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While major religions retain some value-based authority, most have remained largely silent on the real political, economic, environmental, and security challenges that the world faces.
No religions that we know of explicitly promote child marriage.
Egypt’s Unfinished Revolution Will SucceedNEWPORT BEACH – A year ago, Egyptians of all ages and religions took to the streets and, in just 18 days of relatively peaceful protests, removed a regime that had ruled over them with an iron fist for 30 years.
Access to good education, and even more so to the labor market, is increasingly restricted for many young people, especially those who come from poor or single-parent families or from minority ethnic backgrounds, languages, or religions.
The right question to ask is this: can Europe remain consistent with its own values (democracy, equality, justice, respect, etc.) and at the same time tolerate and accommodate new citizens from different backgrounds and religions?
School curricula must become more inclusive (to build a common history of memories) and broaden students’ knowledge of religions and cultures.
For Huntington, the Yugoslav wars fit his simplistic paradigm perfectly, with Western Christianity – Catholicism and Protestantism – on one side, and the rest of Europe’s religions on the other.
All of the world's religions contain some doctrines and practices that are potentially harmful to the emergence of democracy, and others that are potentially beneficial.
In the widely cited “Fox” index measuring state control of majority and minority religions, in which zero represents the least state control, and figures in the thirties represent the greatest degree of control, all but two current EU member states get scores that are in the zero to six range.
Democracy is a universal value, not the property of specific religions.
Fear of sexual behavior is one of the main reasons why most religions establish strict rules concerning sexual relationships.
Romantics might say that Buddhism is unlike other religions – indeed, more a philosophy than a faith.
Witness the migration of peoples and religions, or trade along the ancient silk route that connected medieval Europe and Asia.
Child marriage occurs in a wide variety of countries, religions, and cultures, and families, communities, and societies share a joint responsibility to end it.
Our societies need to engender greater respect and acknowledgement of others, and to acquire more knowledge about different cultures and religions.
It is for this reason that Americans are not alarmed by visible symbols of different religions in public settings.
Historically, they have welcomed all – men and women, Jews, Christians, and Hindus – into their egalitarian fraternity, teaching that all religions are equal, because they all lead to the Divine.
If community centers, schools, and public locations are places where people of different religions, cultures, and race meet, xenophobia is less likely to take root.
One, of course, concerns the supposed "clash of civilisations": how do we keep a focused and limited conflict between the UN and Iraq distinct from the need to maintain a relationship of dialogue between world religions?
On the institutional level, pluralism means that established religions can no longer take for granted that a particular population will supinely submit to its authority.
From the standpoint of their compatibility with modern liberal democracy, acceptance of pluralism, more than adherence to particular beliefs and practices, may be what most clearly distinguishes religions.
Barring that, in an age when religions must persuade , they must still “proselytize” within the community – pointing out the truth, the values, and the beauty of the tradition – even if they refrain from doing so outside it.
At the same time, the prince has cannily used deeply rooted cultural and religions norms to pressure Al-Qaeda’s recruits to give up violence.
By contrast, the Indian subcontinent, with two major religions and a dozen major linguistic groups, was united in modern times only under British rule.
But it is true that no other country matches India’s extraordinary mix of ethnic groups, profusion of mutually incomprehensible languages, varieties of topography and climate, diversity of religions and cultural practices, and disparate levels of economic development.
If it becomes a clash between religions as well, compromise will become nearly impossible, even without further radicalization.
The Jewish religious identity is a “wandering” one, which has held out against different civilizations, populations, and religions for centuries.
Toward the century's end, radical groups grew on the fringes of several religions.
Deliberate killing of non-combatants (in war or not) is condemned by most major religions, including Islam.
Both regions were religiously governed (historians differ about the role and natures of the religions in this context), but science flourished only in one of them.
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