Sentences with phrase «live in a cultural context»

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This is at best misleading: Writing in the cultural context of the liberal West, Soloveitchik often devoted more words to emphasizing the necessity of humility and surrender for a genuine religious life, but he had no more esteem for a purely submissive religious posture than for an exclusively assertive one — a point made clear by his frequent condemnations of mystical self - abnegation.

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

I believe that part of that listening process should include listening to the cultural context in which the people we're trying to talk to live their lives.

To fulfll the Lord's mission worldwide, we must understand that we live in different social, political, historical and cultural contexts in and through which God acts and speaks to us, though we live on the same globe.

Students themselves engage in theological reality - testing from the workplace, family life, cultural ferment and contexts of oppression.

The Word, by definition, lives in the midst of the cultural context of God's people.

In the present cultural context, they may be the age group most likely to appreciate the relief of leaving the pressures and values of the old life behind.

[16] This heritage, which many Indian - Christian theologians have too often accepted uncritically, accepting the broad brush - strokes, without going into the nitty - gritty details, needs to be re-examined and re-evaluated so that the meaning of several concepts which such a heritage has spawned and which is reflected, often unconsciously, in the present attitudes of Indian - Christians, can be liberated «from the socio - cultural, philosophical and historical contexts in which they have been deified, and make their theological insights reincarnate in the life and concerns of the people.

The relativity of Niebuhr's theocentric relativism derives not from the variety of religious and cultural contexts in which different people live, but from the awareness that each person lives in several of these contexts at once.

However one looks at Scripture, as the «word of God» or just old writings, understanding the historical and cultural context in which the writer's lived and wrote can give us lots of insight.

Therefore, in proclaiming the Kingdom of God in our context should mean taking seriously the cultural and religious symbols and traditions which embody their vision of life and wholeness.

God creates the possibility of new life in each nation's religious and cultural context (Isa.

It may be helpful to note, however, that an account of the perceptions and interpretations of the cultural context of theology and church life is as important as a description of a current trend in some graduate schools.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

I have lived in two continents, in four different cultural contexts, and married an African Muslim with whom I lived with for 12 years, and as a result, we spent extensive amounts of time in Africa.

How can we help each other develop the capacity to make more conscious technology choices, especially when our cultural context is one where everyone is now connected and technology is in every aspect of our lives?

But considerable recent research aimed at broadening this empirical base has revealed that children's knowledge about living things and the relations among them is sculpted by the cultural and environmental contexts in which they are raised.

In five studies among three groups and seven cultural contexts, researchers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the US show that the same psychological processes explain mutual outgroup hostility between non-Muslim Westerners, Muslim minorities living in the West, and Muslims living in the Middle EasIn five studies among three groups and seven cultural contexts, researchers from Denmark, Norway, Sweden and the US show that the same psychological processes explain mutual outgroup hostility between non-Muslim Westerners, Muslim minorities living in the West, and Muslims living in the Middle Easin the West, and Muslims living in the Middle Easin the Middle East.

For cultural context, i.e. to explain in part why I've been comfortable going gray, I've lived most of my life -LSB-...]

When Ben Affleck's directorial debut GONE BABY GONE was released, the real life tragedy of Madeline McCann was at the peak of a media frenzy, and it was practically impossible to view that film outside of the cultural context in which it fell.

In this context, a radically different vision of human well - being, one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, and one that empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their liveIn this context, a radically different vision of human well - being, one that is in tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, and one that empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their livein tune with nature and respects other species, promotes socio - economic equity amongst all people, enhances the cultural, material, economic, social, and political opportunities for all, and one that empowers each person and community to take part in decision - making affecting their livein decision - making affecting their lives.

It is concerned with making critical judgements based on a sound knowledge of a variety of contexts; judgements about cultural values, cultural history, aesthetics, quality, craftsmanship and fitness for purpose, and provides an opportunity for and engagement in leisure pursuits that can yield lifelong benefits in health, well ‑ being and life satisfaction.

Programs like ours can become vehicles for promoting students» awareness of their own perspectives and why and how they might be similar or different to those of people living in other cultural contexts.

The author of the Common Core Standards for English Language Arts, David Coleman, has said over and over at conferences, in interviews and in online presentations that students» personal responses and interpretations have no place in the classroom nor does discussion of the cultural and historical context in which books are written or in which students live belong in that classroom.

By introducing and researching teacher - led book discussions of ethnic literature, we hoped to investigate alternative texts and contexts for teachers to learn about the cultural foundations of literacy in their own and others» lives.

SRI holds that the practice of ensuring that each child is successful regardless of their external or internal, social or cultural contexts requires racial identity work — exploring the role that race has played in shaping our own and our students» lives.

This biography / cultural journey seeks to right that wrong and place Brown's life and music in the broader context of the South's racial struggles.

As a Thai artist born in Argentina and now living between New York, Berlin, and Chiang Mai, Tiravanija's work often carries strains of his own nomadic existence, the blending and re-combination of different cultural contexts.

His life and career are redolent of the history of New York City at a crucial moment in its art and cultural history — a context so eloquently drawn in Patti Smith's 2010 bestseller Just Kids...

These exhibitions emphasize historical, cultural, social and artistic contributions, providing a broader context for the lives of African American Marylanders explored in the permanent exhibition.

The work he produced in the 60s certainly reflects the socio - cultural context the artist lived in: the Rome of «La Dolce Vita,» Fellini's iconic film that well describes the city's sweet, glamorous lifestyle of those years.

In another work, Hong Hao collected many red header documents and food tickets to create a collage that comment on the sense of authority among hierarchy in Chinese cultural context to show the relationship of humanity in people's daily lifIn another work, Hong Hao collected many red header documents and food tickets to create a collage that comment on the sense of authority among hierarchy in Chinese cultural context to show the relationship of humanity in people's daily lifin Chinese cultural context to show the relationship of humanity in people's daily lifin people's daily life.

