Sentences with phrase «cultural pluralism»

As one of the organizations backing bilingual education, for example, the New York State Association for Bilingual Education maintains it is important to foster «the awareness and appreciation of biculturalism and bilingualism as an integral part of cultural pluralism in our society.»

But white North American Christian feminists have shown a great deal of sensitivity to the need for cultural pluralism within the broader movement of women, and even in this respect they are able to give encouragement, if not leadership, in other cultures.

Kathryn Tanner, for example, criticizes postliberal theology for its tendency to insulate the church and theology from cultural pluralism, external criticism and issues of social justice.

The recognition of cultural pluralism meant that the schools could no longer fulfill this function, that they must be culturally neutral.

Such cultural pluralism is consistent with the requirements of human nature for a determinate social matrix, and it provides for continued enrichment of the life of mankind through a variety of contrasting traditions.

The emergence of ethnic pride and some degree of vitality in ethnic culture among blacks and Chicanos and the continuation of such culture among Indians fits the classical conception of cultural pluralism developed by Horace Kallen 13 better than the present condition of most of the white and oriental ethnic groups.

And on its way, it has effectively dissuaded, crippled and smothered the cultivation of a democratic cultural pluralism in America.10

She evokes his delight in «the world» together with his vivid sense of its brokenness; his dedication to the life of the mind along with his awareness of the limits of reason; his ease amidst cultural pluralism and multiple interpretations; his understanding of choice as always constitutive and often tragic; his struggles with temptation and doubt.

Two factors have made this more difficult in our postmodern world: the emergence of a new stage in the lifecycle, adolescence, which focuses on issues of identity formation; and the reality of massive cultural pluralism.

Religious and cultural pluralism became a reality, and this affected the status of the Protestant minister in the American community.

Fourth, the faculties of professional and graduate schools tend to see themselves as cognitively open, able to work amid cultural pluralisms and competing cognitive styles, and genuinely concerned for the school's welfare.

I especially ask that all who affirm cultural pluralism sound the alarm about the new and critical threat posed by proposed new trade policies.

We also have opportunities to contribute to self - esteem and support cultural pluralism in relating to ethnic groups outside the church.

Are there other ways to deal with cultural pluralism than assimilation and separateness.

The point, here, is that public schools were pressed to recognize cultural pluralism and to avoid favoring any one religious tradition over against others.

Hence, the older methods of socializing students into American patriotism can not work, once cultural pluralism is acknowledged.

Today cultural pluralism is replacing this Eurocentrism.

Haste, H. & Abrahams, S. (2008) Morality, culture and the dialogic self: taking cultural pluralism seriously.

They seek to perpetuate and foster linguistic, literate and cultural pluralism as part of the fabric of schooling (Paris, 2012).

Secondary cultural pluralism in the form of age, class, religious and regional subcultures and of residual ethnic traits (such as cooking), does, of course, exist in the United States, but major cultural cleavages are absent.

Sheridan hopes to introduce new ideas of inclusion and diversity in visual art through cultural pluralism and community engagement.

Finally, this thesis explores the historical legacy of these two exhibitions and relates the questions of identity and difference they illuminate to broader struggles for cultural pluralism at the end of the twentieth century.

In a country where cultural pluralism is not only commonplace, but encouraged and nurtured, should schools be allowed to skew a world religion program to meet its own particular bias?

New values arising from cultural pluralism itself, such as the appreciation of otherness, are emerging.

Cultural pluralism means that young adults do not experience the kind of Protestant homogeneity of moral and social values that their parents took for granted.

For some decades, American Jews have made sense of the relation between their Americanness and their Jewishness through the concept of cultural pluralism.

«No informed observer can fail to acknowledge that the social and cultural pluralism of our times - not to mention the relentless and sometimes pitiless public scrutiny to which you are subjected - makes the work of judges and lawyers today very hard indeed,» he said.

The changed valence given to black and Indian culture on the one hand and to WASP culture on the other raises questions about the future of cultural pluralism and community in America.

One man's «cultural pluralism» can then become another man's «nativism,» with all the classic elements of violence and repression that that entails.

Cultural pluralism is a fact of modern life, resulting from the explosion in mass media technology in the past 100 years.

In the Western countries, including the United States, Muslims are struggling to reconcile their traditional belief that the Sharia embraces all of life, including politics, with the religious and cultural pluralism of the modern state.

I had noticed that in Poland, smothered under an imposed Sovietized culture, it was the Catholic intellectuals who were the most outspoken advocates of «cultural pluralism.»

The answer is that they were confronted in the first place with vast cultural trends such as technological advance, professionalization, and secularism that they could not easily control; and their problem was made the worse by pressures of cultural pluralism and Christian ethical principles that made it awkward if not impossible for them to take any decisive stand against the secularizing trends.

Wesley Ariarajah who was Director of the Dialogue Unit of the WCC for many years, in his Thomas Athanasius lecture given in Kerala (Current Trends in Ecumenical Thinking 1992) deals with the topic «Interpreting the Missionary Mandate» in the present context of religious and cultural pluralism.

The nation state is giving way to cultural pluralism.

With respect to cultural pluralism in the United States, I am subordinating this model to the ecological one.

At the same time we in the United States have committed ourselves to building a nation state on the basis of cultural pluralism.

Globally, cultural pluralism is a truly critical issue.

As a port trading with India, Aden was long known for religious and cultural pluralism.

Closely connected to cultural pluralism is religious pluralism.

Cultural pluralism has focused on the great historic traditions.