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- adjective Pertaining to or concerned with material human existence, as opposed to
spiritual orreligious matters.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Over at City Journal, Benjamin A. Plotinsky tells us How Science Fiction Found Religion: "In a genre less committed than most to the this-worldly, there will always be messiahs to save the world from evil robots or invading aliens."
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In Mahabharata, definition of dharma signifies the upholding of both this-worldly and the other-worldly affairs: Dhaaranaad dharma ity aahur dharmena vidhrtaah prajaah, Yat syaad dhaarana sanyuktam sa dharma iti nishchayah Mahabharata 12.110.11.
Pankaj Jain, Ph.D.: Jain Dharma Goes Beyond Religion Ph.D. Pankaj Jain 2011
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Over at City Journal, Benjamin A. Plotinsky tells us How Science Fiction Found Religion: "In a genre less committed than most to the this-worldly, there will always be messiahs to save the world from evil robots or invading aliens."
March 2009 2009
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If the former is individualistic, magical, and salvationist, the latter is collective, technical, and this-worldly.
Planet-x.com.au » Why Jews Write Science Fiction and Christians Write Fantasy … 2010
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The chapters by different contributors—including a Nobel Prize-winning chemist, a couple of eminent art historians, and a professor of "Animal Well-Being Science"—chronicle a range of encounters with the sublime in what are essentially two broad categories: this-worldly and other-worldly.
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The practices associated with the other protectors are different in that they are used by monasteries, lama's estates, families, or individuals for this-worldly purposes as piecemeal elements of a traditional network of religious practices, not to affirm a systematically sectarian outlook.
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The practices associated with the other protectors are different in that they are used by monasteries, lama's estates, families, or individuals for this-worldly purposes as piecemeal elements of a traditional network of religious practices, not to affirm a systematically sectarian outlook.
The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II) 2010
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In a different dimension but not far removed, Obama's Chicago pastor, now eclipsed, Rev. Jeremiah Wright showed Obama a non-dogmatic Christianity: a transcendent God and a zeal for this-worldly activism, but not a direct answer to every political question.
Christopher Lydon: Reading Obama's Mind: Pragmatism and Its Perils (AUDIO) Christopher Lydon 2010
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The practices associated with the other protectors are different in that they are used by monasteries, lama's estates, families, or individuals for this-worldly purposes as piecemeal elements of a traditional network of religious practices, not to affirm a systematically sectarian outlook.
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The practices associated with the other protectors are different in that they are used by monasteries, lama's estates, families, or individuals for this-worldly purposes as piecemeal elements of a traditional network of religious practices, not to affirm a systematically sectarian outlook.
The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy (Part II) 2010
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