Sentences with phrase «cultural bases for»

For most contemporary political scientists, however, the cultural basis for party coalitions, if recognized at all, ended with the New Deal, the historical backdrop for interpretations of contemporary politics.

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Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

And sometimes, smaller organizations win talent wars by looking for gifted employees where larger companies often fear to tread: Job candidates who lack skills or experience, but seem like cultural fits based on work ethic and personality.

This fundamental theology, which insofar as it is reasonable may be publicly proposed to all, must become the base for the cultural formation of the new generation of priests... I would call rather for a great synergy of creative thought in various fields».

We can build this world by seeking and discovering viable alternatives to neoliberalism and unilateral globalization, alternatives based on the interests of peoples and respect for national, cultural and religious differences.

We must ask, therefore, what implications the school's being «theological,» that is, having the overarching end to understand God, has for the institutionalization, material bases, and social and cultural locatedness that make it concrete.

It was in this period that the nation - state emerged as an integral cultural and spiritual entity, providing the basis for modern European, and eventually international, politics.

They found initial expression in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries among Brahmin intellectuals who were disillusioned with British rule and sought a more traditionalist basis for political and cultural identity.

For me IT is always a language problem at base (fundamental)-- and how words are smoothed & / or stigmatized to serve our collecdtive cultural uses and abuses.

The question for her then, is when she receives new life through the Messiah, Jesus, and allows her theology to be newly developed based on the Bible, which socio - cultural group does she want to live out this new faith in — her Muslim socio - cultural group, or a foreign Christian socio - cultural group?

They had great respect for the religious and cultural basis of Western civilization but most would in no way consider themselves religious conservatives.

Psychology is the basis for any study of cultural imagery, Sentiment and identification are psychological phenomena, and «archaeology» a familiar metaphor for the probing of a troubled mind.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

If we value cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation of existing ethnic groups to find a basis for such pluralism, though the persistence of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.

John Paul II's approach to east central Europe was based on different premises: that the post-war division of Europe was immoral and historically artificial; that communist violations of basic human rights had to be named for what they were; and that the «captive nations» could eventually find tools of resistance that communism could not match, if they reclaimed the religious, moral, and cultural truth about themselves and lived those truths without fear.

If you look closely at our country's history it has a very deep vein that is based on cultural and religious intolerance... unless you are a WASP... be suspious and «watch out» for anyone that is different from «us».

By bringing into focus the fundamental relationship between freedom and truth (and when this bond was broken), participants will be better prepared to articulate the foundational principles that can provide the basis for cultural, political, and religious renewal.

The natural assumption would then follow that the writers of the Bible constucted a personal theological and cultural justification, based on the need for a comfort zone religion.

Are individual rights based on societal righteousness within the parameters of cultural soundness for so being as the kindled crooked line drawn, distanced and so bellicosely thwarted by religious austerities so choosing?

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Thus it would seem that a nonsuperficial Christianity must be based on something more than an individual decision for Christ, must be based on induction into the Christian cultural - linguistic system.

I think Carl Jung came up with some good ways of thinking about our cultural images and how they come about — that scientists many hundreds or thousands of years later might have the same sorts of cultural images informing their intuitions, and thus using those images as the basis for a theory of evolution is not so much extraordinary than it is to be expected.

At the time of the original British settlements in the seventeenth century, Christianity was presumed to provide the major basis for cultural unity.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

«Resistance to oppression is often based on a love that leads us to value ourselves, and leads us to hope for more than the established cultural system is willing to grant... such love is far more energizing than guilt, duty, or self - sacrifice.

First what are the common moral and cultural bases to be built through dialogue among religions and ideologies which will make possible an effective joint struggle for human community?

I saw a cultural Christianity with preachers who often gained audiences, locally in church meetings or globally on television, by saying crazy and buffoonish things, simply to stir up the base and to gain attention from the world, whether that was claiming to know why God sent hurricanes and terrorist attacks or claiming that American founders, one of whom possibly impregnated his own human slaves and literally cut the New Testament apart, were orthodox, Evangelical Christians who, like us, stood up for traditional family values.

It was based on the premise that the words of the prophets could be liberated from the constraints of the Law and the Lawgiving God, and those words could be transformed into a humane secular project for the cultural left.

Jesus» cultural movement for the Reign of God is based on the vision of the Messianic Reign, as manifested in Revelation 21 and 22.

