Sentences with phrase «dominant culture in»

His research interests include storytelling across social networks, modifying the use of virtual and augmented reality to serve the needs of communities of color, and facilitating site - specific community organizing for those at the margins of dominant culture in the US.

In many ways, geekdom is no longer a sub-culture: it's the dominant culture in entertainment.

The schools and classroom interventions that I've described educate a tiny fraction of the nation's poor children, and they are competing against a dominant culture in education that only very rarely considers whether there might be another, better way to motivate and engage children who are growing up in poverty.

But Luther's protest was the first to divide the dominant culture in such a way as to make ordinary conformist people think about what true Christianity was.

While such views are not prevalent in the dominant culture in the United States, they are widespread in oppressed communities both in this nation and abroad.

For instance, black women who straightened their hair to fit the dominant culture in a corporation later felt constrained if they wanted to go natural.

Not exact matches

Its quintessential place in the dominant culture of the day was cemented in John Updike's 1961 short story «A&P.»

The tech company's dominant position in the country of 90 million people boils down to a fortuitous intersection of three factors: demographics, culture, and distribution.

For Yahoo, which counted 12,300 employees shortly after it closed the Tumblr deal, the problem has historically leaned in the opposite direction: the acquired companies were quickly swallowed by Yahoo's dominant culture.

In this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structurIn this respect Google is like the bizarro - Apple: the iPhone maker has the distribution channel and business model to make Siri the dominant assistant in its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structurin its users» lives, but there are open questions about its technology prowess when it comes to artificial intelligence specifically and services generally; moreover, efforts to improve are fundamentally stymied by the company's device - centric culture and organizational structure.

The HHS contraception mandate requires church - related institutions to collaborate with the dominant, contraceptive culture of our time, and to do so in a public way.

There have been concerted efforts in fundamentalist circles to become the dominant religious voice in our military as a means of ensuring their «victory» in a «culture war.»

As Todd Brenneman argues in his recent book, Homespun Gospel: The Triumph of Sentimentality in Contemporary American Evangelicalism, sentimentality may be a defining characteristic of religious life for many Americans, and so most readers in the dominant Evangelical culture, outside a few hip and urban churches, are more likely to encounter the treacly poetry of Ruth Bell Graham than the spiritually searing work of R. S. Thomas or T. S. Eliot.

Today «liberal Protestnatism» usually refers to Protestant movements in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that responded to the increasingly secular and atheist character of the dominant forms of European culture.

The culture of consumerism and the chase for material symbols of wealth and security have sometimes come to be dominant; the pursuit of spiritual fulfillment in many has slowly begun to degenerate into empty and sterile ritualism; the legitimate thirst for education has often become perverted into an obsessive drive to acquire with the greatest speed the formal diplomas necessary to gain entry to jobs offering the easiest opportunities to make the quickest rupees; political statesmanship in some areas has begun to depreciate into an opportunities race for power and position; the spirit of SEVA (Service) to the nation has intermittently begun to be suffocated in many, by the abuse of discretions, sometimes mediated by a bloated bureaucracy itself enmeshed in a vast network of multiplying paper and self - proliferating regulations; menacingly many good and decent people even in public life, have come to be corroded by a culture of demanding corruption; and some potentially creative lawyers, have begun to take perverted pride in mere «cleverness», rendering themselves vulnerable to the prejudice that they are a parasitic obstruction in the pursuit of substantive justice.

By maintaining the integrity of the Christian community in the face of the dominant culture, churches can rediscover the means to embrace new members from the margins of their culture, forming a commonwealth in exile, a distinct and enticing place of renewal.

As Kathleen Raine puts it, our culture's dominant mindscape would have us «see in the pearl nothing but a disease of the oyster.

A word needs to be said about art in the second sense, which like the products of applied science to which it is closely related, is a dominant note in our culture.

Generally speaking, life - affirmers are the dominant influence in any culture.

We feel entitled to have our morals enshrined in law, to being the dominant religion of our culture, to having power to set the nation's agenda.

The dominant Protestant culture enabled some Christians in this country to forget, as the book of Hebrews proclaims, that here we have no abiding city.

Every church has a dominant culture deeply influenced by the traditions and expectations of the dominant group and leaders in the church.

Furthermore, Origen insisted that Christian paideia had to be practiced in conversation with the pagan paideia dominant in the church's host culture.

