Sentences with phrase «cultural role of»

Within this immersive installation, which paid tribute to the important cultural role of Viennese coffee houses, Rosenberger honored little - known Jewish writer Gina Kaus (1893 — 1985).

Dynamic, diverse, and devoted exclusively to the art of today, the mission of the Richmond Center is to spark conversation and sustain dialogue about the social, political, aesthetic, and cultural role of art in the 21st century.

As a graduate graphic design department there are certain fundamental issues that permeate our discourse — Efficacy of communication, typographic expression and the cultural role of the designer are chief among them.

It is this cultural role of the Church for its non-members, for all the Queen's subjects, which gives it such stature in the life of the nation — «woven into the fabric of our nation» as she put it — and which makes her so committed to it.

«25 This archaeology is aided by two approaches: a sociology - of - knowledge analysis of the cultural role of biblical criticism and a psychoanalytically informed critique of the way we read the text.

Limitation of space precludes an adequate discussion of the cultural role of these numerous modern sacred books.

But why should religion be concerned with the cultural role of television?

The cultural role of such edifying philosophy is «to help us avoid the self - deception which comes from believing that we know ourselves by knowing a set of objective facts» (PMR 373).

this: the experience of women in the course of history never free from cultural roles of definitions.

Her work questions the traditional cultural roles of the feminine and masculine as well as the tamed and untamed and creates outposts from which to re-examine a recognizable terrain.

Not exact matches

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

Add to that the enormous, lingering cultural rift regarding the proper role of corporations and markets.

«We are elated to be celebrating RBC Foundation's transformational gift in support of the Museum and our shared commitment to cultural diversity and its role in shaping the character of our nation,» said Marie Chapman, CEO of the Canadian Museum of Immigration at Pier 21.

All men and women play a major role in the culture, it is a shared culture and no one is the boss of any cultural law.

Not only do the peoples of India, China, Turkey and other countries have a strong cultural affinity to gold — an obsession that will only intensify as incomes rise — but the metal still plays a vital role as a portfolio diversifier in times of economic and political uncertainty.

This role and framework is important also for another crucial reason: if buyer personas are developed and created through the prisms of marketing and sales research orientation, they will tend to be self - referential views of target buyers (an inside - out view) as opposed to a means for discovering not so obvious and hidden meanings that make up social and cultural contexts.

These routes played a key role China's economic development and helped the country establish political and cultural connections with the rest of the world.

The history of Italian unification» Italian fascism having more than a decade's existence as a special place in radicalism; the role of the papacy in severely constraining manifest forms of statist rule; the cultural tradition of Italian major cities, which had autonomous forms of city development; and the weaknesses of Italy with respect to economic concentrations of power in the early twentieth century» all argue against a muscular totalitarianism.

But this role they play will be misunderstood, absolutized, unless they are «set against a panoply of other voices» from that same cultural milieu which exhibit the same or competing interests.

To interpret cultural and religious differences in terms of a theory of interests works no better than to ignore the role of class interests within all societies.

Moreover, in the Church the threatening schisms are often related to identity politics: race, colonial history and cultural issues such as gay marriage and the role of women.

For the tradition to which Plato had been heir, paideia was as essential to the well - being of the public realm as of the political realm, by forming virtuous citizens capable of filling political roles wisely; for fourth - century Greek - speaking Christians paideia, while it aimed to shape persons» private interiority rather than their public political activity, contributed to the well - being of the public realm as a cultural realm accessible to any literate, educated person, Christian or pagan.

It will persistently disclose congregations» faithlessness to who they themselves say they are, and the scandal of the roles they actually play in North American social and cultural life.

There is more evidence of cultural and evolutionary influences playing a larger role.

However, although religion did not originally emerge as a biological adaptation, it can play a role in both facilitating and stabilizing cooperation within groups, and as such, could be the target of cultural selection.»

For example, Bernard Lonergan points out, «A theology mediates between a cultural matrix and the significance and role of a religion in that matrix.

They recognized and analyzed the social, intellectual, and emotional role of faith and the Church in shaping crusaders» mentalities, creating a more rounded understanding of motive, incentive, and cultural context.

The modern sciences of genetics and ecology have clearly provided empirical grounds for rejecting these traditional race concepts and for recognizing the fundamental role of education in the creation of human personality — especially in respect to qualities that are so manifestly reflections of cultural patterns.

In my experience some Christian teachings had offered a religious resource for resisting the demands of cultural feminine roles.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

the preoccupation of the psychologist with purely human behavior, its description, and development; the preoccupation of the sociologist and cultural anthropologist with the forms and development of society, make these mental health professionals unable to define the function of the churchman, though their professions may well be of immense importance in providing information when the clergyman thinks through his unique and necessary role as pastor to persons.

If one can recognise the vital role which the mass media are playing in this regard and understand some of its major mythologies, exploration of the process and media mythologies offers a rich resource for theological reflection and the cultural contextualization of faith.

Barth is the hero of Hauerwas's lectures, and the closing chapter gives a prominent role to Marshall's case for conceiving the Christian God as the truth, though it also suggests that Marshall underestimates the problem of cultural accommodation in modern theology.

Lifeworld colonization theory credits secular cultural patterns (e.g., rational communication processes) with an active role in social change, but it minimizes the importance of religion.

To dismiss the role relationships in the church in regard to the teaching / ruling function as simply cultural would carry with it the dismissal of the analogous role relationship in marriage as also cultural.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

In addition to the improper handling of Scripture's cultural - directedness, there is a second area of hermeneutical concern in contemporary evangelical discussions of women's role in marriage and ministry.

The task ahead of us is to help disentangle from ideology the issues that make up the themes of this consensus - inter alia, man's relationship to creation, the role of woman in society, people's participation in governance, a global ethic, North - South solidarity, the role of business, cultural identity, holism.

Blending laugh - out - loud moments with serious cultural critique, Evans discovers that living the actual teachings of the Bible means surrendering idealized role - playing in favor of becoming an eshet chayil — a woman of strength and wisdom.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

The fact is that every one of the passages whose supposed «plain reading» limits women from certain roles has been demonstrated to have significant cultural, contextual, and even syntactical complexity which makes such a «plain reading» highly suspect.

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

His ontology and anthropology are closely linked together and open the horizon of his cultural ideal of the revival of the role of religion in the Post-Renaissance world.

For we must not ignore the fact that these very expressions had played an important role in the myths of the «dying - and - rising god» which were still very much alive in the wider cultural environment of Israel.

The majority of people living in the developing world are still deeply attached to their cultural traditions and universal human values which western civilization has deconstructed, such as the family, male and female complementarity, and the role of woman as mother and educator.

He suggests that unambiguous acknowledgement of and defence of the fundamental role Christianity has had in the development of our civilisation is the only way to prevent a radical cultural revolution in our land.

Jeff Haanen, a freelance writer and school administrator, spoke with Platt on the pervasiveness of «cultural Christianity,» the role of hell in evangelism, and the sharper edges of following Christ today.

In so doing it helped to promote Christian faith in America, but at the same time it de-emphasized the role of the Church by concentrating on an individual experience, and it also made Christianity a stranger to large segments of American intellectual, cultural, and political life.

These cultural changes are too familiar to require elaboration here: rapid upward mobility, the expansion of higher education, the growth and development of the mass media, the end of legal segregation, and alterations in women's roles.

Role confusion is a classic sign of cultural transition.