Sentences with phrase «of cultural response»

In reality, however, this kind of cultural response is only a portion of how significant cultural response functions in practice.

My experience with this aspect of cultural response came about while I thought I was doing an excellent job with this whole concept.

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In the history of educational enterprise of the Christian Church in India, there were several articulations and re-articulations of the Christian identity in Higher Education as spiritual responses of the Christian Mission / Church to changes in the cultural scenario of India.

Every urban reform movement of the past 200 years — from England's Hygiene Acts to America's City Beautiful Movement to modern zoning laws to modernist architecture to the creation of public housing and the rise of environmentalism and historic preservation — has been a response to the social and cultural problems created by industrialism.

Starling became celebrated for his discovery «that a strong social or «cultural» atmosphere... could in time overwhelm the genetically determined responses of perfectly normal, healthy animals.»

Its major fault is that it ignores the fact that liberalism arose in a specific historical framework, in response to both political and cultural shifts in Europe (the Reformation, the Wars of Religion, and the late - Medieval world order in general).

This means that religion in general, and the Bible in particular, must be taught as human cultural responses to the experience of the Sacred.

As the church faced the cultural upheavals at the turn of the sixteenth century, the response was to attempt to preserve the established structures and to put a damper on creative initiative.

Whether drawing on civic liberalism, popular evangelicalism or simply pragmatic and ad hoc collections of cultural and programmatic elements, their response is the pattern many pundits have come to expect.

The significance of conceptualizing these responses as a distinct set of variables is that cultural innovations are seen as a result of specific actions, not just general phenomena that emerge automatically and mysteriously from structural conditions.

In response to the Cultural Revolution of the «60s and «70s, religious Americans also began choosing sides.

Is it not true that Paul's «purely» theological insights are, on closer inspection, responses to the cultural crises and life situations of young churches facing concrete problems, and that his «purely» practical advice has within it a theological dimension?

In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.»

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.

New Thought's cultural and historic roots in the 19th century New England ethos of personal independence and spiritual entitlement support an individualistic response to communal problems.

The conservative turn in politics over the last decade is a long - delayed response, now led in significant part by evangelicals, the heirs of the fundamentalists who went into cultural exile almost a century ago.

«The 700 Club,» «The PTL Club,» Oral Roberts, Jerry Falwell, Jimmy Swaggart and the rest of the televangelists represent the «traditionalist» religious response to the current challenge of cultural disorientation.

If we go back through the strands of Christian history, we can find three streams converging as common responses to cultural periods of one age or another: (1) the intellectual, (2) the relational, and (3) the performative.

In short, my thesis is that Kurzweil and Leibowitz have elevated personal idiosyncrasy into a stylized cultural response — a response that permits them, at once, to take modernity with full seriousness, but also to reject modernity in the name of Jewish faith.

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.

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.

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

In response, these churches, temples, synagogues and mosques produce the cultural material that enables their members and adherents to locate themselves with respect to the places and time in which they currently live, to identify with others, to find their moral bearings, and to achieve some measure of efficacy with respect to their own needs and aspirations.

In response to Thomas Frank's What's the Matter with Kansas, they argue that it is middle American families who most acutely reap the consequences of our cultural breakdown» and this explains their inclination toward the social conservatism of the Republicans.

The book is wealthy in new insights, revisionist interpretations, and excavated conclusions about Protestantism's response to all the great political, social, cultural and religious developments of the first two - thirds of the 20th century.

It may be that those churches which market their message by emphasising authority, personal success, health and prosperity through faith may have intuited the proper response of the Christian faith to the new cultural situation in which we find ourselves.

If Cézanne attempts to have the landscape think itself within his experience, it can do so only in terms of the cultural forms that are at hand, or that he will invent in response to the complex richness of the landscape.

That's the front line of cultural resistance and Christian humanism: the response to the culture of death must be charity, love.

