Sentences with phrase «emancipation by»

Until the age of majority, or emancipation by a court of law, parents enjoy broad discretion over the activities of their children including with whom they can associate.

Regardless, she serves as a symbol of black emancipation by providing positive forms of self - representation.

The family heirlooms played a role in the story of emancipation by functioning as coded maps that guided escaped slaves to freedom.

Not exact matches

In like manner the emancipation, or «redemption», of Israel from Egyptian servitude by the crossing of the Red Sea came to stand as a symbol, first, of God's providence over His people, and then of the «redemption» of mankind in a far deeper sense.

«What is often expressed and understood by the term «gender» ultimately ends up being man's attempt at self - emancipation from creation and the Creator.

It is one of the most beautiful ironies of the recent emancipations in the East that people have expressed their right to self - determination by insisting that we are, nationally and religiously, already determined.»

It encourages the emancipation of slaves by giving them the possibility of purchasing their freedom, it urges that part of zakat be given to slaves to help them free themselves, and it offers the possibility of atonement for certain sins, such as having sexual intercourse during fasting days, by releasing slaves.

Whereas Marx found God as standing in the way of human freedom and autonomy, a barrier to human emancipation, Bonhoeffer believed that God granted human freedom and autonomy by making Jesus the point of disclosure for His transcendence.

For example, Moses Stuart of Andover Seminary in Massachusetts (who was sympathetic to the eventual emancipation of American slaves, but was against abolition), published a tract in which he pointed to Ephesians 6 and other biblical texts to argue that while slaves should be treated fairly by their owners, abolitionists just didn't have Scripture on their side and «must give up the New Testament authority, or abandon the fiery course which they are pursuing.»

He replied to a committee representing various Protestant denominations asking for immediate emancipation in 1862 by saying: «I am approached with the most opposite opinion and advice, and that by religious men who are equally certain that they represent the divine will.

As Boodin has said, the new intellectual renaissance into which physics has led us in the twentieth century is marked, not only by the emancipation from mechanism, but «the discovery of form or structure as fundamental in reality.

Because the order created by human achievements is greater insofar as each individual benefits from and contributes to it, our comprehensive telos prescribes pursuit of everyone's emancipation.

Democracy itself is not possible unless the constituted political process is in large or, at least, tolerable measure successful, so that governance fulfills its moral obligations by pursuing justice as general emancipation.

Whatever the possibilities given to an individual by some morally valid social action of which she or he is a recipient, the possibility of accepting those effects because they are morally valid is always consistent with them — and the absence of this freedom lessens emancipation.

To the contrary, this telos grounds the meta - ethical principle of communicative respect and thus the universal practice constituted by it, because our maximal common humanity prescribes pursuit of everyone's emancipation.

Durkheim's concept of sociology is characterized by a marked emancipation from the tenets of Comte's philosophy of history as sociology (sociology as a method) and by a corresponding tendency toward construction of a typology of social groupings, in which he included religious communities.

The days and weeks of commemoration organized at the secular level by bodies such as the United Nations Organization and its related agencies can help orient the eucharistic communities also to issues such as children's rights, women's emancipation, the aged, foreign debt, peace, environment, food, employment, AIDS, drugs, crime, cancer... etc..

To lift the economic burdens which depress life and spoil opportunity, to liberate folk from the slavery of their diseases, to set men free by education from the Town of Stupidity, which, as Bunyan rightly says, is only four degrees north of the City of Destruction itself — all these endeavors to give persons a chance to be their best selves are crusades for human emancipation and happiness.

With the general emancipation effected by technology, liberal education has become a democratic possibility.

The latter investigations were carried on by a school of students of religion who aspired to emancipation from theological conceptions, working for the establishment of a science of religion on the basis of the critical (historical and philological) and comparative methods.

They ignored the fact that after emancipation, all the African - American members had left to found their own church, that many of the men had entered the Confederate Army never to return, and that the community at large had been disrupted by the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Whereas Marx found God as standing in the way of man's freedom and autonomy, a barrier to human emancipation, Bonhoeffer believed that God granted freedom and autonomy for man by making Jesus the point of disclosure for His transcendence.

David Lull responds initially by arguing from Cobb that the idea of creative transformation is a material norm for theology, and that the word «transformation» is a rational statement of the more symbolic terms «creation, redemption, justification, emancipation, or sanctification» (WPH 194).

Only by recognizing the power that faith exercises in the lives of real people and working within and through it, Walzer concludes, will the left advance the cause of emancipation.

It has also been enlarged by the emancipation of the sexes, by religious and civic tolerance and freedom, by the increasing abolition of rigid social structures and taboos, in short, by what we call a pluralist social order.

