Sentences with phrase «western dominant culture»

It includes cultural awareness, or understanding the role of cultural difference and diversity, and the capacity for self - reflection as to how the Western dominant culture impacts on both Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.

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Insofar as cultures are defined by their dominant stories, premodern Western Civilization was a biblical civilization.

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

This book, indeed, is simply one person's thoughts, reflecting a standpoint in western culture and trying to take into account what appear to be dominant global trends.

Of course, it could be said that all of Western culture is pervaded by the direct and indirect influence of Jesus of Nazareth simply because of the dominant role of the Christian Church in shaping our heritage.

The future he hopes for is one which is informed not by the «rationalist» paradigm which has been dominant in Western culture since its beginnings, but by what he calls the «creationist» paradigm.

Although processed cheese is currently dominant, in part due to the encroachment of Western fast food brands like Pizza Hut and McDonalds, it could be that the marketing of more artisanal cheese as a symbol of cultured taste and difference could lead to success.

On the other side you've got Jak, an underground rebel in a futuristic background, armed with a morph gun, which sounds all too much like the product of an FPS dominant western gaming culture.

Conceptually, my work has remained consistently reflective of the problematic space of Western mass (consumer) culture and our relative lack of agency as subjects within that context, as simultaneous prisoners of and (un) willing participants in our dominant ideological structure.

I became aware of the prejudgments of skin colour which is the same as sexism in the Western masculine dominant culture.

In the section «Beauty,» gallery director Vera Ingrid Grant, who curated the show in collaboration with Weems, describes via wall text how «Weems visually narrates the human consequences of our socially constructed enclosure within dominant Western art culture.»

It is no secret that homosexual men and lesbians have been a dominant presence in Western culture since long before such terminology was invented by human sexologists some 125 years ago.