Sentences with phrase «cultural circumstances of»

The artists in this exhibition are using the action, symbolism and elements of sport to call attention to narratives that are overlooked, and as a method to innovate beyond the social and cultural circumstances of everyday life.

Not exact matches

(The circumstances of board member David Bonderman's resignation even hint at a degree of indulgence for the cultural concerns.)

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

Marital circumstances, whether of clergy or laity, are dealt with «pastorally» and «nonjudgmentally,» which usually means that normative morality is suspended in deference to cultural accommodation and the avoidance of «giving offense.»

In these cultural circumstances, people in high places in both the government and Church see that, with an imperial outlook of her own, Orthodoxy might be able to fill the vacuum left by the defunct Communist Party in the system of post-Soviet administration.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

And scripture's witnesses are properly understood only in the context of the social, cultural and historical circumstances from which they come.

I must conclude that the cultural attitude toward sex, in terms of legalistic moralism, is not the Judeo - Christian attitude toward sex at all, but is rather a reflection of the way that an earlier era of our history related to the circumstances of sex.

Unfortunately, the New Evangelization here in the United States is often presented in contrast only to the first half of each of these dichotomies, set off against those errors that I am arguing are least relevant to our own cultural circumstances.

Mark Bauerlein does not reproduce any of N. M. Gwynne's arguments for the claim that the rules of Standard English grammar, unlike those of the many non-standard English dialects, possess «a rationality that runs deeper than cultural context and historical circumstance» («Grammar Rules,» February).

It goes on for a while — he is a professor of cultural studies — but its message is well worth considering, all the more so because of the remarkable circumstances under which it was written.

For although Our Faith Story does deal with some issues of «painful situations and responses in us - sense of guilt, failure, etc.», yet it seeks to see them against the backdrop of cultural pressures and circumstances.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

There is often a zeitgeist that emerges during periods of significant cultural change — a new consciousness that emerges out of the shifting historical circumstances.

when, in fact, a particular cultural configuration of Catholicism is undergoing change as it accommodates, in accord with venerable tradition, a new cultural circumstance.

Under these circumstances theologians and philosophers of the western cultural tradition leaned more and more on the doctrine of an immortal soul as an expression of the Christian hope.

Tinder, by contrast, has a narrower view of the function of a prophetic stance, and although it is arguably correct for our present American cultural and political circumstances, his making it central to all Christian politics leads him to some harsh criticism of theological ideas of justice that have arisen in other situations.

Their reading of biblical teachings about particular kinds of sexual activity often fails to account for the cultural setting and circumstances in which each book of the Bible was written.

Under these circumstances, the logic of party coalitions will make cultural values increasingly important.

Given present cultural circumstances, younger adults find a variety of ways to satisfy their longing for intimacy and friendship.

This means that context — in the broad sense of cultural, religious, social, political and economical circumstances — and text — as Scripture in its process of transmission and interpretation, that is, its Tradition — do mutually interpret each other.

Ethics are not immutable and eternal», determined outside of the system, but the result of a process of adaptation to changing circumstances, namely cultural selection.

Because of the complex interaction of religious broadcasting with other social characteristics such as broader religious and cultural movements, changing social uses of mass media, and changing historical circumstances, it is unlikely that a simple cause - effect relationship between the viewing of religious programs on television and individual faith and church interaction could ever be isolated.

«Inevitably we are faced with the broad question of the cultural circumstances, the social institutions and events....

It is highly likely given the state of our evidence, that people in antiquity behaved much the same as people in similar cultural circumstances behave today.

The implication is that Solzhenitsyn uses prudence rather than abstract ideology to choose the best regime for the circumstances, with the main requirements of good government being constitutional limits on power to prevent crushing tyranny and the promotion of a cultural climate that encourages citizens to develop their souls.

The relationship between theological liberalism and cultural optimism is, however, by now an old, old story, so let us leave the external historical circumstances and return to more purely academic and theological considerations, of which the next to concern us is the rise of form criticism in the 1920s.

Core characteristics include optimizing normal biological psychological, social, and cultural processes of reproduction and early life; timely prevention and management of complications; consultation with and referral to other services; respect for women's individual circumstances and views, and working in partnership with to strengthen women's own capabilities to care for themselves and their families.»

We also discuss how the same underlying cultural beliefs that supported the idea that infants sleep best alone serve presently to permit the acceptance of an inappropriate set of assumptions related to explaining why some babies die unexpectedly while sleeping in their parents beds.9 These assumptions are that regardless of circumstances, including maternal motivations and / or the absence of all known bedsharing risk factors, even nonsmoking, sober, breastfeeding mothers place their infants at significantly increased risk for SUID by bedsharing.

Why questions are always difficult but surely it's a mix of bad luck, cultural sentiments and political circumstances.

Political Theory is taking the abstract of political philosophy, and applying it to a specific circumstance that includes and is influenced by a cultural, religious and historical heritage.

Speakers addressed circumstances necessary to produce a cultural environment that nurtures creativity; the role of epiphanies in the creative thinking process; and how science can contribute to enhanced creativity.

