Sentences with phrase «indian societies like»

Indian societies like that of the Eskimos or the nomadic tropical tribes enacted great life - cycle rituals wherein the elderly would be set adrift on ice floes or would fail to ford the swift river with the rest of the tribe during a migration back to the mountains.

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He says, «the language barriers in relation to those who are outside the confines of theology and Christianity have consequently not been removed 5 Thus, the linguistic barrier is a problem not only between nations, but also a problem of a multilinguistic society like Indian.

In the late eighties the Indian Theological Association explored the pattern of the church in a secular mode as herald of the Kingdom and servant of the world in a pluralist society like India.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.

We should learn our lessons about how to prevent cancer not from the subtle distinctions between various states of disease we observe in our own society but from groups like the Torres Strait Islanders, the Eskimos and the North American Indians whose physicians went decades at a time unable to find a single case of cancer among them.

It was OK, they said, to call a Greek - Australian friend «Souvlaki» and an Indian friend «Curry» because this was an accepted, cultural practice in Australia: «that's just how we live today, like, in our society».

While groups like the National Indian Brotherhood (now the Assembly of First Nations) worked to represent those who had status, others, like the Canadian Métis Society, developed to represent those without status.

As per data released by the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM), car sales were down by around 7.5 per cent in July, though major players like Maruti Suzuki India, Honda and Hyundai showed some improvement in August.