Sentences with phrase «cultural pressures in»

Then, under the heat of new cultural pressures in the 1960s and beyond, most of what was substantial in such religion quickly evaporated, often almost without a trace and seldom with so much as a protest.

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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.»
The cultural pressure to move left or right is especially hard on those in the «embattled middle,» namely moderate Protestants.
While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.
By restricting the activities of foreign organizations and what are seen as non-Russian forms of religious belief, the Russian government has consolidated its religious support and made an intentional (and enforceable) display of Russian cultural unity in the face of the external pressures of consumerism, individualism, and secularism.
When it comes to young boys, parents have the final say, not the gay rights activists who pressured the BSA to fall in line with their agenda and have turned Scouting into yet another cultural battleground.
Abraham Moles, director of the Social Psychology Institute at Strasbourg, points out that while TV has been a cultural life buoy for farmers, lonely people, and the culturally and the socially impoverished in France, it has at the same time been a pressure toward the banal and the constricting for those already experiencing a communication - rich life.
Jesus knew heart change didn't come through political power, cultural pressure, or zealotry, so he was keenly disinterested in those things.
Shalit shows how, even in the face of such cultural pressures, a surprising number of young women are reclaiming the ideal of modesty — and often returning to traditional religion in order to do so.
For although Our Faith Story does deal with some issues of «painful situations and responses in us - sense of guilt, failure, etc.», yet it seeks to see them against the backdrop of cultural pressures and circumstances.
Evangelicals will continue to be pressured to accept a worldview rooted in cultural acceptance rather than biblical revelation.
Men and women are called to serve each other in various ways, and women who refuse to pornify themselves, especially in the face of strong cultural pressures and incentives to do so, honor themselves and others of their sex while also honoring those of us of the opposite sex.
Pressure will continue to mount to accept a worldview rooted in cultural acceptance rather than biblical revelation.
In today's world, there are tremendous pressures» political, cultural and religious» to change one's convictions, and conform to certain mass patterns of thought and behavior.
In the present cultural context, they may be the age group most likely to appreciate the relief of leaving the pressures and values of the old life behind.
If we are to understand the peculiar links between religious commitment and economic justice in American society, therefore, we must also locate the cultural pressures that work against taking responsibility for the poor — some of which are also reinforced by religious commitments.
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.
The fear of losing one's job or reputation has made many Americans afraid to speak publicly about this issue, even though their deep convictions about life, marriage, and family have not changed in response to elite cultural pressure.
In Scripture we learn that solitude can be a subversive act against the cultural and social pressures that come from constantly subjecting oneself to the opinions and judgments of others.
Please consider another possibility: that Belgium, and other Catholic wastelands in 21st - century Europe, did not hear the Gospel and reject it because of cultural pressures; might it be that these faith - free zones haven't heard the Gospel preached for quite a while?
Although he, like you, may experience cultural pressure about his sexual adequacy if he takes the difference in your sexual arousal personally.
These include: cultural beliefs and pressures (e.g. anxiety about breastfeeding in public, beliefs about adequacy of milk supply); lack of availability of trained support; legislation to protect women who are breastfeeding; and commercial pressures from marketing and advertising of formula by manufacturers (Save the Children 2013).
Although, in actuality, some would consider the cultural norm of formula feeding to be a pressure all its own for early weaning.
Given the fact that any cultural issue is easily politicized in the republic, such a complex situation creates many opportunities for Russia to exert pressures against Chisinau and effectively prevent Moldova from joining the Euro - Atlantic system.
In Liming, local communities used to harvest wood on a rotational basis, assigning mature trees by lottery and strictly policing how much could be cut, even as other cultural practices — such as cooking the fodder for pigs — added more pressure.
I develop quantitative methods to elucidate recent population histories, and interpret these histories in the context of demographic, cultural, and environmental pressures.
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It's a cultural phenomenon, and the many pressures on our health are moving in a bad direction.
