Sentences with phrase «cultural forms taken»

But the season of sewing is ending, and we need to separate that which is Christian from cultural forms taken over and reshaped for post-Christian purposes.

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The «Chicago school» has taken a variety of forms: socio - historical, radical empiricist, rationalist, and cultural.
Rather, what Crouch did was to continue the tradition of creating new cultural forms from within the folk culture he inhabited and taking such artifacts into a broader public space.
Since the gospel is always received and appropriated in a specific cultural form, and since the church is established and functions as a social institution, the changes that are taking place in global societies have profound implications for churches (as profound, some have suggested, as our initial transition from a regional Jewish Jesus movement into a global Gentile church).
Awareness that there are particular cultural situations rather than a universal culture within which the gospel takes form raises, of course, the obvious question: what is the gospel?
In paintings of Asian Christian communities Christ took Asian cultural forms in a most vivid way.
Does the discussion in Christ Without Myth take adequate account of the nature and status of myth as a cultural form, and thus as an indispensable ingredient of history?
In the economically developed capitalist countries, he explains, secularization tends to take a cultural form.
Some of the evidence here lies in what the themes of the Incarnation, the Cross, and the Resurrection of the Christ who took upon himself the form of a servant have done to release cultural energies in Western civilization.
Just as the cultural change of the Axial Period occurred more or less simultaneously and independently at several points on the earth's surface, so the new global form of spirituality may well germinate at many different points and then take more visible form as those points form a network.
What cultural and religious forms this unification might take, we can not predict.
But the crucial question for evangelistic mission today is how in a changed post-colonial situation the forms of the church and its evangelistic proclamation and the call to conversion and the invitation to join the fellowship of the church may take place within the context of the recognition of religious and cultural plurality and common participation in building a new just society and state.
Ultimately the people's resistance takes the form of new religious / cultural movements, counter and alternative to the dominant cultures and civilizations.
Such cultural violence may take the form of cultural deprivation through the monopoly of cultural institutions by the power elite of a given civilization, or cultural repression through the arbitrary imposition of the values and norms of the powerful.
The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.
But members must disclose such trips taken under the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act on their annual financial disclosure forms.
The former state senator and retired NYPD cop, who took the borough's reins in January, had his staff distribute fliers and «Partner / Sponsor» application forms — copies of which were obtained by The Post — claiming the money would go to his «affiliated nonprofit,» called One Brooklyn, to fund various cultural events throughout the year.
Scientists everywhere work in teams, but teamwork takes different forms in different cultural and institutional contexts.
If taken as a form of cultural anthropology you can strip film of all of the burdens of objective merits that impose expectations that prevent us from losing ourselves in the experience.
This is the heart of Weerasethakul's work; taking old forms that have been suppressed or forgotten (as in the animist folk tales of Thailand) and re-forming them into narratives that speak with renewed urgency to the contemporary cultural climate.
Eggsy's cultural dislocation is still a feature of The Golden Circle, but it's taken a new form.
29] The manifestation of mass opinions, obsessions, and objectives takes various forms depending on certain inherent attributes, imbibed cultural attitudes or instructed methods of operation.
Violence against children takes a variety of forms and is influenced by a wide range of factors, from the personal characteristics of the victim and perpetrator to their cultural and physical environments.
This sense of affirmation takes on many forms, whether it's through walking trips through the community, or welcoming family members into the school to share and demonstrate cultural traditions and customs with the students.
These confrontations may take the form of difficult one - on - one conversations, open discussions and forums at faculty meetings, and using the teacher appraisal system to help teachers see the importance of cultural competency.
Literacy takes many forms (EX: digital, information, cultural, etc.) that all rely on the foundational literacy of reading.
Racism in America can take the form of so much more than the «N» word, and here Oluo astutely dismantles issues such as police brutality, cultural appropriation and microaggressions, and the pervasive, poisonous power of racism and white supremacy.
Kuranda has several dining options from outdoor garden restaurants with balconies overlooking the valley, quaint coffee shops with chairs carved out of bits of natural formed timber, healthy organic bakery and take away stores and of course the multi cultural wok foods available in the Kuranda markets.
