Sentences with phrase «from cultural understanding»

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Over 90 percent of business executives said their past mergers would have «substantially benefited from greater cultural understanding prior to the merger,» reported a McKinsey & Company survey.

«Healthcare activities are social responses organized to face diseases and can be understood as a cultural system,» write two itinerary trackers from Brazil.

According to Young, Whitehead's understanding of consciousness seems extrapolated from the cultural norms of «the white majority social group.»

And scripture's witnesses are properly understood only in the context of the social, cultural and historical circumstances from which they come.

Church freedom or the freedom of the church from narrow cultural norms, Bennett explained, was understood in a new light..

When you tell people you are questioning the creation accounts of Genesis 1 - 2, a lot of Christians get very angry, and some religious types will actually fire you from your job... What they don't realize is that you are simply using historical - cultural research to understand Genesis 1 - 2 the way Moses and the Israelites would have understood it.

While Biblical hermeneutics provided the key to an understanding of the role of women in the church and family, dialogue between those whose traditions have heard the Word of God differently in other times and places held the key for the discussion of social ethics, and engagement with the full range of cultural activity (from psychotherapy to radical protest, from personal testimony to scientific statement) was the locus for theological evaluation concerning homosexuality.

It can not be understood apart from the cultural milieu of the sixties when, in a confused concatenation of events, the aggiornamento proposed by the Second Vatican Council was hijacked to mean that the Church should conform itself to the culture, just at the time when the culture was being radically deformed.

Then more flexible people begin to understand, and they start to experiment with the new consensus so that cultural transformation, this movement from death to life of an entire people, begins to happen.

In an interview with Il Foglio Cardinal Scola, Patriarch of Venice and founder of the Oasis cultural centre for understanding between Catholics and Muslims, said that the Open Letter to the Pope and other Christian leaders by 138 scholars from various Islamic traditions was «not only a media event, because consensus is for Islam a source of theology and law... The fact that the text is rooted in Muslim tradition is very important and makes it more credible than other proclamations expressed in more western language... It is only a prelude to a theological dialogue... in an atmosphere of greater reciprocal esteem.

If thinkers as diverse as Rousseau, Paine, and Tonnies are all to be understood as Utopian insofar as they criticize the present from the standpoint of a real or imagined past, then utopianism is an honored mode of cultural criticism.

From the start, Ricoeur rejects the assumption that to understand a text is to understand the intention of the author, or, alternatively, to grasp the text's meaning as it was grasped by the first hearers or readers who shared the author's cultural situation.

All fields of knowledge, from archeology to zoology, can claim distinguished contributors from many lands, and all studies have important applications to world understanding, whether it be an inquiry into the archeology of the Middle East, once the cradle of civilization and now a focus of cultural and industrial renaissance, or an analysis of the zoology of malarial infection, which has sapped the energies and influenced the destinies of millions in tropical areas around the globe.

They love and respect the church they understand, and what they understand about the church is due, in no small degree, to the halfhearted, truncated doctrine of the church they have received from the clergy and from the cultural image.

«By acknowledging that all our readings are located in a cultural context and have certain prejudices, we understand that engaging with the Bible can never mean that we simply extract meaning from it, but also that we read meaning into it.

Parents who understand this will take steps to separate themselves and their children from our cultural Sodom and Gomorrah.

Most of us have assumed ours to be the normative position, «that we stand at the point where the true understanding of Christian faith is located, and that others indulge in interesting cultural or geographical deviants from our norm.»

I have read snippets from a couple of websites now so that ought to put me on par with people who've read dozens of books on the topic, understand neurobiology and have written on both the philosophical and cultural aspects of free will and people's belief in the topic.

But as the late Columbia University cultural historian Jacques Barzun (an immigrant from France) used to say, whoever wants to understand the heart and mind of America had better understand baseball.

«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a living and true God and not moving from one culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.

It is precisely because of the particular shape of the Christ - event as Paul understands it — as a gift (1:6, 15) given without regard for its recipients» worth, status, honor, or cultural capital, whether Jewish or pagan (1:14 - 15; 6:15), delivering them from enslavement to cosmic powers (4:1 - 7)-- that Paul deems circumcision unnecessary and, in the Galatians» case, at least, positively forbidden (5:4).

Of course, I am not a theologian or well read or educated in the Bible with all the pertinent historical, cultural, or grammatical facts required to understand and interpret the text in my intellectual grasp, so I may have misunderstood your meaning, missed a point, or maybe we're saying the same thing but each from a different perspective, like is said those who misread Paul's Roman epistle and James» epistle.

Just as when I speak, I draw from the whole background of English, and my prior understanding of English forms, so the creative artist can draw upon the artistic organs with which the cultural history and his own training have endowed him.

