Sentences with phrase «cultural history from»

The holdings of the Smithsonian American Art Museum reveal the United States» rich artistic and cultural history from the colonial period to today.

Schapiro's photographs have been widely reproduced in magazines and books related to American cultural history from the 1960s, civil rights, and motion pictures.

Seven artists — John Akomfrah, Simon Fujiwara, Roger Hiorns, Hannah Starkey, Richard Wentworth, and Jane and Louise Wilson — have each been invited to curate sections of the exhibition, looking at particular periods of cultural history from 1945 to the present day.

Photographs record Bay Area cultural history from 1978 to 2008.

Since 1987 Harmon and Harriet Kelley have amassed an art collection that represents a kaleidoscopic view of African American life and cultural history from the 19th to 21st centuries.

This year's theme is Digital Immersions, presenting artists, writers, curators, and scholars who consider contemporary issues at the intersection of aesthetic expression, emerging technologies, and cultural history from a critical perspective.

She studied Theatre Design at Wimbledon College of Arts in London, later graduating with an MA degree in Cultural History from the Royal College of Art, London.

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For reasons that aren't entirely clear, Glass was ousted from Twitter before it turned into a cultural phenomenon and didn't even get much company stock, according to a new book about Twitter's history.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

A new book edited by the cultural historians Celeste Olalquiaga and Lisa Blackmore, «Downward Spiral: El Helicoide's Descent from Mall to Prison,» aims to bring its mysterious history to light.

Gabrielle Bouchard holds a Bachelor degree in Art History from McGill University and a Master in Management of Cultural Enterprises from HEC Montreal.

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.

The emergence of Evangelical Catholicism is a Spirit - led development reflecting the cultural contingencies of history, like other such evolutions over the past two millennia: the evolution from the primitive Church to the Church of the Fathers; the evolution from patristic Catholicism to medieval Catholicism; the development of Counter-Reformation Catholicism (the Church in which anyone over sixty today was raised) from medieval Catholicism.

«The endeavor «to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices» might in another year lead to historical re-enactments of anti-Semitic or racist ceremonies familiar from Western history or parodies that trivialize Native American heritage or other revivals of cultural and religious insult.»

Drawing from the history of Christian mission, let me suggest three types of boundaries from which I will make my option; these are, religio - territorial boundaries, cultural boundaries, and religious boundaries.

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»

Bloom, rather loosely, calls the American religion «gnosticism,» the belief that each individual possesses a divine spark and salvation consists in the liberation of that divine spark from the body and from the particularities of its constraints in history and cultural space.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

It is a living religion which has received and is still receiving its vitality from the people who confess it; it is a great movement which has passed through various stages of development over its long and complicated history, influencing and being influenced by the religious and cultural forces in its environment.

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.

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).

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.

If you look closely at our country's history it has a very deep vein that is based on cultural and religious intolerance... unless you are a WASP... be suspious and «watch out» for anyone that is different from «us».

Making judgments and taking actions can be pretty tricky, and no doubt even unpleasant from that context, but like Shawn noted in his «invasion» analogy, they may be entirely necessary (maybe that's a tool to employ in unpacking ethical / cultural aspects of Biblical history).

They also attribute negative intent — or at least uncritical cultural consumption — to everyone from conservative Christians (who are determined to «return all women to the barefoot - and - pregnant era of world history») to leftist attachment - parenting types (who are making «homemade baby lotion out of elderberry extract»).

At times in history some churchmen have played into the hands of this false image, but far from the Church being suspicious of cultural and political globalisation, she actually holds the key to the future of humanity.

In 1985, a group of thirty Protestant and Catholic scholars from colleges and seminaries across the United States met to consider the written statements of Jesus in the light of the idioms, history, and cultural setting of his time, and so to try to determine which statements are «authentic» and which are not.

this: the experience of women in the course of history never free from cultural roles of definitions.

Experience is always moulded by events, forces and symbolisms stemming from a variety of sources, including private and public histories, — competitive and cooperative inclinations, natural and socio - cultural imperatives.

Instead of being viewed as threats to societal well - being or as radical departures from past history, such developments are defended as long overdue cultural affirmations which can only benefit America.

The history of the San Francisco Zen Center from the late «50s to the present shows a continuous movement from general intellectual and cultural interest in Zen to high and demanding standards of practice.

[5] Both The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity [6] and Christianity: Social and Cultural History [7]-- two of the most ambitious recent surveys of Christianity — tell the Christian story in a manner that diverges markedly from the book I just quoted.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

asides from an intest in history or cultural concerns there is no reason to learn or blieve in any god.

It is the fundamental reality, from the people's perspective, that throughout history, religio - cultural institutions have often been dominated by the powerful; their norms, contents, styles, communication and transmutation, have been controlled by the powerful elite.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

Even the so - called natural aspect can be differentiated from religio - cultural life, but it can not be separated from it; natural history and religio - cultural history are mutually and closely intertwined with each other.

The history of popular communication of the people is not well investigated, just as their cultural history is not written from their own perspectives.

Just as when I speak, I draw from the whole background of English, and my prior understanding of English forms, so the creative artist can draw upon the artistic organs with which the cultural history and his own training have endowed him.

They have created their own ways of communication, ranging from stories in oral traditions to folk art and music, from popular histories to religious and cultural sysmbolism.

John Calhoun takes a long overview of the history of homo sapiens from the earliest beginnings of his cultural pilgrimage to the present.

Whitehead is free from «cultural lag» — that is, he, «far more than most recent writers, [is] acquainted with the relevant history of ideas and with the results of analytic exploration» (1:111).

includes more than 20 Chicago - area museums, from the scientific (Adler Planetarium) to the cultural (Swedish American Museum, National Hellenic Museum), from the artistic (Smart Museum) to the historical (DuSable Museum of African American History, Chicago History Museum).

Scouts can participate in experiences ranging from cultural arts to history to outdoor and nature.

Her issue focus has ranged from climate change (The Climate Group, Sustainable Urban Forests Coalition) to criminal justice (Interpol, Coalition for the International Criminal Court) to humanitarian and cultural affairs (International Rescue Committee, Center for Jewish History).

which plays well into the demographics of the voter base he is targeting; many of which distrust the Government or any suitably large organisation (which can be warranted given that the US Government engineered the biggest gold theft in history from the US populace) and ongoing cultural divisions between North and South USA.

A study of people from 33 nations led researchers to conclude that a given people's history of threats leads to cultural norms.

As stated in the legal brief filed by GM in support of the University of Michigan affirmative action case, «only a well - educated, highly diverse workforce, comprised of people who have learned to work productively and creatively with individuals from a multitude of races and ethnic, religious, and cultural histories, can maintain America's global competitiveness in the increasingly diverse and interconnected world economy.»

Explores how attitudes have changed throughout history, from early medical drawings, 19th - century paintings, anatomical models and cultural artefacts, to works by artists such as Damien Hirst, Helen Chadwick and Wim Delvoye.