Sentences with phrase «western culture and society»

At what point do the theological affirmations of process theology decisively differ from the common - sense beliefs of traditional Western culture and society?

But, according to a new report, an alleged Brussels terrorist was the star in a documentary about successful integration of immigrants to Western cultures and society.

Not exact matches

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

Perhaps it is now time to recognize that the third world - changing scientific achievement of the last century is not the unmitigated good that much of Western culture claims it is — and that treating the sexual revolution as a unambiguous, indeed undeniable, boon to humanity can lead to a lot of personal unhappiness, homicidal ghouls like Kermit Gosnell, and the deployment of coercive state power in ways that threaten civil society and democracy.

My assessment is that the wider disorientation of Western society, the decreasing respect for many institutions and the disdain for humans alongside what Christopher Lasch has termed a «culture of narcissism» has played out both among the «spiritual but not religious» identifiers as well as among many «new atheists.»

The contemporary «learning society,» overwhelmed with information, knowledge and entertainment, requires discerning and constructive responses of an even greater order than those of the early church in the sophisticated rhetorical culture of the Roman Empire, or the early modern Western church faced with printing and transformations in scholarship, geographical horizons, sciences, nations and industries.

The novel addresses the conflict between secularism and Islamism, the different conceptions of religion in Muslim and Western societies, and the impossibility of individualism in Muslim culture.

Clearly the imminent collapse ofmany countries» populations is a worry, for economic reasons, and yet is still not yet giving rise to any significant response amongst Western societies to move to a more pro-family and less contraceptive culture.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

Western culture has been deeply affected by the 19th - century Romantic belief that we are born naturally good and are ruined by society - inflicted moralizing.

He called for a widening of western consciousness with a new knowledge of Asiatic societies and cultures.

It seems to me that the church has been simply supine before the mores of Western culture, according to which it is indecent to talk about death in polite society P «Theological Perspectives on Aging,» Human Values Institute Conference, May 12 - 14, 1986; published in Second Opinion: A Journal of Health, Faith, and Ethics, November 1986].

He will include all that is known of ancient and medieval and modern Oriental cultures and societies (Near, Middle and Far East) and extend his examination of Western society and cultures back beyond the classical world finally to include the successive types developed in the various great periods of the Christian era down to this day.

Our Western culture has moved so rapidly in the past half century, our ways of thinking have been so affected by the scientific, technological, and secular advances, that our situation seems divorced almost completely from society as presupposed in biblical and traditional theological thinking.

I'm not personally interested in creation stories that have only small numbers or adherents and little or no impact on the cultures that brought forth the western technological society in which I live.

As in his previous book Lewis provides data on the yawning gap between Western nations and the economies and cultures of Muslim societies.

The Rise of the Technocratic Society New York June 24 A discussion on the history of contemporary Western culture with Dr. Michael Hanby, professor of Religion and Philosophy of Science, John Paul II Institute at the Catholic University of America and Dr. Carlo Lancellotti, Professor of Mathematics, CUNY, editor and translator of The Crisis of Modernity by Augusto Del Noce.

Hitherto the Western industrial culture has dictated the relations between life in nature and life in human society, both capitalist and socialist.

Finally, there is increased anxiety concerning climate change — with some environmentalists demonising human beings, consumer - based Western cultures castigating poorer nations for their waste and pollution, and little attempt to think more profoundly about what a more ecologically - aware approach to our world may demand from such societies.

If, as Hall and others suggest, the flaw in technological society runs so deep in Western thought and culture, the solutions to our present difficulties (if any there be) must indeed be radical.

Society has recognized this by setting up a pattern of relationship which in our Western culture is predominantly monogamous and finds its chief manifestation in matrimony, although there have been and are other cultures that have taken a different line in their attitude toward heterosexuality.

In many regards, these rights have caused western society and culture to become self - centered and egotistical.

After exploring the development of structures of domination in Western societies, she concludes that undoing these structures requires re-establishing more manageable units of local control, ensuring just relations and the just distribution of life's necessities, and converting a culture of competition and domination into one of compassionate solidarity.

Only in a relatively few select cultures (Western, industrialized societies) have infants ever slept outside the company and presence of their breastfeeding mothers.

@Jean - co-sleeping is both healthy and natural, but gets a bad reputation due to Western culture, which encourages separation and detachment from family (and we wonder why our society breeds so many sociopaths).

