Sentences with phrase «cultural power»

In literature, at least, the Catholic media no longer command sufficient cultural power to nominate or effectively support what is best from its own community.

No need to set our faces sternly against the massive cultural power of the academic and media establishment if we qualify any peculiar practices we retain by the qualification: We're open to change, that is, you progressives may be right» in fact it seems you are, so please excuse our very temporary clinging to old ways here, we're just waiting for the right (that is left) revelation to come along, let's hope sooner rather than later...

Not least, the US was the greatest economic and cultural power in the world after 1918 - dynamic, modern, wealthy.

A variety of historical shifts in art, education, and politics have precipitated a loss of cultural power for the Church in the West, so we have to study how our culture rejects orthodox belief for a syncretistic mixture of Christianity and either capitalistic nationalism or pseudoscientific progressivism.

There is a nativist hard core that will not allow Islam any significant cultural power without a very literal fight.

«Relating current developments to key titles and technologies of past years helps to generate greater awareness of the unique history of video gaming, and of its massive cultural power.»

Through research and spontaneous discovery, she seeks out images with a «subliminal cultural power» within an extensive range — comics, nature photographs, 3D computer graphic, graffiti, and Eastern symbols have made their way into her complex, dense works.

In 1981 he founded the New Criterion, a journal that reflects both his passion for art and aesthetic standards and his skills as a chronicler of the ideological follies so abundant in the academy and other centers of cultural power today.

He selected a Chairman who famously said that the television set is no different from an electric toaster — thus signaling that he completely rejected, or at least misunderstood, the enormous cultural power of the medium.

While Reno is correct that it is «unhealthy for our society when cultural power becomes too concentrated in just a few very wealthy institutions,» using the state's tax power to attack «institutional giganticism» in the name of «philanthropic subsidiarity» as he proposes would only open the way for government to control, and even destroy, such institutions.

Religio - cultural histories as well have been dictated and written by the religio - political and socio - cultural power elites.

Our Road from Regensburg column and lead letter show how in the abuse crisis the permissive media have thrown their significant cultural power behind the idea that there is an intrinsic link between the phenomenon of priestly abuse and the nature of the Church.

«I hope you're on to something and I hope it's a hint at like Super Mario World Tour or something where Mario goes to different kingdoms, each based on a different real world culture with a unique cultural power up like the Samurai Mario on Miyamoto's shirt.»

Among the texts re-interpreted by the artist are those of such vaunted auteurs as Kubrick, Anger, Lynch, Zulawski, Hitchcock and Fassbinder; lesser - respected works chosen by Dellsperger for their pop cultural power (Saturday Night Fever, Return of the Jedi and Flash Gordon among them) and, of course, many troublesome, still controversial scenes from the work of De Palma.

The artist is also interested in the ways in which audiences perceive and experience the pervasive cultural power of Hollywood films.

They were the years after the simmering menace of the bomb and the early Cold War — the years of Vietnam, the Kennedy assassination, the escape to suburbia, and a creeping awareness of the raw cultural power of sex.

Almost single - handedly among critics, Greenberg cured the identity crisis of modern American art, offering the public and artists alike terms to understand the postwar cultural power shift from Paris to New York that had long seemed inconceivable.

Moreover, some of the Yesterday's Sandwich superimpositions elaborate images that had been taken in the context of his Red Series, developed roughly at the same time and in which the political dimension of the colour red dominates, symbolising the all - encompassing cultural power of the regime.

If Zeitz MOCAA succeeds curatorially, the building could put South Africa in a position of considerable cultural power as it seeks to become the global trader of contemporary African visual experiences.

But when vested interests with outsize economic and cultural power distort the public debate by introducing falsehoods, the integrity of our deliberations is compromised.

It seems obvious to me that cultural power in our society has become far too concentrated in super-rich institutions with skewed priorities.

CODA is an independent political organization that mobilizes residents, activists, and neighborhood groups — anyonewho wants to join in struggling for political, economic and cultural power for the community and an end to discrimination based on class, race, gender, age, disability, religion, or sexual orientation.

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While some would argue that the online migration will finally destroy our physical retail spaces, experts on Wall Street remind us of the economic and cultural power of brick and mortar.

It's no coincidence that the era in which Nike was at the height of its cultural power was also the one in which the Niketown retail experience verged on the sacred.

That this did not happen is a fact, whatever view we take of the rise of the church to political and cultural power.

We have lost because our opponents have come to control the corridors of cultural power and can now ignore counterarguments.

And at a meeting Saturday, a group of leaders will look to turn those swelling numbers into workable political and cultural power.

They no longer command much social or cultural power.

Black Christians, Beaty wrote in The Washington Post, «are generally not mourning the loss of cultural power, and entertaining withdrawal, because they have never enjoyed much cultural power to begin with.»

The story of Phyllis Schlafly, as Critchlow, a professor of history at St. Louis University, tells it, is a story of conservatism operating far from centers of political and cultural power but crucial to the most important domestic political event of the second half of the twentieth century: the ascendancy and triumph of the once - moribund American right.

In this politics of freedom, religion figures as a cultural power, a recognized public force; and the freedom that one claims for it is the more legitimate as religion is not its exclusive beneficiary.

The cultural power of science comes from its ability to explain many of the observable workings of reality, and also from the technology it creates, which can be very useful in humanity's service.

Unless the church can be responsible enough to the reality of an organized society, and faithful enough to use the economic and cultural power of its own to change the situation, it can not be indignant if most laymen, much less of people outside the church, find it impossible to do what they feel morally obligated to do.

The life story of the people is indeed that of religio - cultural struggle against the dominant religious and cultural powers.

It is subjective, but it is not «private,» for experiences of personal relationships are always also experiences of the distribution of social, economic, political, and cultural power.

Liberals largely have higher education, the elite newspapers and time mainline churches on their side, as conservatives never tire of pointing out; for angry conservatives, the cultural power of American liberalism is suffocating and immense.

While the understandable focus of the Henry inquiry is Australia's place in the Asian Century and the shift of economic, political and cultural power to the region, there is a strong case to be made for putting this inquiry in a broader historical context.

The organizers say the current voter registration effort crystallizes what the Black Panther film represents: the strength of black communities and the political and cultural power of art.

According to Levinson, it is this kind of knowledge that is empowering, especially given the unequal distribution of economic, political, and cultural power in the United States.

The late mythologist Joseph Campbell (in his Hero with a Thousand Faces and other works) offered many profound insights about narratives in discussing the personal and cultural power of mythology.

Dating from Korea's emergence as an autonomous global and cultural power in the wake of the nation's emancipation from Japanese rule in 1945 and the devastation of the Korean War from 1950 to 1953, Tansaekhwa is indicative of the new position of historical and international primacy that the country assumed in the postwar years.

Because in the propaganda war with the Soviet Union, this new artistic movement could be held up as proof of the creativity, the intellectual freedom, and the cultural power of the US.

[20] By adopting a phallus, Benglis physically and symbolically muddies the distinction made between these two types of gender performativity and ultimately overturns them, resulting in a positive assertion of femininity's sexual and cultural power.

It has even been confirmed by some that the CIA was using Abstract Expressionism as a Cold War weapon, secretly promoting and funding the movement and exhibitions worldwide to show off the intellectual liberalism and cultural power of the U.S. in contrast to the ideological conformity and rigidity of Russian communism.

At a moment when individuals of all races are questioning sex and gender - based binaries, Newsome's videos offer a timely examination of cultural power and agency within the context of gender, sexuality, and race.