Sentences with phrase «culture movement which»

Afrofuturism is a pop - culture movement which ensued in the African - American communities in the 1950s as a result of racism and discrimination.

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Historically, there's always been a problem of lawyers thinking they know everything, which is in fact a problem in life with lawyers... There's been a culture of activism of making it clear to lawyers that the support is necessary and appreciated, but they weren't necessarily the leaders of the movement.

But as the movement overspills Wall Street, he describes it as the most successful in the 22 years he and his magazine have been advocating «culture jamming,» which originally sought to subvert consumerism.

There has undoubtedly been a break in the twentieth century with the tradition of romantic love which arose in the later phase of medieval culture, flourished in the «courts of love» in the fifteenth century, gave birth to the literature of the romantic movement, reached conventional respectability and domestication in the nineteenth century, and now seems out of date.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

The impact of the technologies and institutions of electronic culture need to be understood in relation to their intertwinement with two other major modern movements, each of which is dependent on the other.

These links to the mainstream culture on the one hand and the wider reaches of the cultic milieu on the other may so far have dampened the anti-Semitic paranoia, which today afflicts only a portion of the movement.

Furthermore, unlike previous sectarian movements which tended to define themselves against the dominant culture, these churches tend toward cultural accommodation.

David Hubbard, for example, in his taped remarks on the future of evangelicalism to a colloquium at Conservative Baptist Theological Seminary in Denver in 1977 noted the following areas of tension among evangelicals: women's ordination, the charismatic movement, ecumenical relations, social ethics, strategies of evangelism, Biblical criticism, Biblical infallibility, contextual theology in non-Western cultures, and the churchly applications of the behavioral sciences.2 If such a list is more exhaustive than those topics which this book has pursued, it nevertheless makes it clear that the foci of the preceding chapters have at least been representative.

All this would mean that in order to understand a religious movement or institution integrally, we would have to make a careful study of the sources, its origin and its development, of the movement in itself and in interaction with the culture and society, and possibly with the religious community in which it is found.

One dimension of the anti-life culture to which Church documents and pro-life movements in general have, as yet, paid little attention is the denial of the spiritual soul in each human person...

But such reform movements, as efforts to recover the genuine and liberative orientations of the modern experience of reason, were either ignored by the dominant modern cultures or, when they succeeded, they did so only because they adapted the dominative power techniques of manipulation and control typical of the social orders and cultures against which they initially protested.

Harrington, who understands better than many Christians the meaning of a culture's decay, actively seeks the aid of the faithful, whose ultimate loyalty can not be to the movement or even to the world which that movement seeks to transform.

«The gay movement is an evil insti.tution [whose] goal is to defeat the marriage - based society and replace it with a culture of se.xual promiscuity in which there's no restrictions on se.xual conduct except the principle of mutual choice.»

In The Reason For God, Keller argues that Christians have served on the front lines of nearly every social movement toward morality and justice in modern Western civilization, including the abolition of slavery and the Civil Rights Movement in America, which is certainly true given the religious demographics of Western and American culture.

An equally striking illustration of the influence within the Protestant churches of the movement of thought of which Professor Dewey is the foremost exponent is the book by Professor Baker, Christian Missions and the New World Culture, to which reference has already been made.

There are international movements like Amnesty International, Oxfam and World Vision which imply visions of coverantal ties between human beings across lines of nation, culture, class, race, and gender.

As I said before, the modern - day «biblical womanhood» movement as expressed by complementarianism, has its roots, not in the ancient near Eastern culture in which the Bible was written, but in the pre-feminist American culture.

Secondly, modern missionary movement which became dominant in the 18th and 19th centuries have been emphasizing proclamation of the gospel to people of other religions and cultures making clear that they were called to decide for or against Christ and that their decision for Christ involved joining the fellowship of Christians in one of the denominational churches as representing the Church, the Body of Christ.

In a recent book, the distinguished American political scientist Robert A. Dahl offers an optimistic vision in which «an increasing awareness that the dominant culture of competitive consumerism does not lead to greater happiness gives way to a culture of citizenship that strongly encourages movement toward greater political equality among American citizens.»

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

The preparatory papers give a fascinating picture of the progress of Christian missions and of the surprisingly sympathetic attitude of many missionaries to other faiths and cultures.17 The conference, which was a landmark of the Ecumenical movement, appointed a Continuation Committee, which helped to start an influential missionary journal called The International Review of Missions.

In the Life and Work movement of the non-Catholic churches in their search for social justice and international peace (which is now part of the WCC) and in the Second Vatican Council of the Roman Church, Christian Ecumenism has given up the church's traditional pietist and negativist approaches to modernity and has been involved in the attempt to redefine the forces and values of secular culture within the framework of Christian anthropology.

Of course there is a lot of confusion in the churches and the ecumenical movement regarding the distinction that has to be maintained between the integrity of the Christian faith and mission and that of a secular culture which has to be based on a syncretism of varied insights about the humanum drawn from many religious, ideological and scientific sources.

The story of the early church shows us the great cultural movement of Christian communities which transformed the culture of the Roman Empire.