First came the emancipation from absolute monarchy and its replacement by democracy.

As Jews, accepting the Christian terms of emancipation, we would behave ourselves by tucking Judaism into our private closets.

Does it not suggest that this is a general law of life; that the living creature, compelled for its own survival to attach itself materially and spiritually to others of its kind, and to an increasing extent as it progresses autonomously and in individual freedom, is automatically prevented by Nature from rising above a given level of emancipation and consciousness?

It is evident from the sources provided by the missionaries that unprecedented changes were taking place in Pulaya attitudes and behaviour as a result of their emancipation.

By 1850, at the height of the anti slavery campaign, the emancipation efforts and the possible conversion of Pulayas were already being linked at the village level.

But from the Renaissance onwards, the interests of the secular world have step by step been winning increasing emancipation from the interests of the eternal world, and at the same time secular pursuits have been growing in number and diversity.

Indeed, even yet the status of womanhood is eminently unfair and the emancipation of women is attended by domestic and moral turmoil amounting at times to chaos.

English Roman Catholics were emancipated from centuries - long legal disabilities (by various steps, culminating in unconditional emancipation in 1829).

In this book Cone declared that «Christ is black, baby,» that black power means «complete emancipation of black people from white oppression by whatever means black people deem necessary.»

None of what Lincoln achieved — the eventual abolition of slavery, the preservation of the Union — would have happened had Lincoln not thought himself constitutionally authorizedto resist the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott; constitutionally obligated, by his oath, to resist secession; and constitutionally empowered, as commander in chief, to fight the enemy with the full powers at his disposal, which included military force, blockade, suspension of habeas corpus, arrest and detention, seizure of enemy property, and emancipation of Southern slaves.

The factory has been run entirely by women and supports their economic emancipation.

[45] Designed by Theodosia Salome Okoh; the red represents the blood that was shed towards independence, the gold represents the industrial minerals wealth of Ghana, the green symbolises the rich grasslands of Ghana, and the black star is the symbol of the Ghanaian people and African emancipation.

Using religion as an example again, political emancipation from religion means that the state is now unconstrained by religion.

«Though the media most important role is to help the public to enjoy its «right to know» by informing, educating, sensitizing and enlightening the populace, media should also work with a share responsibility of the legislature to contribute to political emancipation and transformation in ways consistent with economic principals by pursuing fact based, fully substantiated reporting.

Human and political emancipation are terms often associated with a certain text by Marx.

As a torchbearer of Africa's Political emancipation, the Ghana Beyond Aid vision resonates within Ghana and catching up with other African countries as the only sustainable means of reaching our goals of economic emancipation as a continent by using internal resources to create the needed infrastructural development and jobs opportunity for the teeming unemployed graduate youth.

The statement reads,» The pains Gani Adams suffered for the emancipation of the Yorubas, particularly in the struggles for the validation of the annulled June 12, 1993 Presidential election, presumed to have been won by our own late Chief MKO Abiola, is still fresh in our minds.

When the revered and highly influential Sheik Abdulraheem Aduanigba, Chief Imam Yoruba Ilorin and Chief Imam of Yoruba land, a deeply courageous, wise, God - fearing, pious, devout and righteous man called for the emancipation of the Yoruba Muslims from Fulani domination and manipulation and insisted on the liberation of Ilorin from Fulani hegemony he was promptly arrested and briefly detained by Buhari's Fulani - controlled police.

«Let's all join with Buhari and Bola Tinubu side - by - side to make the APC stronger and more attractive for other generations to use as a vehicle for political emancipation.»

«We know he has no agenda for the emancipation or development of Rivers State but he can keep himself busy by either writing a handover note or preparing how to face the Rivers State people in a free and fair election devoid of intimidation and killing of innocent Rivers people,» the party said.

A biography of the emancipation movement that began with Nate Turner, slave and preacher, a character played brilliantly by writer / director Nate Parker.

Faith - based schools, they assume, are in the business of «indoctrinating» their pupils, while public schools are by definition committed to critical thinking and to the emancipation of their pupils» minds from the darkness of received opinions, even those of their own parents.

The church, led by the Reverend Clementa Pickney who, in addition to his pulpit, was a state senator, is the oldest traditionally Black Church in the South and has long been a fixture of the struggle for emancipation and civil rights during its almost 200 year history.

Teachers, parents, and taxpayers must stand together and demand a long overdue emancipation from entrenched union power, financed through compulsory fees paid by the very teachers the unions are hired to protect.

As the logging operations had grown beyond what was manageable by the relatively small number of settlers, slaves had been imported into Belize and great numbers remained in bondage there until their emancipation in 1838.