Sentences with phrase «cultural analysis of»

«Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist «Trio» Supporting the Backlash Against Global Warming.»

The fairy story that climate scepticism is largely the creation of Jastrow, Nierenberg and Seitz originates from a 2008 paper by Myanna Lahsen called Experiences of modernity in the greenhouse: A cultural analysis of a physicist «trio» supporting the backlash against global warming.

«Experiences of Modernity in the Greenhouse: A Cultural Analysis of a Physicist «Trio» Supporting the Conservative Backlash against Global Warming.»

Her previous publications include personal essays (Gravel, So to Speak, Palaver, Heartland Review West, and Role Reboot); interviews with Geraldine Brooks and Alice Sebold (Weber: The Contemporary West); a cultural analysis of anthropologist Gladys Reichard's fieldwork with -LSB-...]

Losing the Signal is not a cultural analysis of BlackBerry's effect on the ways we think or behave.

Following on from her 1987 award - winning The Woman in the Body: A Cultural Analysis of Reproduction, it establishes Martin as one of the world's most original and stimulating thinkers grappling with the cultural and social context of science and medicine today.

New directions in the cultural analysis of religion will, I believe, be closely associated with the rediscovery and redirection of cultural analysis in the discipline more broadly.

Scripture, rather than contemporary culture, always needs to set the course of our critical reflection... Our modern culture must not determine the outcome of any cultural / trans - cultural analysis of Scripture.»

He wants to see them do five things: «Initiate a focused approach to the claims of Islam; make a political and cultural analysis of the unique impact of the Islamic evangelization of black males; approach Islam on theological and evangelical levels; assess the geopolitical and strategic implications of Islam in Africa and South Asia, since the fortunes of black people in the U.S. are informed by what happens to blacks elsewhere In the world; and, mount a major effort to investigate the success of Islam in prisons.

This is history and cultural analysis of a high order.

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But this is a cultural history of shoplifting, not a hard analysis of its effects on bottom lines.

Lastly, the team examined the connection between character and swearing on a larger, cultural level by comparing the 2012 Integrity Analyses of 48 U.S. states from the Center for Public Integrity, which measured the level of transparency and accountability of local governments, to how frequently residents of that state swore in their Facebook posts.

But the book offers more than additional confirmation for those of the hell - in - handbasket school of cultural analysis.

Those latter steps require attention not just to Bayles, and what she learned (with help from Albert Murray and Ralph Ellison) about the Afro - American musical tradition, but also to the sort of socio - cultural analysis we do so much of here at pomocon, which derives from we've learned from Tocqueville most of all.

The precious insights mined by various political and cultural modes of analysis have been largely carried away (in several senses).

In this book, he offers both an analysis of how we have come to the cultural and political situation in which we now find ourselves, and hope for the future.

Indeed, its cultural significance warrants giving it a position in Christological discussion equal to that accorded to at least some of the material from the Jewish background in the analysis of the genesis and development of early Christian ideas about Jesus.

Pacioni himself tells us that throughout his book he has «tried to reconstruct the framework of Augustine's speculation in all of its most original philosophical traits, following philosophical and logical - linguistic suggestions performing a point by point analysis of the texts not only from a philological but also a historiographical, cultural and logical - formal point of view» (p. xix).

Honest, probing analysis of the current economic organization and its economic, social, ecological, political and cultural consequences can only delegitimize this phenomenon which is paraded to the world as the paragon of progress.

No amount of casual observation and general cultural analysis can substitute for hearing particular stories.

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

In some instances, close analysis of this process can actually show how specific cultural categories were drawn upon, combined, and modified.

Careful analysis of causes of cultural and social changes reveal the part religion plays in the fomentation of the revolutionary and evolutionary development of society.

For this reason they have retrenched into what Berkouwer calls «a biblicist misinterpretation of the church's dealings with Scripture and its confession 6 Interpretations have seemed to lead in questionable directions — directions which either have moved away from traditional Biblical consensus or have disputed current cultural analysis.

