Sentences with phrase «as social movements in»

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That's no longer the case, as social movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo have thrust the power dynamics that she highlights in her own New York City classroom onto a cultural main stage, and made her work more accessible and understandable.

In addition to using legit IP addresses routed through real Internet service providers, the scammers coded their bots to have sophisticated behaviors, such as fake clicks, mouse movements, and social network logins, to evade detection by fraud analyzers.

I offer over six years of expertise in this demographic, as well as being the catalyst of what is now known on social media as the black / urban travel movement that now has many communities feeding it.

As a social movement scholar and someone who believes we should leverage all assets in a challenge, I know that much social good can come from mass involvement - and research shows that includes online activism.

In particular, she was impressed with how social media advanced the conversation around Black Lives Matter, a movement to end violence against African Americans that started as a hashtag on Twitter.

«Emergence of participatory media may change the power media have to frame social movements, as social movement actors can forcefully offer their framing, diffuse their preferred framing to large audiences in ways that would have been simply impossible or prohibitively costly before social media, challenge journalists directly, or create a strong enough attention around their own framing that it becomes harder to ignore.»

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

The #DeleteFacebook movement is gaining steam in social media, as Facebook finds itself in a massive scandal after political consulting company Cambridge Analytica acquired personal data from the platform.

The articles tapped into the recognition and movement towards more science and less art in the spheres of marketing and sales as well as in overall social strategy.

Although Global Times acknowledges that sexual violence is a problem in China, as it is in other countries, it also stresses that «social movements can only play a limited role in reducing sexual harassment.»

We could view it as a social movement and live within in.

It is precisely the emergence of gay liberation as a social movement determined to restructure society's laws and mores that has made homosexuality a subject of such intense controversy in our time.

The fact is that before the civil rights movement the republicans in the south were recieving plenty of aid, and as soon as the social programs for blacks began kicking in suddenly no one wanted to pay taxes anymore.

But in 1974 at the second national workshop of Evangelicals for Social Action, one proposal that was endorsed as a valid way to implement the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social Concern called for a movement of evangelical, nonviolent direct action.

Marsh's research on the religious roots and inspiration of the civil rights movement enlivens his account of Bonhoeffer's turn «from the phraseological to the real,» an awakening in social conscience that occurred during his year as a post-doctoral resident at Union Theological Seminary in New York in 1930 — 1931.

Niebuhr viewed this construction in terms of developing the institutions and social organizations that could embody the essence of the Protestant spirit as «a life, a movement, which could never come to rest again in secure habitations.»

The argument is that the Chicago school arose in the context of the social gospel, a movement that had much in common with contemporary political theology and that, under the stimulus of political theology, this school can recover something of what it had lost as well as move forward in new ways.

The charismatic experience is a «sensation of surrender to an immersion in a larger reality: an experience perceived as self - fulfillment and enhancement of individuality rather than the loss of it» (Luther P. Gerlach and Virginia H. Hine, People, Power, Change: Movements of Social Transformation [Indianapolis: Bobbs - Merrill Co., 1970], 124).

Seligman considers whether, in a time of atomized anomie, new social movements such as feminism or gay rights might provide an incipient civil society for their adherents.

Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).

Thus the Holiness family includes pockets of influence within Methodism (many camp meetings and some educational institutions), pre-Civil War perfectionist antislavery radicals like the Wesleyans and Free Methodists, such products of the National Camp Meeting Association as the Church of the Nazarene and the Pilgrim Holiness Church, social - service movements like the Salvation Army, a synthesis of Holiness theology and a Campbellite - like ecclesiology in the Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), as well as a host of smaller bodies.

Though many social organizations and unions give support to such movements, church members form an indispensable segment of their constituencies, as the recent financial crisis involving the NAACP in Mississippi made clear.

But it came to be associated not only with religious but also with caste political overtones, and came into conflict with the anti-Brahmin movements of depressed castes who were organizing separately for separate political strength to bring about cultural and social change aimed at elevating their status in the body politic; it also made the conversion into other religious communities, of the depressed sections of Hinduism as well as of the Tribals partially Hinduised and moving more fully in that direction, to be seen as a weakening of the Hindu community and a strengthening of other religious communities as political entities.

As the changing socio - economic conditions of nineteenth - century urban, industrial America demanded of the church a reassessment of its understanding of people in society, it was the Social Gospel movement which arose to take seriously the reality of corporate sin and the need for corporate response.

It was a historical day for the church, but a working day for me, as I had several people to see in connection with my project on social movements among the lower classes.

Evidence that the drive for meaning is still alive and well in contemporary society is to be found in a number of current social movements (interestingly, some of these groups find it convenient to use church facilities as their meeting place).

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

It represents the culmination of his 15 years of identification with the «religious socialist» movement in Germany, dating back to the time just after World War I when he was called on the carpet by the synodical consistory in Berlin to account for his appearance as a lecturer at a meeting of the Independent Social Democratic Party — a party which, from the synod's standpoint, had added to the injury of being socialist the insult of having been antiwar as well.

As Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieAs Paul Markhan wrote in an excellent essay about the phenomenon, young people who identify with this movement have grown weary of evangelicalism's allegiance to Republican politics, are interested in pursuing social reform and social justice, believe that the gospel has as much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas much to do with this life as the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communitieas the next, and are eager to be a part of inclusive, diverse, and authentic Christian communities.

