Sentences with phrase «cultural contributions of»

The centerpiece of Shonibare's show is a vibrant celebration of the cultural contributions of immigrants.

This publication is part of Visual AIDS mission to preserves and honors the work of under - recognized artists lost to AIDS and cultural contributions of the AIDS movement.

Western culture seems structurally predisposed to devaluing the cultural contributions of non-white artists.

This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the City of New York Department of Cultural Affairs and by the Jerome Foundation in celebration of the Jerome Hill Centennial and in recognition of the valuable cultural contributions of artists to society.

The collection of art, artifacts and documents captures the historic progress and cultural contributions of African Americans.

The Colors of the Prism, The Mechanics of Time (Unrated) Avant Garde Movement retrospective exploring the cultural contributions of such visionary American composers and choreographers as Philip Glass, Meredith Monk, Terry Riley, La Monte Young, Steve Reich, Pauline Oliveros and Gavin Bryars.

The book described the differences in lifestyle, public achievement, and cultural contributions of the influential elites of the two cities going back to Benjamin Franklin, William Penn, and Stephen Girard, to Adamses, Cabots, and Lowells.

For nearly three decades, the largest city in western Massachusetts has held a flag raising ceremony on the first Monday in November to celebrate Puerto Rican heritage and the cultural contributions of the people from the Caribbean island.

Another cultural contribution of blaxploitation movies was its music - a brand of funk, jazz and soul that provided much of the backbone for the narratives and became the genre's calling card.

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The fast food chicken chain wanted to honor the day celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women by shining a spotlight on her contributions to the success of KFC.

Ecosystem goods and services have most recently been defined as «the direct and indirect contributions of ecosystems to human well - being,» which can further be divided into one of four broad categories: regulating services (e.g. flood mitigation, water purification), provisioning services (e.g. food), habitat or supporting services (e.g. spawning grounds) and cultural services (e.g. recreational opportunities)(see here for an excellent explanation of these categories).

After joining the Institute for Research on Public Policy in 2001, Daniel earned the Policy Research Initiative's Outstanding Research Contribution Award for his paper «A Room of Our Own: Cultural Policies and Trade Agreements,» and produced, with co-editors Thomas Courchene and Donald Savoie, a major series of papers on North America after NAFTA.

According to Nathan Hatch, professor of American religious history at the University of Notre Dame, this kind of populist sentiment - expressed in 1803 by the New England politician and polemicist Benjamin Austin, Jr. - represents the salient contribution of American religion to the formation of our cultural ethos.

The goal is to create robust civil dialogue, and, ideally, to pave the way for thoughtful Christian contributions to cultural understandings of sex and gender.

But their contributions were given to an undifferentiated cultural system that made no social distinctions on the basis of need.

Furthermore, as paideia, theological schooling generates its own writings that are intended not only for use within Christian communities but also as contributions to the cultural life of the communities» host societies.

A second contribution is an awareness of historical and cultural conditioning — that how we see and think is pervasively shaped by the time and place in which we live, by culture, that there is no absolute vantage - point outside of culture or time.

One of the contributions of Eliade, which will have great significance for study of NT history is that Eliade sees cultural contacts and reciprocal influences between Indo - Iranian, Mesopotamian, Mediterranean worlds.

Many, both liberals and others, are convinced that the impulse itself is enervated and has little prospect of making further contributions to our religious and cultural life.

The primary contribution of these studies is to suggest some of the specific social processes that intervene between general social or cultural conditions and the appearance of an ideology.

This led to a mixture of both cultures, which is shown in their appreciation for the cultures of both areas, and led also to some interesting cultural contributions in China.

Wind describes the contributions of anthropologists and enthnographers to understanding in depth the cultural complexity of congregations.

We preserve cultural values and moral principles and make a contribution to the development of cultural and social life.

I believe that the Christian contribution to a «secular» concept of humanity as essentially a Community of Persons can be best made if we maintain the message of the gospel that God became incarnate in the Person of Jesus Christ to overcome the alienation of humanity from God and to create a Koinonia in Christ around the Eucharist, a Community of divine forgiveness and mutual forgiveness acknowledging Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour, transcending all religious cultural and ideological divisions with a mission to build a wider Secular Koinonia of mutual forgiveness and justice among the peoples of the world, as witness to the ultimate goal of creation, namely the Kingdom of God.

