Sentences with phrase «of cultural fields»

It happens in all sorts of cultural fields — think of the shift from Bret Easton Ellis to David Foster Wallace in American literature, or from Punk to Post-Punk.

3 Yet, the integration of the liminal, and legitimately extreme, form of hardcore horror is essential if a wider examination of the cultural field of U.S. horror is to be provided.

Lest she think these are anomalies, she could then attend an event at the American Enterprise Institute, read about the latest research on the importance of cultural field trips in Education Next, or speak to academics and policy analysts like Anthony Bryk, Andrew J. Coulson, Jay P. Greene, Rick Hess, Paul Peterson, Mike Petrilli... you get the point.

Not exact matches

Griffiths suggests that the secular cultural field may emerge in part from the influence of the capitalist market economy, which results in «market - states» and the identification of human beings as primarily «consumers» or «choosers.»

But he suggests that Taylor misses the opportunity to find in the Church an alternative cultural field to that of capitalism.

This fundamental theology, which insofar as it is reasonable may be publicly proposed to all, must become the base for the cultural formation of the new generation of priests... I would call rather for a great synergy of creative thought in various fields».

I think this field of social and cultural backgrounds to the Bible might be one of the most important areas of hermeneutics, and may be one of the most neglected.

For example, referring to the «institutional field of cultural production» that «rapidly and radically transformed... the rigid dichotomy between «high» and «low» «(for academics like Professor Rainey, dichotomies are always «rigid» and high art always needs scare quotes), he tells us that «Modernism's ambiguous achievement... was to probe the interstices dividing that variegated field and to forge within it a strange and unprecedented space for cultural production, one that did indeed entail a certain retreat from the domain of public culture, but one that also continued to overlap and intersect with the public realm in a variety of contradictory ways.»

By the time I had graduated, the field had become «one that maintains its interest in literary texts but explores all forms of aesthetic speech and that views performance as an art and recognizes its communicative potential and function» There were three challenges to those of us graduating with doctoral degrees in this discipline: 1) to locate which performances within art and / or culture we would focus our attention on as scholars and performers; 2) to interpret the core concepts generating from the cultural turn in our discipline to other studies of culture and human communication and 3) to develop «performance - centered» methods of research and instruction in whatever parts of the university we found ourselves.

Within the field of cultural hermeneutics, this recognition of relativity has been extraordinarily liberating.

However, the angles which ought to be of paramount concern to those interested in the systematic development of our field are the temporal, the spatial, the ethnic and cultural, and the religious viewpoint.

In 1878 Emerson stated the cultural assumption well when he said, «Opportunity of civil rights, of education, of personal power, and not less of wealth; doors wide open invitation to every nation, to every race and skin, hospitality of fair field and equal laws to all.

Granted that religious forms and institutions, like other fields of human and cultural activity, are conditioned by the nature, atmosphere, and dynamics of a given society, to what extent does religion contribute to the cohesion of a social group and to the dynamics of its development and history?

It has been reckoned that, in addition to the 87 million lives taken in the wars of this century, an additional 80 million were deliberately killed or starved to death in Hitler's death camps, Stalin's labor camps, Mao's cultural revolution and the «killing - fields» of Cambodia.2 So much for the advanced civilization of the twentieth century.

That being said, the renewal of interest ought not to be overstated: much doctrinal theology in English remains preoccupied with keeping up a conversation with other fields of inquiry (often literary and cultural theory) and is so eager to do so that it often neglects the descriptive or dogmatic tasks of systematics.

From the 16th century when Francis Xavier decided to cast his lot with the East against his own Western culture, to the 19th century when Christaller singlehandedly promoted Akan culture, to the 20th when Frank Laubach inveighed against the encroachments of American power in the Philippines, missionaries in the field have helped to promote indigenous self - awareness as a counterforce to Western cultural importation.

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

Its field of activity may be literary, scientific, religious, political, economic, cultural, athletic, and so on, across the whole spectrum of human social activities.

And, in the midst of that cultural change we do see that American looks more like a mission field.

Now communication scholars have integrated insights from the fields of anthropology and cultural studies and are conscious of the significance of myth, symbol, story telling and ritual in media / audience analysis.

We may observe the liberation process (in the broad sense) as the aftermath of the decolonization process mainly after the Second World War, which is still in operation, not only in the socio - political and economic fields, but also in the cultural field.

I believe this to be an important new field of study which, of course, would imply a thorough interaction with cultural sciences.20 The recognition of difference often claimed by Boff.

Part of the problem, of course, is that in the field of religion we are still dealing with the vestiges of a cultural establishment.

By not pursuing that historical theme to the field setting of missions, Newbigin unwittingly plays into the hands of his critics who see in missions proof of Western cultural insensitivity.

The field of imagination at any rate is broad, ranging from automatic, instinctual, or reflex actions (in which the problem of meaning is virtually, but not entirely, non-existent), to more or less habitual modes of response to «natural signs,» and rising ultimately to sophisticated conceptual activity and various poetic or secondary forms of meaning — making in cultural and social significations.19 In the higher reaches of semiotic activity an increase in imaginative freedom is accompanied by a greater risk of error.

