Sentences with phrase «more cultural ones»

Hence, some of us continued our education in Western universities but kept alive our hope of being able to contribute to the efforts of articulating our Filipino identity.13 To what extent either group has been successful remains to be seen since, unfortunately, political and economic considerations have overshadowed the more cultural ones.

Not exact matches

But for every sign of financial success, there seems to be at least one more of cultural disquiet.

Both boys and girls are the victims of this cultural heritage, which is one reason I'm excited to see more men in the conversation.

Not only do these opportunities boost our economy and make us all wealthier (in more ways than one), they help diversify our populations and give us access to new technologies, better ideas, and more cultural perspectives.

There are more than one million jobs in the Canadian cultural industry.

First, on average, crowdfunding projects, many of which have more to do with one - off artistic or cultural projects than for - profit businesses with growth potential, have raised very modest sums.

The crackdown on Internet TV, seen in this context, represents just one more step taken by the party to prevent insidious Western cultural influence from undermining the regime.

«It's one thing for a marketer to try to predict if people like Coke or Pepsi,» he said, «but it's another thing for them to predict things that are much more central to our identity and what's more personal in how I interact with the world in terms of social and cultural issues.»

But what is dealt with here is, in fact, more a cultural phenomenon than a clinical one.

From the point of view of the Christian tradition itself, such a renovation is not merely a capitulation to one more cultural expression, «but a new stage in the ongoing shaping of the gospel in different times and contexts.

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.

That a congregation is constituted by publicly enacting a more universally practiced worship that generates a distinctive social form implies study of that public form: What are the social, cultural, and political locations of congregations of Christians and how do those locations shape congregations» social form today (synchronic inquiry); what have been the characteristic social, cultural, and political locations of congregations historically and how have those locations shaped congregations» social forms (diachronic study); in what ways do congregations engage in the public arena as one type of institutionalized center of power among others?

As society's understanding of mental health is starting to take some slow, lurching steps toward progress, Plaza seems uniquely poised for a new cultural norm: One in which the broad spectrum of mental and emotional health is more fairly and accurately represented.

There are some cultural things going on here with the act of baptism, and the fact that family members and servants usually followed the religion of the head of their household, but again, the most straightforward way of reading these texts is that more than one person believed, and those that did believe were baptized.

True enough; but those words also represent the ideas they know, their intellectual and moral categories — the ones they have inherited from their elders or, more accurately, from whatever cultural institutions they consider authoritative.

Blending cultures: Faith traditions are becoming more diverse in the U.S. as people of different denominations, cultural backgrounds and ethnic heritages adopt new beliefs or reinterpret traditional ones.

Before attempting to describe a biblically based alternative (the «Hebraic» model) to these cultural models, one more in line with the inductive play of Peter Berger and C. S. Lewis, let us summarize these common, though inadequate, understandings.

No one has expressed American cultural openness more insistently than the archetypal American poet, Walt Whitman.

One study, drawing on national survey data, indicated that evangelicals tend to be relatively isolated from the main sources of secular influence (e.g., higher education, professional careers, urban or suburban residence), thus permitting them to retain their plausibility structures more or less intact — although other modes of cultural accommodation were also evident.15

For others, many of whom have already left the church, it is but one more sign of the inevitable slide of Anglicanism into a failed cultural accommodation with modernity's egalitarian politics.

So the point I want to make today is not that all who subscribe to patriarchy are abusive, but that patriarchy in a religious environment, just as in any environment, has a negative effect on the whole community and creates a cultural climate more susceptible to abuse than one characterized by mutuality and shared leadership between men and women.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

One need not ignore economic and geopolitical factors to be more impressed by the explanatory narratives provided by scholars such as Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington who accent the cultural and religious sources of the current conflict.

One of the doubled - edged gifts of the enlightenment is that we've dispensed with a lot of superstitious thinking, but we've also dismissed the more useful side of myth - forming and cultural narratives.

After being closed during the Cultural Revolution (1966 - 1976), Buddhist and Taoist temples are being opened and restored, and tourists are allowed — indeed, strongly encouraged — to visit them, especially the more spectacular ones.