Due to the cultural pressure to be successful in every area of their lives, American women generally spend more time thinking about what others think and less time tending to their husbands needs.
In India, the pressure on the word «dating» is strong, considering our cultural and societal conditioning.
Ignore The Cultural Differences And Language: Differences in culture and language can be placed without doubt the pressure on relations with the girl mail.
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His latest film, The Ornithologist (2016), is a quasi-western shot in anamorphic widescreen that follows one man's bird watching trip that takes him through the pressures of nature, mysterious cultural rites, and a bricolage of mythologies that in turn transform him.
Lifelong learning arrangements, particularly those in informal and non-formal settings, can confer a number of benefits: they can provide people who live in countries that do not have universal education with access to learning opportunities on a continuous basis; they can address the problem of conventional formal schooling being too far removed from local cultural and social environments; and they can alleviate economic hardship, particularly for young people in developing countries who may experience strong pressures to earn income to help support their families or, particularly if they are girls, to take on significant responsibilities at home (1, 4).
These include the pressures of modernization, cultural, social and political crises, and the alienation of young people living in foreign societies.
Forty - seven percent of voters agreed with the statement that standardized testing hurts education in California by pressuring teachers to teach to the test and fails to account for differences in cultural and economic backgrounds and learning style
The documentary about WWII - era art theft, discusses how NPR first did a fact - based article on the art theft and then actually retracted their own story under pressure from the cultural elites in the museum world.
So few travel writers, under extreme deadline pressure and able to only spend a day or so — or a few hours — in a location, don't even begin to scratch the cultural surface of a place.
Nestled amidst productive rice terraces in the cultural village of Ubud, Nefatari Villas is a restful retreat where travellers can escape the pressures of modern living and reconnect with nature.
But however these new directors succeed or fail in their respective institutions — and nobody would wish them the latter — they will also need to take on a public mantle as cultural leaders at a time when the entire sector is bound to feel pressure.
Heron, Patrick, «Patrick Heron Discloses the American Cultural and Commercial Pressures that Have Brought about the Most Extraordinary Myth in Modern Art», The Guardian, 10 October 1974
Those familiar with the artist's online animated identity know that the themes of cultural positioning, social anxiety and peer pressure are hallmarks of the concepts explored in the ongoing narrative he posts across a range of social media.
Close Readings brings together practices that are by turns invested in uncovering the frailty of language, prodding at cultural anxieties and individual pleasures, excavating and refusing legacies, asking for tenderness, applying pressure, attending to the complications and vulnerabilities of being together while we are implicated — politically, socially, personally — by artworks and their demands on us.
At the present moment in Toronto, many people are feeling pressure from the shifting and changing social, cultural and political environment.
That show was assembled as the result of direct pressure from the Black Emergency Cultural Coalition, a group that organized in 1969 in response to a show of Harlem artists at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
The cultural pressure is in the opposite direction as you presume.
In one lifetime our increasingly interconnected and interdependent economic, social, cultural and political systems have come to place pressures on the environment that may cause fundamental changes in the Earth system and move us beyond safe natural boundarieIn one lifetime our increasingly interconnected and interdependent economic, social, cultural and political systems have come to place pressures on the environment that may cause fundamental changes in the Earth system and move us beyond safe natural boundariein the Earth system and move us beyond safe natural boundaries.
In those states the energy economies may be based on different hydrocarbons, but the political and cultural pressure to sustain the myth of sustainable fossil - fuel extraction is every bit as great.
Under these conditions, in regions, states, and cities it will not only be easier to gain public support from across the political and cultural spectrum, but it will also give members of Congress and future presidents, if they can be pressured into returning to the business of governing, more options by which to reach agreement on actions that address climate change.27
She reports on three cultural eco-trends brewing up (albeit quietly) in her modern - day Japan that if true, I think, might lend to «gaiatsu,» a Japanese term for outside pressure causing inside pressure to change.
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