Sentences with phrase «cultural expressions in»

Meetings with Brazilian art and other cultural expressions in images, tones and words.

«With recent technology there's more capability for expression in games,» said Hideo Kojima, referring to increased cultural expression in games today.

His first book Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies (1994) investigated new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art, documenting fresh perspectives arising from the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain.

«Stefan Kalmár has always demonstrated an unerring commitment to cultural expression in its most radical forms.

Not exact matches

This assessment is a milder expression of Uber's cultural issues than those voiced by some of Uber's own executives in the wake of Fowler's blog post, which detailed how other female engineers had shared similar stories of harassment.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

Maybe it's a cultural difference in expression, I think it's definitely a gender difference, but I would only say «If you want to play it that way» if I thought someone was being devious.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

From the point of view of the Christian tradition itself, such a renovation is not merely a capitulation to one more cultural expression, «but a new stage in the ongoing shaping of the gospel in different times and contexts.

That same month, Pope Benedict XVI issued a warning to the U.S. bishops: «The entire Catholic community in the United States must come to realize the grave threats to the Church's public moral witness presented by a radical secularism which finds increasing expression in the political and cultural spheres.»

The concept of cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection with the understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.

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.

A monistic, panentheistic position can not avoid this conclusion.29 In a physical, biological, historico - cultural evolutionary process as complex as the universe, much that is evil from various perspectives will occur, and if one sees this process as God's self - expression, then God is involved in eviIn a physical, biological, historico - cultural evolutionary process as complex as the universe, much that is evil from various perspectives will occur, and if one sees this process as God's self - expression, then God is involved in eviin evil.

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.

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.

Formerly, in the particular religions of tribes or nations religion was the expression of special interests, needs, insights, and cultural peculiarities.

It assumes that from the perspectives that come to expression in cultural - linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.

In this view, it is intolerable that the largest and most influential moral authority in the world persists in rejecting the sexual expression of the cultural commandment to «follow your bliss.&raquIn this view, it is intolerable that the largest and most influential moral authority in the world persists in rejecting the sexual expression of the cultural commandment to «follow your bliss.&raquin the world persists in rejecting the sexual expression of the cultural commandment to «follow your bliss.&raquin rejecting the sexual expression of the cultural commandment to «follow your bliss.»

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

It should be borne in mind that because religion conceived of as a vital force transcends its expression, it can not be unreservedly regarded as one among many spheres of cultural activity.

Many outward expressions are suitable, the appropriate one in any given case depending on personality type and on the person's social and cultural situation.

These were willing to shed all the inherited and supposedly unchangeable dogmas in order to be free to explore fresh forms and expressions of the Christian faith which would be more relevant to the new cultural and intellectual climate.

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western meIn his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western mein religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western mein the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

The French School of Sociology of Religion, the German, the English, the North American, are discussed, along with expressions of concern to those interested in the systematic development of the temporal, the spatial, the ethnic and cultural, and the religious viewpoint.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

The process of privatising the media offers a particular model of communication that, undoubtedly, will affect all religious expressions, In public service the supreme criterion is the presence of society and its institutions and respect for religious and cultural traditions.

In the progress of reason, in all cultural expression, and supremely in the growth of moral and religious insight man has had his life opened to the new adventure of partnership with GoIn the progress of reason, in all cultural expression, and supremely in the growth of moral and religious insight man has had his life opened to the new adventure of partnership with Goin all cultural expression, and supremely in the growth of moral and religious insight man has had his life opened to the new adventure of partnership with Goin the growth of moral and religious insight man has had his life opened to the new adventure of partnership with God.

It was apparently, then, a deep ethical motivation that at length found expression in the dogma now familiar but in its cultural environment of astonishing radicalism: «Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image nor any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above or in the earth beneath or in the waters that are under the earth: thou shalt not bow clown thyself to them nor serve them» (Exod.

For we must not ignore the fact that these very expressions had played an important role in the myths of the «dying - and - rising god» which were still very much alive in the wider cultural environment of Israel.

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

The rock - musical Hair is a cultural expression of a new quest for joy in relationship to cosmic - natural vitalities.)

It has shown them to be psychological or experiential expressions of human life, which, in constant interplay with the cultural enterprises of the various groups of mankind, have assumed definite historic forms.

In that cultural setting, understanding was largely narrowed to a choice between expression in a literal sense or through cloudy abstractioIn that cultural setting, understanding was largely narrowed to a choice between expression in a literal sense or through cloudy abstractioin a literal sense or through cloudy abstraction.

What is more, he conveys in a simple way the cultural background which gave rise to the vocabulary, expressions, images and idioms of the words of Scripture.

This sense of involvement in the total cultural problem, of which alcoholism is one painful expression, and an honest recognition of our complicity in the kind of world which produces alcoholics are the points at which we must begin.

In this sense, worship keeps alive the religious and cultural expressions that reflect the distinctiveness of minorities in IndiIn this sense, worship keeps alive the religious and cultural expressions that reflect the distinctiveness of minorities in Indiin India.

Any of these names makes sense in terms of the church's emphasis on the «fire» of God's presence and baptism in the Holy Spirit, a fire that is burning away the dead underbrush of cultural Catholicism; on the outward expression of this personal experience, especially glossolalia; and on the inner work of sanctification, which preachers describe as the process of being conformed to Christ or Christ being formed within us.

The cultural shape freedom of expression assumes in the legal climate of South Africa, therefore, is of unique interest.

The denial of cultural expression, which almost inevitably includes religious expression, in public is the death of democracy.

Especially in the light of the increasing privatization of the production of technical knowledge and cultural expressions, also these social spheres should be subject to democratic control.

If language, like labor, is a socially responsible expression of self, then English has to be regarded as a functional language in a multilingual society.11 We have to gain cultural freedom by going through the experience of cultural bondage.

We should instead anticipate that if all reality is somehow ingredient in our experience at the pole of primary perception, no particular expression could fully retrieve it, and different peoples will represent their primary perception in radically different ways, depending on cultural and historical conditions.

He is currently employed on the Electronic Culture Research Project, a special initiative of the Uniting Church's Commission in Victoria to explore the impact of electronic media on global cultures and the implications of this cultural change on religious institutions and on the social experience and expression of religious faith.

The question to be considered in the analysis of any religious phenomenon or expression, therefore, is not whether it reflects any cultural attributes or not, but whether in addressing itself relevantly to the immediate cultural situation it has also effectively retained the essence of its historical and revelatory insights.

Each cultural context in which the Christian faith is expressed plays some part in determining the nature of the expression.

Nonetheless, music, as literary and cultural critic George Steiner insists, «is brimful of meanings which will not translate into logical structures or verbal expression... Music is at once cerebral in the highest degree — I repeat that the energies and form - relations in the playing of a quartet, in the interactions of voice and instrument are among the most complex events known to man — and it is at the same time somatic, carnal and a searching out of resonances in our bodies at levels deeper than will or consciousness.»

For when you face a system that attributes everything to the cultural (the God the Bible speaks of is only a curtural expression) and to linguistic structures (the message has no true content — it only has syntactic structure), your intellectual refutation of it can not be couched in terms more exact than those adduced in support of the system.

Asks McKnight, «Do we seek to retrieve that cultural world and those cultural expressions, or do we live the same gospel in a different way in a different day?»