Sentences with phrase «cultural authority which»
Instead, it represented a brilliant fusion of two of the great cultural tendencies of our day: the pressing of Hollywood celebrities into positions of cultural authority which gives them powerful influence far beyond their ability to hold a note or to learn a script; and the transformation of the serious and the sacred into the idioms of showbusiness.
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And because they themselves don't come from a cultural assumption of male authority, they see it as a correction to our modern culture: an eternal, divine mandate to which we need to return.
It was the economic and productive unit of society, tilling the land together; it was the political unit of society, with parental authority as the supporting microcosm of the state; it was the cultural unit, transmitting letters and arts, rearing and teaching the young; and it was the moral unit, inculcating through cooperative work and discipline those social dispositions which are the psychological basis and cement of civilized society».
Instead, if we understand the culture in which John wrote, the issues that the early church was facing under the Roman Empire, and all of the hundreds of allusions to Old Testament themes and prophetic expectations, the Book of Revelation can have a significant message for followers of Jesus today, who also deal with similar cultural issues as we try to live like Jesus in a world dominated by powers and authority that live in rebellion to the Kingdom of God.
its male predominance), or are there deeper principles implicit in the texture of the Biblical fabric which make male authority a cultural, and thus relative, affair?
In contrast, «cultural relativism,» which Professor Arkes equates with legal positivism, holds that there are «no moral truths which hold their validity across cultures... [So that statutes or constitutional provisions] have the standing of law only because they are «posited» or set down by the authorities in any country.»
Patriarchy — a cultural system in which men exercise unilateral authority over their households and (generally) over society — is, according to Burk, God's ideal for this world.
His proper element was that long cultural gloaming in which the old moral metaphysics retained its formal authority, but not its credibility.
It may be that those churches which market their message by emphasising authority, personal success, health and prosperity through faith may have intuited the proper response of the Christian faith to the new cultural situation in which we find ourselves.
The study rightly highlights the importance of reclaiming the proper value and place of authority in the light of the cultural «turn to the subject» and the wise post — 1968 preference for teaching which is «persuasive not just declarative».
We're a country which has never had a great deference to political authority and we pride ourselves on a healthy disrespect for the rich and powerful through our parliamentary democracy, our ferocious, free press and our cultural expression be it dramatic, comical or satirical.
Researchers at the school's Tobacco Center of Regulatory Science (TCORS) assessed cultural worldviews along two dimensions: hierarchy - egalitarianism (attitudes toward authority and power) and individualism - communitarianism (focus on self - reliance or responsibility to a larger group) of more than 5,000 people who reported an awareness of electronic nicotine devices (ENDS), which include e-cigarettes.
Working with appropriated images and texts, Gilsdorf creates sculptures and performances that delve into the relationship between historical narratives, the iconography of authority, and the ways in which representations influence our perception of cultural values.
Her sculptures and performances delve into the relationship between historical narratives, the iconography of authority, and the ways in which representations influence our perception of cultural values.
Sadiq Khan launches «London Borough of Culture» competition The Mayor of London has announced a new initiative in which London's 32 local authorities can bid for more than # 1m of funding for cultural projects.
The mid 1960s had seen widespread collapse in the authority of those individualistic cultural protocols which go under the name of Modernism, and the coming together of the two terms «Art» and «Language» served to recognise a range of intellectual concerns and artistic expedients which that collapse had occasioned.
As such, he not only questions the degree to which documentary is fiction, but he also problematizes the accepted authority and integrity of cultural records.
On the occasion of the opening of the Elbphilharmonie, the Deichtorhallen Hamburg will be showing a major exhibition in cooperation with HamburgMusik gGmbH with support from the Hamburg Cultural Authority under the title ELBPHILHARMONIE REVISITED, which will be on view in the Hall for Contemporary Art at the Deichtorhallen from 10 February to 1 May 2017.
I think Spencer is helpful by suggesting there is a much bigger story happening in the world of science, knowledge and cultural authority of which the climate change incidents of this moment are just part.
And they also nearly always lead to changes in the way in which science is done as it seeks to retain its cultural authority.
The book examines some of the cultural influences that have moved kids today towards a «peer orientation» which has «muted our parenting instincts, eroded our natural authority and caused us to parent not from the heart, but from the head.»
... the lack of cultural knowledge on the part of governments and the non-indigenous community in general has led to polices which continually cuts across the often informal Aboriginal community authority structures.
I believe many people don't recognize the far - reaching implications of their own actions (or lack there of), not out of narrow - mindedness, but out of other biases (e.g., cultural, educational, conditional, etc.), which appear as authority bias.