The unique
cultural challenges of these groups and how therapy can help normalize and reduce mental distress for families and individuals.»
Murphy draws material from primary sources, such as private diaries, newspapers, and books, to give insight into the political, social, and
cultural challenges of the yellow fever epidemic.
Talk about the internal
cultural challenge of this repositioning.
We are not just talking about a convergence of disciplines, but of an authentically global synthesis in which the various forms of knowledge... find common ground in a shared personal and social vision... We must not imagine that the socio -
cultural challenge of today can be met with theological thought that specialises in the content of doctrine or concentrates on religious experience.
Such adaptation will be a key
cultural challenge of the next century — as will fostering the kind of global communication that can connect with the local concerns of individuals and communities to reduce climate risk.
Not exact matches
They'll have organized social and
cultural events, and monthly team
challenges in exchange for a year
of participation in the city's hoped for transformation from poster child
of urban dysfunction to rejuvenated metropolis.
Every place I have been to has in many ways provided a set
of cultural and mental
challenges, but in terms
of work, the majority
of the places have been developed enough to welcome digital nomads with open arms, with reliable internet, affordable accommodation and plenty
of beaches for me to unwind after a sweaty day grinding away on my notebook.
For black men, though, the
challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by
cultural preconceptions, the subtleties
of psychology, and the weight
of human history (more on that soon).
When U.S. executives want to gain a board seat overseas, many recognize the
challenges of cultural and language differences and adjust for them in the interview process.
Given the unique team - building and
cultural challenges faced by companies that operate completely virtually, it makes sense that no one existing tool or set
of tools fits every remote company.
One
of Lampshire's most valued tribes is xBBN, an online tribe comprised
of former BBN employees where shared corporate
cultural norms and experiences form the common bonds that enable members to help each other with both professional and personal
challenges.
He has made extensive visits to Dubai, Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Istanbul and Damascus and has met thousands
of talented, successful, and intrepid young entrepreneurs willing to take on political,
cultural, legal and societal
challenges.
Christopher M. Schroeder, a seasoned U.S. internet executive and venture investor travelled to Dubai, Cairo, Amman, Beirut, Istanbul and even Damascus and met thousands
of talented, successful, and intrepid young entrepreneurs willing to take on the political,
cultural, legal and societal
challenges to their worlds.
TJN is an extensive and multi-sectoral network uniting environmental, civil society, student, Indigenous,
cultural, farming, labour and social justice groups whose aim is to
challenge the scope and secretive nature
of most free trade agreements.
At the end
of the day, investing in emerging markets is
challenging —
cultural, legal and geographical aspects all require careful navigation.
But the serious results they are already achieving in InnovationXchange's short life are attracting attention from other departments, which have visited the team
of nine staff to observe how they are
challenging the
cultural norms
of bureaucracy.
Christian faith
challenged the pessimism and resignation
of ancient culture and unleashed new possibilities for political organization,
cultural expression, scientific and technical exploration, and the emergence
of the individual.
According to a promotional video by artist Tore Knudsen (they created Pour Reception along with Simone Okholm and Victor Permild), the stereo «explores playful ways
of interacting with technology that
challenges our
cultural perception
of an interface.»
The solution
of this problem
of cultural conflict and disintegration is perhaps the major
challenge to modern civilization.
Our concept
of the image
of «man» is being
challenged Moreover, we are being told that play is a possible way out
of our
cultural and spiritual malaise.
Religion News Service: Sultans
of Satire aims to bridge gaps with Muslims, Arabs through comedy Produced by the Levantine
Cultural Center, which is dedicated to highlighting Middle Eastern and Arab culture, the Sultans
of Satire stand - up show aims to
challenge stereotypes and sensitivities while bringing people together with a few laughs.
Self - schooled in the history
of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad
cultural ideology that could
challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work
of Christian missionaries.
One
of the fundamental
challenges with evangelistic
cultural engagement is how far to go to engage culture.
Islamic culture has been affected by the
cultural, social, and political conditions in which it existed and by the
challenge which the Muslims faced, a
challenge which stimulated them to meditate on their Faith and to present it in its genuine form, free
of alien interpolations.
