Sentences with phrase «while culture war»

While culture war issues make headlines galore, an exhaustive study of Americans» religious attitudes shows the public as a whole might not find the debate so enticing.

While the culture wars are, to Santorum's delight, with us at least until November, the cultural questions that beset us are likely to shift and shift quickly.

Not exact matches

For instance, while Star Wars has very evident religious Buddhist and Taoist overtones, Star Trek shows religion from a cold perspective (e.g., science is supreme and only cultures and worlds without an in - depth knowledge of science need religion).

While I'm willing to agree with Michael Barone that at least some of the heat in the culture wars has been turned down a bit (but see this post for a qualification), a lot of interesting things have been said recently about marriage, some of which I noted here.

Bottum opines that we should prepare ourselves for the next chapter in the culture wars, in which the left here will get into step with its European compatriots, espousing a militant skepticism toward science while maintaining their polemic against the religious right, but this time for its uncritical embrace of scientific progress.

The prestige media is generally blind to its own belligerency in the culture war; it champions as courageous the exercise of free speech that is vituperative and slanderous while simultaneously calling for civility, and condemning as uncivil even the measured responses of those who are slandered.

Rachel: You note that while Catholics, African Americans, Hispanics and many Mainline Protestants have continued to be involved in public education, White evangelical Christians are largely absent, until a «culture war» issue arises --(around school - led prayer, evolution, sex ed, etc.)-- and the protests begin.

While the reality of culture wars can hardly be denied, I prefer to think of First Things in terms of conversation rather than warfare.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

I've been saying this for a while now, but on the most contentious issues of the culture war, namely homosexuality and same - sex marriage, it is conservative Christians that deserve credit for being the most reasonable and peaceable combatants.

While monitoring the war and its devastations, the Century stayed faithful to the day - to - day doings of Americans in culture and church.

While the culture - wars idea does reflect the demands of certain activists, it is not the only game in town.

While I admit that the rise of culture - war politics has accompanied the weakening of political parties, I would not necessarily agree that the former caused the latter.

While culture influences our politics, no culture war dominates them.

While it may be comforting to know that America is not as divided or as unreasonable as the narrow culture - war thesis suggests, that does not make the current state of American politics any easier to take.

Recent research points out that while «culture» plays a critical role in social divisions, the «culture wars» rhetoric is basically inaccurate.

While most of his books since his move to that liberal aerie have dealt with American history, he has also joined the culture wars now raging inside the Catholic Church, and very much on the liberal side.

Religious freedom is the banner under which this decade's culture wars are being waged, and so, while there are many angles to this story we could discus, I'd like to focus on this one.

While sharing many common moral concerns in what were then called the «culture wars,» the framers of ECT determined to address these issues precisely as believers in Jesus Christ.

«Creation,» while sympathetic to Darwin, is hardly a partisan culture - war document.

«While the themes are deep, Black Panther is at the same time a visual joy to behold, with confident quirkiness (those aforementioned war rhinos), insane action sequences and special effects, and the glorious reveal of Wakanda, whose culture is steeped in African influences but which also offers a jaw - dropping look at what a city of the future could be... Let's not wait too long for a return trip.»

The White Ribbon (Sony)-- Winner of the Palm D'or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film and Best Cinematography, Michael Haneke's portrait of rural life in Germany before World War II is a beautifully shot film that evokes nostalgia in the austere black - and - white imagery while revealing a corrupt culture under the surface.

For some time now, evolution and sex education have been the curricular targets drawing the most fire from religious combatants in our culture wars, while all has been quiet on the economics front.

And while it might not be seen as part of the culture wars, it certainly inflamed the passions of those who didn't want Washington or even their state's government involved in their local classrooms.

The Brave Unicorn is an illustrated children's bedtime book that attracts children to read with pop culture artwork (including Gangnam Style, Peanut Butter Jelly Time, Slurpee and Star Wars), while teaching kids grit including life lessons about how to overcome disappointment and failure.

Her next novel is the story of a Korean War veteran who returns to small - town Georgia, disappointed in its racist culture and trying to help his emotionally unstable sister while still recovering from the physical and emotional aftereffects of wWar veteran who returns to small - town Georgia, disappointed in its racist culture and trying to help his emotionally unstable sister while still recovering from the physical and emotional aftereffects of warwar.

You'll take your first tentative warp jumps into new systems containing unique planets and discover existing civilizations or huge space creatures or dangerous hazards, colonize new worlds, build up your industry, culture and research capabilities, raise fleets and wage war, all while completely overacting everything you do in true Shatner style.

That said, this was to a considerably lesser extent given the context of each IP: Gears of War 4 is known for its «beefy bro» characters and their «hell yeah» attitude, while the sequel to Ubisoft's near - future action game is trying — perhaps a little too hard — to emulate the «hacker» culture.

So while not all future Star Wars games and content will be aligned and intertwined with the new movies, EA will surely do its best to align some of the content and games to the upcoming movies and pop culture.

While Meckseper's earlier vitrine works commented on contemporary consumer culture using the shop window as an example and focus point for civic unrest and protest in our late capitalist society, her current works allude to the political dimension of early modernist display architecture and design between World War I and II in Weimar Germany.

I confronted the lack of heroic figures in contemporary culture — a society that often memorializes disasters, war, and the iconic figures while leaving very little room to honor the casualties of these disasters and the sacrifices of the unknown person in our everyday life.»

It is the hierarchies of capital that provide the industry of war with the lowest rung of its workforce while also helping to construct a culture of unexamined violence that facilitates an easy slippage from spectator to enactor within a range of unconscionable acts.

While the Brooklyn Museum is dealing with a new round of outrage regarding A Fire In My Belly, conjuring a nagging sense that we are doomed to repeat the culture wars over and over again whether it is with Wojnarowicz, Robert Mapplethorpe, Andres Serrano or Chris Ofili, the question remains what will be the lasting effects of this battle on Wojnarowicz's work, future curatorial decisions and the politics of art.