Sentences with phrase «of cultural expressions»

That site has some really excellent posters you might want to take a look at as well (oh, and it might help get the extra layer of meaning if you know that «po - mo» is also slang for «post modern» which is a term used to describe the meta - level / self - satirize / surreal sort of cultural expression that followed the «modernist» movements): http://www.spurgeon.org/~phil/posters.htm

For like Whitehead and Dewey, Kadushin understood that the concept of organic thinking offered an approach to logic and the foundations of knowledge that was an alternative to the perversions of the sort of blind faith in natural science that had come to dominate the intellectual cultures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; an alternative that did not attempt to devalue science or replace it with a nonrational mysticism, but which did attempt to place scientific thought into a broader cultural context in which other forms of cultural expression such as religious and legal reasoning could play important and non-subservient roles.

The denial of cultural expression, which almost inevitably includes religious expression, in public is the death of democracy.

Immerse yourself in our unique tapestry of cultural expression and history.

Today, she writes about finding the most local and authentic cultural travel experiences you can find wherever you travel, with food at the forefront of that cultural expression.

Originally meant to pay tribute to Miguel de Cervantes, the festival has grown and is now a celebration of all types of cultural expression including music, dance, theater, visual arts, and literature.

«In general I think what we're trying to do is create meaningful experiences and we believe that video games can be meaningful, can be a true form of cultural expression.

Appropriation and remixing are not exactly new forms, but they're increasingly becoming one of the most common methods of cultural expression.

How does technology allow artists new ways to create, and what does this mean in terms of cultural expression?

To see Orly's arrestingly frank, personal images sewn upon kitschy vintage table runners is to understand immediately the many changes in the tenor of cultural expression between then and now, and in conflating today's brand of cultural confessionalism with yesteryear's kitschy conservatism her work encapsulates a sweeping arc of feminist history.

While these concerns may be universal, Saudi artists approach them through the lens of their country's unique history and forms of cultural expression.

His first book Welcome to the Jungle: New Positions in Black Cultural Studies (1994) investigated new forms of cultural expression in black film, photography and visual art, documenting fresh perspectives arising from the overlapping of Asian, African and Caribbean cultures that constitute Black Britain.

New social institutions evolved with forms of cultural expression including street theatre, poetry and music and it was a hub for trade union activity and left politics.

In the first weeks of this 10th anniversary year of the September 11th attacks and the subsequent invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, with global economic and political policies fueling conflict and prompting revolt, there have been numerous programs, talks, and debates around the city about walls: metaphorical walls created by censorship, physical walls dividing Israeli and Palestinian territories or Mexican borders, but also boundaries that some artists insist are essential to maintaining the integrity of cultural expression and identity.

National Museum of the American Indian presents Circle of Dance, an exhibition opening Saturday, Oct. 6, featuring Native dance as a vibrant, meaningful and diverse form of cultural expression.

Indigenous Culture Support (ICS) Program which helps to maintain Indigenous culture through community involvement, transmission of knowledge and skills across generations and support of new forms of cultural expression.

Not exact matches

This assessment is a milder expression of Uber's cultural issues than those voiced by some of Uber's own executives in the wake of Fowler's blog post, which detailed how other female engineers had shared similar stories of harassment.

His ban from visiting Britain in June 2009 has made him the «poster child» for free speech, not only for Americans concerned about the cultural shift towards totalitarianism and their rights to freedom of expression, but for people around the globe.

If you believe that Christian doctrine is essentially an attempt to capture dimensions of human experience that defy precise expression in language because of personal and cultural limitations, then the truth about God, the human condition, salvation, and the like can never be adequately posited once and for all; on the contrary, the church must express ever and anew its experience of the divine as mediated through Jesus Christ.

Christian faith challenged the pessimism and resignation of ancient culture and unleashed new possibilities for political organization, cultural expression, scientific and technical exploration, and the emergence of the individual.

There are many of us who are weaker than we realize, and in an effort to be heard and enjoy some personal accolades as a leader of the faith, are; but only to look foolish for narrow - mindedness, cultural irrelevance, or logically flawed expressions of theology.

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.

The concept of cultural relativism is particularly helpful in connection with the understanding of values as one of the expressions of human spirituality.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

This means not only that we are approaching the texts as fully human productions — I point out that statements of divine inspiration are statements concerning ultimate origin and authority, not method of composition - but even more that we take seriously that aspect of literature of most interest to cultural anthropologists: how it gives symbolic expression to human experience.