With electronic culture, he suggests, the resonance of sound has become the dominant mode of communication and conveyor of truth, rather than sight (as in reading books to discern ideas).

In these last years, scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, I have come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

In these last years scarred by AIDS, by the dominant culture of greed and violence, and by personal loss and pain, the author has come to see more distinctly the vital link between the healing process (traditionally the prerogative of religious and medical traditions) and the work of liberation (assumed to be the business of revolutionary movements for justice).

That is where the White Church may have some good work ahead in understanding its own culture, preferences, and strengths as well as differences within the White, dominant cultural experience.

1) Males were considered dominant within Hebrew culture; for one male to become submissive to another one in the same way a woman would was to diminish his masculinity; and

A change in the dominant media of mass communication in the culture creates a radically new situation for communication in general and, in particular, for the transmission and interpretation of the Bible and of God's revelation.

I also think that a majority culture can easily ignore the sentiments and circumstances of those in a minority position; whereas those in a minority position are well - versed in the dominant culture.

There is, indeed, need to renew the faithfulness that establishes our identity as Christians and not to confuse this with whatever is current and dominant in the culture.

The standards of the marketplace have become dominant in all phases of culture.

Of course through such coexistence for long periods, there developed symbiotic interpretations of religions and cultural and social values, creating not one but several composite cultures and syncretic religious trends in different regions of the country in different periods of its history, with one or other religious value or cultural system having dominant influence.

The accommodationist believes in religion as something that actually changes the way people are; nurturing religion, then, also nurtures a plurality of communities, communities that assign to existence meanings different from those of the dominant culture.

When Protestant literalism and enlightenment rationalism became dominant in the late 18th and 19th centuries, typological interpretation was taken up covertly by the novelists and poets or began to operate at unconscious or semiconscious levels of popular culture and ideology.

The dominant religion, in most cases, defines the culture.

For while it is true that culture expresses itself through every form of communication: face - to - face, family, school, work, recreation, and so on, today television is assuming the dominant role of expression in our lives.

8 Michael Moffatt strengthens and reinforces a similar perspective in his interpretation of religion and culture of the Pbraiyars He claims that the cultural and religious system of the Untouchables is «not detached or alienated from the «rationalization» of the system... [Thus, it] does not distinctively question or revalue the dominant social order.»

It provided an ideological framework within which the many religious communities of India as well as the plurality of linguistic caste and ethnic cultures (in the formation of which one or other religions had played a dominant role) could participate together with the adherents of secular ideologies like Liberalism and Socialism (which emerged in India in the framework of the impact of modern humanism of the West mediated through western power and English education).

No one in present - day evangelicalism took feminism seriously until it became a dominant theme in our secular, humanistic culture.

The last suggestively argues that dominant notions of «religious freedom» in our political culture have been shaped by Protestant individualism rather than by ecclesial Christianity, with the result of playing into the hands of secularist delusions about the autonomous self.

The confidence has many roots: the steady decline of models of theology in which «critical appraisal» is the dominant task; receptiveness toward and fresh engagement with classical thinkers, patristic, medieval and Reformation; a sense that the Enlightenment is only one episode in the history of one (Western) culture and not a turning point in the history of humankind; the work of a number of gifted and independent - minded theologians now at the height of their powers who have shown the potency of constructive doctrinal work.

A reaction in the dominant community is already setting in against accepting diversity and in favor of making new efforts at assimilating all into the dominant culture.

The Native Americans have in fact influenced the dominant culture, but further influence is not their current interest.

In fact, of course, those it sought to integrate, and even those it sought to segregate, influenced the dominant culture.

The dominant culture assumes that science provides knowledge, and so in natural science classes fundamental propositions can be proclaimed as objectively true, regardless of how many dissenters believe them to be false.

And perhaps this view, which until fairly recently was dominant in American culture and law, and which still exercises influence (in, for example, significant publications such as First Things), helps to explain why many gays and lesbians still, as Reno says, «feel put upon.»

This book, indeed, is simply one person's thoughts, reflecting a standpoint in western culture and trying to take into account what appear to be dominant global trends.

Such marriages are found in all segments of our society but may be more common among minority cultures where men are almost as dehumanized by the white male dominant culture as are women.

Churches on the left and right often see themselves in opposition to the dominant culture — whether they are opposing abortion rights on one side or opposing U.S. foreign policy on the other.