Sentences with phrase «culture studies from»

Erin holds a bachelor's degree in Liberal Studies from St. Edward's University, in Austin, TX, and a master's degree in American Culture Studies from Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio, where she wrote about intersections of gender, contemporary art, and urban space.

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And a study from Columbia business school showed that creative directors of fashion companies produced more creative innovations after having spent a significant amount of time working in cultures very different from their own.The time diversifying their experiences expanded their point of view and forced them to problem - solve in different ways.

From the testosterone - fueled culture of the Harvard Business School case study process to the bigger than life personalities of Donald Trump, Jack Welch, Richard Branson, Russell Simmons et.

Buxton says the study's results point to a need for a culture shift in organizations toward a provision for greater flexibility and a change in mentality from a focus on congratulating those who burn the candle at both ends to an appreciation of the benefits of sleep.

The CATA study on Commercialization of Innovations highlights the fact that Canada suffers from a weak culture of collaboration.

She holds a BA Honours Degree with Distinction from in Literature and Creative Writing from Concordia University in Montreal, where she also spent time in the university's Communications Studies department looking at the history of technology and its impact on culture.

Shiva Rajgopal, an accounting professor at Columbia Business School, teamed up with three others from Duke's Fuqua School of Business to conduct a study on corporate culture.

What I'd like us all to take from «wm» is a conviction that conservative pop culture studies have to attend to the impact of the medium as well as of the message, or better said, since McLuhan can't be fully right, that we must grapple with the popularity as well as the culture of pop culture.

I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

Called «Etz Hayim» («Tree of Life» in Hebrew), it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures.

The reason the church adapted some of the symbolism and practices from their surrounding pagan culture is an interesting study, but the simplest explanation which makes the most sense to people today is found in our own culture.

The classic anthropological picture, largely drawn from the study of primitive societies, of tightly - woven patterns of culture, each element of which has to be understood in relation to all the other interconnected elements, is decreasingly relevant to the understanding of man - in - relation.

The author of Sexless in the City: A Memoir of Reluctant Chastity, she holds an M.A. in religious studies from Arizona State University and has written for The Atlantic website, Books and Culture, Paste, The Journal of the History of Sexuality, Christianity Today, Beliefnet and other publications.

But, the truth is the bible is far from fantasy, but you've never really studied the history, culture, of the bible have you, you just like to jab.

In my study of world religions I found that god looks very much like a product of the culture it came from.

«Culture [i.e. ethnic] lines may fade,» she concluded from her study, «but religious barriers are holding fast.»

Called Tree of Life'it offers an interpretation that incorporates the latest findings from archaeology, philology, anthropology and the study of ancient cultures.

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

The emphasis shifted from the oral study of literary texts to the performative dimensions of human communication in culture.

It incorporates songwriting and the study of songs from minority non-Western cultures lst.ac.uk

In the Christian Institute for the Study - of Religion and Society there was an open discussion about a proposal that since Christ transcended not only cultures but also religions and ideologies, the fellowship of confessors of faith in Jesus as the Messiah should not separate from their original religious or secular ideological community but should form fellowships of Christian faith in those communities themselves, and that so long as the Law sees baptism as transference from one community to another it should not be made the condition of entry into the fellowship of the sacrament of the Lord's Supper but made a sacramental privilege for a later time (Ref.

To what extent does or doesn't Bible study distance itself from the overwhelming values and priorities of the culture?

By contrast, in literature class we read poetry and fiction, and in social science we study the subjective beliefs of various cultures from a naturalistic perspective.

One may certainly refrain from insisting, as some Jewish leaders have, upon mandated Holocaust studies in the public school curriculum: for many people, such «mandates» might appear as an effort to establish the passion of the Jews as the larger culture's defining story, thus, ironically, giving plausibility to anti-Semitic claims about Jewish power.

Programs of study that focus on Jewish history and culture, as well as other aspects of Judaism, are available from many venues.

