Sentences with phrase «cultural influences as»

Labbok pointed to short hospital stays, short maternity leave and a lot of cultural influences as a cause for the rates.

Every great empire depends as much on its cultural influence as on its political authority and military might.

Through the multicultural perspective provided by the history of maiolica glaze painting (tin - glazed pottery that originated during the Renaissance), Devers maps his own journey in the form of paintings, ceramics, and installations to offer a new translation of pattern, form, and space and to provide new perspectives of cultural influence as an American artist working in Mexico and Italy.

Not exact matches

they are the first to unite materialism, sustainability values and cultural influence...» Aspirationals are particularly prevalent in emerging markets such as India, China and South Korea, but are also common here in the US.

In addition to the «subtle influences» of our genes on our behavior, our environment (or surrounding cultural norms and conditions) as well as our nurturing (i.e. upbringing, whom we choose to surround ourselves with and what we think about) is what really makes us who we are.

To that end, African - American women are leaving an indelible imprint on America's economy, social consciousness and cultural landscape, and they're showing no signs of slowing as they become more and more aware of that influence.

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).

Domestically, universities such as Pontificia Universidad Catolica and the Universidad de Chile have published studies focusing on entrepreneurship influencing cultural change and and the value of the traditional business accelerator.

Griffiths suggests that the secular cultural field may emerge in part from the influence of the capitalist market economy, which results in «market - states» and the identification of human beings as primarily «consumers» or «choosers.»

The importance of Hamann's thought, as David Bentley Hart has noted, «would be difficult to exaggerate not only [because of] the immensity of his influence upon all the great European intellectual and cultural movements of his age, but [also for] his continued significance for philosophers and theologians.»

Jewish - Christian rejection of homosexuality can not be, as some claim, a matter of «cultural conditioning,» since on this question it is obvious that Jews and Christians made such a determined, and successful, effort to resist the influence of surrounding cultures.

Teachers, preachers, and others who devote themselves to the work of instruction can be saved needless frustration and disappointment if they bear in mind the weight of educational influences exerted by the culture as a whole, and if they take account of the prevailing cultural patterns as they plan their teaching.

Churches tend to take on the cultural influences and traditions of its members and community, but how many predominantly white churches own a white identity and name its culture as being white?

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.

Yet even as conservatives in the last two decades have made notable strides in access to influential cultural institutions in entertainment and the media, the influence of civil society and nonpolitical leaders on public opinion is still underappreciated.

In her work of evangelising the world, the Church follows attentively and discerningly the rapid cultural changes at work, which influence both her and society as a whole.

When it is understood as a «stream of cultural influence», Christianity can be seen as something that already stretches far beyond its ecclesiastical institutions, and is likely to last longer than any of them.

However, if one chooses to regard it as a sin, it is well to remember that even the early drinking of the alcoholic is part of a total behavioral pattern which is strongly influenced by his damaged personality as well as by cultural pressures.

Modern Indian translators in the North Eastern and other parts of India are influenced by the tribal culture to bring different cultural languages in translations than the original.11 As Nida says, «there is every reason to believe that the revision (of the translated Bible) will be greatly welcomed by non-Christians with a Hindu cultural background.

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

As one who has written so poignantly about the horrors of exclusion in religious communities in our own day, Volf is surely not maintaining that local congregations can somehow become hermetically sealed off from their immediate cultural influences or ideological contexts.

The problem in many Muslim majority countries is plentiful, corruption, lack of education, poverty, cultural influences being cloaked as «Islam» when it's not.

Quest for historical Jesus and for secularization of the gospel, for example, was very much influenced the modernity of the Western civilization; and, consequently, Asian religious - cultural traditions were regarded as pre-modern and neglected not only as «pagan», but also as antiquated.

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.

Just as there are clear cultural differences that in turn influence the course of therapy (by whatever name), the theory should be able to illustrate the fundamental similarities.

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.

We do not know the cultural background and ethnic origins of the tribes that took part in the movement which we know best as Joshua's conquest of Palestine, yet the influence of the Arabian Desert was strong upon them, if we may judge from such information as we possess of their social life in the immediately following period.

