Sentences with phrase «history of political movements»

A Brookline native, she attended the town's public schools from kindergarten through high school and returned as a high school Social Studies teacher after earning a PhD in American Studies at Brown University and teaching Women's Studies, Science in Society, and the history of political movements at the college level.

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«A careful reading of history shows that the Reformation was essentially a political movement, and the net result of it in Europe was a gradual displacement of the universal ethics of Christianity by systems of national ethics.»

Today, stereotyping evangelicalism as a whole only fortifies the influence of the political right on a movement that has a much more varied history.»

These include history and geography, schools of thought, mysticism, religious belief, religious practice, Islamic law, theology, philosophy and ideology, politics (dynastic states, political and religious roles, political concepts and terms), economics, culture and society (personal life, community life, arts and literature, science and medicine, communications, popular religion), Islamic studies, institutions, organizations, movements, biographies.

This indifference contrasts sharply with the flowering of interest in the Western missionary movement shown by departments of history, political science and anthropology.

There is no intention to provide a history of political theology or to introduce the reader to the whole field of recent developments within that movement.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

It is not unfair to claim that all of continental European Jewish history is viewed by David Vital as an unfolding tragedy moving inevitably, like some Greek drama, toward genocide, with only Zionism, among the many political movements to find support among the Jews, having the prescience to foresee, however dimly, the catastrophe ahead.

From the early days of human history we have seen one ideological movement after another rise, inspire, become corrupted by political and other power brokers, attract huge numbers of mindless followers who are trying to fill the empty hole in their pointless lives, and then ultimately disappear in a corrupt mess.

There is no need to recount here the well - documented story of how the civil rights movement inspired political activism by other groups with grievances about their status in America and their treatment throughout American history.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

Much of the history of the World Council of Churches and the ecumenical movement that led to its formation has been concerned with social and political thought.

I suspect a lot of us know he was a great Indian leader without quite knowing why and such is our ignorance of Eastern history and culture we may not fully realize that his movement did indeed liberate India, in one of the greatest political and economic victories of all time, achieved through nonviolent principles.

Revealing the suppressed history of the movement to gain racial equality and political upheaval, the bloody, dangerous history lays bare issues we're still struggling to correct nearly fifty years later.

After providing the political and cultural contexts for the rise of the testing accountability movement in the 1960s that culminated almost forty years later in No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top, this book then moves on to provide a policy history and social policy analysis of value - added testing in Tennessee that is framed around questions of power relations, winners, and losers.

Yet the epic events of the century play out in the lives of the two brothers — wars, political movements, technological advances — and even though they want nothing more than to shut out the world, history seems to pass through their cluttered house in the persons of immigrants, prostitutes, society women, government agents, gangsters, jazz musicians... and their housebound lives are fraught with odyssean peril as they struggle to survive and create meaning for themselves.

Sands» win was an important moment in the history of the political arm of the Republican movement, Sinn Féin, which grew to be the largest political party in Northern Ireland by the turn of the century.

This exhibition is described by the museum as the first - ever to present the perspectives of women of color «distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.»

While more personal, these are no less political than previously; in his art, Dial's own story is always only part of a larger history, spanning the Jim Crow era in the South and the Civil Rights movement through such phenomena as the economic globalization and Great Recession of the 21st century, which have disproportionately affected African - Americans.

Even so, his work is meaningfully, and indeed crucially, connected to important activities, movements, and genres of American artistic production — sculptural assemblage using found objects, appropriation of existing text and image, institutional critique, the politics of representation, performance — and, moreover, to the colonial history and political struggles of the country.

It is the first exhibition to highlight the voices and experiences of women of color — distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.

Organized by the Brooklyn Museum, this exhibition is presented as the first - ever to explore the perspectives of women of color «distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.»

It is a history of moments and waves, swells of abstraction that tend to correspond with political movements.

The political thread in her work raises questions about the African Diaspora's movements and it's relation to feminism, sexuality, racism and the history of slavery.

Often referencing political and artistic history, including social resistance movements and Dada, Minimalism, and Conceptualism, Pendleton siphons historical and aesthetic content from texts and visual culture to critically examine the resonance of ideas from varied cultural and social perspectives.

