Sentences with phrase «contemporary social circumstances»

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Thus, even those people whom social pressures and individual circumstances have not steered into homosexuality are now tempted by appeals to their animal natures, which are not differentiated from their spiritual natures in our contemporary society.

Gregory identifies contemporary circumstances in which «religion» is refused a «justifiable» place, circumstances he traces back to social and intellectual forces unleashed by the Reformation.

But instead of attending more closely to these circumstances in order to think seriously about the changing place and politics of free speech in contemporary India, its proponents have lapsed into an anachronistic narrative about circumscribing the reach of religious dogma in social life.

While portraiture has illustrated political and social circumstances throughout history, the artists in this exhibition try to transform portraiture into a genre that can hold its own weight amongst the innovations of the contemporary art world by using Neel's portraiture as inspiration means to address the complexities of personal identity.

The exhibition explored in depth the relationship of radical politics to art, by providing visitors with factual context in the form of historical objects that brought home the social and historical realities the movement faced, interspersed with historic artwork that supported and reflected its circumstances and ideals, as well as contemporary pieces.

Through both solo and curated group exhibitions, artists will involve our community in contemplation about the effects of political and social history on our contemporary circumstances.

The fragility of the medium mirrors the prisoners» circumstances, and draws attention to contemporary correctional systems and the complex social and political inequalities of South Africa.

Our own position is that there is nothing natural or inevitable about the heightened levels of psychological distress and dysfunction found among families of children with ID: These are the result of institutionalised patterns of social value (devaluing persons with disability) and contemporary social arrangements that do not take the needs, interests and circumstances of these families into account.