Sentences with phrase «cultural varieties of»

This also extends into the cultural varieties of spirituality and religion.

Not exact matches

Developmental lending as practiced by IBC involves providing financial services (primarily loans) to aboriginal people who, for a variety of cultural and / or financial reasons, are alienated by mainstream lending institutions; approving loan applications on the basis of typical financial considerations while taking into account the potential for positive social or community outcomes; and evaluating social outcomes resulting from the loan portfolio over the long term.

Alaska native heritage center Built by Alaskan natives as an educational and cultural institution, the centre gives a look at the state's variety of Native peoples and their history.

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

It still means seeking out employees with different cultural and educational backgrounds, but also people who have had a variety of occupations and life experiences.

The 225,000 - square foot production facility in Collingwood, Ontario functions as a custom fabrication shop, supplying glass to a variety of cultural, residential, commercial, and retail projects including over 100 Apple Stores in North America.

The rich history of the American South meets the influence of metro Atlanta's global community, offering a variety of shopping, dining, and cultural experiences that draw upon the diverse tastes of those who call this city home.

The inchoate, messy anger of the film mirrors the free - floating frustration of our cultural moment, and I'm stunned to see activists all over the world latch onto the film's central concept by erecting billboards meant to shame politicians into action on a variety of societal issues.

Due to its long and rich history of religious and cultural variety, Sarajevo is sometimes called the «Jerusalem of Europe» or «Jerusalem of the Balkans».

The federal government is testing the public's appetite for a variety of potential policies, including a tax on digital content providers like Netflix to help fund Canadian cultural industries.

They need to be repudiated in the name of other more humane, more encompassing values, values respectful of ethnic difference and cultural variety, values of liberation, equality, and free association.

Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of human women, and the animals are usually associated with fertility and female symbols.

The «Chicago school» has taken a variety of forms: socio - historical, radical empiricist, rationalist, and cultural.

Such cultural pluralism is consistent with the requirements of human nature for a determinate social matrix, and it provides for continued enrichment of the life of mankind through a variety of contrasting traditions.

The speakers had a variety of views, but the consensus on the panel was that an alliance is indeed forming on social and cultural issues, specifically gender and sexuality, and that this alliance will have a serious influence on domestic and global politics.

To ask this second type of question is to raise a variety of issues: «Are the forms of speech and action in question a traditional legacy from an earlier social and cultural setting?

I think cultural variety is not the insurmountable issue of concern.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.

By contrast, most immigrants to North America have been Christian (from Latin America but also among many immigrants from East Asia), Jewish (immigrants from the former Soviet Union), and the variety of religions of South and East Asia, all of them marked by a general absence of militancy and a long - standing ability to make cultural concessions.

He learns from physical and cultural anthropology about the variety of physical, mental and spiritual endowment and development of the different ethnic groups.

It includes the imprecise appropriation of Whitehead's vision of reality and the application of his vision and ideas to a wide variety of cultural and theological problems.

Meanwhile the less alien varieties — that is, fundamentalist or ecstatic forms of our own traditional faiths — abound amid the non-intellectual portions of our cultural life, in «Middle America.»

Then there's Anna Halpine, president of the World Youth Alliance, a network of pro-life young people all over the world, who witness to the joy of the Gospel and the Gospel of life in an extraordinary variety of social and cultural settings.

However, due to a wide variety of cultural and theological reasons, the church is no longer the center of our communities.

Churches in the third world have found themselves in the religious and cultural minority among a wide variety of cultures and religions.

As we explore the path taken by the concept of resurrection over some four thousand years of the cultural history which is our heritage, we shall find the resurrection theme expressed in a great variety of ways.

This term points to the reality that some aspects of modernity have transcended national and cultural boundaries and require a new awareness of interdependency and new levels of commonality — aspects of which are likely to destroy much of the variety we have known and to produce new varieties of cross-cultural and transnational interaction.

Given present cultural circumstances, younger adults find a variety of ways to satisfy their longing for intimacy and friendship.

In both groups, there are a variety of personality types, cultural influences, plenty of nice and plenty of nasty people in both groups.

The relativity of Niebuhr's theocentric relativism derives not from the variety of religious and cultural contexts in which different people live, but from the awareness that each person lives in several of these contexts at once.

Second, there should be an honest and summary communication of the scientific and cultural situation in the present day, with a variety of related material, and dealing with problems and proposed answers.

Religious and ethno - cultural minorities in India are under a variety of threats in contemporary India.

Experience is always moulded by events, forces and symbolisms stemming from a variety of sources, including private and public histories, — competitive and cooperative inclinations, natural and socio - cultural imperatives.

This association is given in such a variety of cultural developments throughout the world in differing historical periods that it is hardly possible to disassociate the two.

Not only did it not possess the shared language, culture, and national identity that have defined many nations; it had more social and cultural variety than even the continent of Europe.

And that organization, that movement, must be broad enough and deep enough to engage millions of Americans from a variety of cultural backgrounds at the deepest level of their personality.

Portray human society and its cultural environment in such a way as to enhance understanding of the family of man in its richness and variety.

Collective claims also imply provisions on cultural identity, on the recognition of cultural diversity and linguistic variety, or on the cultural autonomy of communities.

A variety of cultural interpretations remains possible.

It is the tradition (that which has been handed over) of the church which has been transmitted through the centuries in a variety of conceptual models and injust as many social, cultural, and political milieus.

And more generally, an enlarged variety of cultural manifestations of the sacred stands to be considered.

True catholicity does not consist of historical continuity, numerical quantity, and cultural variety alone.

In the mid-nineteenth century, a variety of cultural and intellectual currents threatened the integrity of the Church's teaching.

Besides food and beverages, each Peperoncino Festival also has a wide variety of cultural events, including movies, art and music.

«Andaz Kitchen & Bar embodies the cultural melting pot of New York, featuring authentic ingredients from a variety of international cuisines and cultures,» said Chef Consorti.

MOON is not only a unique, beautiful restaurant and bar, but a cultural center that hosts all varieties of artists, musicians and practitioners of holistic arts for people of all ages and for the welfare and benefit of All Sentient Beings.

A variety of cultural flavor profiles each night.

New Orleans is renowned for a variety of unique cultural quirks, from culinary creations and signature jazz music to iconic architecture and countless festivals for every taste.

In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years» seed.