religious discourse
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreligiousanddiscourse
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religious
adjective
us//uk/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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discourse
noun
uk/ˈdɪs.kɔːs/us/ˈdɪs.kɔːrs/
languagespecialized
the use of language to communicate in speech or writing, or an example ...
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(Definition ofreligiousanddiscoursefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofreligious discourse
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Such popular usage is more effective than formalreligiousdiscourse.
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It is much less clear what the analogous argument forreligiousdiscoursewould look like.
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His study, however, focuses above all else on the nature ofreligiousdiscourseproduced by reform-minded, shari'a-centred and revivalist ulama.
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To this general notion of symbolic fiction, we must add thatreligiousdiscourseon the present view is mythological.
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So although he clears a place for ontological truth and correspondence, he narrows it significantly - at least forreligiousdiscourse.
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But if boundaries and definitions are indeed contested, are they not also contested outside the domain ofreligiousdiscourse?
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It also relies on certain stories in a way that makes behaviour more crucial inreligiousdiscourse.
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The link uniting medical science andreligiousdiscourseamong the preachers consisted in common contents and common language of analysis.
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How should we interpret the penetration of medical subject matter and medical language intoreligiousdiscourse?
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One might observe thatreligiousdiscourse, understood as mythological fiction, is not alone in this regard.
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Religiousdiscourseis thus distinguished by the ambitious all-inclusive nature of its defining ideal.
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Investigative mystery does turn up occasionally inreligiousdiscourse.
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Medical subject matter infiltrated thereligiousdiscoursevia the new thirteenth-century encyclopedic literature.
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Religious instrumentalists can draw upon the widely shared experience of being moved and transformed by fiction to explain the point ofreligiousdiscourseand practice absent its realist elements.
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In other words, once the naturalistic meaning of suchreligiousdiscourseis discovered or designated it ceases to have a distinctive function and thus seems ripe for elimination.
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Conventionalreligiousdiscoursereflected joint regulation of morality by church and state.
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So the fact thatreligiousdiscourseis not itself grounded in ontological truths in no way compromises the possibility of adjudicating between true and false religious statements.
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Such people can contemplate it being the case that - presumably, it being true that -religiousdiscourse in modernity is part of the grand myth of rationality.
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Phillips is still going to argue, of course, thatreligiousdiscoursedoes not explain, describe, refer or hypothesize in the way that scientific discourse does.
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