Sentences with phrase «modern social perspective»

You can also approach the concept of racism from the historical or modern social perspective.

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From this perspective, the modern assault on sex standards in the name of freedom (more properly called license) presents a major threat to individual and social welfare, for it justifies and confirms sensual satisfaction as the regulating principle of life.

On balance, Berger's theoretical perspective has provided a modern apologetic for the value of religion, arguing not from theological tradition but from the secular premises of social science that humans can not live by the bread of everyday reality alone.

His aim is so to bring the Christian perspective into the concrete political and social experience of modern life that the possibility of achieving justice and brotherhood in human affairs will be increased because men are in some measure freed from the sentimental and romantic notions which can only lead to bitter disillusionment.

In view of the multiple challenges of secularism and social change in the modern world, no denomination can afford to fuel its mission with energies and perspectives drawn only from its own historical tradition.

In his evolutionary perspective, the growing differentiation of modern culture has placed religion in competition with reason, the natural sciences, and most recently the social sciences, all of which have taken over many of the topics on which religion traditionally spoke with authority.

The social gospel, by contrast, was a 60 - year movement and enduring perspective that paved the way for modern ecumenism and social Christianity.

Three themes that emerge from her work are explored in Outcasts: finding a voice, the process of constructing multiple perspectives on female identity; hybrid alternatives to the status quo, harnessing ancient and modern mythologies to subvert the established social and cultural order; and healing and empowerment as pathways to resistance, inclusiveness and recovery from loss and trauma.

Through a precise examination of this distinct form of artistic practice in works by artists ranging from John Cage to Sanford Biggers, this exhibition provides a unique perspective on the ways in which modern and contemporary artists have used language, objects, and images to forge social contracts with their publics.

Exploring themes of agency, politics and perspective, and responding to content within the fair itself, this year's Talks program features Claudia Rankine, 2016 MacArthur Fellow and winner of the 2017 Bobbitt National Poetry Prize for her collection Citizen, as well as a panel on art and social commitment chaired by Shuddhabrata Sengupta of Raqs Media Collective and featuring artists Tania Bruguera, Anri Sala and Jeanne van Heeswijk; and a conversation on «complicating the Modern» from Ann Temkin, Marie - Josée and Henry Kravis Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA.

Mehretu's work offers not only a new form of visual abstraction, but also a new perspective of the social and geographic networks that underpin the modern world.

The first major survey of contemporary Guatemalan art in the United States — and as much a political and social history as an art history — it is just one of more than 70 deeply researched exhibitions of Latin American and Latinx art at Southern California institutions comprising the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: LA / LA, a four - month - long program that aims at nothing less than «flipping the history of modern and contemporary art, beginning with the Latino perspective,» as Getty Foundation deputy director Joan Weinstein put it.