and experiences, cognition and emotion.
John's elder brother Robert Lilburne also later became active in the Parliamentary cause, but seems not to have shared John's Leveller beliefs.
Do beliefs and attributional complexity influence age-differences in the correspondence bias?
Their religious beliefs were mixed with the beliefs of the indigenous population.
In the United States, religious beliefs affect the formation of political beliefs that concern pornography.
Most of indigenous native Indonesian beliefs could be categorised as animism, shamanism as well ancestral worship.
Certain domestic policy issues are especially controversial among people of different cultures, religions, and personal beliefs.
The mass media distribute, and opine, information about domestic issues and influence the beliefs and opinions of the people.
His beliefs resulted in him being legally barred from entering the United States, despite being repeatedly invited to lecture there.
Experimental confirmation in his laboratory did much to bolster his beliefs.
Moreover, his theological beliefs led to speculation about the heat death of the universe.
Dowding became a vegetarian, based on his beliefs as a theosophist and spiritualist.
Other denominations are simply regional or ethnic expressions of the same beliefs.
Through socialization, a system of beliefs, values, assumptions and expectations is transmitted to group members.
This table summarizes the classical views of three Protestant beliefs about salvation.
Such beliefs were examined wittily and at length in 1646 by Sir Thomas Browne in his Pseudodoxia Epidemica.
Skeptics... claim that our evidence can't support our beliefs about the external world.
Those pacifists who base their beliefs on deontological grounds would oppose such violent action.
The Church of England, by no means a fundamentalist or evangelical church, encloses a wide range of beliefs.
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For more information on Oneness Pentecostal baptismal beliefs, see the following section on Statistics and denominations.
Although the Sulayhids were Ismaili, they never tried to impose their beliefs on the public.
Functionalists have all along been committed to the possibility of extrabodily states playing the role of beliefs and desires.
Some of the ancient Berber beliefs still exist today subtly within the Berber popular culture and tradition.
Since there is no hierarchical authority and each Baptist church is autonomous, there is no official set of Baptist theological beliefs.
Their extreme points will be called consent-dissent, in relation to beliefs, and compliance-radicalism, in relation to behavior.
The Quaker Yearly Meetings supporting the religious beliefs of Joseph John Gurney were known as Gurneyite yearly meetings.
There is evidence that the human head had a special importance in Celtic religious beliefs.
It is a verdict that justifies the beliefs that nothing short of the annihilation of Louis would have given Farr victory.
Chinese society greatly valued gastronomy, and developed an extensive study of the subject based on its traditional medical beliefs.
The Yearly Meetings that supported John Wilbur's religious beliefs were known as Conservative Friends.
I hope that by showing how eye-wateringly unlikely some alleged conspiracies are, some people will reconsider their anti-science beliefs.
According to a Demoskop study in 2015 about the beliefs of the Swedish showed that.
Among the wealthy traders of Antwerp, the Lutheran beliefs of the German Hanseatic traders found appeal, perhaps partly for economic reasons.
Although there were common beliefs among Unitarians in each of these regions, they initially grew independently from each other.
So important was Socinus to the formulation of their beliefs that those outside Poland usually referred to them as Socinians.
It makes no discrimination as to nationality, race, religious beliefs, class or political opinions.
Taoism and Confucianism from China have also influenced Japanese beliefs and customs.
The sources for the beliefs of the apostolic community include the Gospels and New Testament Epistles.
Several tenets of unitarianism overlap with the beliefs of Muwahhid Muslims.
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The spread of these two Indian religions confined the adherents of Southeast Asian indigenous beliefs into remote inland areas.
After they ceased to become religious beliefs, few would have known the rites and rituals.
These beliefs coincide to the thoughts about the gods in polytheistic Greek religion.
Canada is religiously diverse, encompassing a wide range of beliefs and customs.
Newfoundland and Labrador developed a wide variety of distinctive customs, beliefs, stories, songs and dialects.
Civil Rights Act of 1964 allows it to inquire into people's religious beliefs in its hiring practices.
Her stupidity flabbergasts me, and I have to force myself to keep a straight face while she explains her beliefs.
This includes humans who have no religious beliefs or do not identify with any religion.
His personal beliefs and piety may, however, have developed during the course of his life.
Harrod humankind first developed religious and spiritual beliefs during the Middle Paleolithic or Upper Paleolithic.
Before European settlement, the animist beliefs of Australia's indigenous people had been practised for many thousands of years.
Central European folk beliefs considered garlic a powerful ward against demons, werewolves, and vampires.
Art is something that stimulates an individual's thoughts, emotions, beliefs, or ideas through the senses.
Using knowledge of San beliefs, researchers have shown that the art played a fundamental part in the religious lives of its San painters.
He's scornful of anyone who disagrees with his political beliefs.
Since 1980 it has been illegal for the government to collect statistics on religious beliefs or practices.
It describes the tale of angry peasants who believed that Athenaeus' writings directly contradicted their personal beliefs of the Mithras cult.
Some scholars speculate that this may have marked a fundamental shift in people's beliefs or myths about life and the afterlife.
Combined with the hoards deposited in rivers and swamps, it indicates religious beliefs connected with water.
His beliefs about Philip's character led Polybius to reject historian Theopompus' description of Philip's private, drunken debauchery.
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The term federalist describes several political beliefs around the world depending on context.
Modern democracies owe a debt to Greek beliefs in government by the people, trial by jury, and equality under the law.
Apart from these twelve gods, Greeks also had a variety of other mystical beliefs, such as nymphs and other magical creatures.
Religious conversion is the adoption of a set of beliefs identified with one particular religious denomination to the exclusion of others.
One component of Aristotle's theory of dreams introduces ideas that are contradictory to previously held beliefs.
Polytheism cannot be cleanly separated from the animist beliefs prevalent in most folk religions.
The animistic nature of folk beliefs is an anthropological cultural universal.
The hyperintentionality of the content of beliefs is reflected in the intensionality of belief descriptions.
Even among theistic Wiccans, there are divergent beliefs, and Wicca includes pantheists, monotheists, duotheists, and polytheists.
The letter of Arian Auxentius regarding the Arian missionary Ulfilas gives a picture of Arian beliefs.
Most Germanic tribes were generally tolerant of the Nicene beliefs of their subjects.
The degree to which earlier native beliefs survived is difficult to gauge precisely.
The study of heresy requires an understanding of the development of orthodoxy and the role of creeds in the definition of orthodox beliefs.
The old beliefs are closely connected to the land, animism, and the supernatural.
New ideas and beliefs spread around Europe and were fostered by an increase in literacy due to a departure from solely religious texts.
One pervasive influence upon the writing of history has been nationalism, a set of beliefs about political legitimacy and cultural identity.
The ideological dimension, according to Steger, is filled with a range of norms, claims, beliefs, and narratives about the phenomenon itself.
That is the core of his beliefs in terms of takings. So he is an ideolog. He does not have the temperament for the bench.
The Yongle Emperor followed traditional rituals closely and held many popular beliefs.
Thai Buddhism has evolved over time to include many regional beliefs originating from Hinduism, animism, as well as ancestor worship.

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