Sentences with phrase «as sacred objects»

But if any did, it was this narrow usage that betrayed them by leading them to focus on the book itself as a sacred object, unrelated to the God of whom it speaks.

Prince's sarcophagus - like hood, presented on a wooden pedestal, is offered up as a sacred object.

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It is not possible, according to Catholic teaching, to avoid even the mere possibility of a conflict between sacred theology and science by delimiting beforehand and on principle the domain of reality to which the propositions asserted by each refer, in such a way that even the material object of each set of affirmations would be different from the start and as a consequence no contradiction at all would be possible (Denzinger 2109).

In Greece, I'm told, many Byzantine icons have been literally «defaced» by the pious who fleck off little pieces of the «holy» object (particularly about the eyes) and keep them as sacred relics.

His sole object as a teacher was «to lay down a pathway to the reading of sacred Scripture for the simple and uneducated.»

Sometimes the Indians themselves will not know an antique item's original purpose, or will differ among themselves as to whether an object that was once sacred is still sacred.

Those loopholes may not be quite as large as Naumer suggests, however The bill — which focuses on tribes and not individuals or «almost any Indian» — requires that a tribe establish that an object or objects in question originated with it and come under one of the three categories — sacred object, funerary object, human remains.

Personality is sacred not only in the human object of the serviceable deed but in the doer of it also, and he is to love his neighbor even as he loves himself.

When a tree becomes a cult object, it is not as a tree that it is venerated, but as a hierophany, that is, a manifestation of the sacred.

While most scholarship treats films as fodder for validating and perpetuating sacred theoretical frameworks, much like Thomas Kuhn's scientific paradigms, film criticism takes each film primarily as an autonomous art object and derives from the object the analytical tools necessary for discussing it, which may or may not be found in film theory toolkit.

In the middle of such green and dense forest, lives over 600 tame and friendly monkeys that all the time appeal to visitor, Part from functioning as sacred places, the forest along with the monkeys comes to be fascinating tourist object that is worth visiting.

This companion volume to the artist's largest exhibition to date is a feast taken from countless visual documents of Kelley's early formation, such as his involvement with the experimental band Destroy All Monsters (DAM), which also featured Jim Shaw, Cary Loren, and Niagara (born Lynn Rovner) in 1973 while Kelly and Shaw were students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor; early performative sculptures and objects; drawings; paintings; handmade dolls and stuffed animal sculptures; photography; videos; and endless inventive installations in various forms and shapes that explore and deal with the themes of self - destruction, repression, class relations, sexuality, religion, politics, and whatever else lies between the grotesque and the sublime, the sacred and the profane.

Plakidas explores the bi-polarities of the profane and the sacred; of the circus tent and the church, with self portraits and a number of additional props such as a circus wagon and flying geese, The artists writes: «The devotional object becomes the exhibitionist subject and the site of worship becomes the enclosed space of a child's fantasy».

Modern museum are increasingly conceived as less «sacred» institutions, used for socializing and education, where culture can be disseminated to a large, diverse public and where exhibited objects and artworks contribute to a manifold and complex perceptive experience.

This exhibition looks at the extraordinary impact of the Virgin of Guadalupe on Mexican culture, history and iconography through more than 60 artworks, including objects from the virgin's basilica in Mexico City, as well as a sacred reliquary that contains a portion of the garment worn by Juan Diego, the indigenous peasant who first saw the virgin in an apparition.

Recent work such as the Totemic Masks of his Totems Series look at the sacred in consumer objects of past and present.

The installation as reliquary illuminates the sacred attributes of the aesthetic object.

Renowned for their papier - mâché objects, including traditional sacred masks, Gill's collaborator - subjects wear masks made to represent living individuals, as they engage in everyday village activities.

She has garnered critical acclaim for her use of ceremonial and ritualistic materials gathered from and transcending everyday culture; the use of the sacred refers to a multiplicity of meanings as it dates back to pre-Christian times and is found in both Western and Eastern religions symbolized through such objects as the apple, salt, and lotus.

★ METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: «JERUSALEM 1000 - 1400: EVERY PEOPLE UNDER HEAVEN» (through Jan. 8) Three major faiths — Judaism, Christianity and Islam — have called Jerusalem their own, and its varying histories as a sacred space, a theater of conflict and a cosmopolitan cultural emporium are reflected in this exhibition modeled along classic Met epic lines: 200 fascinating objects from 60 international collections, with a time frame in the past and context in the present (in the form of short videos in each gallery).

To get still closer to the story, one might consider the drive north to Port MacNeil and the 30 minute ferry trip to Alert Bay on Cormorant Island to spend an afternoon at the wonderful Umista Museum where the Kwakwakawa present evidence of the theft of their sacred objects conducted in a fog of \ secret \ Indian Agent and missionary collusion as revealed in documents preserved by the governments of Canada and B.C.

The court found that religious freedom under section 2 (a) does not include protection of the objects of the religion, such as sacred places.

However, this case suggests that Indigenous spiritual beliefs connected to land will be difficult to protect from development, as the court held that protection of the object of spiritual beliefs (such as spiritual or sacred places) is not within the scope of section 2 (a).