This Uluwatu Tours package will start to visit Garuda Wisnu Kencana Cultural Park planned to be established a landmark or Bali mascot, in the form of a giant statue, that is a statue of Lord Vishnu riding a Garuda bird, then continue the tour to visit the Beautiful Padang - Padang Beach is one of the best white sand beaches, then we continue to visit the main site is Uluwatu Temple is amazing temple sits on 70 meter protuding cliff with some group monkey nearby, then the tour will continue to watching Kecak and Fire Dance Performance near the uluwatu temple, is a Balinese dance takes story from fragment Ramayana, and then the last site during Uluwatu tours is visit Jimbaran beach to enjoy the delicious seafood dinner on the beach at local restaurant.
It is such that now, rather than trying to split the cultural distinctions of art forms from different countries, game makers can travel across the world taking bits and pieces of things they learn and enjoy, and then glue them together in their work to expand their creative possibilities beyond the confines of their native culture.
First, we need to take a step back and look at all of the different forms of artistic media, and their own journeys toward cultural adoption and relevance.
Apple rescinds statement about political games: It'd be great to see Paper's Please up on the App Store and then maybe they'll take that dumb line back about books and movies being the only form of art suited for cultural criticism.
To enter this prison, which takes the alluring form of museums, art history textbooks, galleries, and magazines, an individual must suppress his cultural differences and become a colorless ghost.
Their activities have taken many forms, including an exhibition space in Düsseldorf, Germany, various publishing projects, sustained collaborations with other artists, as well as exhibitions, realized both individually and together with a loose network of artists and cultural producers.
Poledna's art most commonly takes the form of highly concentrated film works that unfold a complex tension between the visuals and their critical and cultural implications.
Unlike most other fairs, Frieze takes place at the heart of its host city, forming part of London's vibrant cultural fabric and international art scene.
Kobena Mercer has appropriately referred to this generation of «cinematic activists» as being engaged with the cultural struggle that takes place within the «domain of image - making» through self conscious cinematic strategies.6 In each instance, the individual filmmakers and voices that make up the collectives, workshops, and groups that formed in this tumultuous period in Britain's cultural history give shape to an image of race otherwise mediated by outside entities.
Art on the Tracks — Los Angeles - based artist Doug Aitken has arranged for a motley band of artists, writers, chefs, and musicians, ranging from Urs Fischer, Dave Hickey, and Charlotte Gainsbourg, to join him on a three - week - long Levi's - supported train ride from New York to San Francisco that will take the participants to ten cities along the way, in an effort to desegregate art forms and raise money for cultural institutions.
Taking over all four floors of the Vancouver Art Gallery, this groundbreaking exhibition will offer an international survey of mashup culture, documenting the emergence and evolution of a mode of creativity that has grown to become the dominant form of cultural production in the early 21st century.
Her work looks at places and moments where social, political, and cultural structures take on visible forms.
Interested more generally in pop culture and pop culture nostalgia, Arcangel has taken as his subject other new media forms, including YouTube and blogs, using them to create works that explore their role in our cultural landscape.
Personal narratives also permeate JAŠA's work, often taking on cultural or folkloric forms and recapitulating feelings of euphoria and beauty found within them.
Their work investigates cultural forms and their connection to the environment and nature often taking form of interactive installation, or DIY projects.
The Saw Tooth Wave continues the artist's interest in the ways that technologies and cultural zeitgeists imbue our experience of the world, taking its title from a type of audio wave form common to the sounds produced by synthesisers from the 1960s onwards.
That exhibition took its name from Jorge Luis Borges» text The Library of Babel, bringing together works whose premises are predicated on the book as a conceptual, psychological, and cultural form.
Much of her work takes the form of either postmodern conceptualism or large installation pieces, and is often inspired by cultural and personal fear.
These works don't set out to make specific cultural references explicit but the materials I use and the forms they take do of course carry with them their own set of references and identities.
Our seventieth issue is a snapshot of the forms those conversations have taken, beginning with some of the outstanding interviews that have invited artists and cultural producers to speak frankly about their practices.
True to form, he accepted the position with an allusion to his wide - ranging, inclusive tastes in art: «I can't get Sun Ra's Fate in a Pleasant Mood out of my mind,» he explained, comparing his excitement to take on the new role to afrofuturist Sun Ra's jazz album — one that, like much of the art that Walker champions, deserves a more pronounced place in our cultural history.
Two concurrent exhibitions in New York this fall refer to natural and cultural forms in poetic installations with entirely different, conceptually framed takes.
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