Sentences with phrase «cultural practices in»

«This is a wonderful opportunity to showcase these striking objects which explore key cultural practices in the Torres Strait from both historical and contemporary perspectives,» Nation Museum director, Dr Mathew Trinca said.

Chapman studied various cultural practices in his anthropological work and he found one common factor related to marriage: gift giving.

YirajeTango contributes to the current tango cultural practices in Scotland by integrating the local Scottish communities through tango, dance and art.

«Through exploring aspects of counting, measuring, locating, designing, playing, and explaining, students discover that mathematics is all around them and is connected to many of the cultural practices in their own communities.»

The role of research integrity in the very structure of contemporary science, addressing cultural practices in its publication system, current ethical challenges in peer review and its consequences regarding the reliability of the research record.

Her independent research documented the impact of political shifts on endangered cultural practices in modern Latin America.

Lee suggests researching cultural practices in the countries you plan to expand into.

It was OK, they said, to call a Greek - Australian friend «Souvlaki» and an Indian friend «Curry» because this was an accepted, cultural practice in Australia: «that's just how we live today, like, in our society».

speak to architecture as a cultural practice in ways that say to all black people: This work can be a dwelling place for your spirit.

Since 1977 the New Museum has been in the forefront of presenting contemporary art and cultural practice in New York City.

Through the push and pull of cross cultural collaboration the group has balanced traditional cultural practice in the Caribbean and forward - looking design solutions; developing new methods and new vernacular that respects and elevates local traditions.

- Removal of consideration of customary law or cultural practice in bail applications and sentencing

Not exact matches

These deeper leadership behaviors and cultural practices affect how Millennials feel about their place in the organization and how long they choose to stay.»

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

Lethbridge and surrounding communities are dealing with an increase in overdoses by incorporating cultural practices into their opioid strategy.

Several points were highlighted in Austin's talk, including cultural differences, the evolution of Chinese business practices, and common misconceptions of investment from China.

MoJ's Rob Vischer uses this story about the culture of marital infidelity in Russia to raise questions about the relationship between law and cultural norms in maintaining general public adherence to the practices constitutive of healthy family life.

Some pagan practices (putting up a tree) were taken as a cultural nod no harm in that but core beliefs of Odin etc... must be cast aside.

«The endeavor «to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices» might in another year lead to historical re-enactments of anti-Semitic or racist ceremonies familiar from Western history or parodies that trivialize Native American heritage or other revivals of cultural and religious insult.»

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

The stakes of the answers are therefore high for implications in public policy, institutional practices, and deep cultural formation over time.

We may have constitutional freedom in America, but many of our personal, social, cultural and even religious customs and practices severely limit any experience of «true freedom.»

Jeremy's description of biblical adoption is similar to the current cultural practice of adoption in Japan where most adoptees are consenting adults, the favored employees in family firms with no heir.

Among the cultural forms studied by the anthropologist are ones that explicitly embody spiritual meanings, including the beliefs, practices, and institutions of religion, some forms of which appear in every known culture.

And second — and consequently — in practice the interpretation and application of the law become a function of whatever happens to suit the tastes of those who determine cultural values and wield judicial power.

As an institutionalized set of practices, how is this school located in its immediate social and cultural setting?

Especially in a country in which folk wisdom and popular religion have diverse cultural sources, the appeal to these is often highly divisive, as today over issues of abortion and homosexuality and religious practices in the schools.

Hindutva's defenders insist that, although reflective of Hindu belief and practice, theirs is in fact a broader «cultural» or «civilizational» ideology and should be viewed alongside other ideologies such as socialism and communism.

In the outside world, the unity of Quakers is cultural: a shared set of practices and a shared approach to life.

Recognizing that economic and political systems and cultural practices explain persistent poverty in LDCs, they might argue that personal conversion is a prelude to social reform, rather than the other way around.

However it solicits a further normative question: What types of speech and action in the practices constituting the array of Christian congregations seem to you the inquirer to be, in their cultural content, faithful, and what ones unfaithful, to the Christian thing?

In this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenIn this late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin which most churches» thought and practice - and by implication God's revelation - are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

Whatever challenges Christians may feel to their practices pale in comparison to the cultural and often legal challenges that confront American Muslims.

Not only does the pluralism in question characterize past and present construals of the Christian thing and their respective social and cultural locations; it also characterizes particular theological schools, the practices that constitute them, and their respective social and cultural locations.

The have left the cultural world to focus and devote their lives to God in the simple and daily practices of prayer, ritual, and service.

... In Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendIn Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendin this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defendin most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defends.

In the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenIn the late 20th Century, churches face a situation unprecedented since the Church's formation (comparable in magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin magnitude to the era of the Christian apologists and the Reformation), in which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural developmenin which most churches» thought and practice — and by implication God's revelation — are framed within and associated with communication and modes of thought of a past stage of cultural development.

Consider the areas in which these religions are largely practiced, and you will see it is more based in cultural and situational factors.

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

Liberal society celebrates toleration, diversity, and free inquiry, but in practice it features a spreading social, cultural, and ideological conformism.

I am now convinced that most of American Christianity is a cultural practice, routed mostly in traditional affiliation than a true conversion, a weekly religious exercise, no different than what the Imam demands of the followers of the Muslin faith.

Similarly, Latina, African and Asian women have taken up the challenge of understanding the ways in which the practices of reading and interpreting the Bible serve to constrain or to emancipate women in their particular social and cultural contexts.

Volf joins a widening cadre of Christian theologians who seek to anchor the nature and mission of the local church in trinitarian thought rather than the shifting sands of cultural practices or the muddy bottoms of tired cultic traditions.

To make these practices communicative in and through specific cultural contexts, those of us who teach ministers to become «servants of the Word» have encouraged them to become aware of aesthetic conventions and put them into practice in public communication.

He then goes on to praise E. D. Hirsch's Cultural Literacy as a more useful critique of current educational practices because it works in «the framework of a Deweyan understanding of democracy» in which students are to be made better citizens by preparing them to «recognize more allusions, and thereby be able to take part in more conversations, read more, have more sense of what those in power are up to, cast better - informed votes.

Both English and Syrian Christian missionaries felt disappointed at the continuation of pre-Christian religio - cultural practices among the converts.54 The Provincial Council of the CMS in Travancore, which consisted of both missionaries and Syrian Christian priests, formally discussed this issue and concluded that the Pulaya Christians were «not well established in the faith.»

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

Knowledge depends on and is conditioned by both our historical - cultural situation and in the context of certain practices.

«Our purpose is not to denigrate any religion or faith, which would be repugnant to our educational purposes,» the Harvard student group had said in a statement, «but instead to learn and experience the history of different cultural practices.»

And fourth, the cultural practice that we call «interreligious dialogue» militates against precisely such engagements and, in so doing, trivializes and eviscerates religious commitments and practices.