Sentences with phrase «cultural influences from»

Cultural influences from one part of the world become trends elsewhere — we should all welcome these conversations because they influence a deeper understanding between all of humanity on a multitude of levels.

At the latter, the Great Story of a small Island - Nation through 100 Objects revealed a Greek theatrical mask and an Islamic book showing cultural influences from various invaders, simple peasant clothing from Gozo that the locals wore while the main island of Malta was going through a cultural revolution and a she - wolf statue feeding the twin Romanesque characters of Romulus and Remus.

Crosby argues that «scholars of Japanese cinema tend to ignore various aesthetic and cultural influences from other national contexts and instead settle for a potentially misleading form of cultural exceptionalism» (p. 176).

The monument's wealth of patterns reflect cultural influences from a lucrative trading network that once stretched to Cairo, Istanbul, Iran, and India.

The culture of Islamic countries has grown through the interaction of groups of Islamic peoples of widely varied ethnic and geographic backgrounds and through strong cultural influences from the non-Islamic civilizations of Greece, Persia, and India in the early days, and of western Europe in modern times.

The crackdown on Internet TV, seen in this context, represents just one more step taken by the party to prevent insidious Western cultural influence from undermining the regime.

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.

Now for his solo show at OUTLET, Berman brings us splices of artistic cultural influence from Japanese Ukiyo - e prints to Aztec myths, with an interplay between fact, memory and fiction, reflecting upon his own history of displacement and relocation.

Due to the presence of the Portuguese for nearly 500 years, the cultural influence from Portugal is undeniable and very visible, not only by the architecture and beautifully kept colonial buildings and churches, but also by the fact that Macau has maintained a Chinese - Portuguese bilingual system in the Government and in its legal system.

Not exact matches

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the past decade.

While Silicon Valley has grown to have global influence, in many ways the cultural leadership from the venture community has dramatically shrunk in the last decade.

Factors ranging from absence of a sound legal system backing its activities, lack of innovative projects, cultural influences and information asymmetry have constrained its growth.

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.»

That through which all religion lives, religious reality, goes in advance of the morphology of the age and exercises a decisive effect upon it; it endures in the essence of the religion which is morphologically determined by culture and its phases, so that this religion stands in a double influence, a cultural, limited one from without and an original and unlimited one from within.

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.

«5 It is this: spiritual and emotional burden, this cultural ambivalence, that influences most Christian discussion of play and hinders many of us from allowing play its God - intended place.

One study, drawing on national survey data, indicated that evangelicals tend to be relatively isolated from the main sources of secular influence (e.g., higher education, professional careers, urban or suburban residence), thus permitting them to retain their plausibility structures more or less intact — although other modes of cultural accommodation were also evident.15

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.

Cultural intermixture plus Persian influence had brought these regions to the brink of axial existence, and some universalization and systematization of myth preceded Hellenization, providing the possibility for taking the myths seriously also from the Hellenic point of view.

Of course, the influence of religious ideas, practices, and institutions upon society had always intrigued the historians, but it could be assessed better from the time that the organizations of society, to use Dilthey's terminology, were more clearly distinguished from the systems of cultural objectification (law, art, science).

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.

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.

Obviously our cultural situation has already been shaped by images and ideas flowing from what Christians would call revelation, and our concrete questions arise out of a context that has been deeply influenced by biblical motifs.

Other civilizations of the Old World were all derived from this cultural center or were strongly influenced by it; only the New World was entirely independent.»

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.

In speaking to the Bundestag last 22 September Pope Benedict issued an «urgent invitation» to engage in «a public debate» on the cultural influence of positivistic philosophy (see our Road from Regensburg column).

All fields of knowledge, from archeology to zoology, can claim distinguished contributors from many lands, and all studies have important applications to world understanding, whether it be an inquiry into the archeology of the Middle East, once the cradle of civilization and now a focus of cultural and industrial renaissance, or an analysis of the zoology of malarial infection, which has sapped the energies and influenced the destinies of millions in tropical areas around the globe.

But if we move out of the global economy into the cultural influence, globalization theory suffers from the Narcissism McLuhan disdained.

Rapper Lecrae recently sat down with Rolling Stone magazine for a discussion about his new album, the cultural influence of Chance the Rapper, the backlash he's received from fellow Christians...

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.

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.

To assume that the early Fathers were immune from these influences or that traces of this cultural milieu are not to be found in the writings of the Church Fathers would be naive indeed.

The Green and the Red highlights how stereotypes and cultural habits can influence our behaviour but how a little open mindedness — from flexitarians, vegetarians, vegans and omnivores alike — can produce positive change for people and planet.

Adrian Ling discusses the trends and cultural changes currently influencing the free - from market.

Bringing a lifetime of unique experience and cultural inspiration to every dish, Chef Dodds» approach to cooking is equally influenced by his family's English heritage, his Texas upbringing, and his vast culinary experience spanning the globe from England, Switzerland and Thailand.

A week later Harper came back with several more poems, and Danielpour produced a score influenced by jazz, which he calls «the [one] cultural commodity aside from baseball not inherited from Europe.»

The culinary scene is unlike any other, drawing influence from the 90 nationalities that make up the cultural melting pot that is Aruba.

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.

How would a chatty support group work when, ``... part of the cultural influence involves the way men are taught from early childhood to be strong, silent, independent, and resistant to suffering.»?

While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.

Being such a vast and diverse continent, African names have a large number of tribal, cultural and religious influences from across time.

In other words, there is one collective human civilisation which is an accumulation of contributions from a series of distinct but intertwined geo - cultural domains, themselves influenced by different sub-cultures.

The authors start from recent developments in citizenship theory — an area in which Kymlicka's ideas on the rights of minority cultural groups have had a major influence.

And political scientists are tracing the influence of cultural tensions arising from immigration and from ethnic, racial and sexual diversity.

«Cultural cognition can influence everything from what people believe they have seen with their own eyes to how they perform a mathematical calculation,» he told me.

The information that seems to indicate sex differences, Spelke says, comes from problematic studies whose results are colored by cultural influences — everything from parents responding differently to girls and boys to university faculties viewing identical job applications more skeptically when the applicant's name is female.

On the other hand, «gender» is a cultural concept referring to behaviors which might be directed by specific stimuli (visual, olfactory) or by psychosocial expectations that result from assigned or perceived sex and therefore can influence biological outcomes.

Cultural impacts to tribes from climate change influences on forests.

As True pointed out at the FDA committee meeting, it is very difficult to separate out the effects of menthol from other cultural and racial factors that may influence smoking habits and dependence.

While the brand benefited from turn - of - the - millennium buzz about China expanding its global cultural influence to match its prowess in manufacturing, it never caught on in a big way in Europe or the US and consumers in the faster - growing Chinese market have preferred western luxury brands.