Sentences with phrase «hegemonized early societies»

In many early societies harming someone meant that the entire family would seek out retribution on the other family.

In A Common Faith Dewey suggests that organized religion once provided a useful sense of the whole, but that now it has abandoned that task and, instead, attempts to fob off on newly emergent societies the basically irrelevant sense of the whole generated by an earlier society in a different history If this last judgment is harsh, it was harsh because «the religious» was so important to Dewey and because he still hoped for a religiousness capable of setting forth a functional sense of the whole.

Furthermore, if men hegemonized early societies, then of course their god would be maleâ $ ¦ the majority always wins in cases of interpretation and establishment.)

Cast in a broad evolutionary framework, Bellah's outline distinguished five ideal - typical patterns of religion, each of which is a distinct stage or «relatively stable crystallization» in the development of religion from early societies to the present.

While the cohesive power of a shared culture dominated earlier societies, a predominant feature of the modern state is the tendency towards individualism.

«Study reshapes understanding of climate change's impact on early societies.»

Similar male kinship networks in humans may have led to the extended, stable interactions that formed the basis of early society.

These societies were not necessarily full democracies in which citizens cast votes, but they were radically different from the autocratic, inherited rule found — or assumed — in most early societies.

Armed with the new data, archaeologists are probing just how these drugs impacted early societies and beliefs.

Early societies quickly embraced the accident: ancient Sumerians may have diverted as much as 40 percent of all grain to beer production.

One of humankind's oldest industrial partners is yeast, a familiar microbe that enabled early societies to brew beer and leaven bread and empowers modern ones to synthesize biofuels and conduct key biomedical research.

Whilst for these very early societies the fermentation process was a welcome mystery, humans learned that fermentation not only enhanced the taste of these food products but also ultimately preserved the foodstuffs.

As early societies developed agriculture, these cats moved in to prey on the rodents that were attracted to stores of grain.

At the same time there was a more benevolent early society of clans and clanhouses who introduced education and social welfare.

Earlier societies typically made reactive responses to climatic adversity, and often did so too late.

Not exact matches

«I would just say that we may or may not have reached out to certain folks very early about the importance of data encryption, and if those people had used our software then that data that would still be protected today And it's a shame, a shame for society, that they did not take that simple action.

They found that «critical slowing down» is a reliable early warning signal of a society on the edge of going bust.

What such early true believers opposed was a society with lords and ladies — so egalitarianism became an article of faith, with «comrade» replacing «Mr» and «sir» in party forums.

Entrepreneur John Battelle, an author, blogger, and one of the founding editors of Wired, thinks the basic infrastructure of the future of business and society was born in the early days of the web: the banner ad.

Hailey's chaotic Rikers stint and subsequent struggle to return to society was documented earlier this year by The Associated Press.

Even Rupert Murdoch said so earlier this month, warning in a tweet that America is becoming a «class society.»

The demutualisation was opposed by a group of members, some involved in the founding of the society in the early 1960s to offer an alternative to banks, which at the time were regarded as unfriendly to consumers.

The side effect was first observed earlier this month at the American Society of Hematology conference, where CEODavid Schenkein spoke with CNBC about the safety of one of the molecules in its drug, which was meant to treat pyruvate kinase deficiency, a rare, genetic anemia.

«There's a massive opportunity here to change the global financial structure, to change a lot of ways that society interacts with technology,» says Elizabeth Stark, the CEO of Lightning Labs, which, in March, released an early version of much anticipated software that is designed to make Bitcoin transactions faster, cheaper, and more private.

Recalling the blunders that led to the island's defeat in early 1942, he wrote, «In 70 days of surprises, upsets and stupidities, British colonial society was shattered, and with it all the assumptions of the Englishman's superiority.»

We invest much less in young children, and that stems largely from the fact that most other advanced economies view early childhood education, child care and other benefits targeted at parents with young children as «public goods,» meaning investments that, absent public support, would be insufficiently made from the perspective of society's well - being.

The Infectious Diseases Society of America and the HIV Medicine Association sent a joint letter to Turing earlier this month calling the price increase for Daraprim «unjustifiable for the medically vulnerable patient population» and «unsustainable for the health care system.»