All fields of knowledge, from archeology to zoology, can claim distinguished contributors from many lands, and all studies have important applications to world understanding, whether it be an inquiry into the archeology of the Middle East, once the cradle of civilization and now a focus of cultural and industrial renaissance, or an analysis of the zoology of malarial infection, which has sapped the energies and influenced the destinies of millions in tropical areas around the globe.

Following Bourdieu's use of the terms «cultural» and «social capital) «The position of a given agent within the social space can thus be defined by the positions he occupies in the different fields, that is in the distribution of the powers that are active within each of them.

Relating particularity with universality is one of the crucial philosophical questions of today which has far - reaching consequences and implications in all fields — political, cultural, economic, religious, etc..

It is in fact an extension into the field of higher education of the government policy of globalization, that is, of letting the global market decide the pattern of economic development of the nation without intervention from the government in the name of social justice, protection of the natural environment or national self - reliance; it is a decision to make economic growth the ultimate criterion not only of economic development but also of social and cultural development of the peoples of the country.

When Jordin Sparks took to the field to sing the National Anthem in Arizona ahead of the Cowboys vs. Cardinals NFL game on Monday night, she was walking into a cultural firestorm.

The particular context of global market about which we want to speak is the field of «cultural war» between power and people, waged through political propaganda, commercial advertisements, the educational process, the public media, and information technology.

Another pioneer in this field was a Unitarian minister, Samuel Johnson, whose book Oriental Religions and Their Relations to Universal Religion was indicative of the cultural climate of his day.

The East African coastal areas, extending from Cape Guardafui in the north to Delagoa Bay in the south, have from pre-Islamic times been for Arabian, Persian, and Indian seafarers a field for cooperative action which resulted in the creation of prosperous communities and the blending of their diverse cultural traditions.

Smalley and other officials have pointed out that the Art Institute of Chicago, the Field Museum and other major cultural facilities routinely appoint directors from the highest ranks of industry and society whose sole function is to produce donations.

The convention center violated Burnham's vision to preserve the lakefront for recreational and cultural use, placing a giant commercial complex on Chicago Park District land just south of Soldier Field.

In addition to the activities at the Boston Common, we partner with a number of nonprofit organizations to provide educational and cultural field trip experiences including cooking classes at the Boston Public Market, interactive theatre at the Boston Public Library branches and performances at the Wheelock Family Theatre.

Portage Park offers something for every kind of play — six tennis courts, a new soft - surface ADA accessible playground, a slab for in - line skating, a new dog friends area, a bike path, a nature walk, five baseball fields, two combination football / soccer fields and two fieldhouses, one housing a gymnasium and the other a cultural arts building.

While the theoretical principles guiding the use of the NBO and the accompanying training program, include many of the conceptual themes that informed our work with the NBAS, they are influenced by theoretical and clinical principles from the fields of infant mental health, child development, brain development, behavioral pediatrics, systems theory, communication studies, nursing, early intervention and cultural studies, among its influences.

The photo (s) portray the broad field of human lactation, including the IBCLC helping new families (in a wide variety of scenarios), breastfeeding in various cultural contexts around the globe, and the science of lactation.

Dr. Reischer's educational background is interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of clinical psychology, life course development, psychological anthropology, and cultural psychology.

The top five reasons a Black Breastfeeding Week is needed are: 1) The high black infant mortality rate; 2) High rates of diet - related diseases; 3) Lack of diversity in lactation field; 4) Unique cultural barriers among black women; and, 5) Desert - like conditions in our communities.

It just so happens that at least three of the worst acts of genocide, Stalin's purges, the killing fields of Cambodia, and the cultural revolution in China, happened under the auspices of an ostensibly communist government.

Notwithstanding these qualms, the role of linguistic and cultural knowledge offers much from which the studies of areas can profit, and, more specifically, the overlooked field of North Korean studies.

In August, Humanists UK hosted the International Humanist and Ethical Union's annual conference, this year on these growing threats to freedom, human rights, and the rule of law around the globe, which featured the UN Special Rapporteurs on Freedom of Religion or Belief and in the Field of Cultural Rights.

He takes us from the analysis of largely non-justiciable constitutional provisions on socio - economic rights, through the commendable array of legislation in the field, to Nigeria's acceptance and ratification of international and regional standards such as the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the African Charter on Human and Peoples» Rights.

«But apart from the visible and tangible paraphernalia of office, he has been given the cultural, traditional, customary and contemporary tools essential for his effective performance in the field of service.

WAMC's Alan Chartock In Conversation with Roger Ferguson, Jr., President and Chief Executive Officer of TIAA - CREF, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields and a Fortune 100 financial services organization.

We all know this city is full of cultural gems, but now we no longer have an excuse to ignore them, just because we already experienced them once on a high school field trip or a first date.

The city also received $ 520,000 for the redevelopment of Memorial Field and $ 40,000 for an arts and cultural master plan to develop and support creative works.

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