Sentences with phrase «modern nation state»

Kimelman, a professor at Brandeis University, concludes in his analysis of the commission's report that «It remains to be seen whether a modern nation state, beseiged on so many fronts, can maintain such a demanding moral standard... If the Israeli effort to admit and rectify errors bears fruit, the lyricism «a light to the nations» may yet become reality.»

They were also completing a decades - long project of securing the independence of the Church as a social - political institution in but not of the modern nation state.

Within Europe, the religious - cultural formation called Christendom, which had been under construction for almost 1,000 years, was beginning to break apart — a process to which the gradual birth of the modern nation state significantly contributed.

According to the Marxists, secular liberation movements and the religious countermovements to which they give rise are cut from the same cloth: Both take for granted the repressive nature of the modern nation state, with its supposedly hypocritical promise of rights for all.

The nation state structures are being radically questioned, for they are the unit structures of the political powers that have been most destructive; and the global market agencies are realizing the restrictive nature of the modern nation state structures for free interaction and movement of goods and services.

Christianity has been in power for many centuries in one form or another, whether it was the Roman Catholic Church that sought political dominance in Europe, the Christianized culture of the medieval period, the Inquisition that persecuted heretics, or the modern nation state of Europe that went to spread Christianized culture to its colonies.

Each artist presents meditations on new and ever - changing cultural imaginaries that co-exist within the modern nation state in both its cities and rural spaces.

In featuring representations of a shared commons, a pervasive elsewhere to imagine globalized spaces of refuge, this exhibition responds to recent thinking by Moten, Harney and Ferreira Da Silva on how the global can be recuperated, identified and accessed beyond the mediating control of capital and the logic of the modern nation state.

Hopefully, the legal community will come to a sensible understanding that we can both get the difficult and rare information we need to illuminate understanding of something as complex as the laws of a modern nation state, while still making the ones people need for their lives accessible to them.