William G. McLoughlin in his study of the Great Awakenings points out that they have been shaping American culture from its inception.

again yo ushow NO knowledge of having studied another language from ANOTHE culture... LISTEN..

[37] The sober warning, coming from the field of culture studies, must not be forgotten, that

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

What can be seen from a study of religious uses of television in America is that over the past several years there has developed a marked imbalance in the presentation of American religious faith and culture.

From our study of the Jewish culture we know that such sanctions are extremely effective in preventing alcoholism.

It is encouraging to note that since World War II facilities for the study of Eastern languages, histories, and cultures have been greatly expanded in the United States, but provisions for the study of Eastern religions are still far from adequate.

In reality, these specialists or those historians of religions engaged in the study of regional cultures or specific religions need informed criticisms both from, say, Buddhologists or Indologists, and from generalists in the field.

Important sociological studies today are showing that the technological cultures of the West, shaped by the secularistic world views derivative of Protestant religious traditions, are dramatically shifting the balance of «intended death» away from homicide to suicide.

Interestingly Zondervan (I believe) are publishing a brand new NIV study Bible which relates notes from the original language and culture underpinning the stories.

@Mass Debater «I have read many works that study the history of the Jewish people and their culture as found apart from biblical sources, I have yet to find one that did not include supposition about the veracity of it's own work, with none claiming absolute truth as to who the authors of the bible or who the historical figure of Moses could have been.»

For the Catholic community, while the insights of particular theologians are helpful along the way, an essential resource for study must be key magisterial documents, such as Fides et Ratioand documents from the Pontifical Council for Culture.

This notion arose initially from studies that sought to examine the characteristics of civic culture were not likely to be successful at democratization (Perry, 1994).

The so - called «balanced approach» (a new code word that means the exact opposite from what it would seem) sought by the president is most likely going to be all about restricting guns and nothing but study on reigning in Hollywood for the culture of violence.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studiesFrom these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studiesfrom the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

Some of the best nutritional research comes from studying tribal cultures, learning about the diets of our ancestors.

In 2010, researchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center published a study in the journal Clinical Cancer Research showing that sulforaphane had the ability to kill breast cancer stem cells in mice and in lab cultures, and it also prevented the growth of new tumor cells.

Chef Jimmy Li's wife, the lovely Jing Li hails from Shandong, China and studied tea and tea culture back in her homeland.

According to a number of recent studies [1,2,5,13,18], while the culture of sport (including influences from professional and other athletes), as well as the media and other outside sources play a role in the decision of student - athletes to report experiencing concussion symptoms, it is coaches and teammates, along with parents, who have the strongest influence on the decision to report a concussion during sport participation, with coaches being one of the primary barriers to increased self - reporting by athletes of concussive symptoms.

Priscilla, who has studied over a thousand babies from different cultures and languauges, says that all babies make 5 sounds and they have specific meanings.

Furthermore, a 2001 international study from Early Human Development concluded that the practice of bed - sharing may vary in different cultures around the world, and that it was difficult to ascribe the cause of SIDS to any one childcare practice.

However, one study suggests that using both may be best; it looked at cultures where women breastfed solely from one breast and found that the non-lactating breast had a higher incidence of breast cancer.

CHESTNUT HILL, MA (June 9, 2014)-- Fathers want to be present and involved from the first days of their children's lives and increasingly expect their employers to support them through paid leave, flexibility, and ultimately a culture that respects their desire to be hands - on caregivers, according to a new study of 30 corporations and more than 1,000 fathers by the Boston College Center for Work & Family (BCCWF).

I don't think you can draw any conclusions about the health aspects of breast feeding after the age of ~ 12 months in a modern 1st world country from studies of 3rd world cultures.

What they don't tell you is that baby sleep researchers are forced to base their estimates of average sleep requirements on «best guesses» and that baby sleep norms vary greatly from culture to culture, study to study.