If I have to choose sides, I'll choose my sides with them, because the radical recognition of God's absence as a cultural fact offers the only basis for theological speculation in our time.

Within Asia generally, there exists a strong cultural preference for sons, based on the not irrational idea that sons support their parents in old age and carry on the family name.

Whereas the second Quest demythologized the apocalyptic eschatology that informed Jesus» message of the kingdom in such a way that the kingdom remained God's initiative and gift eliciting a new ethos, thereby respecting the biblical - Jewish roots of Jesus» word and deed, the Borg - Crossan construal tacitly posits an inert deity who at best provides a formal warrant for a class - based cultural criticism and who apparently has allowed the covenant - commitment to Israel to lapse, for there remains neither promise nonfulfillment.

This may seem like an unremarkable turn of events, but according to Grant Castleberry of the Council on Biblical Manhood and Womanhood (flagship organization for the complementarianism movement, which advocates hierarchal gender roles in the home, church, and society), it represents a severe «cultural capitulation» which, «instead of helping guide children towards embracing who they actually are, blurs reality,» «confuses them,» and «drags them through the dark labyrinths» of their parents» gender - based delusions.

This has opened up space for a contribution from historicals, based on their middle - class cultural capital if on nothing else.

Although it doesn't yet enjoy the same cultural cachet as Chinese, Mexican or Italian food, Indian food is starting its own rise to prominence, and that's good news for New Jersey - based Rajbhog Foods Inc..

We work and look for a global society with life quality, with informed happy citizens exercising their rights and duties, based on the principles of sustainable development and democracy; integrated; upholding values of solidarity, equity and justice; open to changes; respectful regarding traditional knowledge and cultural diversity; committed with the production and consumption of organic and biodiverse products.

The 40 - year - old was only 18 when the move to the Bulls came about, and to understand the cultural differences that was about to become a reality for him, he tuned in to Sky Movies to watch the Bradford based film Rita, Sue and Bob too.

He believes that the potential positive outcomes of programs based on the belief that adult - child play is crucial for child development could be reduced by suspicions of «racism or cultural imperialism».

I learned so much about meeting parents where they are and giving them evidence - based information about what children need for optimal development — that nevertheless often runs counter to the cultural norm.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

For 2011 and subsequent years, the budget proposes a new non-refundable tax credit based on eligible expenses paid for the cost of registration or membership of your or your spouse's or common - law partner's child in a prescribed program of artistic, cultural, recreational or developmental activity (eligible prograFor 2011 and subsequent years, the budget proposes a new non-refundable tax credit based on eligible expenses paid for the cost of registration or membership of your or your spouse's or common - law partner's child in a prescribed program of artistic, cultural, recreational or developmental activity (eligible prografor the cost of registration or membership of your or your spouse's or common - law partner's child in a prescribed program of artistic, cultural, recreational or developmental activity (eligible program).

Action Priority # 4: While improvements to the community centers are important in their individual geographic areas, none of the community centers is as important on a Park District - wide basis as renovating the Olympic Indoor Swim Center or developing additional recreational, fitness, and cultural program space for active aging adults.

Sometimes that doctor's patient base, for cultural reasons, doesn't think they have received medical care unless they get a prescription.

Question: Have you, as a pregnant or breastfeeding mom, ever been insulted or felt demeaned (on a racial, ethic, cultural, religious, sexual orientation,... basis) when a well - meaning health provider (doctor, nurse, lactation consultant, etc.) provided care for you or your baby?

We have structured them into the eight principles of parenting to provide guidance for parents as they face serious decisions and cultural pressures on a daily basis.

Potty Savvy is based on biology and cultural anthropology of elimination and the beginnings of respectful communication with our children and can be started as early as 10 months (the age of first verbal / sign communication and mobility) and is also appropriate for all preschool potty learning and challenges as well!

Weekly rates for child care costs are based on Care.com 2016 member data, with the exception of au pair rates, which are based on data from Cultural Care Au Pair, Au Pair in America, and Au Pair Care.

What possible reason could they have, beyond base cultural relativism, for rejecting their demands while fulfilling those of the British government?

This has triggered a greater sense of local and regional identities, driving of a quest for more scope for independent action, based on cultural, historic and / or rekindled national identities and sense of shared purpose.

CODA is an independent political organization that mobilizes residents, activists, and neighborhood groups — anyonewho wants to join in struggling for political, economic and cultural power for the community and an end to discrimination based on class, race, gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.