Sentences with phrase «such cultural pluralism»

Such cultural pluralism is consistent with the requirements of human nature for a determinate social matrix, and it provides for continued enrichment of the life of mankind through a variety of contrasting traditions.

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Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

If we value cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation of existing ethnic groups to find a basis for such pluralism, though the persistence of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.

The answer is that they were confronted in the first place with vast cultural trends such as technological advance, professionalization, and secularism that they could not easily control; and their problem was made the worse by pressures of cultural pluralism and Christian ethical principles that made it awkward if not impossible for them to take any decisive stand against the secularizing trends.

Much current discussion of cultural, religious, moral, and intellectual pluralism uses the concept «pluralism» in a way that seems to shift from a descriptive use («such diversity does in fact exist») to an evaluative and even celebratory use («such diversity is a good thing and should exist»).

Such antimodern models of «critical traditionality» come out of the life experience of ordinary people in India and provide working examples of tolerance and pluralism not by ejecting religio - cultural particularities but by utilizing them for the good of all.

«18 In the present context of globalization it is not only necessary to reject «the Western pretence of universalism,» writes Rajni Kothari, «but also for non-Western cultures to seek answers to their problems from within and, in the process, not only provide pluralism in techno - cultural system but, through such pluralism, help Westerners themselves to deal with the new crop of problems they now encounter.

Tendencies that have come to define modern Western societies include the existence of political pluralism, prominent subcultures or countercultures (such as New Age movements), and increasing cultural syncretism — resulting from globalization and human migration.

Political correctness, cultural pluralism and idiotic ed - school - fostered instructional ideas all contribute to such foolishness.

Secondary cultural pluralism in the form of age, class, religious and regional subcultures and of residual ethnic traits (such as cooking), does, of course, exist in the United States, but major cultural cleavages are absent.

Prouvost is wonderfully, unmistakably French, and her work merges subjects from a challenging diversity of cultural sources: such enlivening pluralism surely helps to make this a «British» prize, which corresponds to the complex composition of art as it is developed in, and in relation to contemporary British society.