The moral teachings of the churches are out of step with
cultural patterns of sexual behavior of youth.
It is her multicultural life experience that drives her to inspect the boundaries among different
cultural patterns as well as make a change or doubt about the artistic language and creative language.
We take
antique cultural patterns, update them in modern colors and bold oversized prints, and the end result is a piece that is so much fun.
When this happens gradually, over a long time span, the religious symbols have a chance to become adapted to the
new cultural patterns.
Driving back from our engagingly cacophonous evening at the bistro, I began to worry: Will we end up trying to inculturate the Gospel
into cultural patterns that many» maybe even most» people in the Third World countries want to get out of as soon as they can?
The campaign in the church for homosexual rights, as they are called, is by its own definition a frontal attack on church teaching and practice and
on cultural patterns that the church is thought to have blessed in the past.
«The landscape is sensitive to changes
in cultural patterning, and very often the changes that occur are not intended and not even intuitively sought - after,» he says.
Gabriele Schwab, in her analysis of this hermeneutical event in the bush, acknowledges that the elders «recreated their
own cultural pattern within Shakespeare's plot» but concludes, «The Tiv people had to project their own cultural preconceptions in order to reduce the otherness that would have made Hamlet incomprehensible in their context.»
Possessing many technical skills, Taaffe has moved decisively between unique pictorial inventions and appropriations, as well as overlaying divergent modes of representation,
through cultural patterns found in ornament, and biomorphic abstraction.
On the other hand, cultural trends began to change as well — with Elvis Presley in the US, and the Beatles in the UK (a couple of years later), a big cultural rebellion started against the dominant
traditional cultural patterns.
In this article, Kass declares himself rather pessimistic about the prospects of
rebuilding cultural patterns that have been undermined by dynamics so deep and pervasive.
There is also a spirited defense of kneeling (not all Catholic churches built today have kneelers), which is not, says Ratzinger, a form of accommodation to
outmoded cultural patterns.
When a person is displaced into a radically different culture, he suffers acute distress, and
when cultural patterns deteriorate through internal contradictions in a society or by external forces, the persons concerned undergo disorientation and disintegration.
Cultural patterns thus represent aspects of human nature that are not universal, but shared with a limited number of other persons.
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.
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.
We shall explore the congregation as we might a village, trying to learn the
particular cultural patterns by which it attempts to make itself whole, but also finding within it forms by which other groups in the world coalesce, disintegrate, and yet manifest the gospel.
Where the
older cultural patterns are more intact, the Sunday School is better able to function as a school where people learn about the Bible.
Fat tomes could be written attempting to explain this, accounting for region - by - region and genre - by - genre distinctions, high or low miscegenation rates, high or low slave mortality rates, Latin v.
British cultural patterns, etc. etc., but the simple difference between my two formulas remains the best explanation.
The church must have the courage not to reduce the liturgy to what people think they want on the basis of
superficial cultural patterns but to make of it what they really want at the deepest levels of their being.
Even the Byzantine empire, which spread the Christian faith, felt that women should be kept domesticated and married in their teens, among
other cultural patterns of the time that appear oppressive to us today.
Mead, M. and Newton,
N. Cultural Patterns of Perinatal Behaviour in Childbearing: Its Social and Psychological Aspects.
Traditional tundra societies are more likely to
share cultural patterns with each other than with tropical rain forest societies, regardless of whether some descended from a common ancestral culture.
Neither are we West Indians, in spite of the fact that a large number of our people are the same colour, speak the same language, and have some
common cultural patterns as Jamaicans, Barbadians, and Trinidadians.
The preunderstanding of Zugehörigkeit simply projected its own determinate meaning on the linguistic code of the text, producing a vicious hermeneutical circle which resulted in «the recreation of their
own cultural pattern».
It is not surprising that the church, long an institution engaged in family programming, has become deeply involved in this
new cultural pattern.
The novel — which was serialized upon its original publication in Japan, and has been ably translated by Julie Winters Carpenter — encompasses generations and continents, and Mizumura's unfussy prose draws clear pictures of the various
shifting cultural patterns and behaviors.
Whereas in traditional societies this openness often amounted to somewhat uncritical acceptance of the
dominant cultural patterns, today it can also mean incorporation of ranges of concern and action from the prophetic traditions of Israel.
From there, I started sifting
through cultural patterns, like the Asian culture's health and food staples and other cultures that share the same cuisine and lack of certain diseases.
The reasons can be early pubertal development, poverty, sexual abuse in childhood, lack of parent's attention, lack of career goals, family and
cultural patterns of early sex, substance abuse, dropping out from school and poor school performance.
Yet the basic social and
cultural patterns that today condemn men and women to death, in accordance with the wishes of 65 per cent of the American public, remain in some ways remarkably unchanged from ancient times.
For we too are subject to historical exigencies and
cultural patterns.
Popular race perspectives are part of
the cultural pattern of a society; they are one of the products of «civilized» existence.
And noun groups like «religious experience,» «social change,» «conventional ways,» «
cultural patterns» have become verbal counters that can no longer be redeemed for much in the way of hard meaning.
The modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that are so manifestly reflections of
cultural patterns.