In his article «Analysis and Cultural Lag in Philosophy» (1), Hartshorne notes that Whitehead is one of few modem philosophers, particularly in the Anglo - Saxon tradition, who have taken seriously and even adopted many tenets of classical philosophy.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

When another saintly Benedict did finally emerge, this time upon the Chair of Peter, his cultural analysis echoed that of MacIntyre: «I would say that normally it is the creative minorities that determine the future, and in this sense the Catholic Church must understand itself as a creative minority,» suggested Pope Benedict XVI during an in - flight papal press conference in 2009.

If Bonhoeffer were merely formulating this concept of faith on the basis of premises derived from cultural - historical analysis, he would be indistinguishable from many liberal theologians.

Thus «The Love That Moves the Sun,» an analysis of the economic, political, and cultural systems that best serve society, begins with a consideration of how we participate in God's love through charity.

Here I shall summarize that analysis as it contextualizes the contemporary cultural significance of liberation theologies.

We need to know what we're up against, and in the work of social and cultural analysis, theological concepts offer particularly powerful insights.

Gabriele Schwab, in her analysis of this hermeneutical event in the bush, acknowledges that the elders «recreated their own cultural pattern within Shakespeare's plot» but concludes, «The Tiv people had to project their own cultural preconceptions in order to reduce the otherness that would have made Hamlet incomprehensible in their context.»

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

For some distance and detachment, we turn to the deeper cultural and philosophical analyses of our friendly European critics Pierre Manent and Roger Scruton.

For a penetrating analysis of the psychological and cultural reasons, see the writings of Sam Keen, particularly Faces of the Enemy (San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1986).

Niebuhr dismissed them by saying that «the «cultural lag» theory of human evil is completely irrelevant to the analysis of... sin (NDM 250).»

Niebuhr's treatment of idealism, naturalism, and romanticism in his cultural analysis was typical of his approach to a problem.

The first begins with a cultural and historical analysis, asserting that mankind is moving toward the culmination of a process of human development thousands of years in the making.

«25 This archaeology is aided by two approaches: a sociology - of - knowledge analysis of the cultural role of biblical criticism and a psychoanalytically informed critique of the way we read the text.

This type of analysis is a vital precursor to any attempt to measure the social and cultural effects of the extension of the capitalist system, especially in its contemporary neo-liberal phase, but it also permits us to draw up strategies and alliances for resistance.

To deal justly with the socio - economic situation of Africa, we have to agree to the necessity of social analysis and an understanding of the historical and cultural underpinnings of what we experience.

Now communication scholars have integrated insights from the fields of anthropology and cultural studies and are conscious of the significance of myth, symbol, story telling and ritual in media / audience analysis.

After careful analysis of the options, he concludes that efforts thus far to reconceptualize civil society in a post-traditional setting have foundered on the conundrum of tying cultural solidarities to human universality.

However, very few policies in Christian institutions or in public life are actually decided on these bases, in part because class analysis simply does not and can not take account of the cultural factors that shape much of what is decided.

They hold media industries accountable for what they produce and distribute, and propose critical analysis of the cultural, social, political and economic influences on media messages, the development of creative production centers that create community, and taking personal and public action to challenge government and industry abuses.

They were more concerned with cultural and political analyses than with those of class.

Gustave E. von Grunebaum is an Islamic scholar who seeks to observe Islam objectively, neither as a Westerner nor as an Islamic apologist; his Medieval Islam: A Study in Cultural Orientation is a perceptive, and at times provocative, analysis of the period of development following the initial expansion of Islam.

What I propose in the present analysis is to emphasize three major sets of forces to which the leadership of emerging universities and their constituencies were responding: first, those having to do with the demands of technological society; second, those having to do with ideological conflicts; and third, those having to do with pluralism and related cultural change.

It is an exercise in the analysis and interpretation of cultural meaning rather than in sociological explanation, though some of the latter is necessarily present.