Sentences with phrase «for consumerism»

The experience and its trace in time becomes more object - centred, its manifestation is a physical one; the private or public discourse around a culture for consumerism becoming embedded within it.

Russeth says: «It is a vessel for consumerism, for empty showmanship, and for all of the shallowness and superficiality that real art aims to counteract.»

As a nation with an increasing appetite for consumerism, credit usage and internet proliferation, none of the people had taken any steps to protect their identity from theft.

Christmas is the peak time for consumerism, and sadly many of the gifts that are shared are of the plastic and cheap variety.

Not exact matches

Wingo says that the future of consumerism is no longer do - it - yourself (DIY), but do - it - for - me, or DIFM.

That was the message of a talk by Dr. Miriam Tatzel at the American Psychological Association's 122nd annual convention, which was held recently in Washington, D.C. Presenting her research to the assembled psychologists, Tatzel stressed the importance of playing down consumerism as a route to fulfillment and boiled down the research on the subject into a handful of scientifically validated principles to follow for greater happiness.

And for the most part we refer to it, and general consumerism, as a dark and dismal part of society.

For example, one respondent wrote, «There is much too much attention being paid to consumerism and not enough to manufacturing and food production.»

Consumerism is continuously on the rise, creating the perfect playground for all business - minded individuals looking to make a claim in the multibillion - dollar ecommerce industry.

One day of «un-shopping» may not have much of an impact in itself, but «if we stop and think about it for a day, we might find out that we're more deeply tangled in the dragnet of consumerism,» says the Buy Nothing Day website.

And if theirs was a very specific exercise, it's a fascinating one, offering a case study for anybody interested in community empowerment through consumerism.

Chapman's list of speaking engagements includes Conscious Capitalism events, the 2016 US Congressional Retreat, WorldBlu, CEO Global Leaders Forum, International City Managers Association, the AME International Conference, Institute for Healthcare Consumerism Forum, TEDxScottAFB, Shingo Prize for Manufacturing Excellence International Conference, HERO Forum for Employee Health Management, Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership's International Conference, St. Louis Business Journal's Salute to the Top 150 Privately Held Companies and to numerous Fortune 500 company leadership teams.

Importantly, while millennials are most known for appreciating environmentally friendly consumerism such as this, going green is an ongoing trend still gaining traction among all generations.

For it to simply be subject to American consumerism and cater to a white audience, is parallel to colonial ideology.

For the last decade, the renminbi was largely moving in a single direction — up — because China was tired of being dubbed a currency manipulator and it would like to foster consumerism.

Would stores continue to mark down prices and make the whole holiday really all about consumerism, without the veil of religion that it's hid under for decades?

The book questions David Cameron's slogan «We're all in this together», saying that «rampant consumerism and individualism» and a culture of «every man for themselves» has «dominated» Britain since Margaret Thatcher became Conservative Prime Minister in 1979.

Now I'll brace myself for letters from ardent free marketeers who will instruct me that consumerism is nothing but a bogeyman invented by the enemies of capitalism.

When Sri Lanka accepted the «generous» offer of Japan for the gift of a whole TV system, it was clear that Sri Lanka was succumbing to the lure of consumerism.

Leave a little room on the edges, don't fill it all up, Church, with consumerism and light show performances or with hermeneutical gymnastics and atonement theories: leave a little room for the Love and the breathing, for the remembering and suffering, for the grieving and the longing, and the Holy stirring of an interruption.

The writers accuse us of painting with broad brushes (this is often true), of consumerism (this is sometimes true), of abandoning orthodoxy (this is rarely true), of deconstructing just for sport (this is almost never true).

She first excavates the roots of our corporate heartlessness» in our culture's disordered desires — what she describes as our culture's «addiction to consumerism,» its «idolatry of money» and its «massive failure of compassion» for other creatures and the earth.

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.

I've been told that to search for a church that «fits» is to subject the Church to consumerism, to put my own needs above those of others.

They receive no direction except for the worst sort of consumerism.

Our «mania for factories» has been replaced by a mania for business and an always growing economy focused on entertainment and consumerism.