The first exhibition of its kind, We Wanted a Revolution brings to light the intersectional experiences of women of color, experiences that often subvert the primarily white, mainstream feminist movement of the 1960s in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and history in this crucial period.

Houston - based Jamal Cyrus's body of work began from revisionist approaches within American history, particularly studies dealing with the African Diaspora and the formulation of Black political movements.

Described as the first - ever exhibition to present the perspectives of women of color «distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history,» featured artists include Camille Billops, Beverly Buchanan, Elizabeth Catlett, Jeff Donaldson, Jae Jarrell, Wadsworth Jarrell, Samella Lewis, Lorraine O'Grady, Faith Ringgold, Betye Saar, Lorna Simpson, and Carrie Mae Weems, among others.

The idea that black artists were part of a «movement» is misleading, and the Tate exhibition posits the era as a political intersection with an art history perspective rather than as a group of artists working for a common cause.

In addition to an art historical overview, American history, political and social movements are also illuminated by means of video and music fragments in the exhibition space.

Bartana's work deals directly with the history of Poland — her project consists of three videos that «document» a fictional political movement to bring 3.3 million Jews back to Poland, using this hypothetical to explore real issues related to Zionism, Polish anti-Semitism and the complexity of ethnic and religious integration.

Himid was one of the pioneers of the Black Art movement in the 1980's which offered a forum for black artists exploring the social and political issues surrounding black history and identity.

Nonetheless, Durham's work is meaningfully connected to important activities, movements, and genres of American art since the 1980s — including assemblage using found objects, appropriation of text and image, institutional critique, the politics of representation, performance art — and, moreover, to the colonial history and political struggles of the country.

This is perhaps the most significant pivot in our short history, but one we felt was a necessary evolution both in our own internal shifts of interests and in response to broader intersections in contemporary arts publishing, social and political movements and artist - centered practices.

My research explores the history of pattern and printed textiles and the ways in which they reflect social and political movements.

Inspired by the history of printmaking from the Mexican Revolution to the recent Occupy Wall Street movement, this 5 session printmaking course explores how printmaking techniques can give a voice to political thought and actions.

Some came to explore revolutionary socio - political ideas as evident in the works of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, Tina Modotti and others, some in kinship with the Mexican muralist movement and its new realism, some were simply drawn to the country's ancient history and spirituality or the desire to document sacred monuments in their natural setting.

«This diverse lineup of panels — from challenging how we position ourselves in a globalized world, to how critical language itself has adapted in the 21st century to support current movements — examines how certain histories are being rewritten through a series of discussions that span design, architecture, geographical differences in curating, and the potential socio - political implications of collecting art, among other prevalent topics.»

The subjects dealt with are released from the political - social complaints that have characterized the two decades of the Equipo Crónica, a Valencian collective that combined elements of Pop Art with the figurative aesthetic of Nueva Figuración movement, highlighting a critical look at Spanish dictator Francisco Franco and art history itself.

Described by the museum as the first - ever exhibition to present the perspectives of women of color «distinct from the primarily white, middle - class mainstream feminist movement — in order to reorient conversations around race, feminism, political action, art production, and art history in this significant historical period.»

On the scale of just one or two decades, and sometimes in less time than that, technological revolutions, political movements, or singular events can shape the course of history in unpredictable ways.

The 45 environmental groups were selected from among the major national environmental organizations analyzed by political scientist Christopher Bosso in his book Environment Inc: From Grassroots to Beltway, an award - winning study of the history, financing and political strategies of the U.S. environmental movement.

But while we are on your topic of history, when was the last time that a scientific community was widely captured by a political movement?

Lizza's piece is partly a profile of Steyer and his potential political ambitions, but it is a thorough telling of the recent history of the climate movement and how the Keystone pipeline became a test of President Obama's commitment to moving the US away from fossil fuels in order to slow global warming.

From landscape architecture's role as propaganda, to the role that green and public spaces have played in leading political movements, and how the marginalized have found homes among the flowers and veggies — this is the history of gardening that many don't speak of.