Sentences with phrase «cultural imposition»

Although the formulation of these truths has a cultural history, they are not the possession of any one culture, nor does their universal recognition constitute a cultural imposition upon others.

He defended traditional missionary preaching of the gospel of salvation in Jesus Christ against historical relativists and religious pluralists who viewed it as at best pointless and at worst a cultural imposition.

Taking place just days after the United States presidential elections, FIELD MEETING: Thinking Practice seeks to explore how art practitioners can maintain sovereignty over their own voice as world citizens and commentators amidst the pervasively hostile political climates and marginalising forces of conservatism around the globe, in addition to contending with art world prescriptions, cultural impositions and shifting market demands.

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Oh dear, yet another interpretation of a book chain - written by Mesopotamian and Roman era storytellers, deified and literalized by backward folk too lazy to think, and used to justify social / cultural abuse and imposition.

Complaints about the cultural «imposition» of ideas about universal human rights are, more often than not, in the service of nationalism, racism, ideology, or power politics - or all of these in combination.

Just as Dred Scott forced a southern proslavery position on the nation, Roe is nothing more than the Supreme Court's imposition of the morality of our cultural elites.

In reality they have the human and cultural capacity, the possibility and the values to resist this imposition, but will they have the knowledge and will to do so?

In opposition, the Democrats represented the cultural «have - nots,» minority religions like Catholics, Jews, «free thinkers,» and some sectarian Protestants, such as Southern Baptists, who shared an interest in resisting majority impositions.

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.

But the people religiously and culturally resist such imposition; they create new religious beliefs and new cultural values, attuned to their own needs, life and vision.

Either by imposition or assimilation, cultural traits are transmitted between neighbouring regions and often one replaces the original cultural traits of the other.

For these reasons, it (cultural relativism) supports the local autonomy and opposes against the global imposition of the western model.

His performances» raw intensity often included the graphic acting out of taboo ideas and behaviors, acting out against the imposition of cultural norms by television programming, Disney.

In contemporary U.S. culture, abstract art is difficult for many to grasp because it so completely defeats the imposition of language on art that cultural meaning falls away.

These include: the theft of land and economic resources; the deliberate marginalisation and erasure of cultural beliefs, practices and language; and the forced imposition of British models of health over systems of healing that had been in Australia for millennia.