Sentences with phrase «by class societies»

Titled «The Basic Viewpoint and Policy on the Religious Question During Our Country's Socialist Period,» it reasserts the standard Marxist view of religion as a response to the human fear of the terrors of nature — a response manipulated by class societies to rationalize the power of the upper classes and justify the plight of workers and the poor.

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On the other hand, members of the middle class take jobs they don't enjoy «because they need the money, and they've been trained in school and conditioned by society to live in a linear thinking world that equates earning money with physical or mental effort.»

He's done this by ignoring the unwritten rules demanded by America's polite - society political class and the mainstream media.

Banana Republics are societies characterized by their starkly stratified social classes and a ruling - class plutocracy composed of the business, political and military elites.

Only by overcoming the class structure of society will love and reconciliation become just, And there is no way to overcome the class structure produced by capitalist production except to assume the class struggle of those exploited by the system.

A male, who held the highest position in society, and held the highest class status, was seen to be «feminized» by penetration, and designated as a social inferior, (female), by a male of lower class status, and thus his status was lowered, to that of a woman.

When we ask how this once widespread notion was lost and replaced by the radically anthropocentric thinking so dominant in our society, we see that middle class and male interests played a considerable role.

What has been interesting is that our political classes are, by and large, indifferent to the importance of family life for the well - being of society.

He was conscious of the economic breakdown in Muslim society caused by the luxurious living of the rulers and upper classes among the Muslims.

The decision in the Hobby Lobby case helps prevent progressives from achieving their goal of making religious people into dhimmis, second - class citizens in a society governed by secular values.

It may be liberation of Blacks from oppression by racist society in the United States or liberation of Latin American peasants and workers from the bondage of economic colonialism and class oppression.

This class of people rarely feels disoriented by rapid changes in the demographic makeup of society because they see the system working for them.

In a BBC interview in 1958, Eliot concluded that «when one considers the classless society, even so far as it has adumbrated itself in the present situation of the world — its mediocrity, its reduction of human beings to the mass... the reduction which Plato foresaw, the reduction to a mass ready to be controlled, manipulated, by a dictator or an oligarchy: observing all those things one is emotionally disposed toward a class society.»

The Eastern Orthodox delegation asked to be excused from voting on the other reports; but they heartily supported this one, which affirmed that the message of the church to the world must always remain the gospel of Jesus Christ — the gift of a new word from God to this old world of sin and death, being the prophetic call to sinful men to turn to God as the only way by which humanity can escape from those class and race hatreds which devastate society, and fulfill humanity's longing for intellectual sincerity, social justice and spiritual inspiration.

Furthermore, since no society can endure or make progress without some determinate structure and graded authority, new class distinctions quickly arise to take the place of those abolished by the revolution.

Roman society was characterized by rigid ethnic and class divisions.

They often seem to assume that First World, white, middle - class societies are by definition irredeemable; that they are driven by an irreversible logic of oppression and injustice.

So when middle - class women in mid-20th-century America felt restricted and stressed by society's expectations, was it any wonder that the era of the problem that had no name became the era of the «mother's little helper»?

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

In a climate of increasing separation between upper - and lower - class values in the Jewish society of first - century Palestine (witness the «pagan» lifestyle of the Herodian ruling class), the Jesus movement called for a return to the traditional kingly values of power, wealth and education — but now possessed by the lower classes.

And of course that class has imbibed the values of the capitalist consumerist society too much to bring about a new society embodying values of personal freedom, social justice and ecological wholeness by themselves any more.

In seeking for equivalents, I have often thought that the phrase «bourgeois morality» could simply be rendered «middle - class morality,» that «bourgeois society» is close to what has been called by others «a business civilization,» and that the «bourgeois mentality» has many features of what more recently has been identified as the white Anglo - Saxon Protestant (WASP) outlook.

By uncritically copying white society's class system and materialism, as well as the sterile ideal of the turn - of - the - century white, southern lady, Starks kills both his marriage and, eventually, himself.

His family belonged to the upper classes of Tarsian society, for Paul was a Roman citizen by birth (Acts 22.27 - ~ -8) as well as a citizen of Tarsus (21.39).

The very existence of power relations, the inequality of the strong and the weak, the mastery of the former over the latter, the differentiation between ruler and ruled was attributed by nineteenth century liberals to autocratic government and is attributed by contemporary Marxists to the class structure of society.

To constitute a society, the class - name has got to apply to each member, by reason of genetic derivation from other members of that same society» (PR 89 / 137).

The Christian foundations of our civilisation have been jettisoned as outdated and unnecessary by a large portion of our society but most especially by the political classes.

How long can a society remain free when the lives of entire classes of human beings are, because of age or frailty, deemed by law to be Lebensunwertes Leben, just as they once were so deemed because of race or creed?

