Sentences with phrase «dehumanizing ways»

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Is there some way that we can know what spirituality is life - giving and humanizing and what spirituality is death - dealing and dehumanizing?

Moreover, while the way of violence dehumanizes and finally destroys the oppressor, nonviolent resistance affirms the oppressor's humanity and calls him to decision.

Feminist theology requires that we reflect on all that is dehumanizing and oppressive, everything that stands in the way of the liberation of all people.

We need rather to oppose and to try to change those systems of both kinds which oppress and dehumanize, to recognize the strengths of the best systems of both kinds, and to help find ways to eliminate the inequities and ameliorate the injustices that exist in even the best of socialist and capitalist systems.

Just because the media are dehumanizing in so many ways does not mean that they must continue that way.

Burns is writing a dissertation that bears on many of the problems of a complex and globalizing economy — the kinds of issues that Greider addresses in a more straightforward way Are the massive forces of the global economy dehumanizing the workplace?

These sexual acts have simply become a socially acceptable way of excusing dehumanizing each other, of abuse, abuse grooming, oppression, language of hate, rape, and violence.

Their concern was for the dehumanizing consequences of capitalism as seen through the prism of the gospel and Jesus» own way of life.

The fear is that in a technocracy persons may be dehumanized as they become cogs in the machinery in ways in which freedom, spontaneity, and feeling are sacrificed to the efficient operation of the system (The literature is immense.

(I know that the term «homeless» as an identifier can feel dehumanizing and that is not my intent in any way.

It has supported the patriarchal structure of human society in ways that have dehumanized women, treating them as instruments for the satisfaction of men's desires and as responsible for men's sins.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

There's nothing funny at all about this scene — it's just sad, sick, and revolting in a way that dehumanizes the characters and their situations to the point where we can't find them amusing, or even the least bit sympathetic.

In the editorial of the May / June 2016 issue of the Journal of Teacher Education, Carter Andrews, Bartell, and Richmond bring awareness to the recent teacher sick - outs in Detroit Public Schools as a way to illustrate the continued resistance to elements that serve to dehumanize the teaching profession.

Using assessments in decontextualized ways is harmful and dehumanizing.

When we talk about our profession in these ways we play right into the reformer's game plan, which is to degrade and dehumanize the teaching force as mere delivery systems for test prep materials and canned curricula.

In fact, quite the opposite, the rudimentary algorithms governing interactions lead the player to interface with these characters in ways that can only be dehumanizing and exploitative.

To see people as some kind of dehumanized «footprint», much like a car etc, as so much «waste» really cuts to the quick of a way of thinking that has some very tragic antecedents.

It's upsetting to hear that we as a society are still using blanket statements to shame and dehumanize people from deciding what lies in the way of happiness.