Sentences with phrase «much historical study»

I was a christian for 99 % of my life and after much historical study I made a personal choice to give up my faith.

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Much of the reason that men commute more than women is historical: studies have found that women have had shorter commuting times than men since the 1980s.

Given all the changes over the past three decades, Davidoff citing a study of the impact of New York financial transaction taxes from 1932 to 1981 is interesting from a historical perspective but not much more.

A colleague of mine, Stephen Zarlenga, has just published a historical study, The Lost Science of Money (2002), showing that public - sector fiat money has a much better record than privately created fiat money.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

But the answer will be much more satisfying if our study includes careful methods of analysis and interpretation, with due regard to the historical and literary contexts and the genre being used.

However, as with everything else, there is a lot of wiggle room when it comes to how much historical and cultural background studies help us understand the text.

Indian music reveals much about Hinduism that is not conveyed by the written word or by reproductions of painting and sculpture; for an introduction to the music of India, Swami Prajnanananda has written Historical Development of Indian Music which, although it bristles with untranslated Sanskrit words, can be read with profit by anyone who has made enough of a study of Hinduism to be able to recognize its central concepts.

This claim is frequently presented, whether implicitly or explicitly, as a correlative to the idea that Christianity often as personified by Jesus or less frequently by Paul - was «goad» for women, paid them particular attention, or at least offered them opportunities not otherwise available, to caricature, the ideal of «the Feminist Jesus».60 In an admirable and scholarly article Leonard Swidler has marshaled historical evidences to show convincingly that Jesus was a Feminist.61 The politics of such a view is self - evident, for much study of the subject has developed within a context where women were struggling to establish a proper role for themselves within the contemporary church; to this end they have sought an egalitarian past to act as model for present polity.62

Departmental names won't matter much if the shift has already taken place from a scientific theology, based on the prior Catholic faith commitment of every student in the classroom (which obviously would require everyone enrolled in the course to be a committed Catholic), to a phenomenological, historical study of what others believe.

Indeed, the historical disciplines as a whole had gone their separate way, and process theology no longer had much connection with Biblical studies.

«Much of our historical data about species» population - level responses to climate change comes from observational studies, which can suggest but not confirm causation,» said Anne Marie Panetta, lead author of the study and a post-doctoral researcher in CU Boulder's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EBIO).

The study suggests that the two African elephants split at least 2.5 million years ago, and possibly much earlier, although Pascal Tassy at the National Museum of Natural History in Paris, France, warns that looking at historical genetic divergence does not give the final word on separating species.

In the GRL study, researchers used a statistical model based on historical climate data to separate how much of the extreme rainfall from Hurricane Harvey was due to natural influences and how much was due to human influences.

At any rate, it's important to note that this study wasn't truly controlled (they compared to some historical patient values), and was confounded by a low - fat dietary change, so we can't know how much was the diet change, the flax, or any other potential factors since it didn't have a true control group.

Milk, directed by Gus Van Sant, is as much an historical account of the rise and sudden fall of a beloved cult hero as it is an intimate character study of a vulnerable, complicated soul.

I have read so many books of historical fiction about WWII and studied the war in non-fiction but I haven't spent much time looking at the every day life of women in Germany after the way and the extremes of guilt and bitterness depending on the role of the men in their lives or their own choices during the war.

I've been studying many of the historical bear markets and corrections that don't get as much publicity as the usual suspects

The thread was launched to explore research by Wade Pfau (Associate Professor of Economics at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo, Japan) showing that Valuation - Informed Indexing beat Buy - and - Hold in 102 of the 110 rolling 30 - year time - periods now in the historical record and that long - term timing provides comparable risk and the same average asset allocation as a 50/50 fixed allocation strategy but with much higher returns.

For gross and histological changes, much of our understanding is based on historical studies and there has been no comprehensive reappraisal of the pathology of MMVD.

Although she sometimes ventures beyond her circle (her dream subject, she says, would be Joan Didion), the series is in part a valentine to creative souls with whom she has forged an enduring connection, as much as a study in contemporary portrait - making that alludes to historical painting.

Moffat studied art history and spent much of his time writing about artists and their historical meanings.

Drawing from extensive research and documentation on a variety of issues (World War I, Islamic art, financial scandals, the skyscraper index, historical personalities, the study of colour, and much more) Raad delivered his findings through objects and story - telling — in the artist's practice, medium and subject - matter never quite fit a static definition.

This requires a very sophisticated understanding of abstraction's history, and much time spent studying historical abstract painting in museums.

Unfortunately for Leif there are many studies and much historical data that show a volcano / solar correlation which he so conveniently forgets to mention because it does not fit in with his delusional opinion that there are no solar / climate relationships.

«To assess the natural variability before much human interference, the new study uses «multi-proxy climate reconstructions» developed by scientists in recent years to estimate historical temperatures, as well as fluctuation - analysis techniques from nonlinear geophysics.

I have always thought that climate science (as promulgated by IPCC at least) has given far too little weighting to historical records, essentially writing them off as «anecdotal», while placing too much emphasis on paleo - climate studies.

For an industry that spends so much time looking at and studying precedent, the giants» singular focus on providing urgently needed (read: present) legal content is a little puzzling, if only because they don't seem to be acknowledging the communal spaces for historical research are disappearing.