Whatever more Jesus was as God's Son and chosen agent of redemption and revelation, he was subject not only to historical and cultural influences but to elements of human finitude.

This media force, along with other cultural and social influences, shapes the disposition as well as the substance of theology associated with our view of the world.

The evangelicals and fundamentalists, who were not seen as a major force within the mainstream of American cultural and religious life, existed mainly on the fringes of influence within the television industry.

As the trend continues, we will see the «Nones» continue to grow and the church lose more of its traditional cultural influence.

Thus, if it is true, as has been claimed, that the idea of Christendom and the doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, were not at all what the historical Jesus had in mind when he spoke of the Kingdom of God, we should not be surprised if the continuing stream of cultural influence which he was so instrumental in re-directing should in the future manifest itself in ways very different from the conventional Christianity it later became for a period.

When the Bible is read using reason and the cultural influences are filtered out, as Jesus did, it becomes clear that God does not condemn h o m o s e x u a l i ty.

Here he presented religion as a phase of the dynamic life process in which the shared valuations of a cultural group, influenced by the whole matrix of social patterns and habits inherited in the historical situation, are carried forward and readjusted.

Just thought I would ask, not very religious myself although my family are all very devout Sikhs, I follow the teachings as well and consider myself Sikh but I do not partake in what I personally believe are more cultural influences on Sikhism.

Class, cultural, ethnic and intellectual differences brought on by such factors as industrialism, sectionalism and immigration, have had a marked influence on Protestantism.

Meditation is as integral to Christianity as it is to Hinduism, but because of cultural influences Christians have been convinced that the only way to meditate is by sitting still and coaxing yourself into a trance.

The influence that religious broadcasters may have is more significant, therefore, when they are viewed within the broader context as indicators of a general cultural trend among groups of disenfranchised citizens.

In the course of the century Slavophiles, who wished Russia to free itself from the cultural influence of the West, were devoted to the Russian Orthodox Church as a bulwark against the alien currents.

But its strength is distributed so as to give it great majorities in some cities, and enormous political power and cultural influence in many states.

«Interestingly, [our] study did not find significant clustering of muscle - enhancing behaviors within schools,» said Eisenberg, which suggests that, «rather than being driven by a particular sports team coach or other features of a school social landscape, muscle - enhancing behaviors are widespread and influenced by factors beyond school, likely encompassing social and cultural variables such as media messages and social norms of behavior more broadly.»

He was adopted from Ethiopia as a toddler by Swedish parents, and I use his recipes as teaching tools not just for how to make incredible fish sticks, but also how to honor and integrate different cultural influences in order to create something with an incredible flavor all its own.

There are many theories including genetics, prenatal and socio - cultural influences, and psychosocial factors, as well as a combination of all of these.

Fostering a daughter's self - esteem following divorce is a top priority, as girls are very vulnerable to cultural influences.

Socio - cultural influences, such as a worried, insistent grandmother who thinks the baby «just ate» and therefore can't possibly need to feed again can undermine a mother's confidence in whether she can satisfy her baby's appetite.

For example, the School Food Initiative set out to improve food on the plate at local public schools, and soon learned that such improvements also required us to influence cultural shifts within school districts as well as increasing food literacy throughout the community.

Health promotion practice must acknowledge that health behaviour is influenced by a wide range of personal, social and cultural factors, as Hepworth argues, health promotion practice involves «social phenomena, wide - reaching cultural, psychological, political and ideological problems and issues» as well as biomedical and clinical ones -LSB-(Hepworth, 1997), p. 233].

And she is much more likely to either have knowledgeable breastfeeding support in her social circles or, if the breastfeeding specialist - to - mother ratio is similar to that of a wealthy nation, those breastfeeding supports are not having to compete with rampant cultural influence from formula companies and other cultural breastfeeding hurdles, such as unpaid maternity leave.

As explained in my neurophilosophical theory of human nature, humans have the potential to be either moral or immoral, depending on their self - interest, and will be influenced in their choices by emotions and socio - cultural contexts.

As you say in your comment there also exists the influence of a cultural politics, New Left, Eurocommunist tradition.