Like the technocratic progressives in the early 20th century, one can easily see how Silicon Valley's masters of the universe might see themselves as best able to «manage» society.

Unlike the marginalization experienced by earlier generations of Chinese immigrants, this new group integrates more fully into mainstream British society.

Jeff Schwartz, president of the Parkland Historical Society, said between 1,500 and 2,000 tributes that were placed near the Parkland Recreational and Enrichment Center and amphitheater in Pine Trails Park were already collected earlier this month.

During a talk at the Japan Society in New York, the CEO of the Monex Group made connections between the derivative market in the early 1980s and the current state of cryptocurrency.

Arnold is a guest lecturer at the MIT Entrepreneurship Center and Sloan School, a mentor to early stage companies through the MIT Venture Mentoring Society and is on the grant review board at the MIT Deshpande Center.

Did you know that many public employees are starting to retire much earlier than society's traditional age of 65?

Grammy - winning performer and producer Wyclef Jean believes the combined creativity, ingenuity and energy of young people in their last few years of high school and early college is a musical, cultural and political force that a society ignores at its...

There are so many things that have faced human society that were completely incomprehensible to the original disciples and apostles, the early church, and yet the church endures, the church survives because the Gospel isn't tied to one particular time in history, one particular school of thought, one particular framework.

Still, she notes that, «In the early 19th century, the United States was one of the most egalitarian societies on the planet.

And while it is surely obvious that not everything can be covered in a discussion of this length, I would argue that the prayer and Bible - reading decisions of the early Sixties have had a far greater impact politically, culturally, and legally on American society than many scholars realize.

Martyrs and Martyrologies edited by Diana Wood Blackwell, 497 pages, $ 64.95 The story of Christian martyrs of the twentieth century is yet to be told, and one of the merits of this collection of learned essays, consisting of papers read at the Summer 1992 and Winter 1993 meetings of the Ecclesiastical History Society, is that they not only deal with early, medieval, and early - modern martyrs (and ideas about martyrdom), but include several original essays on latter - day martyrs.

A 2005 study by Gregory S. Paul published in the Journal of Religion and Society stated that, «In general, higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy, and abortion in the prosperous democracies,» and «In all secular developing democracies, a centuries long - term trend has seen homicide rates drop to historical lows» with the exceptions being the United States (with a high religiosity level) and «theistic» Portugal.

It was unfortunate that the earliest attempts to liberalize Islamic theology were quickly followed, in the first half of the twentieth century, by the attempts of Muslim leaders like Ataturk, in Turkey, and Reza Shah, in Persia, to force their societies to emulate the secular West.

Is it any wonder we find so many ex-offenders re-offending?!!! I don't believe people should necessarily be taken off the hook and get out early, but if they have done their time, have they not paid their debt to society?

I think it» a bit early to believe we have everything figured out when we can't even fix very simple problems that exist in our society.

Even primitive societies were aware of it, and it inspired not only feelings of religious awe (many expressions of which are found in the Bible itself) but also the earliest attempts at mathematical science.

Rather, specifically human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence of occasions which share, by virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.

Some theologians in the Wesleyan tradition, especially those most under the influence of neo-evangelicalism, in the early years of the post-World War II Evangelical Theological Society attempted to work in the neo evangelical coalition.

As Imbruglia notes, the utopian vision of the Paraguayan missions was created by the Jesuits themselves: In widely circulated accounts, Jesuit authors described how once - «savage» Indios «became different men» through their conversion and joined a «perfect society» resembling the early Church.

Its authors, Norman Dennis and George Erdos (neither of them Catholic) quoted The Ecclesiastical History of England by the Venerable Bede to remind readers of an earlier time when society had been in an equally parlous state.

We might say that society has a vested interest in protecting the «sacred interplay» we spoke of earlier, encouraging only permanently committed couples to approach that ground.

Moreover, by no manner of emphasis upon the importance of individuals could early Christians escape, any more than we can, the towering evils of society at large.

From its early days, therefore, until the present, Christianity never has been able completely to reduce itself to a circle with one center, the soul; always the great tradition has called it back to be an ellipse around two foci, the individual and society.