Sentences with phrase «cultural life of a community»

Furthermore, as paideia, theological schooling generates its own writings that are intended not only for use within Christian communities but also as contributions to the cultural life of the communities» host societies.

The article states: «Everyone has the right to freely participate in cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts, and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits.»

The institutions that flourish here — and I include certain successful commercial galleries alongside art schools and major museums such as LACMA and the Hammer — do so because of their farsighted commitment to the ongoing cultural life of their community.

The Museum of Contemporary Art recognizes the need to enrich the cultural life of the community and to nurture a knowledgeable and supportive audience.

The project presents Evans» work not simply as that of an iconic maker, but as connected with the cultural life of its community, as an outgrowth of the conditions of modern education and technology, and as responsive to America's post-war economic boom.

The growth of the collection in such a significant way reflects the commitment of individuals who understand the value of a museum to the cultural life of a community.

They also raise concerns about the extent to which the Court in De Rose has unnecessarily expanded the NTA's requirement for connection and interpreted it in a way that may infringe on the right enshrined in human rights instruments to participate in the cultural life of the community.

In fact, exploration and prospecting activities may create significant interference with the cultural life of the community and may cause significant harm to native title property rights.

Not exact matches

Named one of the «Top 10 Great Places to Retire» by AARP, Asheville is experiencing a major cultural revolution, with the addition of new residents, restaurants, live music, and a vibrant arts community.

Delaware offers a high quality of life, with beautiful beaches, parks, scenic farmland, a vibrant arts community and a rich cultural and historical heritage.

Our company business model consistently reflects the entertainment, information, active, cultural, educated, involved lifestyles of our community, the people who choose to live, work, move, visit and own second homes here.

As Peter Balakian wrote in The Burning Tigris, Constantinople's Armenian community had been «the center of Armenian cultural and intellectual life» since the nineteenth century.

In addition to the family and religion, the Declaration recognizes communities of work (Article 23), of cultural life (Article 27), and of political participation (Article 21).

Pentecostals live, in other words, by what George Weigel has called the Iron Law of Christianity in Modernity: Christian communities that maintain a firm grasp on their doctrinal and moral boundaries can flourish amidst the cultural acids of modernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) wither and die.

It is open to and engaged in a «public» cultural life broader than the common life of the communities for whom the schooling is undertaken.

Feast and celebration of and for life in Asian religious communities provide fountains of strength and vitality of cultural fulfillment of life, although much of life - stifling and life - suppressing factors should be eliminated from the traditional religious institutions.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

Thanks to intolerance of caste structure, converts especially in the North had to be organized in Mission Compounds where the cultural ethos of community life was that of the western missionaries.

So, what we are seeing is that a range of economic, cultural, and civic changes in American life have all conspired to weaken marriage in poor and working - class communities across the United States.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

First, there is the presence on every page of the words, categories, myths, images, and technical terminology of the social, cultural, religious, and scientific life of the communities addressed.

The main theme of the Conference was, «Christians in Technical and Social Revolutions of Our Time», and its purpose was to look at the problems of the modern world in technological revolutions as it affects the economic, political and cultural life of the peoples, communities and states and to consider the challenge and relevance of theology to the social revolutions of our time.

In human terms, this has a disastrous consequence for certain groups of people like the tribals, scheduled castes, traditional fishermen and such other groups who depend on them to eke out a living... They would also be torn away from their natural roots as well as from their community and cultural ties - producing in them a sense of isolation» (Quoted from ISA Journal Dec. 94).

The multimedia, directed by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, life styles, perceptions of beauty and religious mystery, as well as ethnic national identities of persons and communities to the market's cultural wasteland.

Teaching the will of God and directing the path of entire communities would have been an arduous life of changing hearts in a land void of «freedom of speech», mass transportation, and a cornucopia of cultural diversity.

This violent process is permeating the relations among international and political powers, social classes and cultural groups, national and ethic groups, and caste and religious communities, making it making it very hard to bring about peaceful resolution of conflicts and disputes among the struggling parties, and eroding the foundations of peaceful life.

The life of the church gives a particularly vivid example of the fact that a cultural - linguistic community is a living membrane that unites us to reality.

The cultural - linguistic communities in which we live are only the most obvious of the many mediations that connect us to our world.

We can seek out all the kinds of community life for their own sake, and wherein we might sustain older cultural forms or even come up with new ones.

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.

«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a living and true God and not moving from one culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.

The communal movement of the past ten years has contained much cultural arrogance in its assumption that the small intentional community, withdrawn from the larger society, is the only worthy form of common life.

Here the suggestion is that the integrity of the historical and cultural concreteness of the lives of persons and communities must be respected above all.