With the emergence of new concern in our own century for the people caught in problems of urbanization, racial discrimination, industrialization, and the like, the churches moved first — through the so - called social gospel movement — to correct the previous emphasis on soul - saving as dealing only with individual persons.

Their attempts to adhere, however inconsistently, to a religious tradition she vigorously faults as a failure of political engagement, negatively contrasting this contemporary men's movement with the Social Gospel movement that arose early in the century.

The notion of the people, i.e.Minjung, and of small - scale movements and initiatives which represent them, is from the Christian point of view partly a socio - ecclesial vision in the sense of a theological appraisal of the church as social reality in the larger body politic, and partly eschatology in the sense of a vision of the ends worked out within, and ends which extend beyond, human history.

, a question deriving not so much from the Catholic tradition as from the dilemma of cradle Catholics caught up in the maelstrom of collapsing social norms and carnal yearnings unleashed by the sexual revolution of the «sixties, of which we can say, in Lady Bracknell's words»... I presume you know what that unfortunate movement led to?»

As a new social movement rises up around the issue of global survival, it seems essential to explore the distinctive relationship between the Good News of a realm of redemption which is at once personal and cosmic, and the holistic work that is being done in fields as diverse as consciousness studies, physics and dieAs a new social movement rises up around the issue of global survival, it seems essential to explore the distinctive relationship between the Good News of a realm of redemption which is at once personal and cosmic, and the holistic work that is being done in fields as diverse as consciousness studies, physics and dieas diverse as consciousness studies, physics and dieas consciousness studies, physics and diet.

Earliest Christianity began as a renewal movement within Judaism brought into being through Jesus.22 The examples of Jesus, his radical and revolutionary action against the Jewish social and religious norms, indeed became a challenge to women and for women in their ministry.23 His attitude to women is one that is radical particularly when viewed in the light of his historical context.

We see it in the flourishing of fundamentalism; in the controversy raging in the Lutheran Church — Missouri Synod; in the phenomenon of the Jesus freaks, the spreading charismatic movement, the popularity of Transcendental Meditation; in attacks on the National and World councils of churches and the cooling of ardor for such social issues as racial justice, world peace, and the abolition of hunger and malnutrition.

They are regarded from within the movement as the next sexual minority in line for liberation and social acceptance.

Konrad Raiser, now General Secretary of the World Council of Churches, uses it to describe, a change in theological perspective which affects the whole range of ecumenical work.1 His colleague and former student Martin Robra applies it specifically to a change in perspective on social ethics in World Council work.2 K.C. Abraham describes it as a change in theological and ethical perspective brought about by the participation of the Third World in the ecumenical movement.3 They all make important points.

And so, just as the Catholic Church rightly takes the initiative in promoting human unity in social and political trends already at work in the modern world, so she can also take leadership in the ecumenical movement, and interreligious dialogue.

He wrote, «there is involved here the... profound choice between religion as a form of social behavior rationalized and directed by intelligence and religion as a philosophy in which the historical and social elements of an organized movement are to be ignored».

Bastian Wielenga of the Centre for Social Analysis says, «In peoples» movements such as the National Fish - workers» Forum (NFF), the Narmada Bachan Andolan, the Socialist Front, Jan Vikas Andolan, Chilika Bachao Andolan and the National Federation of Construction Labour which are cooperating in the NAPM, the victims of the dominant development politics are raising their voice and begin to project alternativeIn peoples» movements such as the National Fish - workers» Forum (NFF), the Narmada Bachan Andolan, the Socialist Front, Jan Vikas Andolan, Chilika Bachao Andolan and the National Federation of Construction Labour which are cooperating in the NAPM, the victims of the dominant development politics are raising their voice and begin to project alternativein the NAPM, the victims of the dominant development politics are raising their voice and begin to project alternatives.

Will there be a demand in the year of the General Elections that the State be democratic enough to respond to the peoples» movements and discipline the market and the market - mechanism so that they may be de-ideologised so as to make room for objectives like social welfare and justice as well as national self - reliance and eco-justice.

The question over whether evangelicals with counter-cultural stances fit in broader movements similarly came up as some social justice — minded evangelicals endorsed the main thrust of the Black Lives Matter cause in recent years without getting behind the organization's LGBT position.

Actually as Brown himself admits, this «new key» in theology is very similar to the social gospel movement instituted by Walter Rauschenbusch and other Protestant liberals.

Currently the most influential version, of course, is associated with movements shaped by liberation theologies: We come to understand God as we are a part of a community that is united by a common history of oppression and struggles for liberation by radically changing the arrangements of economic and social power that have made the oppression systemic in our society.

As the women's movement became a mass movement in the 1880s, it was influenced by the general abandonment of romantic heroic reformism for a racist social Darwinism.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

Even broader than the vocation of the priests who serve the underprivileged is that of those who have been led to share in movements for social reform, F. D. Maurice's Christian Socialism grew directly out of his theology and his view of the Church as the Kingdom of Christ and the priest as its servant.

Yet its alienation from other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.

At the 2011 Organic World Congress in Korea, the IFOAM General Assembly resolved to position the organic movement as a fundamental and core solution to the world's challenges regarding social and environmental sustainability.