Sentences with phrase «western political tradition»

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The religion faculty (many with degrees from top - flight Western universities) combines an inflexible affirmation of the perfection of Qur» anic revelation (and solidarity with global Muslim political grievances) with a very sophisticated interpretive attempt to moderate any aspect of the tradition that stands in the way of economic and technological advance.

The great monotheistic traditions of the West are the major sources of Western moral and political attitudes.

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

Or, did they successfully unite the best parts of the Western philosophical tradition, and so create a political philosophy that could withstand its own worst tendencies?

Due to his references to religion and history, Trump is perceived as attached to the Western tradition, much more so than the political elites in Europe or in America's recent administrations.

BTW: Natural law political theory, English common law, all of western tradition of course are heavily influenced by Christianity.

The Italian left, heirs to the strongest communist party in Western Europe and a powerful Catholic political tradition, is struggling to adjust its values and political agenda to the new needs and constrains of the modern globalised world.

The exhibition's goal is to shed light on the dialogue taking place between the diverse mediums, practices and iconography through a selection of artists who push boundaries beyond contemporary Chinese Political Pop and Cynical Realism and combine inspiration from Eastern and Western traditions.

Her work, which criticizes the political situation in India, is based not only on an iconography typical of the subcontinent's culture, but also on Western artistic and literary tradition.

Historically the Western tradition until the 17th century associated the portrayal of the human being with a figure of power, whether religious, political or financial.

Weaving and threading between and within ancient and Western systems, Vicuña preserves indigenous traditions, transforming these lost ways of being in the world into urgent political tools.

It enriches the abstract tradition in Western art with fresh political and spiritual content, and deepens our understanding of the background of major trends in recent African American art, from the material - loving, politically conscious abstractions of Mark Bradford to the politically and spiritually charged sculptures of Betye Saar and Vanessa German.

Discussions of customary law inevitably deal with the interface between western and Aboriginal political and legal systems in which customary law represents a translation of Aboriginal traditions and practice.