And, of course, Confucianism a philosophy rather than a religion is deeply revered.

Early understanding Like other natural phenomena, the Sun has been an object of veneration in many cultures throughout human history.

So, just as a Confucian son s absolute duty is to revere his father, the absolute duty of a Confucian subject is to revere the ruler.

For all his semi encouraging talk, Medvedev has stressed continuity over change, and his references to Putin s presidency have been as reverential as he has been obedient.

A conservative is someone who, in the tradition of the eighteenth century English parliamentarian Edmund Burke, believes that the established order deserves respect, even reverence.

Today, people in Silicon Valley and elsewhere speak of the IITs, the Indian Institutes of Technology with the same reverence they used to accord to MIT.

Bowing in China and Taiwan The kowtow was traditionally the highest sign of reverence in Han Chinese culture but its use has been extremely rare since the collapse of Imperial China.

In this effort, professionals in applied science, as people who would help Muslim countries catch up with the West, have enjoyed enormous prestige.

My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.' A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths.

Both Europe and America can learn a lesson hidden in American history, for, lost in the haze of patriotic veneration of America s founders is the fact that they created a new country during and largely because of a crippling debt crisis.

A conservative is someone who, in the tradition of the eighteenth century English parliamentarian Edmund Burke, believes that the established order deserves respect, even reverence. A liberal, by contrast, is someone ready to alter the established order in pursuit of a vision of a better world.