Sentences with phrase «as social historians»

As a social historian, Theissen assumes that the New Testament's social teachings and the actual social behavior of the communities that preserved and revered these teachings coincided.

Not exact matches

Levitt has worked tirelessly to build development studies as a multi-disciplinary field of scholarly endeavour, in which development economics plays an essential role but must be complemented by essential contributions from other social scientists and historians.

Increased recognition of the accomplishments of the Middle Ages (including the birth of engineering, social benefits such as universities, hospitals and the beginnings of corporations and labor guilds, as well as science, (all under the Catholic Church) has led to the label being restricted in application or avoided by serious historians.

This program gives Wilson many opponents: anti-functionalists among theorists and historians of religion (it's no accident that among theorists of religion Wilson chooses arch-functionalist Émile Durkheim as his hero); evolutionary theorists who don't think that such theory is usefully applicable to social groups; those who think it is applicable to social groups, but conclude that religious groups are maladaptive; and theological realists, who think the whole enterprise vitiated by its procedural naturalism.

Indeed, one could argue, following the historian Christopher Shannon, that the agenda of modern cultural criticism, relentlessly intent as it has been upon «the destabilization of received social meanings,» has served only to further the social trends it deplores, including the reduction of an ever - widening range of human activities and relations to the status of commodities and instruments, rather than ends in themselves.

An article in the Moral Majority Report by a young historian, Edward Hindson, cites Wilberforce and Finney as precursors of Falwell, and spells out their social achievements.

Social historians rejected the conquest model of Israel's entry into Canaan as it is described in the biblical narrative.

Le Goff's body of work, then, stands as a challenge to historians who argue for the Italian Renaissance and Reformation as a break that unleashed a series of forces, intended or not, ultimately leading to the current social imaginary.

The most influential thinkers might be philosopher - psychologists such as William James or social - historians such as Shirley Jackson Case.

There emerge types of religious leaders — whose lives the historian has illumined, whose intellectual and emotional makeup the psychologist has investigated, and whose social role the sociologist has explored — as well as types of religious groupings and religious institutions.

As a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistAs a result, certain intangibles — such as values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economistas values based on our more noble human impulses — are gradually entering the scope of leading thinkers, including historians, social scientists, businessmen and bankers — and even economists.

A nostalgic reminiscence from the Clinton years: Social historians, the addlepated media, and other leftists have delighted in categorizing those of us who are «post-war baby boomers,» as self - indulged, morally challenged, half - wits who follow the remnant of the Grateful Dead around in....

They are, for example, the Bible, creeds, confessions, theological systems, deviant heresies, moral codes, myths, buildings, social institutions — everything that has been left as an extant deposit within the developing Christian culture, and which can be studied by the historian.

Historian David Bebbington suggests a respected paradigm for those who identify as an evangelical: a transformed life through following Jesus, faith demonstrated through missionary and social reform efforts, a regard for the Bible as ultimate authority, and a central focus on the sacrificial death of Jesus.

In short, he pursues his subject as an historian and theologian, not chiefly as a literary archaeologist or social scientist.

A third group, becoming ever more visible, thanks to historians like Timothy Smith and Donald Dayton, reminds us that much of the social, experiential and even theological background of today's evangelicalism never was Reformed scholastic, as in the Princeton school, but derives from Arminian, Wesleyan, holiness and Keswickian sources.

Social historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social sciSocial historians proceed in the same way as 19th - century novelists, and both differ from historians who base their work on the social scisocial sciences.

From time to time thinkers and pastors, identified at the time by authority as «heretics», seen by others as prophets, and by some historians now as social revolutionaries, reached the conclusion that the Christian Gospel spoke of a body of Christians, of an incipient «Church», of a kind far removed from the type of political and economic structure maintained by Roman Canon Law.

Historians will surely view post-Christian Europe as an extraordinary cultural mix of social development and demographic death, a culture which can both espouse living life to the full and at the same time deny its value and destroy it.

Titled «The Ark and Beyond: The Evolution of Zoo and Aquarium Conservation,» the book — published in March 2018 — is written by a collection of authors from zoos and aquariums, including Shedd Aquarium's Vice President of Conservation Research Dr. Chuck Knapp, as well as an impressive roster of university - based historians, biologists, ethicists and social scientists.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more and more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

There's meat for social scientists and historians as well as for scientists, though it is a little tough at times.

As problems become bigger, especially in the case of natural disasters, we have to work more with other scientists, other engineering groups, but also with the social sciences — psychologists, disaster managers, historians — and statisticians.

In his spare time, he serves as a historian for the university's DJ club, taking photos and videos and documenting them on social media.

Although noting that power ultimately corrupts the militants, historian Henry Louis Gates Jr. reminisced that he and fellow black students at Yale loved the film as a utopian fantasy that offered them a realistic path — infiltration, then transformation — for social change.

Gore Vidal: The United States of Amnesia: This documentary about the late author, historian, social commentator, and wit would be a must - see no matter what, but it's also being hailed as a rounded, nuanced portrait of Vidal as well.

