Sentences with phrase «identity marker of»

As the good news and its missionaries spread to ever more remote corners of the world, Europe's traditional identity marker of Christendom no longer did the trick.
In this book based on a series of lectures delivered in Canterbury Cathedral, Rowan Williams takes the four identity markers of the Christian community and helps us do just that.
Drawn to symbol and metaphor, her academic interest in Judaism focused on identity markers of daily life — particularly clothing and hair — for insight into views on sexuality, beauty and modesty.

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Equality, dignity, and identity are key markers of our humanity.
The movements Howell mentioned were all led by powerful personalities, but they also dealt with basic issues of Baptist identity and Christian faith: namely, the balance of Scripture and tradition as norms of belief and practice (Campbellism); the nature of the true church and its identity markers (Landmarkism); and the reality of divine grace in the plan of salvation (hyper «Calvinism).
On this usage, if undifferentiated societies fight wars, religion is in fact involved in those wars precisely as a marker of societal identity, whether specific references to beliefs are invoked or not.
So they adopt identity markers — visible practices of dress or vocabulary or behavior that serve to distinguish who is inside the group from who is outside.
The identity markers that will proclaim the authenticity of the people of God will be a circumcised heart and a diet of justice and love.
Assigning gender identity on the basis of biological markers alone has not worked.
It is mainly because the concrete markers of human identity (various features of socioeconomic located - ness) were not interrogated by Banerjea and Upadhyaya that a grossly decontextualized and dehistoricized Jesus is assembled.
This is another portentous marker of human identity: the human subject as conscious agent.
Let me reiterate that both Banerjea and Upadhyaya were able to encounter only one facet of the historical Jesus because they ignored the markers of what constituted concrete human identity.
Circumcision, dietary laws, and other Jewish practices functioned as «boundary markers,» and Paul insisted that such badges of Jewishness were now relativized to a common identity in Christ.
Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.
The state's propensity to assign individuals identities through voter registration lists and social security numbers or more generally to reinforce conceptions of individual rights serves as an example; the roles of educational systems (through individualized test scores) and professional careers (organized around cumulative skills attached to the individual's biography) provide further examples.7 This work is important because it shows the dependence of self - constructs on markers in the culture at large: the self is understood not only in terms of internal development but also as a product of external reinforcement.
I like thinking about how they work to mark ethnicity / identity and as gifts passed down in families, as well as markers of parents» class aspirations.
Since the beginning of time, cultural and societal traditions have been used as markers of identity.
In early 2000 they decided to fund a project to develop methods to first prioritise those species at greatest risk, and then to identify those where DNA markers (characterised differences in DNA used for identity) were not currently available, but could be of potential use in enforcement cases.
With each neuron containing dozens of such proteins, the set of identity markers is essentially unique.
However, if a speaker is unaware of a certain grammatical structure because it is so subtle, they will not try to change it or use it as a marker of group identity.
Like Chinese foot binding, the practice may have been a marker of group identity.
After 15 days, a subset of cells expressed regulators of RGC differentiation (Atoh7, Brn3b, and Islet1), while a smaller subset co-expressed Brn3b and the mature RGC marker Thy1, thus confirming a RGC identity.
And it doesn't help that many of us have elevated our jobs to be markers of our identity.
The leads aren't part of the orchestra, we gather, until they bust out of their respective dollhouses and trade the identity markers those spaces (and their director) impose on them for something like a natural state out in the open.
Maths teachers were telling me that they had been made to feel unwelcome, like they didn't fit in, that they weren't part of our community — simply because of the way they looked or spoke or other social identity markers.
Just over half (50.9 percent) of U.S. middle and high school students reported being verbally harassed at school based on appearance or body size, and the numbers for bullying based on other identity markers were also worrying: race / ethnicity (30.3 percent), gender expression (21.9 percent), sexual orientation (19.4 percent), gender (18.1 percent), religion (18.0 percent), and disability (12.7 percent).
In Marathi medium schools, sanctioned use of the regional language results in the language having high social capital though in English medium schools Marathi is used as an identity marker and as a socializing tool with negative connotations.
