Sentences with phrase «of cultural perspectives»

Open to pushing boundaries, Art + Shanghai sees art as the record of cultural perspectives and the stories of individuals.

This exhibition is the result of the Frist Center for the Visual Arts and ten diverse local community organizations working together on a project that explores the ways art may be used to tell children's stories from a number of cultural perspectives.

Written in verse, these novels, memoirs, and biographies offer a wide range of cultural perspectives and an accessible literary form that appeals to strong and reluctant readers alike.

Beyond the warmth of sharing of cultural perspective, many of these foods are full of healing spices and invite us to eat things that we might normally overlook such as beans and whole intact grains.

As a whole, the film may not provide as many laughs or pure entertainment value as the Pixar gems we're spoiled with every Summer, but Ponyo delivers a unique departure nonetheless, giving a bit of cultural perspective, and a providing nice throwback to the glory days of animation.

Not exact matches

As with all board members, this woman would also would need to align with our cultural values and be able to share unique perspectives of her own.

«From a cultural perspective, and from the perspective of values and principles, I'm steeped in the legacy of the company,» Daly says.

But many of the obstacles they face today require different skills around incorporating unfamiliar social and cultural perspectives into their decision - making.

There is the freedom to go deep in the culture, and tell the story from the cultural participant perspective, which allows for a high level of freedom and awareness around unique cultural and economic issues.

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

All reality is perceived and spoken of from a cultural, class or sexual perspective.

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

Unless we feel the effects of environmental damage directly, as do so many of the poor, or unless we are enriched by cultural perspectives that are explicitly biocentric rather than anthropocentric, as are many influenced by African, Asian, and Native American traditions, we tend to disregard nature in our social analyses and in our concept of full community.

Whereas the various perspectives discussed so far under the rubric of cultural hermeneutics are distinctively Christian, the same can not be said for feminist biblical hermeneutics.

For he can help us to get some spiritual distance on our cultural situation; he can increase our awareness of those aspects of our modern consciousness which cut the heart out of our Christian experience, and so help to free us from them; he can help engender in us a sense of humor about ourselves which comes from taking a less contemporary and more eternal perspective — a perspective in which our love of God, our gratefulness to Christ and our concern for our neighbor will have a chance to grow.

The theoretical tradition initiated by Max Weber nearly a century ago has remained a popular perspective from which to examine religion, ideology, and, in general, the processes of change in these cultural systems.

They have also raised awareness of the extent to which most theological thought in this century has been filtered through a very specific cultural perspective, namely that of Western male academic theologians.

8 Michael Moffatt strengthens and reinforces a similar perspective in his interpretation of religion and culture of the Pbraiyars He claims that the cultural and religious system of the Untouchables is «not detached or alienated from the «rationalization» of the system... [Thus, it] does not distinctively question or revalue the dominant social order.»

Its espousal is not an outright rejection of advocacy perspectives nor a denial of the importance of contextual and cultural encounter, for these things are regularly linked to retrieval.

Justin's perspective here lines up beautifully with the themes of many of the New Testament epistles in which the justification for specific instructions (like head coverings and women remaining silent in church, for example) appear to be rooted in practical considerations regarding love for neighbor, considerations that clearly have a cultural context that may not apply today.

Now, thanks to the internet and the proliferation of books from diverse perspectives, all of us are able to access the blessing of much greater diversity in the form of dozens of ethnic, cultural and gender perspectives to help us explore the vastness of the Incarnation.

Yet inasmuch as it seems bereft of any consistently reasoned and integrative perspective on its subject matter, Romanticism is unlikely to satisfy the demand for critical demystification of past cultural formations that has long been prevalent in the contemporary academy.

The antisemitism which fueled the Holocaust, for instance, may have held (and still does) particular appeal to more impressionable, less - intelligent throughout Europe in the 1930s, but clearly, it was a feature of a particular social, cultural, and historical perspective.

In what is essentially a complimentary review of William Martin's book, A Prophet With Honor: The Billy Graham Story, Wacker credits the author with showing a balanced view of Graham, and summarizes Graham's appeal from political, social, cultural, as well as homiletical, ecclesiastical and theological perspectives.

Mujerista theology brings together elements of feminist theology, Latin American liberation theology and cultural theology, three perspectives which critique and challenge each other, giving birth to new elements, a new reality, a new whole.

Browning's second purpose is to advocate a particular way of doing theology, one positioned between historicist and foundationalist approaches (what George Lindbeck terms, respectively, «cultural - linguistic» and «apologetic» perspectives in his book The Nature of Christian Doctrine).

