Sentences with phrase «cultural prejudice»

And finally of course I had to look and see with my own eyes without prejudice — without that Western cultural prejudice.

It's dated, but worth reading as it helps Christians understand the power of humor in doing all the things listed above: embracing spiritual correction, speaking truth to power, eliminating cultural prejudice and deconstructing religious cliques.

Arms producers use the media to promote arms sales by fostering conflicts within and among countries, often using cultural prejudices for it.

Whatever else, achieving the re-reading of scripture, word for word, without cultural prejudice, is now very important.

Coverage of the Olympic Winter Games brought Russia's anti-gay laws back into the conversation and exposed some of that country's cultural prejudice against LGBT people.

And usually the standard employed would be derived from common cultural prejudices.

He notes that the term invasive plant is an intellectual construct, reflecting cultural prejudices as well as scientific facts.

Richie partners with a savvy hooker (Kate Hudson), a pair of hard - partying war profiteers (Danny McBride and Scott Caan) and a hair - trigger mercenary (Bruce Willis) and, braving dangerous cultural prejudices, manages his new protégée into becoming the «Afghan Star.»

However, I freely admit that my answer is colored by my own cultural prejudices and may very well not be applicable to you.

It is a measure of how much cultural prejudice there still is against the vulgar upstarts of the new world and how snobbishly we revere European art that it is still widely assumed that Mondrian, Kandinsky and other early 20th century abstract artists are somehow more serious, genuine and pure than Mark Rothko, Jackson Pollock and Barnett Newman.

Common sense is a very poor guide to scientific insight for it represents cultural prejudice more often than it reflects the native honesty of a small boy before the naked emperor.»

Showing perhaps too much confidence in nonviolence, education, legislation and litigation as the only appropriate means to eliminate cultural prejudice, the editors never wavered in their support for civil rights in general.

It is true that cultural prejudice and human sin has at times in history limited women's place in ecclesiastical life, and Christian civilization has made significant strides in this regard.

Cultural prejudices, structures of patriarchy, economic exploitation and unjust laws and traditions are some of them.

One should not fight God and insist that he give us his Word in another way, or, as we are more apt to do, rework his Word along theological or cultural prejudices that turn into a minefield of principles, propositions, or imperatives but denude it of its ad hoc character as truly human.

Anyone familiar with the Eastern Christian world knows that the Orthodox view of the Catholic Church is often a curious mélange of fact, fantasy, cultural prejudice, sublime theological misunderstanding, resentment, reasonable disagreement, and unreasonable dread: it sees a misty phantasmagoria of crusades, predestination, «modalism,» a God of wrath, flagellants, Grand Inquisitors, and those blasted Borgias.

To be sure, it is reported on and theorized about in a variety of ways that are crucially influenced by the reporter's or theorist's own religious and cultural prejudices.

If scientific thinking itself is only the product of material causes (or cultural prejudice, if you prefer), then science itself is a prime candidate for deconstruction.

Though this theory of knowledge as detached reflection appeals to our cultural prejudices, formed as they are by an unreflective scientism, it is a relatively modern notion that has been thoroughly dismantled by the phenomenological tradition.

While liberals in his denomination claimed to accept the authority of Christ, it was a Christ remade in the image of the cultural prejudices of the day.

Though driven by the Spirit to speak and act, our expectation of the perfect freedom of the reign of God can be uttered and our praxis realized only in terms of particular metaphors, projects or cultural prejudices.

The salary gap will never fully vanish until we deal with these cultural prejudices, she says.

After independence, the Indian government left much of the educational bureaucracy in place, including, some critics say, the cultural prejudices that went with it.

If by «story» we're talking about the narrative material that occurs entirely outside of game play (such as cut scenes), then there is some truth to this, but even then it's all too easy to be distracted by personal or cultural prejudices.