To begin, many legal historians and constitutional scholars seem to agree that the equal protection clause, as originally understood, did not prohibit segregation, because integration — including integrated schools — involved a «social» right, not a civil right, and therefore fell outside the ambit of that clause.

Yet as soon as one leaves behind the world of fairy - tale and self - fulfilling prophecy and, instead, casts a dispassionate eye on the actual situations in which important art production has existed, in the total range of its social and institutional structures throughout history, one finds that the very questions which are fruitful or relevant for the historian to ask shape up rather differently.

In a catalog essay describing the broader social, cultural and political context of early - 20th - century New York, the historian Max Page sees the Armory Show as emblematic of a distinctively modern process of «creative destruction» in which the new must always obliterate the old.

As art historian Irene Small has noted, the Parangolés thus participated in a queering of social interactions, creating a sort of «sensorial mating» that refused to allow participants to settle into a singular role (watching or wearing) or a singular formal configuration.

Considered in terms of the social history of American art, however, he's an important figure, because, as the art historian David Driskell writes in the exhibition catalog, he was «among a small number of African - American painters in the nation working abstractly at the time, and he was among the few artists of color who were represented by a mainstream gallery in New York.»

She holds a MA degree in economic and social history from the University of Amsterdam and worked as historian at the International Institute for Social History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East Isocial history from the University of Amsterdam and worked as historian at the International Institute for Social History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East ISocial History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East Indies.

Curated by Kate Sutton, this year's theme, Borderline, focuses on the comprehensive changes that European cultural institutions face on a political, social, and cultural level as seen from the perspectives of artists, art historians, international collectors, museum directors, dealers, critics, and curators.

Featuring artists and art historians Cecily Brown, Emmelyn Butterfield - Rosen, and Nick Mauss, and moderated by Jutta Koether, this panel will consider different methods of reading Florine Stettheimer's work, through the lens of social and cultural history, or as an alternative example of modernism, creating its own series of networks from within.

To simplify and clarify the study of art, historians have created precise categories such as «social realism», «Surrealism» and «abstract expressionism», at the expense of many artists like Eilshemius,

Bedford: One major consequence of that survey show, which I think we're only beginning to see bear fruit, is roughly as follows: yes, your career has become more extraordinary; yes, the paintings have become even better, as the pavilion will demonstrate; and yes, you've been able to spread your wings in terms of social practice, but you've also forced a wedge into the history of art that has revealed afresh your genuine predecessors: Norman Lewis, Sam Gilliam, Jack Whitten, Melvin Edwards, Alma Thomas — these people have become differently visible as a consequence of the need among museums and art historians to account for where you came from.

As early as the mid-1990s, art historian Isabelle Graw wrote of this development that the critique of art, its institutions, and its social contexts has become little more than «subversion for hire.&raquAs early as the mid-1990s, art historian Isabelle Graw wrote of this development that the critique of art, its institutions, and its social contexts has become little more than «subversion for hire.&raquas the mid-1990s, art historian Isabelle Graw wrote of this development that the critique of art, its institutions, and its social contexts has become little more than «subversion for hire.»

As the literary historian Houston A. Baker writes, the blues emerged from a matrix of «These include a grappling with personal and social catastrophe; an emphasis on improvisation and movement; the performance of extravagant or ambiguous identities; modes of abstraction and repetition; the expression of sexuality and intimacy; and an impulse towards archiving, sampling, and translation.

This meant that Arte Povera artists mined their particular social and historical moment to express something distinctly precise about the Italian condition through the use of installation, assemblage, and performance art, explaining why art historians have usually positioned them alongside artists working in the style known as Post Minimalism; American artists such as Keith Sonnier, Richard Serra, and Eva Hesse, and with artists in Europe included in the famous show When Attitudes Become Form (1969), such as Joseph Beuys, Yves Klein, and Hans Haacke.

Originally trained as an art historian focusing on the nineteenth - century, Olander curated numerous exhibitions exploring how contemporary art engages social and political conditions, including «The Art of Memory / The Loss of History» (1985) and «Fake» (1987).

In five essays, renowned art historian and critic Terry Smith describes how today curators take on roles far beyond exhibition making, to include reimagining museums; writing the history of curating; creating discursive platforms and undertaking social or political activism, as well as rethinking spectatorship.

Conservationists, environmentalists, policymakers, artists, activists, writers, historians, political and cultural theorists, as well as scientists and social scientists in many specialisms, are all responding to its implications.

At the beginning of winter quarter, Kendall joined Sarah Anderson and environmental historian and Environmental Studies professor Peter Alagona to lead one research project on the biological, social, and cultural dimensions of wildlife reintroductions, using the proposed reintroduction of grizzly bears in California as a case study.

This book will be welcomed by social and legal historians, those with an interest in colonial and frontier history, as well as scholars and students of law and gender.

Our members include demographers, economists, family therapists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, communication scholars, as well as other family social scientists and practitioners.

Our members include demographers, economists, family therapists, historians, political scientists, psychologists, social workers, sociologists, as well as other family social scientists and practitioners.