Sentences with phrase «cultural history with»

Maybe we don't have access to prized toile, enamelware or bergère chairs at the local market, but we do have a rich cultural history with fine pieces of furniture from Quebec, for instance, as well as skilled craftsmen that rival the best in the world.

It shares a cultural history with AdventBalance, which was formed from the 2012 merger of Perth - based flexible resource provider Balance Legal and Sydney - based Advent Lawyers, with the objective to work with clients in a more flexible and innovative way.

For 12 Ballads, much of the raw building material from the house at 6901 S. Dorchester Ave. was transported to Germany and used in the partial restoration of the dilapidated historic building in Kassel called the Huguenot House — where the carpenters and students who were involved in this effort lived as part of the project — symbolically mending one neglected cultural history with another.

The independent foundation, which bridges the city's cultural history with contemporary works, has become a leading art venue in Italy and Europe.

His primary interests are in rewriting South African cultural history with a view to greater equity and representation in the context of colonial and apartheid marginalization.

The former - Soviet city was once used as a trading center for the region's oil and combines its architectural and cultural history with a growing wine industry, arts, and club scene.

The island is also rich in cultural history with over 10,000 years of Chumash Indian habitation and over 150 years of European exploration.

Combining a fascinating cultural history with all the trappings of an elegant beach paradise, Skiathos has become an increasingly popular holiday hotspot for families, couples, and groups of friends.

Sandra Sherman's fascinating Fresh from the Past: Recipes and Revelations from Moll Flanders» Kitchen is a culinary and cultural history with 120 revamped and modernized recipes developed by Maryland caterers Henry and Karen Chotkowski.

Southwestern writer and outdoorswoman Meloy, knowledgeable, forthright, and witty, combines superbly wrought natural and cultural history with soulful memoir in this creative approach to the fascinating and resonant story of turquoise.

Griffin Dunne, USA, 2017, 92m World Premiere Griffin Dunne's years - in - the - making documentary portrait of his aunt Joan Didion moves with the spirit of her uncannily lucid writing: the film simultaneously expands and zeroes in, covering a vast stretch of turbulent cultural history with elegance and candor, and grounded in the illuminating presence and words of Didion herself.

Basquiat drew his subjects from his own Caribbean heritage — his father was Haitian and his mother of Puerto Rican descent — and a convergence of African - American, African, and Aztec cultural histories with Classical themes and contemporary heroes like athletes and musicians.

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With its rich artistic history, Florence is a great vacation destination for anyone who wants a cultural experience at the center of their time off.

In the announcement, Facebook said its goals are to: «Give people ways to connect and share with friends during holidays and events; Help people discover fun and interesting cultural moments; [and] Celebrate moments in history that continue to make the world more open and connected.»

There is no history of the act being used to even hinder a transaction involving the United States, except those dealing with a cultural business.

With a long - standing cultural history and housing a few thousand students, there is a perfect mix of young and old.

And while the brand is smaller in the U.S — at a 1.9 percent share — it has been a major cultural force with a history of groundbreaking ads dating back to the 1960s when Doyle Dane Bernbach won plaudits for an anti-establishment approach and classic copy lines like «Lemon» and «Think Small.»

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.

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.

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.

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.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

The large number of second - career seminarians, including those who bring histories of personal and vocational crises, together with a growing multi cultural constituency, brings its own kind of contextuality.

Many who have come to accept history in this sense trace their conversion, first, to a breakdown of natural structure that began with Charles Darwin, was magnified by quantum physics, and is still unfolding in the philosophies of the sciences; and, second, to a breakdown of cultural structure that began with Friederich Nietzsche in Europe and William James in America, was magnified by the chaos and brutality of twentieth century politics and warfare, and is still unfolding in postmodern studies.

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.

To be sure, the introduction of historical and cultural content into the Gospel message raises the fear of the loss of immediacy and threatens the church with an archaic and history - trapped pulpit.

History indicates that cultural crises arise when men grow uncertain of the validity of the principles which determine their cultural activities, when they can not look with confidence into the future.

Faced with the first full - scale cultural revolution in history, Burke explained with grace and force that the role of custom, manners, and personal character is more fundamental to society than the form or content of law.

But in many parts of this country, even regions with tremendous Catholic history, the possibility of using cultural capital to assert the distinctiveness of the Church and her related institutions no longer seems possible.

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.

This isn't Tom Wright writing the definitive history of Israel, but a New York Times chart - topper with 50 times Wright's global influence, choosing to put an ancient biblical story at the heart of the cultural zeitgeist.

The class outlines include religion (often based in Bible study), morality (frequently centered in Victorian virtues) and social problems (heavily laced with metaphysical views of Indian cultural history) These topics are being woven into a new mix which includes a dedication to an interfaith sense of the urgent need to reconstruct the spiritual and moral values of the nation.

The challenge before us is to navigate the hyphen and be prepared to explore our varied histories, discover the outside forces, question the economic compulsions, be astounded by the cultural diversity, empathise with the experience of marginality, marvel at the memories that have shaped all these various selves, and offered, and continue to offer us, an identity or identities across the hyphen, as the various embodied selves that make up the assorted group of people who are called Indian - Christians.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

I wanted to work chronologically through literature in the Western tradition, dovetailing our literary studies with history, so that my students could see how an event like the Trojan War, for example, has shaped an entire cultural imagination and given it a language for its ideals.

The first year might be spent in an overview of eco-social history and cultural - intellectual history to show how we have come to our present situation, along with a survey of the problems we face.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

The first position appeals to reasonable (not simply conformist and hypocritical) Christians who believe that, after all, every period of human history has its values: that it is better to try to Christianize a given situation than to enter into conflict with it; and that one can not sweep the whole socia1 and cultural edifice into outer darkness.

With this discovery, the cultural awareness of facing a crucial point in the history of humanity increased.

The New Thing Homosexual behavior is a phenomenon with a long history, to which there have been various cultural and moral responses.

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

Nations are peoples with distinct religio - cultural heritages; and the people as nations have interacted among themselves throughout history.

Their communities have been fertile grounds for new religions and cultural movements, and their history is filled with religious - cultural encounters and conflicts of all sorts.

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.

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.