The basis of the Christian contribution is the faith that the crucified Jesus Christ by mediating divine forgiveness to all humans in the solidarity of their sinfulness, has made possible mutual forgiveness between persons and peoples and has brought into being in history a new human communion (Koinonia), transcending all religious, cultural and natural diversities and divisions.

A growing number of mission organisations are discovering that Christians trained in business skills can make a great contribution to cross cultural mission....

His contributions to his discipline were impressively varied: the sociology of knowledge, the sociology of religion, sociological theory, and the cultural effects of modernization.

If we want to be places that embrace the contributions of women, value their giftedness, and encourage them to tell their stories, we need to start by confronting the ways we too have become complicit with cultural norms and narratives.

While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.

Spanning a comprehensive range of the latest styles and brands, HYPEBEAST seeks to make a positive contribution to the most important cultural mediums.

The caucus also provides opportunities for Senators and staff to learn about the science and art of brewing beer, and the unique cultural and economic contributions made by small brewers to their communities.

The distinction recognizes significant contribution to historic preservation and sustaining the economic, environmental and cultural heritage of the community.

One of the most valuable contributions of the anthropology of family life is the information it gives parents to enable them compare their own cultural norms with those of others.

In other words, there is one collective human civilisation which is an accumulation of contributions from a series of distinct but intertwined geo - cultural domains, themselves influenced by different sub-cultures.

There are two reasons why the «broadcasting contribution» (Rundfunkbeitrag) was not created as a tax, both of them rather technical: Under the German constitution, the states are responsible for cultural affairs (which includes broadcasting, but also schools and universities).

By introducing simple measures, such as audio description, tactile displays and through harnessing the power of IT, art and cultural venues would make an important contribution towards promoting inclusion and equality for disabled people.

AHRC Associate Director of Programmes Gary Grubb said: «I welcome the Panel's affirmation of the international standing and leadership of UK historical and cultural geography which is also reflected in their important contributions to AHRC's themes and programmes such as «Landscape and the Environment» and «Connected Communities».»

«Your contributions to the socio - economic and cultural developments of Ibadan and beyond have earned you the amiable throne of Olubadan.

«The character of the great Borough of Queens has always been shaped by the tremendous economic, social, cultural and civic contributions from immigrants hailing from all over the world,» Borough President Katz said.

As British Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and Buddhists join friends and family to celebrate this festival of lights, let us also celebrate the great cultural, social and economic contribution they, and generations before them, have made to this country.

The assembled crowd also learned that county contributions typically account for less than 10 percent of organizations» budgets — a fact likely to surprise those who decry public funding for arts organizations as some sort terrible form of cultural welfare sure to lead directly to a communist revolution.

This borough of the City of New York has made so many contributions to the cultural and economic fabric of our great state and our country.

Marine and coastal environments make significant economic, social and cultural contributions to the people of Africa.

He has received several wards and prizes for his unique scientific contribution: In the 2003 Eminent Scientist Award by the Wessex Institute of Technology WIT, Great Britain., the gold medal of the Italian Chemical Society, Environmental Chemistry and Cultural Heritage Division in 2002 and that of the President of the Council of Ministers in 2003.

The BBVA Foundation established its Frontiers of Knowledge Awards in 2008 to recognize the authors of outstanding contributions and radical advances in a broad range of scientific and technological areas congruent with the knowledge map of the late 20th and 21st centuries and, representing cultural creativity at its expressive height, the area of music.

The blog is a contribution of all employee efforts, primarily focusing on industry trends while also highlighting cultural events and happenings internally.

Set at the intersection of post-Vietnam paranoia and the myopic introspection that became hippiedom's most lasting cultural contribution, the Philip Kaufman - directed Invasion alternates social commentary with impeccably crafted scares.

An assessment of the film as part of a dissertational examination of Lawrence's contribution to comedic posterity and to African - American cultural history will surely note that the film was not pre-screened for critics in advance.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

A valuable reminder about some brilliant black folks gifted and daring enough to make seminal cultural and social contributions to the nation in spite of their potentially - crippling, color - coded, second - class status.