Sentences with phrase «ethnic identities of»

Whereas in her previous works the racial or ethnic identities of the characters remained largely ambiguous, these figures are more clearly associated with specific groups.

Communication and information must promote the creative abundance of cultures and strengthen the cultural and ethnic identities of peoples and races, without being exclusive.

Until Republicans have something real to say, and figure out a way to get their agenda out to people who don't already lean Republican, the ethnic identity of Republican candidates won't matter, and neither will their familiarity with the East Coast - West Coast rivalry.

In this case, Trump has made the ethnic identity of the judge an issue, saying that Curiel can't be trusted to oversee the suit in an impartial fashion.

This year Richard Freeman, an economics professor at Harvard University and director of the Science and Engineering Workforce Project at the National Bureau of Economic Research, along with Wei Huang, a Harvard economics Ph.D. candidate, examined the ethnic identity of the authors of 1.5 million scientific papers written between 1985 and 2008 using Thomson Reuters's Web of Science, a comprehensive database of published research.

Clarifying that this is not about the religious or ethnic identity of the charter operators, but about transparency, the PAA release summarizes a number of recent troubling press stories about Gulen schools, including this:

Not exact matches

Such adoptees do about as well on a wide range of indicators of self - esteem and ethnic identity formation as their non-adopted siblings.

We've been tabulating data over the years that show increases in the experience of inclusion according to racial and ethnic identity, gender and expression identity, disabilities, and many others.

Established in 1948 with a mission to improve the health and lives of people affected by poverty or emergencies, Direct Relief delivers lifesaving medical resources throughout the world — without regard to politics, religion, ethnic identities, or ability to pay.

It's absurd to imagine a separation of religious and ethnic identity in the Middle East.

Metaxas explains that the US is not bound by ethnic identity or geography, but by a radical idea based on liberty and freedom for all, and that Americans must reconnect with this idea or risk losing the foundation of what made the US exceptional in the first place.

It points less and less to WASPness, and more to persons whose identity comprises some sort of ethnic mixture.

Mass immigration has introduced new ethnic and religious loyalties (Arab and Muslim) and provoked nativist responses (white and at least culturally Catholic) that seek to curb immigration, restore traditional conceptions of national identity, and, at their most extreme, precipitate a supposedly inevitable civil war between natives and immigrants.

The EPRDF has successfully kept religion as a background political discourse by placing the focus of democratic life around ethnic and regional identities, which go together.

«But to any foreign aggression the country is always strong and united, irrespective of ethnic or religious identities.»

The assertion was that national and racial / ethnic identity supersedes spiritual identity, even in the eyes of God.

Usually this is the moment in my story when I am told that my discomfort is solely my problem and my responsibility to wrestle with and get over, that everyone feels a little out of place when they are new, and that my identity should be first and always that of a Christian seeking unity rather than division, especially along racial and ethnic lines.

The pressure to get circumcised was precisely an insistence on establishing one kind of ethnic or para-ethnic identity over against others.

Consider a partial list of developments since just World War II: a broad national decline in denominational loyalty, changes in ethnic identity as hyphenated Americans enter the third and subsequent generations after immigration, the great explosion in the number of competing secular colleges and universities, the professionalization of academic disciplines with concomitant professional formation of faculty members during graduate education, the dramatic rise in the percentage of the population who seek higher education, the sharp trend toward seeing education largely in vocational and economic terms, the rise in government regulation and financing, the great increase in the complexity and cost of higher education, the development of a more litigious society, the legal end of in loco parentis, an exponential and accelerating growth in human knowledge, and so on.

The hi - tech multimedia, dictated by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, style of life, perceptions of beauty, and religious mystery in life, as well as ethnic, national identities of persons and community to the market wasteland of cultural life.

Racial, ethnic and national identities have ultimate status in the household of God.

But a misunderstanding of Christianity in Germany (and throughout Europe) that tied it to ethnic identity through historic anti-Semitism weakened the resistance of Christians to the allure of a much more vicious and hateful genocidal mentality when it emerged.

The survival of ethnic identities seems to me only meaningful in the context of the survival of religious identities.

Not only does religion often preserve the deepest symbols of ethnic identity, it also exerts a pull away from ethnic particularity to that which is morally and religiously universal.

These churches strive to maintain the values of the immigrant culture, deriving their function and identity from the ethnic groups which make them up.