Language, pictures, and other cultural forms are the very stuff from which our understanding composes itself.

This picture of what it is to understand God tends to have a cultural location that is characteristically different from the one that correlates with understanding by way of sapientia or wisdom.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studiesFrom these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studiesfrom the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

That way they would be best prepared in an ongoing manner, on the one hand, to understand the cultural setting in which they ministered and possible new developments in it, and, on the other hand, to distinguish the essence of Christianity from its various historically conditioned forms and to reformulate it for every new cultural context of ministry.

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What sent them was the understanding that over time, American schools from middle school up had institutionalized and venerated a game capable of seriously harming those who played it — and even protected it in law and beyond in the form of societal and cultural protections no court order could budge from good standing.

When my friends who are married to husbands from other countries called to get advice about blending holiday traditions or vent about that cultural difference with the in - laws, I listened gladly, knowing they had no one else that could understand.

But in France, parents understand and support the higher values that are imbued from communal eating: cultural education, food education, etc..

According to her, the «Community» statue was inspired from the understanding that success is a product of unity while the beauty and strength of Lagos is her hospitality and acceptability of people of other cultural background with a binding cord of unity around us.

Reah Bravo, an intern and then an associate producer for Rose's PBS show, said she had been the recipient of unwanted sexual advances from the host, and it had taken a «fierce moment of cultural reckoning» for her to «understand these moments for what they were.»

From the moment of birth humans possess the capacity to make distinctions between speakers of their native language and others, which helps understand how infants and young children are tuned to quickly acquire the knowledge of their society and adopt to their cultural environment,» said Dr. Marno.

Krauss: Well I just came personally just came back from Paris a little while ago — this is the international year of astronomy in honor of Galileo's discovery — and I think if you look back with a historical perspective and ask how astronomy has changed our cultural perspective and understanding of ourselves, it is profound.

«I have an edge in understanding the reasons why South Asians have cultural and lifestyle risks, which allows me, as a health care provider, to treat them effectively,» says Nagarajan, who will graduate from the School of Public Health this fall with a master's degree in epidemiology.

«From the origins of civilization to the first international empires, Syria's cultural heritage and these sites in particular are vitally important to our understanding of history.»

Bucklow believes that our modern - day appreciation of cultural artefacts — such as mobile phones — is completely divorced from our understanding of the materials that go into their making.

Cultural competence requires that teachers reflect on what they recognize as familiar, and that teaching students who are different from you requires greater understanding.

Based in Portsmouth, UK About Blog The Port Towns and Urban Cultures group is dedicated to furthering our understanding of the social and cultural contexts of ports across the globe from the early modern period.

It makes sense; if you date someone who is similar to you, you're more likely to feel understood because you both come from the same social and cultural worlds.

There are going to be cultural differences so by going through the marriage agency you will be able to get some insights from the match makers who understand both cultural perspectives.

Some skeptics, however, do not understand why a foreign man, for example, would wish to find a girl from Russia, being well - informed about various cultural differences as opposed to the women of their culture.

I want to meet new peoples, and understand their cultural, the place where they come from etc, so that i can broaden my thinking abilities, becoz i believe that «The World is Not, wat it Looks Like».

The website support English and Spanish languages, which means that users from diverse cultural backgrounds wouldn't have any difficulty in understanding the website.

The «Investigation Trilogy» features male protagonists, who are not suffering from mental breakdowns (their female counterparts in the «Apartment Trilogy» as Carole in Repulsion, Rosemary in Rosemary's Baby and Trelkovsky in The Tenant may or may not be experiencing), although these men still are afflicted by perceptual inhibitions — an inability to understand what they are dealing with (Gittes in Chinatown), difficulty with language and cultural differences (Walker in Frantic) as well as literal barriers to clear perception, for example the glasses worn by Corso in The Ninth Gate.

Yorkville was a place where, potentially, you could develop a more discerning eye for understanding the production of culture and sometimes come to recognize the coincidence between mass cultural production and the regression of one's own intellect, as bikers, greasers, hippies, teenyboppers, and sometimes political organizers, congregated in the coffee shops and flop houses, or just hung out on the streets, all pretending that we were creating a new society free from the normative shackles of conventional morality and lifestyle but basically we were looking for drugs, sex and rock and roll and our twenty minutes of fame.

The Indigenous pre-service teacher in turn provides cultural learning support to their mentor, ensuring the wider community benefits from a deeper cultural understanding;

Kim said the Korean and Singapore success stories could not be understood apart from deep - seated cultural factors.

Transmitting the values of intercultural understanding, cultural diversity and creating a sustainable environment from one generation to the next is essential if the seeds of peace are to be planted and nurtured by future generations.