One pastor replied, «We still have a need for the kind of missionary who is knowledgeable about the historical, cultural, political and theological perspectives of Argentina in general and of Argentine Methodists in particular.»

The Broadcasting and Film Commission of the N.C.C. may make awards annually to films of outstanding merit that, within the perspective of the Christian faith, also (1) portray with honesty and compassion the human condition — including human society in its cultural environment — depicting man in the tension between his attempt to realize the full potential of his of.

From my perspective, I may say that Whitehead has described God's operations at the level of creativity - characterization, at the level where God helps shape the character of the world in very specific ways, including its moral, aesthetic, natural, and cultural qualities.

While it may very well be true that Heidegger sounds as if he is arguing for a pre-modern, pre-mechanized society, perhaps leaning toward a Luddite perspective, and while it also may appear that McLuhan is arguing for the continued evolution of technology that will enhance society, perhaps smacking of a full - blown techophilism, both theorists come together on the primary assertion that they make - technology has a profound and invisible shaping force on our epistemic values, perceptions of reality and truth, and cultural values and norms.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

«In the perspective of the Bible, conversion is turning from idols to serve a living and true God and not moving from one culture to another and from one community to another as it is understood in the communal sense in India today», and further that so long as baptism remains a transference of cultural or communal allegiance, «we can not judge those who while confessing faith in Jesus, are unwilling to be baptised» (Renewal in.

My criticism of Larivee's article is that it comes from a wholly Western, First World perspective and is totally devoid of cultural context.

We must relate to each other from within the context of our cultural, social and sexual predispositions and in so doing accept our limited perspective rather than believe that we have the universal blueprint for what it means to be human.

Of course, I am not a theologian or well read or educated in the Bible with all the pertinent historical, cultural, or grammatical facts required to understand and interpret the text in my intellectual grasp, so I may have misunderstood your meaning, missed a point, or maybe we're saying the same thing but each from a different perspective, like is said those who misread Paul's Roman epistle and James» epistle.

And, finally, the Worldview section will deal with cultural shifts, theological perspectives, global issues and profiles of ministry leaders.

The history of popular communication of the people is not well investigated, just as their cultural history is not written from their own perspectives.

For me this engagement and reflection take place within the context of a Christian perspective which, guided by the insights of H. Richard Niebuhr, seeks a responsible and transforming relationship between the Christian gospel and cultural life.

The fear of «a Catholic parochialism, in which Catholic culture... simply projects its theoretically naïve biographical perspective onto the social and cultural map of the present» (page 76) seems to weigh more with the authors of On the Way to Life than a confidence in what we have to offer.

From these traditions, we have inherited not only the specific substantive emphases that distinguish each from the others but a legacy of common themes as well: (1) a theoretically grounded rationale for the importance of studying religion in any serious effort to understand the major dynamics of modern societies, (2) a view of religion that recognizes the significance of its cultural content and form, and (3) a perspective on religion that draws a strong connection between studies of religion and studies of culture more generally — specifically, studies of.

We are Beam Suntory... One Global Team, comprised of thousands of individuals from around the world with our own unique thoughts and perspectives, work and personal experiences, religious and cultural beliefs, as well as race, gender and age differences.

The chapters of this book address intoxication and drunkenness from three perspectives: biological, cultural, and social.

Over fifty millennia of existence by Aboriginal people have left an unimaginably long - term perspective and associated cultural practices.

«Like its neighborhood namesake, Five Points Trading Company will provide a nexus for new thoughts, perspectives and cultural exploration, while tapping into the legacy and import expertise of HEINEKEN USA,» stated Littlefield.

She is the author of Dancing Skeletons: Life and Death in West Africa 1993, and the co-editor of Breastfeeding: Biocultural Perspectives (1995), which includes her chapters «Beauty and the Breast: The Cultural Context of Breastfeeding in the United States,» and «A Time to Wean: The Hominid Blueprint for a Natural Age of Weaning in Modern Human Populations.»

Cultural relativity of toilet training readiness: A perspective from East Africa.

I'm not old enough to have been a hippy in the 60s or 70s, so I may not have enough perspective, but I have noticed cultural shifts over the decades, an increasing sense of moral relativism.

Mainstream parenting websites are largely from the perspective of one dominant cultural framework.

From a cultural perspective one of the things that i'm seeing in my clinic is that a lot of families who are coming in for blockers are white families.

1999 Dept. of Sociology, Abo Akademi University, the Finnish Network for Qualitative Health Research, the Finnish Doctoral Program in Public Health, and the group «Cultural Perspectives on Childbirth and Parenthood» of the Nordic Network of Folklore.