Clinical Psychologist (USA) Dr Brooke Magnanti Feona Attwood, Professor of Media & Communication at Middlesex University Martin Barker, Emeritus Professor at University of Aberystwyth Jessica Ringrose, Professor, Sociology of Gender and Education, UCL Institute of Education Ronete Cohen MA, Psychologist Dr Meg John Barker, Senior Lecturer in Psychology, The Open University Kath Albury, Associate Professor, UNSW Australia Myles Jackman, specialist in obscenity law Dr Helen Hester, Middlesex University Justin Hancock, youth worker and sex educator Ian Dunt, Editor in Chief, Politics.co.uk Ally Fogg, Journalist Dr Emily Cooper, Northumbria University Gareth May, Journalist Dr Kate Egan, Lecturer in Film Studies, Aberystwyth University Dr Ann Luce, Senior Lecturer in Journalism and Communication, Bournemouth University John Mercer, Reader in Gender and Sexuality, Birmingham City University Dr. William Proctor, Lecturer in Media, Culture and Communication, Bournemouth University Dr Jude Roberts, Teaching Fellow, University of Surrey Dr Debra Ferreday, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Lancaster University Jane Fae, author of «Taming the beast» a review of law / regulation governing online pornography Michael Marshall, Vice President, Merseyside Skeptics Society Martin Robbins, Journalist Assoc. Prof. Paul J. Maginn (University of Western Australia) Dr Lucy Neville, Lecturer in Criminology, Middlesex University Alix Fox, Journalist and Sex Educator Dr Mark McCormack, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Durham University Chris Ashford, Professor of Law and Society, Northumbria University Diane Duke, CEO Free Speech Coalition (USA) Dr Steve Jones, Senior Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University Dr Johnny Walker, Lecturer in Media, Northumbria University

They want to create a culture of conflict between the Ummah and Western Society.

Here's a short digression: Notes or no notes, maintaining eye contact can be difficult for those who were raised in cultures that have different views on eye contact than we do in Western society and especially in the USA.

Their unique health and behavioral patterns are precisely why researchers need to study cultures that fall outside of so - called WEIRD — Western educated industrialized rich democracy — societies, says Michael Gurven, a professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and director of the Tsimané Health and Life History Project.

Styling in summer and mid seasons is much easier [highlight] as compared to winter, in eastern styles and culture because for western it's easy to stay stylish in winter by carrying a stylish sweater with a small cap or muffler, but in our society, norms differ, we wear shalwar qamiz, almost 90 % of Asians.

There is true potential in being apart of a multicultural relationship in today's society, as these relations have really become a more common and accepted part of Western culture.

Didy Veldman's latest work for the Ipswich venue explores the place of marriage in present - day western society: playing with the rituals, the social expectations and the myth of happy - ever - after endings peddled by religion and popular culture.

Unlike Western cultures, where harmonious social relations rest upon the satisfaction of individual needs or rights and fairness to all, «proper behavior in the Confucian collectivistic culture is defined by social roles, with mutual obligation among members of society and the fulfillment of their duties for each other being emphasized» (Ho, 2001, p. 100).

The Western society is part of the boom and bust culture, with the economy in the US being specifically vulnerable to periods of sharp decline and sudden growth.

Freed from the constraints and conventions of Western culture, we can explore themes of society and self - reliance in a sort of «clean room» environment.

Start - up culture is now the linchpin of Western Civilization, and any society that doesn't «get it» will fail long - term.

In his new show «El Rio,» Nieves considers death, from the fear and rejection of it in contemporary Western society, to the honor and celebration of human sacrifice among the Aztecs and tribal cultures of New Guinea.

He will pay particular attention to how this process played into the creation of his most recent project, A Trilogy of Burials, a series of abstract paintings, photographs, and multimedia images that are intended as a meditation on how different cultures have addressed mortality, a subject we often have a hard time discussing in Western society.

In their book Old Mistresses: Women, Art and Ideology (1981), Griselda Pollock and Rozsika Parker wrote that, «Women artists have always existed, but because of the economic, social and ideological effects of sexual difference in western, patriarchal culture, women have spoken and acted from a different place within that society and culture».

She makes extensive use of Xerox transfer printing, a largely Western technique, to incorporate found photography into the works: family photographs; images from Nigerian popular culture; clippings from political, fashion, and society magazines; and ornamental patterns from traditional textiles.

The result is a composite of styles and an expansion of Haji Omar's research - based practice around convergent cultures, especially those spawned in the greater Middle East and South Asia and intersecting with Western societies.

Taken either individually or as a whole, they offer commentary on psychiatric pathology as perceived in traditional non-Western cultures, on the one hand, and in modern Western societies, on the other.

Crossover explores the relationship between common notions of Eastern and Western culture from a Korean - American perspective and the effects of cross-cultural phenomena on individuals and minority groups in society.

Martin Luther's Reformation ranks among the most successful religious movements in history, altering western society and culture forever, and... Read More

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Daniel G. Baird considers ideas endemic to Western society about culture and technology, often subverting ideas of technological progress with juxtapositions of their primitive translations.

I Refuse to be Invisible, Njideka Akunyili Crosby's kaleidoscopic painting, is an illustration of her pioneering practice in which she draws together a wide range of contemporary themes — including the role of traditional cultures in modern society, the proliferation of the mass media and the history of western painting — into one monumental work.

Using found materials, El Anatsui draws on traditional African idioms and contemporary western art practices, to comment on West African culture, history, and society.

His imaginary heroes — the «Baseball sluggers» — are figures embodied of symbols that reflect the cultural and racial conflict in the modern Western Society, and his confusion between the concepts of race and culture in America.

There are some really strong forces at work in this society attempting to redefine almost every aspect of our western culture, science and objectivity apparently being one of these....