Sentences with phrase «form of social movement»

Similarly, though perhaps less impressively, education is the key to every other form of social movement with a determinate set of guiding principles.

Not exact matches

The bean pie is a creation born out of the strict dietary code of the Nation of Islam, a religious black nationalist and social reform movement formed in the 1930s, led by Elijah Muhammad.

The Indian National Congress has also been formed as the political expression of the awakening of the people under the leadership of the class with western - oriented education; and linked to the politics of nationalism was also movements of social reform of family relations and caste structures on the basis of personal liberty and social equality.

If by «liberation» people mean that Christian thought and life are to be socially engaged, committed to those forms of systemic change necessary for the greater actualization of social justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation thesocial justice, and open to the dynamic movements of the Spirit among the people, then there is little doubt: the Social Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theSocial Gospel is America's indigenous form of liberation theology.

Though many social organizations and unions give support to such movements, church members form an indispensable segment of their constituencies, as the recent financial crisis involving the NAACP in Mississippi made clear.

The religious form was the theology characterized by the American Social Gospel movement, initiated by Walter Rauschenbusch at the beginning of this century and having its roots in the prevailing theology of Europe in the nineteenth century and in American «revivalism.»

But the other elements of community organizing would come together again and again: the foot - slogging, one - on - one recruitment effort to form an organization of organizations, the struggle to get past ethnic differences, the taking of the public stage, the sequence of conflict - organization - power as the route to negotiation, and the critical relationship to other social movements — which became a guarded relation to the civil rights movement.

Every movement to make America more fully realize its professed values has grown out of some form of public theology, from the abolitionists to the social gospel and the early socialist party to the civil rights movement under Martin Luther King and the farm workers» movement under Caesar Chavez.

The congregation is a distinctive social form that the worship of God has assumed in the history of the Christian movement.

He wrote, «there is involved here the... profound choice between religion as a form of social behavior rationalized and directed by intelligence and religion as a philosophy in which the historical and social elements of an organized movement are to be ignored».

In recent years I have experimented with different kinds of involvement in social issues — with limited success — and I have done some thinking about what form a new social gospel movement might take.

Drawing on history, theology, and the social sciences, Senn demonstrates that the working assumptions of the church growth movement and its forms of worship have their roots in European pietism and rationalism of two hundred years ago.

As a form of a «social protest» and utopia, the Pentecostal movement recalls movements such as the Taki Onqoy of 16th century Peru (Huamanga 1560 - 1570).

Yet its alienation from other radical movements, especially black liberation, and its recourse to a kind of «separatist» ideology — that talks about the oppression of women as more basic than any other form of oppression in a way that makes women a separate cause unrelated to other kinds of oppression — may be working its own kind of subtle social encapsulation.

The other problem with these claims as a «real» politics for the majority of people is that many, if not most, of the social movement's claims are in the general form put amenable to the boss class.

The main choice was between the incumbent Hugo Chávez, backed by a coalition of progressive and left - aligned parties and social movements, and Henrique Capriles Radonski, a state governor with strong ties to the country's elite, who had formed a right wing coalition known as the MUD.

The nearly 7,000 charter schools that have been formed from scratch over the last two decades represent one of the great self - organizing social movements of our age.

Global Education can contribute to the visioning process, but it can also play a role in the critique and the creation of new forms where social movements, indigenous and community — non-formal learning approaches — are essential as they allow for values not central to formal learning and give voice to the collective and marginalized.

Instead, drawing on the labor studies and social movement literature, I argue that unions are complex organizations that reflect their political - institutional contexts, which shape their forms of political engagement.

For years I have set my work in dialogue with forms of resistance, I followed different social movements, blockades of summits, workers» controlled factories, and tried to excavate and present existing concepts and models that might be important to imagine alternatives to capitalism and representative democracy.

In Germany, Max Beckmann, Otto Dix, George Grosz and others politicized their paintings, foreshadowing the coming of World War II, while in America, modernism is seen in the form of American Scene painting and the social realism and regionalism movements that contained both political and social commentary dominated the art world.

ET: Collectivity, political and social movement, public space - you've used these themes to frame a concept of «ecstatic resistance,» which most recently took form as an exhibition of other artists» work.

The exhibition explored in depth the relationship of radical politics to art, by providing visitors with factual context in the form of historical objects that brought home the social and historical realities the movement faced, interspersed with historic artwork that supported and reflected its circumstances and ideals, as well as contemporary pieces.