Women, said the movement, were an oppressed class, oppressed (in a range of formulations from the so - called «moderate» to the honestly radical) by men, by society, or by the species itself.

We started out with the proposition that the ideal of a fraternal organization of society will remain powerless if it is supported by idealists only; that it needs the firm support of a solid class whose economic future is staked on the success of that ideal; and that the industrial working class is consciously or unconsciously committed to the struggle for the realization of that principle.

Traditionally, marriage was governed by norms that aimed to help all people, regardless of class, to attain a thriving family life» which resulted in a more equitable society.

As the representative and pioneer of mankind the Church meets its social responsibility when in its own thinking organization and action it functions as a world society, undivided by race, class and national interests.

Tireless lobbying by that California - based society for the past decade is largely responsible for the introduction in a number of states of legislation that would require giving equal time in science classes to the teaching of the alleged single account of creation as recorded in Genesis.

Above all, it is possible to exhaust what the gospel has to say by talking about and working for the immediacies, assuming that there is in that gospel nothing more than an imperative for better relations among men, classes, races, and nations, with the building in the not too distant future of a society in which opportunity of fulfillment will be guaranteed to everybody.

Bishop Azariah of Dornakal, in theologically justifying the rejection of the reserved minority communal electorate offered by Britain to the Christian community in India, spoke of how the acceptance of it would be «a direct blow to the nature of the church of Christ» at two points — one, it would force the church to function «like a religious sect, a community which seeks self - protection for the sake of its own loaves and fishes» which would prevent the fruitful exercise of the calling of the church to permeate the entire society across boundaries of caste, class, language and race, a calling which can be fulfilled only through its members living alongside fellow - Indians sharing in public life with a concern for Christian principles in it; and two, it would put the church's evangelistic programme in a bad light as «a direct move to transfer so many thousands of voters from the Hindu group to the Indian Christian group» (recorded by John Webster, Dalit Christians - A History).

Class struggle is an effort of social groups oppressed by the class structure of the society in order to overcome this division and obtain their social political liberaClass struggle is an effort of social groups oppressed by the class structure of the society in order to overcome this division and obtain their social political liberaclass structure of the society in order to overcome this division and obtain their social political liberation.

We need a post-Vatican Two equivalent, something both truly Catholic and yet usable in our multicultural society, something that will get us out of the ghetto we are still largely in, but not in order to conform to middle - class culture, rather to call it to conversion, alongside Christians of other Churches moved by the same zeal.

That movement had its unity not in a theology but in the conviction that the Christian churches had the responsibility to address the injustices of the class society being produced by industrialization and that the Bible, properly understood, required concern for these social issues.

Ours is a society sharply divided by lines of race and class, profoundly anxious about its future, and more fearful now of the threats posed by our neighbors at home than by any foreign enemy.

Standing close by the testimonies are the sermons, many of which survive only as spidery outlines on manuscript pages; the yellowed minutes of the band, class and society meetings; and, above all, the songs.

This level of society is that which characterizes the lower class, the masses who are «bound» by custom.

Such a revolution is possible when there develops an economic crisis so severe that it can be solved only through a complete reconstitution of society by a self - conscious challenging class.

In modern societies Instinct has given way somewhat to Intellect, which is represented by the middle class, and novelty is no longer viewed as sheer destructive chaos, but as the basis for possible contractual modifications of communal custom.

The diverse feelings of society possessed by both classes (physical / economic; conceptual / ideal) are united into a determinate satisfaction, i.e., social order.

When one ruling class is supplanted by another and the social superstructure is reworked to reflect and guarantee the interests of the new ruling class, then society has undergone a revolution.

Since in capitalist society the intellectual is not structurally part of the working class, and since nearly all opportunities for intellectual employment are within institutions directed by the ruling classes, the tendency to allow oneself to be molded by the dominant ideology and to become one of its — albeit unconscious — perpetuators is very powerful.

Just as society is divided by class struggle, so the church and its theology are divided between an ideological use of religion to sanctify the ruling class and a prophetic tradition that denounces this misuse of religion.

By 1850 pigeon racing was solidly established in Belgium, and Charles Dickens wrote, «The members of the Antwerp Pigeon Training Society were citizens of the middle class of Society, but in Belgium pigeon - training has its attractions even for persons of rank and wealth, many of whom are enthusiastic pigeon fanciers; indeed, pigeon flying is as fashionable an amusement in Belgium as horse - racing in England.

Three of the main benefits of taking a quality childbirth education class are learning about all of your birth options, forming a good working knowledge of the birth process, and reducing fears of childbirth perpetuated by our society at large.

When I attended the Sanity Circus class put on by the Puget Sound Aldlerian Society, we were given a handout that really broke down Positive Discipline for me.