Sentences with phrase «identity struggles of»

Her family later moved to Miami, where she grappled with both the internecine identity struggles of the Caribbean diaspora and U.S. racism.

Not exact matches

Early on, I struggled with the typical «identity crisis» of sorts trying to figure out if I needed to «appear larger» to win significant business.

As businesses struggle to establish a strong corporate identity, there's no shortage of enterprises waiting to help.

«People struggle to define unique identities - with no apparent reason to develop a talent, practice creativity, engage their intellectual curiosity, or achieve much of anything, many people are left feeling purposeless, unmotivated, unfulfilled and alone,» says Bolton.

Born as Bradley Manning to a Welsh mother and an American father, Manning also elevated discussion on LGBT rights in the military after her struggles with gender identity came to light in the midst of the WikiLeaks scandal.

Without champions from within, the kind of diversity that comes from a life of struggling and hustling — the backbone of America's history — will simply not be a part of this country's corporate identity.

What he offers is a sympathetic portrait of a city managing its own decline and groping its way toward a new 21st - century identity, a struggle that's playing out in a number of Rust Belt cities, from Cleveland to Gary, Ind., to Hamilton.

When a local business desires not just capital, but engaged and impassioned customers, an open crowdfunding market must be there for them; when a retail investor wants a meaningful alternative to the 70 % algorithmically - traded public markets they distrust, an open crowdfunding market must be there for them; and when a struggling city desperately needs to engage all of its residents — not just the 2 % who are accredited — to ignite their local community's economy, pride, and identity, an open crowdfunding market must be there for them.

I struggled with a lot of identity issues.

He says he knows older people who struggled to rebuild their identities after they poured much of their earlier lives» energies into professional and personal success.

More recently, Coronation Street's Rev Billy Mayhew (Daniel Griffith) is a gay character who struggles with the apparent conflict between his sexual identity and the Church he loves, which could be viewed either as a reflection of real life, or a deliberate ploy to drum up viewing figures by exploiting a delicate and complicated theological subject.

Their fight for survival foreshadowed that of the more than ten million Christians of the Muslim world, who today struggle to maintain a presence and identity in the lands where they have lived for centuries.

The poor man, too, must by a deliberate act of the will affirm his class identity and consciously assume the class struggle before he will be able to realize his revolutionary potential.

Christians need to be re-Christianized, to have their true identity in Christ made palpable so that they can take it with them when they venture into the marketplace, into the public arena and into the private struggles of their lives.

The struggle of the marginal for identity is to be seen as a necessary process to realize the global.

Nature would still feel alien to a man struggling with his self - identity and the «permanence» of the stars would still be a reminder of a man's fragile mortality.

4 Much the same can be said of the Western novel, not because the majority of the heroes of novels are «found» (neither are they in the New Testament parables), but because the lost - found struggle, the pattern of the individual in search of his or her real identity is the pattern in so many of our novels.

The struggle with the feeling of estrangement from oneself may be experienced as an identity crisis.

I confessed my fears of motherhood (the comment section after that one is perhaps my favorite ever), my struggle to find identity in the Christian «industry,» my not - so - holy Holy Week, my mistakes, my questions, my April Fools jokes, my joys.

«Reconciliation and Struggles for Identity of the Different Christian Communities and Groups in India» in Reconciliation in India, St. Paul Press, Bombay, 1983.

The Jewish fight for survival, struggle for emancipation, and a shared lachrymose conception of history were adopted as better ways to express Jewish identity.

«A higher religion imposes a conflict, a division, torment and struggle within the individual... we escape from this strain by attempting to revert to an identity of religion and culture which prevailed at a more primitive stage; as when we indulge in alcohol as an anodyne, we consciously seek unconsciousness» (Notes, p. 68) Typically, Eliot did not attempt to lessen the strain; rather, he saw the church as the «salt of the earth,» affecting society at its deepest levels.

Evangelicals for Social Action, a group that has struggled for traction and identity since it framed the Thanksgiving Declaration of 1973, has regathered its strength around a new board of directors representing many sectors of the evangelical movement.

Fair enough: decades of Communist tyranny set atop centuries of other, far more invincible tyrannies have effectively shattered the Orthodox world into a contentious confederacy of national churches struggling to preserve their own regional identities against every «alien» influence, and under such conditions only the most obdurate stock survives.