When liberal Christians or socially conscious evangelicals
challenge the failure
of this view's adherents to articulate social and
cultural concerns, the reply is that such concerns are not part
of the church's proclamation, but that individual evangelicals have always been motivated to reform and renew society, almost automatically.
Similarly, Latina, African and Asian women have taken up the
challenge of understanding the ways in which the practices
of reading and interpreting the Bible serve to constrain or to emancipate women in their particular social and
cultural contexts.
The
challenge to social conservatives at this point is still to name one social, political, or
cultural problem that is not made worse by the pressure
of overpopulation.
By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms
of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three
challenges to those
of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the
cultural turn in our discipline to other studies
of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods
of research and instruction in whatever parts
of the university we found ourselves.
When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group
of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion
of life, social issues and various
cultural challenges to the Christian faith.
The real
challenge is not in the number
of participants but in the arrival
of a few powerful innovators who can serve as
cultural catalysts.
It has been raised again more recently in the face
of the
cultural challenges to dominant western theological formulations by liberation, feminist and Asian theologians.
The success
of Pentecostal evangelistic efforts and the resultant astonishing growth
of Pentecostal churches all over Latin America has deeply
challenged the
cultural and ideological hegemony (real and supposed) exercised by the Catholic Church.
Some might think Podhoretz was unfortunate in his friends and others might think his friends were unfortunate in him, but he is grateful for the contentious entanglement
of friendships and ideas that has brought him to where he is as one who intends to
challenge «the regnant leftist culture that pollutes the spiritual and
cultural air we all breathe, and to do so with all my heart and all my soul and all my might.»
If our relationship with God is in the spirit
of adoption — if God is the gracious parent who freely and lovingly chooses to parent us — might this concept then
challenge our own
cultural assumptions about «real» parenthood?
Christians are better equipped to face the
challenges of any society when they do so from within the communion
of the saints and the
cultural life this communion embodies.
The
challenge at the
cultural level may be too great, and Americans may be undergoing a profound change in the way they relate their society to the realm
of ultimate meaning.
In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues
of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas
of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social,
cultural and economic
challenges of our day.»
His outlook has affected the way I face the «community
of the many,» and it has helped define my attitude toward the
cultural challenges confronting my own Jewish community.
Facing unprecedented economic
challenges, emotional baggage from seeing so many
of their parents divorced and having core values tested by a shifting
cultural climate has given many millennials pause when it comes to «settling down.»
They welcome the new technology but often regard the associated
cultural challenges not as aspects
of globalization but as westernization — and this they wish to reject.
Becoming a multicultural church will also
challenge (and change) many
of the church's
cultural norms.
«The 700 Club,» «The PTL Club,» Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart and the rest
of the televangelists represent the «traditionalist» religious response to the current
challenge of cultural disorientation.
If culture is the way people think and feel and behave as a people, and if spirituality is the way we live out the life and teachings
of Jesus in this particular culture at this particular time, then the questions for thinkers, writers, theologians, and religious professionals must become: What
cultural realities are
challenging the Gospel now?
The main theme
of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions
of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems
of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and
cultural life
of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the
challenge and relevance
of theology to the social revolutions
of our time.
In this connection, I have been particularly struck by Gustavo Gutiérrez's observation that, whereas much contemporary theology seeks to respond to the
challenge of the «nonbeliever» who questions our «religious world» as Christians, in a continent like Latin America the primary
challenge comes to us rather from the «nonperson» who questions us about our «economic, social, political and
cultural world.»
Mujerista theology brings together elements
of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and
cultural theology, three perspectives which critique and
challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.
We are
challenged today at this point by the
cultural and doctrinal exuberance
of indigenous third - world expressions
of Christianity, not to mention unprecedented contact with other world religious traditions on their own terms.
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.
«On the other hand, there will likely be increased
cultural and legal pressure on the membership and leadership boundaries that traditionalist institutions draw around questions
of sexuality and same - sex marriage, and these institutions would be wise to anticipate these
challenges.»
And this seems like a silly one perhaps — women in bikinis, good gracious — but it was really a
challenge about my body and how I view my body, about shame and freedom, about the goodness
of our bodies before God, pushing back against my own prejudices and
cultural conditionings.