Sentences with phrase «cultural importance in»

Located in a historic building and exquisitely decorated, Rector Hotel is the ideal hotel for guests looking for a distinguished accommodation during their stay in Salamanca, city of significant historic and cultural importance in Spain.

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While it's easy to overstate the importance of one film, the Black Panther release is a watershed moment in America's cultural history.
The Most Powerful Women in Business list is compiled by FORTUNE editors, who consider four criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global economy, the health and direction of the business, the arc of the woman's career (resume and runway ahead), and social and cultural influence.
As in past years, we ranked these women on four major criteria: the size and importance of the woman's business in the global marketplace; her clout inside her company; her career trajectory; and in certain cases her cultural and social impact.
He never stayed in one place very long, but by this point JT at - large was such an important cultural figure that his mere presence gave something importance.
There seems to be an assumption that because we are wise and atheistic, anyone in the past whom we admire can not have been too much affected by religion — that their faith is just a cultural appurtenance of as little importance to understanding their thought as their hairstyle.
You will hear me say this several times this week: The most important question we have to ask when reading the New Testament household codes is this — is their purpose to reinforce the importance of preserving the hierarchy of the typical Greco - Roman household or is their purpose to reinforce the importance of imitating Christ in interpersonal relationships, regardless of cultural familial structures?
The ministry, or in concrete terms the clergy, has often too easily the impression, not merely that the Church has to proclaim what are certainly correct principles of social, cultural and political life, but that by that very fact it possesses, for everything of the slightest importance?
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.»
The «communal tensions» between the groups were «of major importance in the life of the nation,» Herberg added, suggesting that they began non-divisive discussions about the limits of American democracy and allowed all 96 percent of Americans who identified as Protestant, Catholic, or Jew to have some social, political, and cultural recognition in America.
The cynicism that pervades contemporary cultural life must be replaced by a deep confidence in the human purposes and importance of art.
Many of us have been giving considerable attention in recent decades to the importance of cultural context: you can't preach exactly the same sermon in a suburban Omaha church as you would to a congregation in rural Thailand.
the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.
By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.
The explanatory model for The Heavenly Contract starts with an assertion of the importance of social - structural, technical, and cultural changes in English society.
Lifeworld colonization theory credits secular cultural patterns (e.g., rational communication processes) with an active role in social change, but it minimizes the importance of religion.
Evangelicals can learn in our own day, perhaps, from Robert McAfee Brown, who has argued strongly for the importance of cultural input for the theological equation.
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?&raquIn 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?&raquin the almost two - thousand - year history of the Church, and consequently in the religious and cultural history of the world?&raquin the religious and cultural history of the world?»
I didn't expect him to resort to stereotyping or painting them as «unlikely to interfere with any cultural awakening,» especially because he's someone who acknowledges the importance of community if we are to see a return to Catholic influence in the broader culture.
To deny it is to deny that there was a cultural - sexual revolution launched in the 1910s and resumed in the 1960s, or else to claim that it was not about anything of importance.
My own lecture was titled «The Right to Belong Where I Come From,» and dealt with the importance of home in the human imagination, the struggle against placelessness in modern culture, and the cultural forces that come to bear on the human consciousness to weaken attachments between person and home place.
Despite the importance of economic conditions in 1992, then, religious and cultural alignments were very much in evidence in voting patterns.
All the cultural groups composing the «country» of America are equal in importance, value, tradition, need, etc..
The humane studies are also of crucial importance for suggesting guiding ideals in a time of rapid cultural transformation resulting from new inventions.
First, the simple fact that this structure of divine - human unity emerged at a time and place in history where the cultural, linguistic, political, and religious maturity and unity of a significant portion of humankind bode well for its apprehension is a major factor in its importance.
Alternatively, one might expect to see the cultural or historical importance of Darwin or the theory of evolution underscored and interpreted in the remainder of AI or the main text of SMW.
This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.
