Sentences with phrase «cultural understandings of»

Lost in Time (2008 - 15) isa 46 - minute film depicting a figure riding a horse in a snowy, desolate landscape, prompting the viewer to consider different cultural understandings of time.

The goal is to create robust civil dialogue, and, ideally, to pave the way for thoughtful Christian contributions to cultural understandings of sex and gender.

As it is translated in English — and without a cultural understanding of the times in which it was written — it sounds as if women are saved by means of having children.

I spend many hours counseling families on nutrition and exercise, especially as our cultural understanding of pregnancy and birth is decidedly unhealthy («You can eat for two!»).

That said, however, virtually every book, website, and presentation about early childhood development includes the term «toddler» and assumes a cultural understanding of what the term means.

Does a lack of language or cultural understanding of this unique kingdom render this analysis redundant?

I'm convinced that our cultural understanding of soul mates and «The One» are small, limiting incomplete.

Unfortunately, our cultural understanding of what «beauty» means is limited by the media's representations of women, which often pressure us into changing our appearance to what we think beauty should look like.

Perhaps it also takes the cultural understanding of a subservient loyalty that transcends servitude.

«This year we are working with students at the Temple Media Literacy Lab on a global media literacy project involving media literacy for cultural understanding of Middle Eastern countries,» she added.

Ramon Amaro will be talking through calculus as a key moment in our cultural understanding of data, leading to further discussion of ethics in the application of various mathematical models in our data driven society.

The imagery plays with our notions of nostalgia and taps into society's cultural understanding of feelings and beliefs.

And so there is a growing body of sociological work that is now available to help citizens understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been manipulated at the federal level in the United States and in several other countries.

Yet sociologists warn that individuals almost always make decisions in response to the cultural understanding of the problem of concern.

But simply pursuing strategies to motivate individual behavioral change without helping citizens understand how the cultural understanding of climate change was manufactured by morally indefensible strategies, does little to change the cultural understanding of the problem held by many.

Therefore, those working to improve government and individual responses to climate change should adjust their tactics to respond to the insights of sociologists that have concluded that citizens need to understand how the cultural understanding of climate change has been shaped by powerful actors who have used sophisticated tactics to achieve support for their position that climate change policies should be opposed on the basis of scientific uncertainty and unacceptable costs to the economy.

Over the past 25 years or so, we've seen the emergence of a new (or newly restored, some would say) legal and cultural understanding of religion, driven in part by the insight that for many believers, religious faith isn't a private «hobby» that can be relegated to the home and church; rather, religious belief and identity are integral parts of a person, necessarily and appropriately informing public roles and the public sphere.

Respected and successful 3PL Brokerage / Logistics leader with extensive experience and cultural understanding of the highly volatile brokerage industry, adept at identifying emerging trends and innovative opportunities.

The book creates a contextual cultural understanding of attachment that will provide the basis for a groundbreaking reconceptualization of attachment theory.

Not exact matches

To successfully compete, business leaders need to have an understanding of the cultural nuances of the different regions in which their business operates.

Plus, lack of understanding of these cultural nuances can create frustrations among teams and lead to lower productivity and higher costs.

«Our current members understand the history of the ban and have played an important part in the cultural shift that has taken place since then.»

That's part of what led Pappalardo to hire a cultural anthropologist to help the Hollywood - based team better understand what drives consumers.

Be sure to provide your cultural change program communication in a variety of ways to improve understanding and acceptance among your people.

«For sure, the priorities are immigration, the control of borders, of Europe, (the issue of) cultural identities and the understanding of how the Italian society should move ahead in a globalized world,» Terzi di Sant «Agata said, following the Italian election result which pointed to a hung parliament where no one party or coalition gained a majority of the vote that would allow it to govern alone.

«I just thought he was a super smart guy, and really understood what we were doing, and was a great cultural fit for the company,» Musk said of Wheeler.

Over 90 percent of business executives said their past mergers would have «substantially benefited from greater cultural understanding prior to the merger,» reported a McKinsey & Company survey.

While a candidate's deep - rooted passion for Saturday Star Trek conventions or service dog training might not sound relevant to your business, how we choose to spend our free time is probably the most honest gauge of what we find intrinsically rewarding, and in entrepreneurship, understanding these deep motivations could help you put together a team with similar aims, character and cultural fit.

Encourage your recruiter to spend time in your office, soaking up the culture of your team to understand the right professional and cultural fit.

«The best way to measure cultural fit is for the assessor to have a deep understanding of the culture and then to spend time with the person being assessed,» Bonnie Hagemann, CEO of Executive Development Associates, tells me by email.

The winter of 2005 — 06 was a turning point in America's cultural self - understanding.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

However, these initiatives have drawn criticism for appealing to Malay nationalist sentiments without understanding the economic realities of various other cultural groups.

The nonprofit's mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social, economic issues and cultural heritage.

He understands the characteristics of our ideal employees and consistently endeavours to source the best talent for our business whilst ensuring a good cultural fit.

See, we have to start with understanding the cultural forces that have made orthodox Christianity so abhorrent to so many people, including the children of believers.

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

Or do you just not understand the concept of cultural appropriation by a privileged group of an oppressed group's cultural symbols?

Ben: Right, but it's that unique blend of mixing charity into cultural understanding, community spiritual formation, attention to local geography and history, and transmission of our faith to others that makes the Benedict Option so important.

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.

In the present social and cultural context, where there is a widespread tendency to relativize truth, practising charity in truth helps people to understand that adhering to the values of Christianity is not merely useful but essential for building a good society and for true integral human development.

My disagreement with Weigel on this point might be a quibble except that our differing understandings of what fueled cultural secularization point to different causes, and thus to different cures.

The people there, Hooper maintains, will remain provoked by «the mind - boggling actions of people who've been in the country a decade and still don't understand the cultural and religious sensitivities.»

Scripture is debated largely because of the cultural bridge we must cross in order to understand the intention behind the stories told, the poetry used, and the rules described.

There seems to be an assumption that because we are wise and atheistic, anyone in the past whom we admire can not have been too much affected by religion — that their faith is just a cultural appurtenance of as little importance to understanding their thought as their hairstyle.

The point is that our culture has reached a level of understanding where many of the well educated scientific and cultural leaders of our day have abandoned supersti - tion in favor of science and reason.

The imagery that is used in Genesis 1 — 2 and in Genesis 6 - 8 finds many parallels in Mesopotamian and Egyptian cosmology, and if we don't understand these cultural contexts, we will almost certainly not understand these opening chapters of Genesis either.

The truths of Genesis 6 - 8 (and especially 6:7, 13, 17; 7:23) can be understood differently when we grasp the Scriptural and cultural contexts in which these texts were written, what other Old Testament authors had to say about the flood, and also what the Apostle Peter writes about it in his second letter.

According to Young, Whitehead's understanding of consciousness seems extrapolated from the cultural norms of «the white majority social group.»

When properly understood in it's historical, cultural, grammatical, and contextual contexts, Ephesians 2 is a chapter which does not defend the Calvinistic system of theology, but disproves it at every turn.