The Second is a work of profound and moving secular spirituality that touches on all the markers of religion, a modern - day American Gothic in which the novel's characters ultimately confront their individual identities through the realization of just how hard it is to make belief believable.
Dogs are drawn to urine marks left by other dogs and are apparently able to get information by sniffing the urine, such as the identity, the sex and the reproductive status (whether a dog is neutered or spayed) of the marker.
When in use on stage, Cave's painstakingly detailed textile sculptures conceal the wearer's identity, trading the apparent markers of race and gender for a visual cacophony of heavy beading, embroidery, and organic materials such as twigs or human hair.
Appropriating objects and gestures, Pope transforms loaded signs into studies of class, race, gender, age, affiliation, and other markers of identity.
By many accounts, BAFC was also the expression of a generation of diasporic subjects that seized the term of political blackness as an identity marker as well as a claim to political visibility.
The concourse area holds wooden pallets covered with newspaper to form a display like an impromptu market or gift shop with decorated penholders, markers of identity and global politics.
The wall drawings and paintings of Gary Simmons, which typically use text or architectural drafts as their subject, take on received notions of gender, race, class, and other socially determined markers of identity.
Skin Thick opens at a time when the visual arts are beginning to be taken as seriously as markers of Southern identity as the region's music, literature and cuisine long have — as evidenced by the publication Southern Accent: Seeking the South in Contemporary Art, which accompanied a recent exhibition at Duke University's Nasher Art Museum and the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky.
In prints like Flags I, 1973 and Savarin, 1977 - 81, Johns reimagined familiar media and forms, and reinvented and reinterpreted customary markers of American cultural identity.
James T. Green is a conceptual artist, designer, developer, podcaster, educator, and writer based in Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.. His projects investigate information distribution on the internet and unspoken markers of identity.
Beasley's work often incorporates clothing or other items of personal significance, drawing on associations with a specific person or general markers of identity and memory.
Toyin Ojih Odutola's portraits drawn in ballpoint pen, charcoal, pastel, pencil, and marker examine identity, race, and social concepts of skin color in American society.
The mammoth show — which features over 100 works rendered in paint, film, sculpture and installation, by the likes of Picasso, Laure Prouvost, Kerry James Marshall and Andy Warhol — examines how the studio as a space has evolved and become an important marker of the artist's own identity and style, and takes into account the impact of technology in our digital age.
MOCA GA's Director Annette Cone - Skelton «is especially excited about this exhibition as it offers the public the unique opportunity to view the many processes undertaken by a professional sculptor in the design and execution of diverse and monumental gateway structures that serve as architectural markers for community identity.
Parts of the work address the depth and breath of assimilation within various contexts of identity and urban culture; the trying to find and redefine culture when markers have been lost between generations.
For GENERATION, Maclean has developed themes first touched on in her recent exhibition I HEART SCOTLAND (2013), which looked at popular markers of Scottish identity and the political debate around independence.
Over time, each piece of bologna, affixed with a photograph of a person who may or may not be Jewish, will twist as it cures, making the marker of identity — Jewish identity or any identity, it seems — unrecognizable.
Unlike the formal and material signifiers of gender that she introduced into her work during the women's movement period (i.e., hand dyeing, sewing, patchwork, domestic scale), the ostensible markers of Jewish cultural identity are harder to identify in the arena of painting.
Your body prints strike me as a marker of identity or personhood, especially in a world in which both are in flux — they aren't as solid as we used to think.
In certain jurisdictions, regulatory bodies track vehicle identities through some kind of marker, and so as long as that survives, it's considered the same vehicle.
Because racialization is explicitly defined for the purposes of this study as either or both an imposed or chosen identity... in contrast to «race» and «visible minority» that purport to be objective markers regardless of an individual's experience.»
In a very positive light, France's Central Bank, The Banque de France has tested blockchain technology for use in the management of SEPA Credit Identifiers or identification markers used to establish the identity of creditors within the Single Euro Payments Area.
Your Education section ought to portray your academic exercises like sports, theatre, clubs and student politics, since they are imperative markers of your identity and character.
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