religious tradition
collocation in Englishmeaningsofreligiousandtradition
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religious
adjective
us//uk/rɪˈlɪdʒ.əs/
relating ...
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tradition
noun[C or U]
uk/trəˈdɪʃ.ən/us/trəˈdɪʃ.ən/
a belief, principle, or way of acting that people in a particular society or group have continued to follow for a long time, or all of these beliefs, etc. in a particular society ...
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(Definition ofreligiousandtraditionfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Country effects are evident and are often more powerful than the effect ofreligioustradition.
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This was not a world that seemed to need a newreligioustradition.
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This is especially true for other versions of her ownreligioustradition.
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And does thereligioustraditionof the choral medium play a part?
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In some cases, they are not even affiliated with any particularreligioustradition.
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It remains a possibility that a particularreligioustraditionoffers a broadly correct account of reality, after all.
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But simply to trace continuity ofreligioustraditionis not the same as saying what it means.
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This is an important oversight because it has led to a failure to ' place ' her fully within areligioustradition.
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Obviously, we face a problem of complex interactions between the effects of national culture andreligioustradition.
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Or, suppose she meets other versions of her homereligioustradition, especially more liberal versions than her own.
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Secondly, freedom to maintain thereligioustraditionof the school.
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The strength of the householdreligioustraditionappears in the return to the elder couple's affiliation by the grandchildren who inherited in the next generation.
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Some interpreters put extreme stress on this conditioning, disparaging the capacity of anyreligioustraditionto offer a distinctive, universal truth for all people.
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Even heroes who are raised within an existingreligioustraditionand know its teachings well are still surprised by their deities.
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Again, we might ask about the status of the self-understanding of a particularreligioustraditionwithin the arguments being developed here.
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It might also be noted that he has the ' advantage ' of having had to overcome only a weakreligioustraditionin his family of origin.
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Neither would it be true to claim that any specificreligioustraditionprovides such overriding guidelines on this issue, as to command a moral consensus.
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Although these results seem to be unanimous, there are large differences between the two continents with respect to thereligioustradition.
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The broader narrative of thereligioustraditionframing and justifying their decision will have to be engaged to suggest alternative interpretations.
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For example, a clinician caring for a patient might have a general sense of how the patient'sreligioustraditionaddresses death and dying.
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This could be said to leave us now in the developed societies without a relevant intellectual, cultural andreligioustraditionas to our own ageing.
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In addition, the use of cultural and religious regions in some analyses treats all respondents in a country as belonging to the samereligioustradition.
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A particularreligioustraditionwould regard someone as fulfilled or liberated whose life had been most fully shaped by the distinctive pattern it fosters.
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