Sentences with phrase «civic culture»

Brown shirts, blue shirts, black shirts: they were the unfortunate rainbow coalition of societies whose civic cultures were in crisis during the dark middle decades of the twentieth century.

I believe that its presence as a presupposition of efforts to generate a new civic culture can be signified and lived sacramentally in a variety of ways by religious groups involved in the dialogue.

When America's civic culture promulgates its acronymic exhortations, it announces its own impotence as a formative culture.

And all but the most extreme sects contribute to, rather than threaten, the common civic culture.

Our schools need to reemphasize America's shared civic culture, not to replace but to complement encouraging tolerance.

«The annual reports are a rich record not just of Cooper Union's internal history but New York civic culture in general,» Peter Buckley, an Associate Professor of the Faculty of the Humanities and Social Sciences, says.

At the same time, we would have a civic culture that places high expectations on people to improve their own economic fortunes, and to put their children in a good position to promote theirs.

Religion, and Christian communities in particular, can and should, says the author, model the civic culture for which he hopes - a culture that will retrieve and rehabilitate the best of the liberal Enlightenment tradition.

This, then, isn't just our Constitution's best short introduction; it might help make our civic culture at once more sober and more hopeful.

Unfortunately, our civic culture, at least as reflected in the design of the memorial and ceremony, seems unable to give firm civic meaning these inevitably public emotions.

Alone among Western nations, the United States has shown itself capable of joining Christian piety with economic prosperity, modern political freedoms, and a civic culture of tolerance (the limits rather than existence of which define our current political battles over social issues).

Moreover, when upwardly mobile men and women shook the dust of villages and urban neighborhoods from their feet, they left behind the civic cultures that had flourished in such places, along with the old informal support systems among relatives and neighbors that everyone had taken for granted.

Indeed, as even the Catholic League president insinuated, our schools, incubators of civic culture, play a significant role in instructing students about civil disobedience.

It won't be enough to reverse what Charles Murray views as a vast deterioration of the civic culture in general.

Patronizing fairness therefore unintentionally reinforces the inequities our students have inherited and diminishes our civic culture.