While the principal function of the immigrant churches was to preserve the ethnic and cultural identity of the immigrants, the main purpose of the mission churches, resulting from agreements negotiated by and with churches in the United States, was not to serve communities of U.S. citizens in the region, but to plant churches among the local inhabitants.

If we value cultural pluralism in America we may have to look elsewhere than to the continuation of existing ethnic groups to find a basis for such pluralism, though the persistence of ethnic and particularly religious identities can not be entirely counted out.

In the Tribe, a new world order of harmonic diversity would be prefigured, a white father and black mother raising a dozen children who would retain their respective ethnic and racial identities and realize a multicultural utopia.

The Orthodox attention to ethnic identity and unity could have been affirmed by the greatest Protestant theologian of the past century, Karl Barth.

The settlers were determined to retain both sides of their German Lutheran heritage, but religion was always more important to them than language or ethnic identity.

Christianity will be a matter of ethnic or national identity more than of personal commitment.

On the other hand, global pressures often serve to intensify ethnic identity and become the cause of conflict.

The Jewish covenant community was most defensive about religious and ethnic identity during times of exile.

The multimedia, directed by the corporate powers and agencies of the global market, subjugate cultural subjecthood, cultural values, life styles, perceptions of beauty and religious mystery, as well as ethnic national identities of persons and communities to the market's cultural wasteland.

«The future of Burma must be peace, a peace based on respect for the dignity and rights of each member of society, respect for each ethnic group and its identity, respect for the rule of law, and respect for a democratic order that enables each individual and every group - none excluded - to offer its legitimate contribution to the common good,» he said.

However we may eventually answer these questions, it is clearly in the interest of a wide range of persons representing many beliefs, ethnic / racial identities, and institutional affiliations to look carefully at them now.

But a decade later, I've become aware that 12 - step programs are home to people from every religion, denomination, sect, cult, political tilt, gender identity, sexual preference, economic strata, racial and ethnic background, believers in gun rights and abortion rights and the right to home schooling, drinkers of coffee and tea, whiskey and mouthwash, people who sleep on their sides or their stomachs or sidewalks.

Although the strategy taxed its resources, the immigrants came to look upon the church as a legally protected repository of national or ethnic identity, and upon the faith as a taken - for - granted — even a necessary — part of life.

But, as Christians, we must not elevate the distinction of national, ethnic or cultural identity over our higher identities as disciples of Christ and as human beings, both of which expand our most important communities far beyond the borders of the United States.

As a matter of ethnic identity and pride, most Indians support the ongoing effort to recover and reconstitute their cultural heritage.

They believe that not only is human difference a healthy fact of life, but that individuals should understand the past and present dynamics of ethnic identity, relationships and groups, not only because it will make them more sure of themselves, but also because it will strengthen the democratic nature of tire total society.

The third group of ethnic advocates, who came into being in the 1960s, started with particular identities and sublimated them to a universal pattern of oneness.

The ethnic or racial identity of the next Republican presidential nominee should be one of the least important considerations.

History turns on the conflict of heterogeneous conceptions of reality and social norms that express diverse cultural, ethnic, and gender identities.

As the specificity of their Christianity became diluted, liberal Protestants» identity in the universities rested increasingly on ethnic and class alliances, or on the alliance with secularists against fundamentalism and other perceived bigotries.

Into ecumenicalism, spiritual isolation, or perhaps the ethno - centric heretical movements waiting to affirm our ethnic identity while juxtaposing a caricature of the Church with their loving familial structure?

Fourth, religion is understood as a key aspect of racial / ethnic identity, particularly among those teens who identified with a religion other than Christianity.

Whether we work in the universities, in the churches, or in the trenches, whether we are physicists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, gurus, or spiritual questers of various sorts, and regardless of our gender, race, or sexual, national or ethnic identity, is there an invariable or common pattern to the processes at work in spiritual quests?

The domination of a rich and powerful elite over the masses, religious and caste groups organizing to usurp political power, a virtual collapse of the secular framework of the Constitution, continuing misery of the poor and their exclusion from all decision - making process, new ethnic identities and their struggle for justice — these are some of them.

And what we are looking towards is ultimately a community recognizing personhood of individuals as well as the unique self - identity of different ethnic groups, cultural groups, work groups.