Through the distortion of natural forms and movements in nature and in objects, she seek to create small, visual breaches in the social settings and norms that we as humans relate to.

Perhaps it has something to do with the peculiar mixture of post-68 entropy and diasporic unravelling of mass political and social movements and the concomitant emergence of more radically elusive and secretive strains of resistance, unable or unwilling to be reduced to a defining form or identity.

By the 1930s, Regionalism, along with its ethical cousin Social Realism formed part of a broad movement known as American Scene Painting, which struck a popular chord with many people, not least because it offered a positive antidote to the gloom of The Great Depression which was ravaging the country.

I do engage directly with the legacies of these movements, but I pursue an aesthetic that combines abstract form with social and political critique.»

Over several seasons, the artists produced a range of conceptual artworks and objects that updated art historical movements like Dada, Surrealism, and Agitprop, commented on social and political real - ties, deepened the content of unfolding plotlines, and elevated the form and content of a «90s pop - culture mainstay.

What comes through immediately is that a combination of his close reading and study of modern western sculpture, and the cultural and social implications of the civil rights movement in America formed Melvin Edwards.

Curator Emily Pethwick selected this work by Carol Bove, «an artist who is interested in tracing the social, political, and artistic movements of the 1960s and 1970s, in particular looking at how these were expressed in aesthetic form.»

Conceptual art emerged as an international art form during a period of social and cultural upheaval in the 1960s and 1970s, which coincided with the era of Pop - Art and the Italian movement Arte Povera.

Lyubov Popova (1889 - 1924), along with Alexander Rodchenko (1891 - 1956) considered one of the co-founders of the Russian style of Constructivism (a school concerned with space, new materials, 3 - D form, as well as science and social reform) was another important member of the Suprematist movement.

Inspired by pioneers like John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28) from the school of English landscape painting, as well as Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67) and Jean - Francois Millet (1814 - 75), and initially linked with the Naturalist and Realist movements, which were themselves a reaction to the social changes caused by the Industrial Revolution, the principles of plein - air art later formed the core of Impressionism - specifically Impressionist landscape painting - as practised by Monet (1840 - 1926) during the last 30 years of the century.

The artist is particularly interested in the social and political legacies of cinema; by revisiting twentieth century revolutionary movements through their cultural manifestations, Jones proposes that new forms of collective action and self - representation may yet be possible.

The corporeal quality of the chairs» form and function, the skins of the elk, and the communal process of hand sewing the elements together is compounded further by the resulting object — a drum — which inherently implies ceremonial and social contexts, movement and sound.

Going further than a sabotaging of art through an unconventional register of forms and techniques, it was art as distinct social territory, governed by institutions, and determined by the market economy, that was in these movements» crosshairs.»

Although nearly one hundred years have passed since the birth of Dada in Zurich and much has changed in terms of the initial purpose of the movement (which was founded to diminish social pretensions, ridicule the human situation, and force audience self - awareness by attacking their common assumptions about art), there are contemporary artists, like Boller, who employ similar forms, gestures and attitudes towards materials which like a steady heart seem to keep the beat of the movement alive.

Created in 1970, they helped build the French ecological movement and helped found the world's largest grassroots environmental network, Friends of the Earth International, Friends of the Earth France forms a local network gathering 30 autonomous local groups that act according to their own priorities and support the national and international campaigns with a shared vision for social and environmental justice.

And while particular social / philosophical movements no doubt can form proximate influence, to lay the ills of the twentieth century at this door is imo very excessively OTT.

This internship is an opportunity to come to us with your wildest dreams to further racial, gender, and other forms of social justice within the zero waste movement.

So the movement we're talking about, the unnamed movement of environmental social justice and indigenous organizations, are forming and collecting to address the salient issues of our time: in poverty and water and climate and the enormous inequities that exist economically in the world, the continuous and rapid degradation of our resource bases, the injustice of pollution itself, in terms of what it does to people's health and their children.

An exception to this is the new legal realist movement, whose primary focus is precisely on the need to translate respectfully between the quite different goals and forms of knowledge typical of legal and social science approaches.

For example, with the advent of services such as Facebook and Apple's iCloud and the movement of our social lives online, our most personal forms of information — over which we have some of the highest expectations of privacy — are now commonly held by third parties, outside our direct control.

Tracey weaves movement (in the form of developmental movement patterns, calisthenics, yoga, mirroring, etc.) with opportunities to work on the emotional triggers, the behavioral and social, educational issues to address the source of those issues.

During the first three years of life, the foundations for communication, movement, and social and emotional functioning are formed.