Sentences with phrase «of cultural pressure»

For although Our Faith Story does deal with some issues of «painful situations and responses in us - sense of guilt, failure, etc.», yet it seeks to see them against the backdrop of cultural pressures and circumstances.

Please consider another possibility: that Belgium, and other Catholic wastelands in 21st - century Europe, did not hear the Gospel and reject it because of cultural pressures; might it be that these faith - free zones haven't heard the Gospel preached for quite a while?

Not exact matches

If, like Ellis, you're aiming to hold steady reather than grow but feel a persistent cultural pressure to expand your business (or your responsibilities, or your hours), the post offers three pieces of advice:

But many American practices go against the grain of the more comfortable and communitarian cultural systems of their own societies - the Japanese with life - long employment for their workers, the Germans with their unions having a say in management under co-determination, and the French with their government supporting the right of unions to pressure business from retrenching, by requiring large compensation to be paid to laid - off workers.»

With the cultural pressure to consume and dine, why bother worrying about whether or not we wrestle with the vice of gluttony?

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.

By restricting the activities of foreign organizations and what are seen as non-Russian forms of religious belief, the Russian government has consolidated its religious support and made an intentional (and enforceable) display of Russian cultural unity in the face of the external pressures of consumerism, individualism, and secularism.

However, if one chooses to regard it as a sin, it is well to remember that even the early drinking of the alcoholic is part of a total behavioral pattern which is strongly influenced by his damaged personality as well as by cultural pressures.

Burhoe's point is that if cultural evolution is the subject for discussion, then the religious traditions whose wisdom has survived millennia of selective pressures can be left out of the discussion only at the cost of scientific adequacy and competency.

When there is economic pressure on a people due to the policies imposed by the globalization process, there could be an accentuation of the differences among them based on cultural or religious factors.

The challenge to social conservatives at this point is still to name one social, political, or cultural problem that is not made worse by the pressure of overpopulation.

Most often, we do not even know that a battle for our mind is underway, but our minds are constantly bombarded from every direction, through our five senses, through the spiritual realm, through cultural and social pressure, through memories and imagination, and through a wide variety of other sources.

The cultural pressure on traditional disciplines of ministry is evident on a number of fronts.

Abraham Moles, director of the Social Psychology Institute at Strasbourg, points out that while TV has been a cultural life buoy for farmers, lonely people, and the culturally and the socially impoverished in France, it has at the same time been a pressure toward the banal and the constricting for those already experiencing a communication - rich life.

Shalit shows how, even in the face of such cultural pressures, a surprising number of young women are reclaiming the ideal of modesty — and often returning to traditional religion in order to do so.

The «Nones» category is growing quickly, but the change is coming by way of Cultural and Congregational Christians who no longer feel the societal pressure to be «Christian.»

Men and women are called to serve each other in various ways, and women who refuse to pornify themselves, especially in the face of strong cultural pressures and incentives to do so, honor themselves and others of their sex while also honoring those of us of the opposite sex.

In today's world, there are tremendous pressures» political, cultural and religious» to change one's convictions, and conform to certain mass patterns of thought and behavior.

In the present cultural context, they may be the age group most likely to appreciate the relief of leaving the pressures and values of the old life behind.

If we are to understand the peculiar links between religious commitment and economic justice in American society, therefore, we must also locate the cultural pressures that work against taking responsibility for the poor — some of which are also reinforced by religious commitments.

«On the other hand, there will likely be increased cultural and legal pressure on the membership and leadership boundaries that traditionalist institutions draw around questions of sexuality and same - sex marriage, and these institutions would be wise to anticipate these challenges.»

The answer is that they were confronted in the first place with vast cultural trends such as technological advance, professionalization, and secularism that they could not easily control; and their problem was made the worse by pressures of cultural pluralism and Christian ethical principles that made it awkward if not impossible for them to take any decisive stand against the secularizing trends.

Then, under the heat of new cultural pressures in the 1960s and beyond, most of what was substantial in such religion quickly evaporated, often almost without a trace and seldom with so much as a protest.

The fear of losing one's job or reputation has made many Americans afraid to speak publicly about this issue, even though their deep convictions about life, marriage, and family have not changed in response to elite cultural pressure.

Before the fall of the Berlin Wall, the existential threat posed by communism pressured the West to maintain consolidated political and cultural loyalties.

In Scripture we learn that solitude can be a subversive act against the cultural and social pressures that come from constantly subjecting oneself to the opinions and judgments of others.

This is the case with MacArthur's overall epistemological position, which is over-determined by the cultural pressure of modernity.

The history of Christian thought has been a process of continual evaluation of new expressions of traditional faith to determine whether these new expressions adequately preserve the essential aspects of the faith, or whether they have sacrificed essential elements under the pressure and demands of the immediate cultural environment.

We are convinced the decline of Catholic cultural influence can not be ascribed to external pressures alone.

The website is part of Creative and Cultural Skills, a sector skills council, but our content is are not guided by political or commercial pressures.

Understanding the social, academic and cultural pressures and challenges tweens face, as well as some of the dangers, can help prepare you and your tweens for this bumpy phase of development.

At a birth, dads, partners and grandparents benefit greatly from a doula's support as well, freeing them to experience the birth without the added cultural pressure of being mom's sole support.

There are a lot of cultural factors and even pressures that dictate when toilet training or potty training should initiate and by what age of a child it should complete.

These include: cultural beliefs and pressures (e.g. anxiety about breastfeeding in public, beliefs about adequacy of milk supply); lack of availability of trained support; legislation to protect women who are breastfeeding; and commercial pressures from marketing and advertising of formula by manufacturers (Save the Children 2013).

We have structured them into the eight principles of parenting to provide guidance for parents as they face serious decisions and cultural pressures on a daily basis.

1) Community and cultural pressures 2) The health worker shortage 3) Lack of maternity legislation 4) Inappropriate marketing of breast - milk substitutes

Yet doctors and lactation consultants also admit that for some women, the cultural pressure to breastfeed has gotten out of hand.

Although, in actuality, some would consider the cultural norm of formula feeding to be a pressure all its own for early weaning.

«Today, the power of money seems more forceful,» and brings with it «a cultural pressure that anything that can be done should be done.»

«Admittedly, we came under intense persuasive pressure from genuinely concerned national, political, traditional, religious and cultural leaders prominent among which were; a section of the Northern Governors Forum under its Chairman, Gov. Kashim Shettima of Borno state, northern traditional rulers and the Department of State Services DSS.

There are all sorts of reasons people might find maths difficult: from cultural pressures that limit achievement to...

I develop quantitative methods to elucidate recent population histories, and interpret these histories in the context of demographic, cultural, and environmental pressures.

This is on top of the pressures caused by social, financial and cultural challenges.

November 9, 2015 Scientific research is conservative but could be accelerated, analysis finds Institutional and cultural pressures lead scientists to avoid risk - taking and choose inefficient research strategies, two new University of Chicago papers conclude.

She is exploring the impact of diverse socio - cultural hunting practices as well as the response of hunting pressure to the spatial and temporal distribution of different harvested goods.

Unfortunately, our cultural understanding of what «beauty» means is limited by the media's representations of women, which often pressure us into changing our appearance to what we think beauty should look like.

We race all day attached to screens constantly checking for the next emergency, adapting and addicted to the endless stream of to - dos and cultural pressure to get work done.

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There is a cultural and cosmic buildup this time of year, like the steam that makes a kettle whistle or the pressure that encourages a champagne cork to pop.

This means your chances of finding someone to enjoy a fun night out are higher, even if it is due to cultural pressures!