[These games] are the cultural equivalent of genetic engineering, except that in this experiment, even more than the other one, we will be the potential new hybrids, the two - pound mice.

In this politics of freedom, religion figures as a cultural power, a recognized public force; and the freedom that one claims for it is the more legitimate as religion is not its exclusive beneficiary.

Finally, a new cultural underpinning to party alignments emerged in 1992, pitting coalitions of more - and less - religious people against one another.

It may require the thought and action of more than one generation to develop this new sense of cultural responsibility.

One more time: American religious empiricists never were as intimidated by reductionism or as driven to pure descriptions as were the Continentals because these empiricists saw how to be relativistic to cultural conditions without being merely subjectivistic.

It would be much better for Protestants to have one American university so committed to Catholicism that it excluded Protestants than to have one more American university so committed to what is laughably called «cultural diversity» that it excluded no one.

Second, it must be quite clear that participating in more than one religio - cultural tradition does not mean an opportunistic putting together of a featureless mass of religious resources.

It is more than a coincidence that this theological shift is mirroring a massive cultural shift in society at large, where in the space of one generation attitudes to homosexuality have gone from prohibition to tolerance, and now to celebration.

The chief problem with this world view is that it allows for more than one «truth» about reality, truths which merely coexist in discrete personal and cultural worlds.

One fears that Smith and More, perhaps like their author, are drawn to Christianity mainly as a transcendent means for making their own cultural critique.

The cultural consequences of immigration pose a more difficult problem, one less amenable to remediation, which is why it is probably the deeper source of populist anger.

My third critique considers a more directly cultural relativist argument, and one that is to some extent more credible.

I believe one huge miracle is finally happening in the world that is getting people to integrate amongst each other, regardless of race, sex, religious belief, sexuality, cultural differences, etc. and that it is in this that more people are challenging what is understood of the world around us, our place in it, and how God works through all of it.

One of the more interesting experiences he ever had was being a judge at the huge Memphis in May Cookoff, which he called a «barbe - cultural experience.»

Those foundations have socio - cultural roots, but at their most elemental, they all revolve around one desire: for money, or more pertinently the security that it provides, however nebulous it may be.

A week later Harper came back with several more poems, and Danielpour produced a score influenced by jazz, which he calls «the [one] cultural commodity aside from baseball not inherited from Europe.»

Despite the apparent «outrage», this situation is largely cultural with England having a much more entrenched away culture than the largely muted one in Spain.

That's what I'm saying too - I think that the real problems that have lead us so far away from breastfeeding are less to do with formula companies and more to do with the completely screwed up North American birth culture where under - informed medical staff are the ones at the steering wheel and we have succumbed to the over-sexualization of breasts and other non-female-friendly cultural ideas that have made breastfeeding «gross», «offensive» or «unnecessary».

• Across a wide range of cultural contexts, around one third of mother - child attachments and one third of father - child attachments are rated «insecure» when their child is 15 months old (Ahnert et al, 2006), even though at this stage most mothers will have spent far more time caring for the child.

Attempting to develop more cultural diversity caused one parent to complain that the district was not serving «American food,» while another argued that the food was «too much what the people in Los Angeles look like.»

From a biological point of view, one question begs answering: why or how could 40 - 60 % of otherwise healthy infants have sleep problems to solve and if this is percentage is anything near the truth then the cultural and or scientific models of normal healthy sleep that underlie our cultural ideologies must reflect far more about adults than they do about babies.

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?

I guess maybe it's just more of a cultural vibe, one that I dread even discussing here for fear that I perpetuate it in any way.

One factor here is that college - educated Americans are now more marriage - minded, and that's a cultural factor.

Now the district has 58 parks on more than 440 acres, five swimming pools with adjoining neighborhood centers, one indoor pool, a cultural arts center, a tennis club, fitness center, 43 softball diamonds, 17 soccer fields, 58 outdoor tennis courts and 26 outdoor ice skating rinks.