As in all power struggles, its antagonists need a public differentiation between «them» and «us,» and in this struggle that makes inevitable the primacy of sexuality in personal identity.

1, Dalit theology is part of the post colonial struggle of different communities for their distinct identity and space.

James Massey, Down Trodden: The Struggle of India's Dalits for Identity, Solidarity and Liberation.

And each of the practical fields is struggling for identity and is undergoing transitions.

Using the Deuteronomic Creed as model, Dalit theology can construct the historical Dalit consciousness which has to do with their roots, identities and struggle for human dignity and «for the right to live as free people created in the image of God.»

When he is glum, uncommunicative, and rebellious, because of his own anxieties and identity struggles, he needs to know that he can count on the love and trust of his parents.

A lot of people today struggle with their personal identity, and who they should be.

I've been in full time ministry, got fired, struggled for decades with my self - identity as a construction worker to raise a family, and ended up joining a Church where I had a snowball's chance in hell of getting ordained but still held out hope, but it has never happened after 14 years now.

It wasn't just songs about God, it was stories of struggling with your faith, of finding your identity in your religion, and the line between doing work for God and letting your work praise God.

Because of his divine struggle, he found a new name, a reforged identity that grew to encompass the Israelite people.

I would agree, but I would supplement this narrative by pointing to the psychologizing of human identity and political struggle over the last century.

Is not the recovery of the unique Christian identity bound up with the struggle for the church's integrity?

In the classic manner of the coming - of - age novel, Harry struggles mightily to figure out his own identity and to discover and claim his rightful place in society — a society that more or less resists that claim, both innocently (in the effort to protect him) and maliciously.

The field of pastoral theology is expected to be more oriented toward ministerial practice than other disciplines; at the same time, it has struggled with the ambiguities of its identity.

-- that plot's linkage, in the stories of both congregations and poor societies, marks the struggle for recollection of the past so that cultural identity, the pattern, is maintained in the face of cultural obliteration?

The struggle of my generation to claim their identity is one reason why we've become culture's punching bag.

I watch some women struggle with their identity because they feel inadequate in staying home to raise their kids instead of being «strong, independent and career - minded.»

It makes human beings with the deepest personal identity responsible for their actions, successes and failures, without denying the urgency of the struggle for social, economic, and political pre-requisites of righteousness, equality, and brotherhood.

Stage five, adolescence, is the period of the identity crisis when a youth struggles to gain a firm sense of who he is as a person, separate from his parents.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Each of the four referents or areas of theological concern in globalization - mission, ecumenism, dialogue with world religions, and the struggle for justice — has within it a persistent plurality that seeks to obliterate their identities, draw them around one center, and integrate them into the life of one single community.

The basic central elements in the making of the counter-culture and the germ of the future society are the forces released by the self - awakening and the struggle for self - identity and justice of the traditionally oppressed peoples of India.

The main thrusts of Rank's theory are particularly useful when counseling with persons caught in severe independence - conformity conflicts (such as some adolescents) those who are paralyzed about finishing a project or chapter of their lives (e.g, pre-graduation anxiety attacks) and in danger of sabotaging the successful completion of something they really value; those who are afraid to make decisions or try something new which they want but which may mean giving up old securities; couples who are struggling to find satisfying closeness without either of them losing their identity and autonomy heir lives (e.g., pre-graduation anxiety attacks) and in danger of sabotaging the successful completion of something they really value; those who are afraid to make decisions or try something new which they want but which may mean giving up old securities; couples who are struggling to find satisfying closeness without either of them losing their identity and autonomy.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity, which rather than being a natural given would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

This harm consists in the irreversible scrambling of three things: genealogies, by substituting «parenting» for fatherhood and motherhood; the status of the child, who would go from being a subject to being an object to which others have a right; and sexual identity as a natural given, which would have to give way to orientation as an individual expression, in the name of the struggle against inequality, perverted into the elimination of differences.

Incidentally, not only does the imagery of arising out of nothing and returning to nothing make its appearance in the Kabbalism of Isaac Luria, and I suspect in Melville, but also in the psychoanalytic insights of Sigmund Freud, especially in Beyond the Pleasure Principle, in which Freud sees life as a struggle between the desire to maintain individual identity and the desire to return to the source from whence we have come.