Hanvey and colleagues are championing represents, they claim, «a significant and hard won movement from scholastic rationalism which for all its virtues of clarity, precision and structure, was difficult to translate into the culture of modernity.»

The supposedly cultured, civil and enlightened members of left wing political culture (up to and including President Obama, who three days earlier publicly decried the lack of civility in American politics) and supposedly professional journalism (CNN and MSNBC main anchors and PBS senior correspondent, not just some random blogs or forum commenters) decided that this term would strongly elevate American civil discourse if it was publicly and massively applied to members of Tea Party (which was, of course, a political movement named after a famous historical event wherein a quantity of tea cargo was destroyed in protestation of British tax policies).

The fact that Mikkelsen is starring in «The Hunt,» written and directed by Thomas Vinterberg, has special resonance in Denmark's movie culture: Vinterberg, along with Lars von Trier and other filmmakers, was one of the founding members of the Dogme 95 film movement, which professed allegiance to an artifice - free visual aesthetic and rough, low - tech production methods.

After a stellar career in student drama at Oxford, he had joined the BBC, but he was soon also writing film criticism and, in 1956, was one of the founders, along with Karel Reisz and Lindsay Anderson, of the Free Cinema movement, espousing a cinema free of commercial and political constraints and using a personal style to capture working - class life and popular culture, which had been ignored by traditional British cinema.

In every culture there are images of people and things moving and objects in which movement is implicit.

The «23rd Century Movement for Sustainable Peace» is a movement to practice culture of peace, which is based on sustainability principles, the mindfulness of who we are, and the power we are.

This system is employed to fuel an innovative change movement around instruction, which is intentionally designed to drive system transformation, build a culture of continuous improvement, support a shared leadership model, and maximize teachers» impact on student learning.

And yet it has become increasingly difficult to get approval for charters outside of the now - standard model, which implies that innovation is beginning to flag in the charter movement as in other parts of contemporary American culture.

I grew up reading the Brontë sisters and Jane Austen, fascinated by the ways in which gender, culture, and class limited the characters» movement within society, and Park added several more layers of complexity to Jane Re's story by introducing race, cultural identity and intergenerational conflict to the mix.

Independent culture, as it's known, typically starts with a DIY movement which is geographically focused and deals with content which would typically be ignored by the traditional media industry.

The Complete Record Four other archeological traditions are represented in the NHL, which provides a nearly unparalleled opportunity to study culture change and population movement in Alaska.

Bhanuswari Resort and Spa offer families and couples the very best of the private villa accommodation available in the mid range and observes the modern movements of eco travel as well as sharing the culture with plenty of activities and tours which are available from the reception.

Since the 1960s — fuelled by the civil rights movement, reactions to the Vietnam war and second - wave feminism — contemporary art has become an intrinsically politicised, critical medium through which everything, from culture to capitalism and the medium itself could be questioned and deconstructed.

The Beat culture (which included artists, writers, musicians and bohemians) was a rebel movement that challenged the expressions of freedom of speech and questioned the values of the American post-war community.

The message of this installation hit a raw nerve in the artist's country; it launched an eponymous movement in Brazilian culture, beginning with the release by the musician Caetano Veloso of a song entitled Tropicália, followed by an album of the same name, which featured a collaboration with several other Brazilian musicians.

Jafa, who for years has been assembling images of black culture in binders, in which montages are created from the conflation of pictures and from the movement across pages, here presents similar image research, but expanded across six massive tableaus.

These performances, which involved the artist painting dots directly onto animals, people, and her environment, were motivated by the anti-War movement that became a hallmark of youth culture in the later 1960s.

Cave is well known for his soundsuits, sculptural forms based on the scale of his body, which he states are «full body suits constructed of materials that rattle with movement... like a coat of armor, they embellish the body while protecting the wearer from outside culture.»

[36] This movement rejected abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age.

And then, there was everything else in between: Pop Art, which employed aspects of mass culture (unlike Abstract Expressionism), Fluxus, as a Dada - derived anti-art nihilist movement, Art Brut or Outsider Art if you want, new realism in France, and all the other forms of realism, which emerged in Great Britain, Socialist Realism in the Russian Soviet Republic, etc..

This movement rejected Abstract expressionism and its focus on the hermeneutic and psychological interior, in favor of art which depicted, and often celebrated, material consumer culture, advertising, and iconography of the mass production age.

During this time, Kudo exhibited and was affiliated with the Anti-Art and Neo-Dada movements which had supplanted Gutai as the most conceptually innovative force in Japanese visual culture.

Drawing source material and inspiration from the culture and music of the Zoot Suit, Zazou, and Pachuco movements, these underground modes of expression share a culture of resistance in which fashion and identity create and construct a temporary notion of the self through style, costume, and ideology.

Women Art Revolution (2010), a documentary about the feminist art movement, which fused free speech and politics into an art that radically transformed culture; and, finally, the premiere of a new documentary about Tania Bruguera, whose survey exhibition, organized by YBCA, will premiere at YBCA in June 2017.

Those newly arriving artists mingled with the already vibrant New York abstract art scene, which included American - born artists like Jackson Pollock as well as artists like Willem de Kooning and Arshile Gorky who had immigrated there after World War I. Out of this culture the first American Modernist art movements emerged.