Bislama term referring to various customary beliefs and practices.

But many people resisted the new religion, favouring traditional beliefs and practices.

These beliefs have more or less authority based on the nature of the practices or beliefs and on the group in question.

Child protection issues often challenge long held beliefs and practices and can provoke denial and resistance to change.

Stereotyping contributes to the wrongful entrenching of baseless fears and the misprofiling of cultural and religious beliefs and practices.

Christian tradition is a collection of traditions of practices or beliefs associated with Christianity or groups with Christianity.

As in the case of Mr. El Derini, they were interrogated by SSI agents about their Shia Muslim beliefs and practices.

A social representation is a stock of values, ideas, metaphors, beliefs, and practices that are shared among the members of groups and communities.

Some of these practices are based on religious beliefs, but many of the limitations are cultural and emanate from tradition as well as religion.

Besides ignorance, poverty and lack of health services, inhabitants of rural areas suffer from cultural beliefs and traditional ones that lead to practices of initiation rites.

It is commonly known that men still dominate women and this is reinforced by religious beliefs, cultural practices and remaining inequities under both general and customary laws.

The Linobambaki did not entirely convert to a traditional Muslim life, and only demonstrated religious practices and beliefs that would gain them advantages only afforded to Muslims.

My beliefs...

In accordance with our democratic beliefs, policies and practices, in 1985 the Government of Botswana initiated consultations with the residents of the CKGR on their relocation.

Cultural beliefs and practices associated with causes and treatment of illness, and other lifestyle behaviors, are important determinants of women's health status, and in the prevention of morbidity and mortality.

It's about our beliefs and expectations.

As is common with most ancient civilizations, the objects made of the most durable and precious materials, and thus more likely to survive, were associated with religious beliefs and practices.

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.

When one studies traditional practices, in particular female genital mutilation, it must be noted from the outset that these practices are rooted in a whole set of beliefs, values and cultural and social behaviour patterns which govern the lives of the societies concerned.

Oh, Marcus, try to understand my faith, my beliefs, my very deep beliefs.

People need their beliefs.

So what are beliefs?

With your religious beliefs?

And that's man enemy has the same beliefs.

Michael Shermer on strange beliefs

I'll call confirmation bias, where we tend to accept data that confirms our beliefs and reject data that contradicts our beliefs.

Such beliefs, traditions or practices have no foundation or roots in religion, in letter or in spirit, and more often than not they contradict the very norms and values professed and advocated by different religions.

No State could judge a person's beliefs provided that they manifested those beliefs in a legal manner.

Or an Evangelist tries to convert you to their religious beliefs, and to get you to give up your old religious beliefs.

Although some customary beliefs and practices prevented the advancement of women, education had a positive impact on women apos s self confidence and on their families, who acknowledged the benefits of girls apos education.

What has been done in recent years to recognize and protect their values, their practices, their creations, their language, their beliefs and their land, is no more than a partial payment of that enormous debt.

People of all persuasions and beliefs are its innocent victims.

And there's another cognitive bias I'll call confirmation bias, where we tend to accept data that confirms our beliefs and reject data that contradicts our beliefs.

Davidson picked up this theory, and his work in the 1980s dealt with the problems in relating first person beliefs to second and third person beliefs.

Other constraints are several prevalent attitudes, beliefs and practices, including those that discourage fathers and male caretakers from participating in child care and those that exclude women from decision making while also exposing them to domestic violence.

The promotion of rights and freedoms may challenge negative manifestations of age old beliefs, traditions or Government practices that deny people equal opportunities and equal treatment and yet have gained some kind of supposed social legitimacy with time.

The transformation in investors beliefs is striking.

I prefer to test their beliefs, scientifically.

Each of us has deeply held beliefs.

They spoke passionately about their beliefs and shared their ideas readily.

traditional beliefs have emphasized young children's need for training and socialization.

His influence stretched beyond the boundaries of religions and political beliefs.

And then my university education as an ecologist reinforced my beliefs.

(f) To promote specific measures to counter prejudices and customary practices based on beliefs about the inferiority of women or on stereotyped roles for men, and to take steps to control pornography and the portrayal of women as sex objects.

Who believes in justice, whose beliefs are twisted.