«Under certain circumstances,» he says, warfare «stops on a dime» as a result of ecological or cultural change.

«Newer research is discovering that the differences we see in these types of managers are more determined by the circumstances at hand than individual or cultural differences.

As the film's star once again tramples across a vast expanse of land — albeit in rather different circumstances to The Hobbit trilogy — first - time feature director duo Ben Howling and Yolanda Ramke turn a zombie pandemic into a musing on parental love, environmental destruction and the nation's cultural disharmonies.

But even under the best circumstances, the differences that divide us and the stupid cultural assumptions sometimes gift - wrapping those differences can have a disarming effect on a minority student who believes that college equals a racial utopia in the land of happily ever after.

Though the notion of immortality and communing with the dead were not new, and existed well before the Fox sisters, Spiritualism took hold in 19th century America because of a special set of cultural circumstances.

Regardless of outside circumstances, such as other class assignments, extracurricular activities, or cultural barriers, most high school instructors expect college level work.

Pets for Life embraces the human component of the human - animal equation by approaching people in a respectful way and recognizing that people's love for their pets transcends socioeconomic circumstances and cultural differences.

Reinforce the human component of the human / canine / feline relationship in a respectful way by recognizing and honoring the fact that people's love for their animals transcends economic circumstances and cultural differences.

Made in Germany is being organized as a project that will — for the first time in this regard — demonstrate artistic production in Germany as an interdependent network of national circumstances, differing biographical and national specifics as well as the ensuing cultural exchange.

O'Hara was not only a poet, but a curator and critic who grounded his critical approach to art, not in theory or philosophy, but in a direct appraisal of the art works themselves, the cultural situation of the time, and the circumstances of the artist.

What emerges from setting these works together is a strong sense of a shared language and purpose, albeit one developed independently and in markedly different cultural and social circumstances.»

1987 1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue) Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, NY (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Reconstruct / Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York (curated by Robert Nickas, catalogue) Extreme Order: Cemin, Gober, Halley, Lemieux, Steinbach, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples (curated by Collins & Milazzo, brochure) Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (curated by Robert Nickas) Avant - Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (catalogue) Paint — Film, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (curated by Eugene Schwartz, catalogue) NY Art Now: The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue) Generations of Geometry, Whitney Museum of American Art at The Equitable Center, New York Similia / Dissimilia, Columbia University Art Gallery, New York; travelled to Sonnabend Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany (curated by Rainer Crone, catalogue) The Castle, documenta 8, Kassel, Germany (curated by Group Material) Reinhard Onnasch Galerie, Berlin (catalogue) Anti-Baudrillard, White Columns, New York (curated by Group Material) Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (curated by Jerry Saltz, catalogue) Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris (catalogue) The Beauty of Circumstance, Josh Baer Gallery, New York (catalogue) New York Now, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel (catalogue) 1986 Admired Work, John Weber Gallery, New York Spiritual America, CEPA Galleries, Buffalo, NY (catalogue); travelled to Stavanger Faste Galleri, Stavanger, Norway (curated by Collins & Milazzo) New New York, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH Signs of Painting, Metro Pictures, New York, and Donald Young Gallery, Chicago Painting and Sculpture Today 1986, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (catalogue) Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Collins & Milazzo) Political Geometries: on the Meaning of Alienation, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York (catalogue) Post Pop, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Tableaux Abstraits, Villa Arson, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France (catalogue) Europa / Amerika, Ludwig Köln Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue) End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (curated by David Joselit and Elisabeth Sussman, catalogue) Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York The Hidden Surface, Middendorf Gallery, Washington, DC Geometry Now, Craig Cornelius Gallery, New York Surfboards, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles Art and Its Double: A New York Perspective (El arte y su doble), Centre Cultural de la Funcacio Caixa de Pensions, Madrid; travelled to Fundación Caja de Pensions, Barcelona (catalogue) Rooted Rhetoric, Castel Dell «Ovo, Naples (catalogue)

Heidrun Holzfeind uses photography, documentary video and sculpture to explore individual and collective narratives that reveal the concept of identity as a social construct dependent on cultural and socio - economical circumstances.

James Cutler, FAIA, founding partner of Cutler Anderson Architects, is known for his environmental and emotional sensitivity to place, institution, program, climate, and cultural circumstance.

Juxtaposing elements of cultural familiarity with unsettling circumstances, these paintings portray a world where creatures speak from a place of childlike honesty about the state of mankind.

Focusing also on individual paintings and circumstances under which they were created, Büttner presents descriptions and analysis of the work's cultural, historical, and aesthetic context.

The negation of traditional form, a radical break from established notions of order and composition, was particularly suited to a cultural environment born out of the circumstances of post war Europe where abuse of morals and fascist ideology had led to such horror and destruction.

Drawn from the papers of a variety of artists, writers, and arts organizations, the range of subjects, circumstances, and photographic styles on view here reflects the range of historically important cultural figures who lived and worked Downtown.