Alongside the distinct formalism that underpins six decades of practice, Brisley has unflinchingly probed the contemporary political, cultural and social contexts in which we live.

The aim of their work is to portray a group of people living in a specific cultural, social and economic environment and mapping the spatial and architectural context where they live.

While living and working for decades in various cultural contexts s such as Guyana, Canada, and the United States, Lyght creates a wide range of works that analyze the structural properties of painting and reanimate pictorial space as an open system.

Oppenheim speaks of growing up in Washington and California, his father's Russian ancestry and education in China, his father's career in engineering, his mother's background and education in English, living in Richmond El Cerrito, his mother's love of the arts, his father's feelings toward Russia, standing out in the community, his relationship with his older sister, attending Richmond High School, demographics of El Cerrito, his interest in athletics during high school, fitting in with the minority class in Richmond, prejudice and cultural dynamics of the 1950s, a lack of art education and philosophy classes during high school, Rebel Without a Cause, Richmond Trojans, hotrod clubs, the persona of a good student, playing by the rules of the art world, friendship with Jimmy De Maria and his relationship to Walter DeMaria, early skills as an artist, art and teachers in high school, attending California College of Arts and Crafts, homosexuality in the 1950s and 1960s, working and attending art school, professors at art school, attending Stanford, early sculptural work, depression, quitting school, getting married, and moving to Hawaii, becoming an entrepreneur, attending the University of Hawaii, going back to art school, radical art, painting, drawing, sculpture, the beats and the 1960s, motivations, studio work, theory and exposure to art, self - doubts, education in art history, Oakland Wedge, earth works, context and possession, Ground Systems, Directed Seeding, Cancelled Crop, studio art, documentation, use of science and disciplines in art, conceptual art, theoretical positions, sentiments and useful rage, Robert Smithson and earth works, Gerry Shum, Peter Hutchinson, ocean work and red dye, breaking patterns and attempting growth, body works, drug use and hippies, focusing on theory, turmoil, Max Kozloff's «Pygmalion Reversed,» artist as shaman and Jack Burnham, sync and acceptance of the art world, machine works, interrogating art and one's self, Vito Acconci, public art, artisans and architects, Fireworks, dysfunction in art, periods of fragmentation, bad art and autobiographical self - exposure, discovery, being judgmental of one's own work, critical dissent, impact of the 1950s and modernism, concern about placement in the art world, Gypsum Gypsies, mutations of objects, reading and writing, form and content, and phases of development.

«One way of understanding the relation of the terms «modern,» «modernity,» and «modernism» is that aesthetic modernism is a form of art characteristic of high or actualized late modernity, that is, of that period in which social, economic, and cultural life in the widest sense [was] revolutionized by modernity... [this means] that modernist art is scarcely thinkable outside the context of the modernized society of the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

I appropriate familiar objects and social events, which are universally recognisable within specific cultural contexts (games, souvenirs), to invite audiences to take a look at the society that they live in, often revealing underlying belief systems, drawing audiences into a series of questions that ask «how do we come to know what it is that we know» — Yara El - Sherbini, 2015

(catalogue) Persona, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland 1995 It's How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York; curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo Strung Into the Appolonian Dream... an exhibition of a private collection, Feature, NYC, NY Seven Llongish Wodden Sculptures, Feature, New York, NY 1994 The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, IL Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee 1993 A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Urbana - Champaign, IL; I Space, University of Urbana - Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL 1992 Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1991 Office Party, (March) Feature, New York, NY Power: Its Icons, Myths and Structure in American Culture 1961 - 1991, Museum of Fine Art, Richmond VA: curated by Holliday T. Day (catalogue) 1990 Toward the Future Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Awards in the Visual Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Southeastern The Thing Itself, Feature, New York, NY (brochure) New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A. King (catalogue) Half - Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY; curated by Marge Goldwater 1989 On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966 - 1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL Signs of Life: Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundacao Luso - Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Judith Russi Kirshner.

Motley (1891 - 1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city's African American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context.

Motley (1891 - 1981) was born in New Orleans and lived in Chicago, where he painted the cultural life of the city's African - American neighborhood known as Bronzeville, portraying it with an eye for calibrations of class and race, and with a sense of his own conflicted position within its context.

They acknowledge that «the fact of living in Cuba has already influenced us in our way of thinking and in our logic to perceive the artistic, cultural events,» but stress that this is simply an irreversible effect of their background: «Although our work never made a direct statement towards the political reality of Cuba our context, our culture, and our homeland [always lie] in our artistic practice.

There are contexts in adult life where splitting is a cultural norm though one could argue it also has deleterious effects.

Social workers work with individuals, families, groups and communities in the context of their physical, social and cultural environments; their past and current lived experiences, and their cultural and belief systems.The Australian Association of Social Workers (AASW) is the professional representative body of social workers in Australia.

These properties make it particularly useful in diverse cultural and global contexts, where it can easily be molded to the real lives of real clients.»

She has a PhD in Social and Organizational Science and considers an important element of her work to include reflections on the social and cultural context within which our clients live and grow in.

You will also gain a working model of how to begin intervening in a child and family's life affected by trauma respectful of the child and family's cultural context.

I will attend to your relational, self, and cultural contexts in order to co-construct wished - for outcomes, find desired meanings, and develop expanded perspectives to pressing issues in your life.

Hope to have more availability soon ** I have a warm, collaborative working style that integrates a systemic theoretical orientation (understanding people's lives in the context of biology, relationships, work, and larger social / cultural systems) with highly individualized, evidence - based treatment.