Sentences with phrase «cultural history as»

A highly specific chronology charges these works not only with a certain absurdity, but also an unexpected poignancy: the Lakes act as poetic sarcophagi, cementing bygone moments in recent pop cultural history as well as the technology which helped generate them.

His 2008 award - winning show for The Jewish Museum, Action / Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940 - 1976 is an example of his rethinking of art and cultural history as well as exhibition models.

The painting's surface is used to transform energies and refabricate the body with suggestions of contamination, connectivity and displacement, reflecting Kocsis» cultural history as a Hungarian, Romany and Canadian.

Travellers who unearth its human heart, tribal traditions, beautiful buildings and spice - lined cuisine, will discover a fantastic destination that is as rich in cultural history as it is impressive in its wildlife.

Religio - cultural histories as well have been dictated and written by the religio - political and socio - cultural power elites.

They include private and cultural histories as well.

Across generations these practices share a common investment in exposing or documenting the often - overlooked material traces of socioeconomic and cultural histories as they manifest within the lived environment.

Not exact matches

However, others still say that altering the bindi and turning it into a fashion accessory is an example of using a culture's clothing and history as a costume is a key example of cultural appropriation.

Alaska native heritage center Built by Alaskan natives as an educational and cultural institution, the centre gives a look at the state's variety of Native peoples and their history.

Our cultural attitudes are unconsciously shaped by our collective history as much as they are consciously shaped by our current context.

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).

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

Ben: Yes, well, as I was saying, we're at this unique cultural moment in history where orthodox faith is under attack from all sides and we're barely communicating our faith to the next generation.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

In the course of that same history, and in the context of crises posed by philosophical and cultural changes as well as manifest ecclesiastical corruptions, the question of how to determine authentic apostolic teaching came into intense dispute.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

In this novel Atwood does not abandon biblical history to those who have muted female testimony; instead, she imaginatively writes this testimony back into cultural contexts that would destroy it utterly and that fail to do so, even as she reveals the violence in any amputations of human stories and the historical vulnerability of all speech and silence.

The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia ostensibly ends with the French Revolution, but it raises questions that still resonate today as Europe ponders its future.

Moreover, in the Church the threatening schisms are often related to identity politics: race, colonial history and cultural issues such as gay marriage and the role of women.

In the history of educational enterprise of the Christian Church in India, there were several articulations and re-articulations of the Christian identity in Higher Education as spiritual responses of the Christian Mission / Church to changes in the cultural scenario of India.

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.

It looks like the Pope is bidding fair to become «the Pope of Caritapolis,» who sees the whole world — in all its cultural, political, and cultural dimensions — as to be best grasped within the long history of «The City....

The death and resurrection of Jesus has broken down cultural barriers throughout history — no other major religion has spread as far and across as many cultures as Christianity.

However we approach the question, it remains true as a matter of simple history that Christianity in its development represents what we might describe as the marriage of Jewish realism and of cultural forms which are not Jewish at all.

... viewing morality not simply as individual perfection but as part of a social context... tile concept of universal human values which are valid through history and across national, cultural lines respecting different political and cultural possibilities, but at the same time acknowledge some common goals.

The nineteenth century research in Indology reflected different spirit of man, which failed to see the cultural heritage of the non-Western peoples as «an integral part of the history of human spirit».

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Such quirky nostalgia surrounds our cultural past as well as our personal histories, especially in considerations of the family.

Often raised in several places in no specific cultural or religious community, educated with no deep connection to a particular region, history, or tradition, and now employed mostly in academia, the American writer is becoming as standardized as the American car — functional, streamlined, and increasingly interchangeable.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

In this history, he claimed, we learn to see historical conceptions of God as symbolic representations of the human drama of cultural development.

Christian history is a series of cross-cultural movements, which result in a succession of different Christian «heartlands» as the geographical and cultural center of Christianity has changed.

The pieces, on loan from museums in Karachi and Lahore, highlight Pakistan's history as a crossroads of cultural influences, despite present - day associations of the country as an incubator of religious extremism, museum director Melissa Chiu said.

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?

The Confession of Christ as the meaning of the upthrust of human history and the crown of its scientific and cultural progress is contradicted by the modern division of history into Ancient, Medieval, and Modern periods.

In his election to the seat of St Peter, Pope John Paul II asked this question about Vatican II: «Indeed, is not that Universal Council a kind of milestone as it were, an event of the utmost importance in the almost two - thousand - year history of the Church, and consequently in the religious and cultural history of the world?»

More than this, he was sensitive to the fact that the writing of philosophy's history can be at once technically competent and narrow He praised the «philosophical greatness achieved in American philosophy, from Peirce to Santayana, but he complained of the cultural chauvinism in failing to recognize it.5 According to Hartshorne, «One might about as easily reach great heights in philosophy without benefit of the work done in modern America as to reach them in physics without using the work of modern Germans» (Creativity 11).

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

As we explore the path taken by the concept of resurrection over some four thousand years of the cultural history which is our heritage, we shall find the resurrection theme expressed in a great variety of ways.

My own desperate clinging to the tattered label evangelical has less to do with any political or cultural uniformity as it does to these core convictions, or rather, the core conviction that the good news of Jesus Christ's death and resurrection for sinners and a broken world is the mightiest power set loose in the history of the world.

In South India, where I teach as often as possible, the racks at the front of the bookstores are no longer filled, as they were a scant decade ago, with volumes dedicated to the preservation of village life, or to the intellectual, cultural or social history of South Asia, or to the writings of spiritual and political leaders calling the people to overcome imperialism and colonialism.

«2 Eventually, he let go of the dogma that had dominated Western thought: the belief that events are guided by a sure, rational hand and that scientists and philosophers are capable of reading the print of that hand as it appears in natural and cultural history He acknowledged that all things «perpetually perish» — where «perish» refers not to the end of all time but to the end of every moment.

Countries that have been divided the way Germany and Korea have are of special interest to political analysts, since such key factors as religion, cultural history, geography, ethnicity and technological capacity are relatively constant in both regimes.

If we go back through the strands of Christian history, we can find three streams converging as common responses to cultural periods of one age or another: (1) the intellectual, (2) the relational, and (3) the performative.

And, out of that history, black churches have evolved a different kind of community of mutual support, along side such cultural developments as gospel music.

He did so by urging the expansion of the idea that the great books include the Eastern classics, as well as through his inspiring participation in Columbia's core courses on Asian humanities and through his many books making the cultural history of China and the rest of East Asia available to educated readers.

A few histories of local churches have examined the identifying cultural traits of their subjects, exploring the symbolic patterns that give a particular congregation its unique character, instead of the far more common topics of local church history, such as campaigns, catastrophes, and clergy.

Whether Jesus Christ's divine - human unity is the sole member of its class, as evangelical Christians would typically claim (John 1.14, I Timothy 2.5), or a paradigmatic member of a class with multiple members, this unity can be construed as an example of a systemic change of the God - world relationship happening once in the history of humanity globally, 5 and entering our cultural / religious awareness through Christ with the power and appeal described above.