The central purpose of professional church leadership is apologia — that is, to formulate and defend theories or «doctrines» about God's truth and God's justice for Christian communities worldwide to apply in their lives in diverse cultural settings.

Religions have constituted the core of the lives and communities of the people; cultures have expressed and transmitted their values, forms, styles and tastes; and civilizations have formed through the long accumulations of the peoples» religio - cultural achievements and failures.

In the process of the encroachment of Western powers and their culture into Asia, the people are being denied their own cultural roots; their cultural self - determination and identity are eroded to the extent that their community is devoid of cultural life.

The cycle of poverty and deforestation harms critically important ecosystems and imperils the public health and cultural traditions of communities that live in and near forests — not to mention the future development of potentially life - saving medicines.

The people of Riverside County, along with those in the communities of Temecula, Murrieta and Lake Elsinore, enjoy an exceptional quality of life, a mild climate, good air quality, reasonably priced land and building sites adjacent to the I - 15 and I - 215 corridors, affordable housing at all levels, a highly skilled labor force, quality educational facilities and programs and cultural, entertainment and recreational activities for every lifestyle.

father - child relationships — be they positive, negative or lacking, at any stage in the life of the child, and in all cultural and ethnic communities — have profound and wide - ranging impacts on children that last a lifetime.

As a non-profit institution dedicated to preserving and sharing New England's history and cultural heritage, Old Sturbridge Village participates in and supports a variety of programs that enhance the lives of those living in our community.

The ability to inform parents of the legal, political and cultural guidelines regarding childbirth in the communities you both live within.

I stated then in writing amongst other things that: ``... I am sorry if any person gets offended by my insistence on the protection of public property and putting Ghana First because I was molded with this world, social, and the cultural view to life and community which it is too late to change.

More than 200 students have participated in a vacation Youth Camp organized by Values For Life (NGO) in collaboration with the Community Youth Cultural Centre under the auspices of the National Commission on Culture.

Agencies receiving Operation Primetime funding in 2012 include: Access of WNY, African American Cultural Center, Back to Basics, Be A Friend, Bob Lanier Center, Boys & Girls Club of East Aurora, Boys & Girls Club of Eden, Boys & Girls Club of Holland, Boys & Girls Club of the Northtowns, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo Prep, Buffalo Urban League, Butler Mitchell Association, Child & Adolescent Treatment Services, Community Action Organization, Computers for Children, Concerned Ecumenical Ministries, Cradle Beach Camp, Elim Community Corporation, Erie Regional Housing Development Corp. — Belle Center, Firsthand Learning, FLARE, Girls Sports Foundation, Greater Niagara Frontier Council — Boy Scouts, Jericho Road Ministries, Justice Lifeline, King Urban Life Center, Lackawanna Sports & Education, Making Fishers of Men & Women, National Inner City Youth Opportunities, North Buffalo CDC, Northwest Buffalo Community Center, Old First Ward Community Association, PBBC Matt Urban Center, Peace of the City, Police Athletic League, Schiller Park Community Center, Seneca Babcock Community Association, Seneca Street Community Development, Town of Tonawanda Recreation Department, UB Liberty Partnership, University District CDC, Urban Christian Ministries, Valley Community Association, Westminster Community Charter School, Westside Community Center, Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education, WNY United Against Drug & Alcohol Abuse, Young Audiences, Community Action Organization (Detention), Firsthand Learning (Detention), Willie Hutch Jones Sports & Education (Detention).

Shennan's team also suggests that this pattern of boom and bust had a negative impact on social, economic, and cultural life in these communities.

The deer that is killed has not had its individual right to life upheld by either us or the wolf, but in the case of natural communities, we should adopt a strategy of cultural relativity and allow animals and plants to do as they do to each other even if we would not like it to be done to us.

For 100 years, the Jewish Public Library has been a celebrated fixture of the Montreal community and cultural life.

Also noteworthy, in the category of cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monkof cinema ruled by cultural concerns and actual political events, was Carlos (d. Olivier Assayas), which kept a packed auditorium of critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monkof critics in their seats for over five hours with a glossy, but intelligent action film version of the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monkof the 1970s exploits of a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monkof a terrorist born Illich Ramirez Sanchez, but known internationally as the Jackal, also by the code name Carlos; and Des Hommes et des dieux (Of Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monkOf Gods and Men, Xavier Beauvois), a film, elegantly minimalist in design, based on a real - life encounter between Algerian fundamentalist Islamic terrorists and a community of ascetic Christian monkof ascetic Christian monks.

My thoughts kept returning to «What Will People Say» while I was watching «Disobedience,» insofar as both films are about insular communities that can become religious and cultural prisons, especially for young daughters who fail to live up to their parents» exacting (double) standards of sexual purity.

A radically different vision of human well - being is the call; one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their lives, even as it leaves the natural world a better and much improved place.