Sentences with phrase «of cultural attitude»

With this kind of cultural attitude, adjusting to and accepting a baby's intense dependence can be difficult for new parents.

At several points he touches upon the paradoxes of modern urbanism and the tragic ironies of our cultural attitude toward cities: although we now have more individual freedom, technical ability, and, arguably, social equity, we do not live in places as hospitable to human beings as were our cities of the past; we are pragmatists who build shoddily; our current obsession with historic preservation is the flip side of our utter lack of confidence in our ability to build well; while cultures with shared ascetic ideals and transcendent orientation built great cities and produced great landscapes, modern culture's expressive ideals, dogmatic public secularism, and privatized religiosity produce for us, even with our vast wealth, only private luxury, a spoiled countryside, and a public realm that is both venal and incoherent; above all, we simultaneously idolize nature and ruin it.

There's a wide range of cultural attitudes within the U.S. Large parts of the northeast U.S. tend to be achievement - oriented, while in the South, there is an emphasis on honor, Basáñez says.

It is distressingly banal to reduce Paul's language about sin and grace, about disobedience and love, to the level of cultural attitudes (toward, for example, «imperial ideology»), though such a reduction often passes itself off as theology in some seminary classrooms today.

In general, editors denounced racial prejudice and spoke of the equality of women, but reflected the narrowness of their cultural attitudes more than they themselves recognized in the jokes they published and in the phrasing of their editorials.

Nonetheless, by usually speaking as though his ideal types characterize real historical figures, he leaves the impression that each Christian or group can be adequately typed by one or the other of the cultural attitudes.

Hopefully, she says, the students will learn enough that when they are deployed overseas, they'll have a decent, evidence - based understanding of the cultural attitudes they're working with.

Yes, America's schools are often outscored by other nations on international exams, but to what extent do those comparisons measure schools and to what extent are they reflections of cultural attitudes over which schools have little control?

His work questions the legitimacy of «normative» values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education.

His works frequently dealt with class, youthful rebellion and popular culture and attacked the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward religion, history, education and family.

They've been raised with a particular set of cultural attitudes, which have been reinforced by advertising & mass media, and don't have experience of living outside this box, or of how much more comfortable (IMHO, anyway) it can be.

Not exact matches

Rhodes says he could also be the victim of a cultural shift in attitudes about ownership.

Cultural attitudes, fairness, economics, and entrepreneurial behavior all point to extension of this trend toward legalization.

Meanwhile, Canada's low ranking in the OECD's business enterprise expenditure on research and development rankings is often blamed on the national tendency to «sit on dead money» because of «cultural risk aversion» or «insufficient outward - looking attitudes.»

This book by two psychology professors explores the hidden biases we all carry from a lifetime of exposure to cultural attitudes about age, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, social class, sexuality, disability status and nationality.

Arendt's attitude toward the Congress for Cultural Freedom, an informal gathering of anti- and ex-communists, indicates how severely critical she was of such CIA - sponsored clandestine activity in the early 1950s.

If those in the church who are in favor of changing long - held attitudes and ordinances relating to homosexuals were merely cultural relativists with no regard for the Bible or tradition, the debate would be easier.

I must conclude that the cultural attitude toward sex, in terms of legalistic moralism, is not the Judeo - Christian attitude toward sex at all, but is rather a reflection of the way that an earlier era of our history related to the circumstances of sex.

Cultural attitudes that reject the gift of life lead very easily to social acceptance of abortion, of no - fault divorce, and of fatherless families.

Ingrained perceptions of cultural superiority of one group over others have led to conflicts such as the European invasion of the rest of the world to «civilize» them, and of Hitler Germany's attitude of ethnic purification towards Jews.

The Public Square Rapidly changing attitudes toward Christian ministry reflect a cultural incursion into the life of the churches that is getting mixed reviews.

Rapidly changing attitudes toward Christian ministry reflect a cultural incursion into the life of the churches that is getting mixed reviews.

And while more than 90 percent of black voters supported Jackson in recent primaries, Hertzke notes that «many of these same black voters register remarkable sympathy for Robertson...» Robertson's appeal among blacks is correctly attributed to religious and cultural attitudes.

By setting his, discussion in the context of a dialectic (externalization, objectification, internalization), he has in effect stressed the importance of social interaction for the production and maintenance of religion but at the same time he has recognized the independent capacity of religion to exist as a cultural system and to shape individual thoughts and attitudes.

And while the administration of life - ending drugs must be freely chosen by the person to be euthanized, it is obvious that the more euthanasia becomes normalized, the more coercive the cultural attitude will become for the young and old alike.

Although part of this is simply entertainment, one wonders the extent to which this brutal honesty and schadenfreude reflect cultural attitudes.

