Sentences with phrase «cultural symbols in»

New York painter Ford Crull explores the expressive power of personal and cultural symbols in a series of densely painted and vividly colored compositions.

Because of this exclusion, feminists are calling for the criticism of dominant cultural symbols in light of women's experience of the world.

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In particular, it threatens Jews, whose success, visibility, and cultural self - affirmation serve as a great symbol of a post-traditional France.

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

In short, technologies are becoming religious symbols and are in the process of destroying the cultural and anthropological balance between energy and form, spirit and structurIn short, technologies are becoming religious symbols and are in the process of destroying the cultural and anthropological balance between energy and form, spirit and structurin the process of destroying the cultural and anthropological balance between energy and form, spirit and structure.

I do not mean to imply that the many serious problems involved in the reappropriation of traditional religious symbols in the present cultural situation have all been solved.

Latin America has such a wealth of symbols in part because it is made up of hybrid cultures; it contains a huge patchwork of ethnic and cultural influences and traditions.

In other words, we must approach - and fortunately a beginning has already been made - Oceanic or African myths, symbols and rites with the same respect and the same desire to learn that hitherto we have devoted to the cultural creations of the West».

E. D. Hirsch argues in Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national coCultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know (Houghton Muffin, 251 pp., $ 16.95) that schools are obliged to help students accumulate shared symbols and the knowledge they represent — that is to say, to teach students cultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national cocultural literacy, so that they can learn to communicate in our national community.

That particular ethnic groups are linked in larger religious groups, Catholic, Jewish, and Protestant, and that the religious groups share certain common symbols is undoubtedly an important element in whatever cultural unity and universality exists in America.

The inventory for privatization now includes the accumulated knowledge and memory of the people, the cultural and religious wisdom as well as symbols and people's ability to find pleasure are reduced as a commodity in the market place.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

We live in the world which is in large part shaped for us by the system of cultural symbols and concepts which we inherit.

The scheme developed in this article requires, I believe, more stress on the fact that religious and cultural symbols inevitably have a political meaning.

Such mission begins with a greater appreciation of a local church's own finitude, its own ethos drawn from the world's symbols but particularized in a cultural pattern specific to its own corporate life.

Now communication scholars have integrated insights from the fields of anthropology and cultural studies and are conscious of the significance of myth, symbol, story telling and ritual in media / audience analysis.

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

Finally, Protestants break with two of Mexico's primary national and cultural symbols, the Virgin of Guadalupe (the patron saint or «mother» of Mexico), who is said to have appeared to a Mexican peasant in the 16th century, and the pre-Hispanic plumed serpent - god, Quetzalcóatl.

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

Therefore, in proclaiming the Kingdom of God in our context should mean taking seriously the cultural and religious symbols and traditions which embody their vision of life and wholeness.

Much of the new middle class is actually in the business of culture, is in control of many of the institutions that produce and disseminate cultural symbols, notably in the educational system and the communication media.

Dillenberger wants to discern in Abstract Expressionism a union of spirituality and visual sensibility that might produce authentic cultural symbols.

I am not entirely denying the validity of the psychological (and socio - cultural - historical) evaluation of what is involved in the fabrication of symbols, myths and stories.

This is not to deny that both the social form and the social space of Christian congregations are also deeply shaped by social forms and cultural symbols prominent in the congregations» host cultures.

Actually, our human nature is shaped in some significant part by the interaction of people in specific periods of time with specific cultural symbols and specific historic environments.

In addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and conceptIn addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and conceptin present language and concepts.

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

We can not automatically expect others to «see» what we Christians have focally seen in our primary symbol, Jesus the Qirist, unless they first share with us a sufficiently common set of subsidiary cultural and linguistic ingredients.

It is in the pantheon of these religious symbols and rituals that the Mexican - American experiences the deepest belonging and cultural communion.

To say that a symbol has a «history» can mean two things: (a) that this symbol was constituted at a certain historical moment and that therefore it could not have existed before that moment; (b) that this symbol has been diffused, beginning from a precise cultural center, and that for this reason one must not consider it as spontaneously rediscovered in all the cultures where it is found.

The historian of religions finds himself in an analogous situation when he deals with archaic symbols that have been modified by cultural influences and events, for example, the World Tree, which in Central Asia and in Siberia received a new value by assimilating the Mesopotamian idea of the seven planetary heavens.

Joe Coffman skillfully managed to commit his group to a post-SMU-game party (or pre-Texas-OU-game party) in the cultural suburbs, where the status symbols are a lawn of St. Augustine grass and a full - growing mimosa tree.

He promoted the development of infrastructure, tourism and Galicia's traditional symbols and language to shape an identity that simultaneously could incorporate Galicia's unique cultural traditions and its full integration in Spain.

The announcement took place during a press conference in Flushing Meadows Corona Park at the Unisphere, the huge globe erected for the 1964 World's Fair that has since become a cultural icon known worldwide as a symbol of Queens.

The press conference will take place in Flushing Meadows Corona Park at the Unisphere, the huge globe erected for the 1964 World's Fair that has since become a cultural icon known worldwide as a symbol of Queens.

The elephant has long been an important spiritual, cultural and national symbol in Thailand.

Beyond the mountain's spiritual and cultural significance, it has become a symbol in the movement for Native Hawaiian self - determination.

British settlers first brought the tree to North America in the 1600s, where it became so popular as to develop into a cultural symbol for the United States.

With baguettes having such cultural importance I felt in order to truly understand Parisians life & culture I needed to spend some time with this national symbol.

It has become a cultural and a national symbol for various countries in Asia.

however many people don't realize it's cultural significance is way more «in'than the trendy symbol itself!

The Greek form of the Old Testament Bel - shazzar, referring to the Babylonian... Persian wine, also called Mey (Persian: می) and Badeh (باده), is a cultural symbol and tradition in Iran, and has a significant presence

Eco was a longtime professor at Europe's oldest university, the University of Bologna, and an expert in the field of semiotics who wrote more than 20 nonfiction books about how signs and symbols can be used to interpret cultural history.

Black Panther has become a cultural force, with the «Wakanda forever» salute being recognized as a symbol of cultural pride in the African - American community.

The Ed School students were divided into groups, with each group talking with one of the Japanese students about ways to improve learning and motivation in five areas addressed in the website, which uses symbols from the hiragana alphabet to introduce cultural topics.

Along with its privileged position in this cultural city, the hotel also enjoys sweeping views over the Ria, the Calatrava walkway and the spectacular museum which has become the symbol of Bilbao.

Blue Poles (No. 11), 1952 (pictured below), which brought down the Australian government when the country spent $ 1.3 million on its acquisition, is a star of the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, and in retrospect a symbol of the country's cultural coming of age.

Since the 1970s, Muntadas has given attention to «media landscapes» (mass media, symbols, images and slogans) that allow him to investigate contemporary phenomena associated with political, cultural and educational dynamics, revealing and denouncing its instrinsic mechanisms and opening up a broader scrutiny of the human condition in an age of advanced capitalism.