After showing that all have substantial limitations, he changes the subject to the importance of cultural criticism in the human sciences.
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.
Those with a soft patriarchy view generally believe that «the biblical context is cultural but the principles are permanent,» affirming the importance of submission and gender rules, allowing for women to work outside the home, but discouraging women from teaching or leading men in any way in the church — especially as senior pastors or preachers.
The study rightly highlights the importance of reclaiming the proper value and place of authority in the light of the cultural «turn to the subject» and the wise post — 1968 preference for teaching which is «persuasive not just declarative».
While the impact of these classical theories has remained strong, I would like to point to a specific contribution that, in my view, has served as a kind of watershed in our thinking about the cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of cultural dimension of religion: Clifford Geertz's essay «Religion as a Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of Cultural System,» published in 1966.1 Although Geertz, an anthropologist, was concerned in this essay with many issues that lay on the fringes of sociologists» interests, his writing is clear and incisive, the essay displays exceptional erudition, and it provides not only a concise definition of religion but also a strong epistemological and philosophical defense of the importance of religion as a topic of inquiry.
In reacting to this situation, most of the theologians who have been opposed to natural theology have taken the position that this cultural phenomenon must be treated as of no fundamental importance for the gospel.
From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.
Of equal importance have been cultural changes that now tilt in favor of globalization.
Through her range of experiences at the hotel, Haaz acquired in - depth knowledge of participating in the preparation and production of food items, and learned the importance of creating specialty dishes for guests with special dietary or cultural needs.
Understanding the religious, culinary and cultural importance of dates in the Middle East, she's been using dates and date syrup, also known as the Date Nectar under the Beloved brand, in her recipes to add that extra flavour.
Though not quite as much of a cultural institution as their Olympic counterparts, the World Cup's opening ceremonies have been quietly expanding in size, importance and grandiosity over the years.
They include issues about the importance of breastfeeding and about women in the workplace; issues, which we had all hoped would become legacy issues, about prejudice and discrimination; and important issues about geographic variation and inequality, including the importance of cultural leadership in changing attitudes.
Although improving the methods used to convey the importance of the supine sleep position remains paramount, use of a fan in the room of a sleeping infant may be an easily available means of further reducing SIDS risk that can be readily accepted by care providers from a variety of social and cultural backgrounds.
More and more evidence points to the importance of breastfeeding on a cultural, public health, psychosocial, ecological and economic level, and the need to support, protect and promote it in all aspects of healthcare and society, as well as asserting breastfeeding as a human right for both babies and women.
To better understand the importance of fathering in today's society, you have to better comprehend the impact fathers have on their children, the various cultural pathways to fathering, and how interventions with fathers can help them, their families and their children's development.
Three ground - breaking pieces of research funded by the Gates Foundation highlight the practical, emotional and cultural barriers that still stand in the way of women breastfeeding and underline the importance of breastfeeding in improving health, saving lives and reducing costs in every country in the world, rich or poor.
The importance of the in - laws in these countries also emphasises the fact that the concept of what is considered «social support» may vary according to the cultural and social background of the mother.
«If nothing else, this issue has shown us the political, economic and cultural importance of the media industries and the need for even more transparent policy - making in this area.»
«Not only will we have cultural sensitivity, but that our officers will understand the importance of consistent policing — no matter whether the area is black, Asian Latino, white, it's the consistency in the enforcement of the law,» he said.
Speakers described the cultural importance of preserving structures that reflect continuous and diverse waves of immigration beginning in the second half of the 19th century.
«The relative importance of biological versus cultural factors remains an open question,» says Helle, who speculates that it could be that girls are more likely to help their parents in household duties.
«This study reveals the great importance of cultural and linguistic similarity in how infants choose to direct their attention.
Intertidal zones are also rapidly deteriorating due to human activities, with coral reefs of critical ecological, cultural and economic importance, already under serious threat, and some reefs having already been lost, especially in South and South - East Asia.
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