Christians shared the cultural attitudes of the first century regarding the position of women in a manner analogous to their attitude toward slavery (cf. Eph.

5:21 - 6:9 where Paul expresses the reciprocity of marriage in terms acceptable to the Ephesians» cultural attitudes and the obligation of slaves and masters in a similar manner).

One need not be a Freudian, however, to observe that attitudes toward sex, and especially variant understandings of the relationship of sex and the social order, mark out one of the important boundary lines of our political and cultural landscape.

They don't want to get caught in the crosshairs of people in their congregation who firmly believe that Christianity is compatible with nationalism, militarism, materialism or whatever cultural attitudes they've accepted.

Nehru used to say that he preferred the cultural attitude related to the spirit of Paganism which allowed many gods including an unknown god to coexist; it reinforces democratic tradition.

They transmit knowledge, attitudes, and skills from one generation to the next, insuring continuity of cultural life.

His outlook has affected the way I face the «community of the many,» and it has helped define my attitude toward the cultural challenges confronting my own Jewish community.

Attitudes toward the state, cultural assumptions, and self - designations all bear on how we do theology and should raise sensitivity in the area of preaching.

In answer to the criticism that WCC is syncretistic because of its program for inter-religious dialogue, Thomas said that if the word syncretism denotes all processes of interpenetration between cultures and religions, the only answer to a wrong syncretism, which means the uncritical, superficial, normless mixing of basically incompatible religious concepts and cultural attitudes, is a Christ - centered syncretism which grapples with and evaluates all concepts and attitudes critically in the light of Jesus Christ and converts them into vehicles for communicating the truth of the Gospel and for expressing its meaning for life.

The general religiousness of that nation, so different in cultural character from that in North America, has contributed both to a measure of forgiveness and mutual trust within a highly plural body politic, These attitudes to be sure are both flawed and fragile, but they have made a difference.

In this time of cultural confusion about the meaning of family life, the world needs to see the kind of attitudes Christians can bring to their family relationships and responsibilities.

In spite of changing cultural attitudes about marriage, many Protestants today think it is abnormal not to marry.

While some social critics accuse youth of being lazy, indulgent, and narcissistic, others see cultural attitudes about work changing because of a transition from an industrial to a service culture.

(3) We have observed that physiological changes as well as cultural attitudes toward alcoholism (which regard it as a question of willpower rather than a sickness) probably contribute to the perpetuation of the addiction once it is established.

[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 way to fix up the categories is to get away entirely from the idea that the cultural attitudes of each spokesperson or group can be fit neatly into one of the categories.

The fact of the matter is that once we get away from Niebuhr himself and try to use the categories constructively, they are extraordinarily useful for analyzing the attitudes of almost any Christians on almost any cultural issues.

While some cultural leaders (such as John Dewey and Sidney Hook) were saying that the open - minded attitudes of liberal, secular science were the only was to build a civilization free from prejudice and irrational intolerance, many other prominent spokesmen were saying that Christianity and the Judeo - Christian tradition could provide the best basis for a truly tolerant and liberal civilization.

The new middle class, I would argue, has a number of morally positive features, especially in its attitudes toward race and toward ethnic or other cultural differences; it is a racially and ethnically tolerant culture, and this is good.

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 driving force behind this process — i.e., the «factors making for growth in the halakhah» — is, first, the «necessity to respond to new external conditions — social, economic, political, or cultural — that pose a challenge or even a threat to accepted religious and ethical values,» and, second, the «need to give recognition to new ethical insights and attitudes and to embody them in the life of the people, even if there [is] no change in objective conditions.»

Reporting on the recent Barna study on Gen Z attitudes and behaviors, Jonathan Morrow, director of cultural engagement at Impact 360 Institute, writes: «With the best of intentions, we bubble wrap our kids and create Disney World - like environments for them in our churches, and then wonder why they have no resilience in faith or life... In short, teenagers need a grown - up worldview not coloring book Jesus.»

They point to other destructive aspects of television that have been stressed by television researchers and theorists; the privatization of experience at the expense of family and social interaction and rela - tionships; (33) the promotion of fear as the appropriate attitude to life: (34) television's cultural levelling effects which blur local, regional, and national differences and impose a distorted and primarily free - enterprise, competitive and capitalistic picture of events and their significance; (35) television's suppression of social dialogue; (36) its distorted and exploitative presentation of certain social groups: (37) the increasing alienation felt by most viewers in relation to this central means of social communication; (38) and its negative effects on the development of the full range of human potential.

A rational attitude necessarily involves critical reflection, but if such reflection is truly critical it applies itself not only to the cultural tradition but also, and with equal rigor, to the critics of the tradition.