These benefits include but are not limited to the power of the human touch and presence, of being surrounded by supportive people of a family's own choosing, security in birthing in a familiar and comfortable environment of home, feeling less inhibited in expressing unique responses to labor (such as making sounds, moving freely, adopting positions of comfort, being intimate with her partner, nursing a toddler, eating and drinking as needed and desired, expressing or practicing individual cultural, value and faith based rituals that enhance coping)-- all of which can lead to easier labors and births, not having to make a decision about when to go to the hospital during labor (going too early can slow progress and increase use of the cascade of risky interventions, while going too late can be intensely uncomfortable or even lead to a risky unplanned birth en route), being able to choose how and when to include children (who are making their own adjustments and are less challenged by a lengthy absence of their parents and excessive interruptions of family routines), enabling uninterrupted family boding and breastfeeding, huge cost savings for insurance companies and those without insurance, and increasing the likelihood of having a deeply empowering and profoundly positive, life changing pregnancy and birth experience.

On why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responses.

I said that were five kinds of response to cultural and economic globalisation.

Last up is the much wider issue of cultural and institutional response.

Speaking on TV3, Muslim Cleric and Spokesperson for the Office of the National Chief Imam, Sheikh Armeyawo Shaibu expressed some dissatisfaction with the President's response, explaining that, given the cultural and religious setting of the country, the President ought to have been more forthright with the country's stance.

In 2010 and 2011, Ad Astra, an association of Romanian scientists, and the Rosia Montana Cultural Foundation sent petitions in response to the project's potential damaging effects on the environment.

While direct measures such as emergency preparedness and the strengthening of response - related institutions is helpful, this study has identified the need for a wider cultural shift to ensure the poorest and most vulnerable are properly protected.

Participant responses also emphasized cultural continuity factors and an overall sense of ethno cultural identity.

Lisa DeCamp, M.D., M.S.P.H., assistant professor of pediatrics at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the study's senior author, noted that although parental surveys of this kind have weaknesses in terms of parent responses reflecting the breadth of traumas children may be exposed to, the findings, published in the Oct. issue of the journal Pediatrics, offer new insight into potentially higher childhood resiliency among immigrant families supported by strong community networks and a strong sense of cultural identity.

Martin sees disturbing parallels between the cultural representations of people who fall by the wayside in the world of work — through unemployment, «deskilling» or lack of training — and those who fall ill as a result of «inferior» immune responses, leading to AIDS, cancer or a host of other diseases.

In addition, their findings differed from those of previous studies of Western children with regard to the age at which the adult response pattern was observed, and showed that cultural differences might have been one of the reasons for this.

«The environmental justice issues facing Native American communities range from direct environmental, public health, cultural and sacred sites impacts, to lack of meaningful involvement and fair treatment in the governmental decision - making processes,» according to an emailed response by the EPA's press office.

Mechanical properties and cell cultural response of polycaprolactone scaffolds designed and fabricated via fused deposition modeling.

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.

«I think that our centre agreed... that while yoga is a really great idea, accessible and great for students, that there are cultural issues of implication involved in the practice,» the response read.

This has much in common with Steve James's award - winning documentary Hoop Dreams as it pursues and records the moment - to - moment responses of young people struggling to improve their lot, and in doing so reveals a penetrating socio - cultural study of contemporary America through a competition described by one parent as «a form of child abuse».

We are aware that as a response and reaction to the predominant presence of social theories rooted in the West, there is a growing recognition of and movement towards understanding theories through the wide range of diverse contextual and cultural perspectives available in the East, and that the production of local theories have started a long time ago.

Beyond attempting to address historical omissions, Inclusive Cultural Response also needs to be an active force that changes with the needs of a given group.

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What follows is a discussion of my experiences in both developing curriculum for PBL and teaching an eleventh grade AP English language course while adjusting the classroom to address cultural response.

This practice works best as a response to gaps in cultural learning and representation that happen when curriculum is perceived to have too narrow a focus on a white, middle - to - upper - class, male - dominated view of the world.

I decided that for the final activity of our next unit on racism and racial privilege (another place where I felt I'd thought through the first piece of Inclusive Cultural Response), something had to be done to change the nature of our interactions with one another.