Sentences with phrase «culture over the centuries»

And in this task we will always be impoverished if we do not honour and respect the insight, wisdom and contribution of those who, from many traditions and cultures over the centuries of the history of the Church, have also brought their understanding to this sacred conversation.

André Breton once called Prague «The magical capital of Europe», so wondrously has this city come to shape its own spirit of romance and culture over centuries.

The Valley itself has been home to many cultures over the centuries, all of which have left an impression on the Valley's heritage.

What more do you need to bring together the many ethnic groups that between them speak more than 700 different languages and dialects, and have created an incredibly complex culture over the centuries.

The local cuisine on each Canary shows the influence of different cultures over the centuries, from the indigenous Guanches to foods brought back by sailors from the Americas.

Not exact matches

She cites the work of cultural historian Warren Susma, who has traced a shift over the past two centuries from what he calls a culture of character to a culture of personality.

«Patriarchy» is traditionalism but you can't just pick everything you hate and blame it on male rule because we had plenty of queens making rules over the centuries and Victorian culture being the most oppressive was by guess whom?

Roszak, in his book Where the Wasteland Ends: Politics and Transcendence in Post-Industrial Society, argues that the mindscape» by which our culture has been shaped over the past three centuries is a false and limited one.

Paradoxically, despite the social, political, economic, and educational advancement made by Catholics over the past half - century, our place in literary culture has dramatically declined.

The Bible / Koran, a collection of ancient myths and stories borrowed from many different cultures over hundreds of centuries or longer.

Something has happened in Western culture over the last three centuries, altering the conditions of human experience.

Over the last four centuries, Decartes's work has become deeply embedded in Western culture.

These not only survived until modern times in many indigenous cultures, such as those of the New Zealand Maori and the North American Indians, but they often continued beneath the surface of the post-Axial faiths, despite strenuous efforts over the centuries to destroy them.

For over a century students have been coming here because they have the fortitude to risk all sorts of collisions: of world cultures in a great city, of religions and churches in an ecumenical cloverleaf, of church and academy in a theological school related to a great university but independent of it.

The undermining of the sense of objective truth in Western culture over the last century and a half is now reflected in the steady undermining of assent to the teaching of the Magisterium within the Western Church over the last forty years.

Conversation about community over the course of the last century has paralleled the conversation about culture.

Then, armed with the best possible understanding of the meaning of the faith to Christians over the centuries, we must develop our own meaning — and seek to communicate it to others in ways they can understand in today's culture.

Coffman sees the differences between the Christian Century and Graham as a clash over what part of American culture must be resisted and what resources must be brought to bear on this resistance.

«Any culture which has demonstrated survival value for a society over centuries», writes Pjotr, «is equally valid as every other culture which has proven its survival.

Since the dalit communities are spread all over India except in its North - Eastern region and their culture is richly diverse I restricted my study to the religion and culture of the dalits in Andhra Pradesh.7 And for further clarity and convenience it had been confined to the one prevalent in the second half of Nineteenth century and first half of Twentieth century.

Over the last few centuries, many immigrant cultures have contributed elements of their own cuisines to Peruvian cooking: Spanish, African, Indian, Italian, Chinese and Japanese influences have greatly enriched the culinary landscape.

The Times Square Alliance works to improve and promote Times Square — cultivating the creativity, energy and edge that have made the area an icon of entertainment, culture and urban life for over a century.

The high chair culture is over a century old.

Many of the problems that today's parents face while raising their babies are associated with the new parenting and feeding practices that have encroached upon our culture over the last century.

Given the distinct Mahri culture, identity and language, developed over many centuries of autonomy, not to mention widespread disenchantment with Yemeni rule (ever more corrupt since the union of Yemen's south and north in 1990), Mahra's territorial integrity remains important.

Russia has unfavorable economic factors - the lack of inter-country navigation combined with out of date technological base combined with entrenched culture of corruption means far more relative expenses and greater friction in economic activity and far lower average standards of living (not exactly helped by 70 years of Socialism; but Russia was economically screwed over by the Czars for centuries before that; and by post-Soviet governments after that too).

Presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has opened the door to assertions of white identity and resentment in a way not seen so broadly in American culture in over half a century, experts say.

It tracks the births, marriages and deaths of millions of people, shedding light on the impacts of war, culture and disease over the last several centuries.

As childcare and the family unit has largely transformed over the last half century and across different cultures, new universal guidelines were needed for modern parents and health professionals to assess normal and excessive levels of crying in babies.

[12] Zoe Crossland, «Violent Spaces: Conflict over the Reappearance of Argentina's Disappeared,» in Matériel Culture: The Archaeology of Twentieth - Century Conflict, ed.

These two ingredients have been successfully used for medical purposes in many different cultures and ancient civilizations and have rightfully acquired a status of super foods over the centuries.

Ginger has been used for medical purposes for centuries from cultures from all over the glove.

For centuries, cultures the world over have turned to ancient clays like bentonite for therapeutic purposes ranging from healing rashes and bug bites to drawing out poisons and promoting digestive health.

Cultures all over the globe have used different forms of heat therapy to heal the body for centuries.

Over the centuries boots have been an essential attire across many cultures.

But it's also an exceptionally sophisticated primer on the unseen biases, blind spots, self - mythologies and outright lies that have been passed down over centuries, creating the very bubbles of misunderstandings and erasures that vex American culture today.

They've mined almost every other port of popular culture over the last century of cinema why not Japan?

Under assignment from the Minister of Defense, the two embark on a mission to the astonishing city of Alpha — an ever - expanding metropolis where species from all over the universe have converged over centuries to share knowledge, intelligence, and cultures with each other.

Similar moments all over the film skewer America's centuries - long fetishization and commodification of black creativity and black bodies, as critic Greg Tate wrote about in Everything But the Burden: What White People Are Taking From Black Culture.

Unsurprisingly, Little Nicky isn't a satirical indictment of the consumer culture of the twenty - first century but rather follows the familiar mould that usually involves the audience being introduced to an unlikeable half - wit, who surprises both us and inexplicably a beautiful woman by improving and getting slightly less detestable over the first half of the film, before losing our confidence with a stupid mistake and then winning it back again with a rousing finale.

In the context of a world where we are only expected to be as happy as our latest acquisition, we share the experiences of the protagonists, who soak up the atmosphere of cultures that have been built over centuries.

By «cage - busting,» I mean finding ways to rethink the web of rules, regulations, contracts, and routines that have accreted over the past century, and to shrug off the self - imposed cage created by urban myths, professional norms, and a «culture of can't.»

But we must start by recognizing two clear realities, so well outlined by Charles Barone and Mac LeBuhn of Democrats for Education Reform: (1) those who want to overhaul public education are taking on a culture, a philosophy, and a belief system that has been in place for over a century.

The 21st century student will sell to the world, buy from the world, work for international companies, compete with people from other countries, manage employees from other cultures, collaborate with people all over the world, and solve global problems.

The pattern in tables has been used over centuries by many cultures and has links to so many other areas of the subject.

The digital resource will also serve as a boon for those researching Arabic history and culture, with over half a million pages consisting of photographs, maps, sound clippings, and other data such as politics, customs and rituals, trade, places pertaining to the period from mid-18th to the mid-20th century.

Brooklyn Public Library has reflected the culture, community, and spirit of Brooklyn for over a century.

Native New Orleanian John Biguenet, author of seven books and many prizewinning plays, highlights postflood literary New Orleans — «a palimpsest» on which «the past bleeds through the fresh culture now being inscribed over the submerged text, centuries old.»

She discusses how over the centuries various cultures have developed a concept of an all - powerful being, particularly how modern Judeo - Christian societies have anthropomorphized God, referring to the divinity as «Him.»

They get a bad rap in this country, but the truth is that black cats have been viewed as luck bringers and guardians over many centuries and in many cultures.