Self - schooled in the history of European nationalism — especially as championed by Giuseppe Mazzini in Italy — Savarkar sought to give expression to a broad cultural ideology that could challenge the British Raj, counter Western influence more generally, and provide intellectual defenses against Muslim beliefs and the allegedly culture - destroying work of Christian missionaries.

Add onto that any number of cultural factors... and well yah, scratch the surface of our civility, and there is a lot of stuff to do with power, our sexual expression and our sexual self being one of the areas that is tightly controlled.

Formerly, in the particular religions of tribes or nations religion was the expression of special interests, needs, insights, and cultural peculiarities.

It assumes that from the perspectives that come to expression in cultural - linguistic systems and are shaped by them, something of reality is seen.

The character of this suffering moves theological attention to the social systems that shape our lives — economic, political, cultural — as well as to public events themselves (the Holocaust, programs and policies of economic austerity, military intervention, terrorism, ethnic nationalist expression, struggles for survival and freedom).

In this view, it is intolerable that the largest and most influential moral authority in the world persists in rejecting the sexual expression of the cultural commandment to «follow your bliss.»

These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

Thus the philologist would ascertain the meaning of a passage of the Indian Atharva - Veda; the historian would assign it to a period in the cultural, political, and religious development of the Hindu; the psychologist would concentrate on its origin and significance as an expression of feeling and thought; and the anthropologist would deal with it from a folkloristic point of view.

It should be borne in mind that because religion conceived of as a vital force transcends its expression, it can not be unreservedly regarded as one among many spheres of cultural activity.

Since linguistic signs are matters of historical and cultural convention, when language presents itself as natural rather than drawing attention to its own arbitrariness, it may get granted unquestioned status as the expression of what is real and abiding.

These were willing to shed all the inherited and supposedly unchangeable dogmas in order to be free to explore fresh forms and expressions of the Christian faith which would be more relevant to the new cultural and intellectual climate.

Crucially important to Meland's enterprise is a recognition of myth as the felt expression of the depths of human culture, In his view, religious faith, and more particularly Christian faith, finds embodiment and expression not only in religious institutions and individual religious experience, but in the midst of secular cultures as well, The Judeo - Christian mythos underlies and is formative of the cultural sensibilities of Western men.

It also helped to foster the culture which surrounds First Things, perhaps the most articulate organ for the expression of conservative religious voices in the current cultural climate.

May all Britons continue to live by the values of honesty, respect and fair - mindedness that have won them the esteem and admiration of many -LSB-... and] always maintain... respect for those traditional values and cultural expressions that more aggressive forms of secularism no longer value or even tolerate.

The French School of Sociology of Religion, the German, the English, the North American, are discussed, along with expressions of concern to those interested in the systematic development of the temporal, the spatial, the ethnic and cultural, and the religious viewpoint.

Stated differently, certain features of human nature will surface and seek expression and satisfaction whatever the cultural setting or era.

The process of privatising the media offers a particular model of communication that, undoubtedly, will affect all religious expressions, In public service the supreme criterion is the presence of society and its institutions and respect for religious and cultural traditions.

In the progress of reason, in all cultural expression, and supremely in the growth of moral and religious insight man has had his life opened to the new adventure of partnership with God.

It was apparently, then, a deep ethical motivation that at length found expression in the dogma now familiar but in its cultural environment of astonishing radicalism: «Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image nor any likeness of anything that is in the heavens above or in the earth beneath or in the waters that are under the earth: thou shalt not bow clown thyself to them nor serve them» (Exod.

Under these circumstances theologians and philosophers of the western cultural tradition leaned more and more on the doctrine of an immortal soul as an expression of the Christian hope.

For we must not ignore the fact that these very expressions had played an important role in the myths of the «dying - and - rising god» which were still very much alive in the wider cultural environment of Israel.

Thus understood, the doctrine of radical evil can furnish a receptive structure for new figures of alienation besides the speculative illusion or even the desire for consolation — of alienation in the cultural powers, such as the church and the state; it is indeed at the heart of these powers that a falsified expression of the synthesis can take place; when Kant speaks of «servile faith,» of «false cult,» of a «false Church,» he completes at the same time his theory of radical evil.

The rock - musical Hair is a cultural expression of a new quest for joy in relationship to cosmic - natural vitalities.)

When I'm confronted with people who don't know what CCM is, I describe it like this: Music made for Christians (cultural expression), by Christians (quality control / consumer confidence) with an added purpose of making more / stronger Christians (evangelism / discipleship).

If CCM is nothing more than a marketing tool for Christianity, then it will never allow for the full cultural expressions of human failure that true artistry demands.