At the same time, they are hesitant to adopt Western values to the extent that individualism becomes the most important cultural ideal, and consumerism becomes the defining modus operandi for all walks of life.

The Club of Rome called for «a Copernican revolution of the mind», which abandoned the commitment to endless economic growth and set instead as its goals zero population growth, a leveling - off of industrial production, increased pollution control, and a shift from consumerism to a more service - based economy.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

As long as there is the pressure, often unspoken, for secularism, consumerism, and individualism to become the new bedrocks of Russian culture, this pressure will be resisted.

Consumerism within Christianity is still an uncomfortable conversation for me, even on the other side of debt.

Certainly, some of these transplanted Christians may find deeper intimacy and fellowship with God and with other believers in their new circle of friends, but unless they are also finding ways to love, serve, and become friends with people who are not Christians, all they have done is substituted one form of Christian consumerism for another.

One can be grateful for the missionaries who made a significant, sacrificial contribution to the gospel during this period, but the fact that Latin America has become a market of missionary consumerism is upsetting.

In short, the awareness of privilege and injustice overcame the base impulses of individuality and consumerism so that life trajectories were changed, comfort exchanged for sacrifice and a life of plenty traded for the bread of doing God's will.

The grandeur of their productions, the images of «success,» their «positive thinking» messages, and their offering of gifts and goods in return for donations translates the Christian message into an attractive consumer package that reflects a cultural form similar to that of media consumerism.

In those spaces of contemplation, care for the Earth and constant work toward being present, we find the true gifts of Advent despite consumerism and colonization.

which also concerns the individual».41 She illustrates this as follows: «It is not enough to criticize property rights... so long as we, as «powerless» individuals, are not able to clarify how we are entangled in the general structures, that is, how we profit from the structures and how we conform to the introverted norms that we regard as self - evident — for example, the norms of achievement, consumerism, reasons of state — and pass them on to others, even when we reject them privately and verbally.

I hope we push back against celebrity and consumerism, I hope we live into our birthright as a prophetic outpost for the Kingdom.

As Phillip Cary writes in «Good News for Anxious Christians,» consumerism is based on the need to create a sense of need for something new or better, something you can only get at this church, or that church.

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Rather, it is to work honestly and lovingly with that growing body of righteous Christians who look to Judaism as to an older sibling, who are seeking to expiate Christian guilt for the Holocaust, and who recognize that Christianity and Judaism need each other desperately if religion in 21st - century America is to offer a compelling alternative to unbridled consumerism, self - centeredness and arid secularism.

Many baby - boomers have been caught up in consumerism and self - congratulatory economics, but are not fully convinced that these hold sufficient meaning for their lives.

So much that is wrong with contemporary Western society — radical individualism, consumerism, the glorification of choice for its own sake — represents the debased enactment of originally rich religious images and philosophical ideas.

Yet the song hinted at a surprisingly biblical theme: The places we often seek satisfaction (notably for The Rolling Stones, sex and consumerism) fail to satisfy.

Don't tell anyone, but sometimes I wonder if the best thing that could happen to this country is for Christ to be taken out of Christmas — for Advent to be made distinct from all the consumerism of the holidays and for the name of Christ to be invoked in the context of shocking forgiveness, radical hospitality, and logic - defying love.

Among the various longer - range challenges facing church music in the «90s, four seem to be occupying center stage: the challenge of providing church musicians in sufficient numbers to meet the needs of parishes throughout the land in almost every denomination; the continued search for musical roots in many denominations; the ongoing debate between those advocating the worship and musical tradition of the church catholic and those advocating a variety of trendy fads; and the impact of pragmatism and consumerism in determining worship practice and musical style and substance.

The surge of disposable capital in post-World War II consumerism gave impetus for the debate over modern society.

But consumerism's viselike grip upon our lives has us once more asking, «What will the government do for me?»

I can't for the life of me recall what book I read it in, but I remember an author saying once that he raised his children to be wary of consumerism by teaching them to laugh at commercials.

In what ways does faith and our church practises need to be changed to take account of consumerism, and in what ways does faith need to stand apart and challenge the society in the name of the One who is supreme, and jealous for love of his people?