Sentences with phrase «of cultural symbols»

References to antiquity and the Renaissance abound in his art, which is characterized by a rich repertoire of marks, scrawls, scribbles, doodles, and scratches — at once expressive of a gestural approach and of cultural symbols.

[3] Davie travelled widely and in Venice became influenced by other painters of the period, such as Paul Klee, Jackson Pollock and Joan Miró, as well as by a wide range of cultural symbols.

Virginia Poundstone continues her investigation into some of most timeless and tireless of all cultural symbols, flowers.

The magic of that book, of late 19th century Lagos Island, was its charming sketch of cultural symbols, that shaped the temper of that era.

Amy Tay, Tiger Brand Director, Five Points Trading Company commented, «Dawn's artwork, formed from a curated selection of cultural symbols such as lanterns, firecrackers, blossoms and oranges, comes to life on Tiger packaging and promotional materials this season.

This article examines Whitehead's theory of perception to indicate how this theory provides a philosophical reinterpretation for two issues of concern to feminists: criticism of cultural symbols, including language, and the importance of intuition and emotion, usually associated with women, in experience.

Every life is shaped by the struggle for survival, the accidents of history, and the power of cultural symbols and traditions.

We live in the world which is in large part shaped for us by the system of cultural symbols and concepts which we inherit.

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

The photo, with that big inflatable pig soaring between the towers, has become something of a cultural symbol and still conjures notions as surreal as the album it represents.

Not exact matches

Or do you just not understand the concept of cultural appropriation by a privileged group of an oppressed group's cultural symbols?

In particular, it threatens Jews, whose success, visibility, and cultural self - affirmation serve as a great symbol of a post-traditional France.

Horned animals are sacred for a variety of cultural reasons but the root of sacred horned animals seems to come from the resemblance of their heads to the uterus, ovaries and fallopian tubes of human women, and the animals are usually associated with fertility and female symbols.

The Italian Bishops» Conference said that the crucifix is «not only a religious symbol but also a cultural sign» and noted that its display in public buildings is «part of the historic heritage of the Italian people.»

With Gandhi formulating the political ethic of satyagraha as an application of Jesus» Sermon on the Mount and Tagore interpreting the Cross as the symbol of God's identification with suffering humanity, there was also the growing awareness that not only western humanism but also the religion of Christianity would get creativity and stability only by planting them in the Indian cultural soil and allowing it to put down roots in it.

In short, technologies are becoming religious symbols and are in the process of destroying the cultural and anthropological balance between energy and form, spirit and structure.

I do not mean to imply that the many serious problems involved in the reappropriation of traditional religious symbols in the present cultural situation have all been solved.

Latin America has such a wealth of symbols in part because it is made up of hybrid cultures; it contains a huge patchwork of ethnic and cultural influences and traditions.

He becomes the symbol of a double dilemma: of cultural alienation and of rejection by his adopted land.

In other words, we must approach - and fortunately a beginning has already been made - Oceanic or African myths, symbols and rites with the same respect and the same desire to learn that hitherto we have devoted to the cultural creations of the West».

There are cultural «repertoires of values,» says theologian Bernice Martin, which express themselves through a «hidden vocabulary» of symbols that saturate popular culture and structure its assumptions; We need, therefore, to look at

The inventory for privatization now includes the accumulated knowledge and memory of the people, the cultural and religious wisdom as well as symbols and people's ability to find pleasure are reduced as a commodity in the market place.

The emphasis on symbolic universes has placed the study of religion in a broader cultural context, suggesting means by which private experiences of the sacred, as well as functional trade - offs between religion and secular symbol systems, can be rediscovered.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

Our ability to associate cultural symbols with ultimate referents somehow evaporated over time — a kind of linguistic devolution, perhaps.

Such mission begins with a greater appreciation of a local church's own finitude, its own ethos drawn from the world's symbols but particularized in a cultural pattern specific to its own corporate life.

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.

«15 Moreover, Whitehead emphasizes that symbolic reference, at least in human symbolisms, is generally a two - way affair in which the symbol and the symbolized are frequently interchangeable, a situation that suggests a reciprocal interaction between secondary (poetic) imagination and the social or cultural aspect of symbolizing.16

Sermons are cultural artifacts wherein structures of authority and symbol are revealed, subverted, lampooned, or refurbished.

Finally, Protestants break with two of Mexico's primary national and cultural symbols, the Virgin of Guadalupe (the patron saint or «mother» of Mexico), who is said to have appeared to a Mexican peasant in the 16th century, and the pre-Hispanic plumed serpent - god, Quetzalcóatl.

Therefore, in proclaiming the Kingdom of God in our context should mean taking seriously the cultural and religious symbols and traditions which embody their vision of life and wholeness.

Much of the new middle class is actually in the business of culture, is in control of many of the institutions that produce and disseminate cultural symbols, notably in the educational system and the communication media.

Dillenberger wants to discern in Abstract Expressionism a union of spirituality and visual sensibility that might produce authentic cultural symbols.

I think we should specify once again the cultural and philosophical background out of which the typical, psychologically biased understanding of symbols has arisen.

I am not entirely denying the validity of the psychological (and socio - cultural - historical) evaluation of what is involved in the fabrication of symbols, myths and stories.

This is not to deny that both the social form and the social space of Christian congregations are also deeply shaped by social forms and cultural symbols prominent in the congregations» host cultures.

Actually, our human nature is shaped in some significant part by the interaction of people in specific periods of time with specific cultural symbols and specific historic environments.

Because of this exclusion, feminists are calling for the criticism of dominant cultural symbols in light of women's experience of the world.

In addition to criticizing cultural symbols, feminists are hoping for the emergence of new images and concepts from women's struggle to experience beyond or beneath or without the preconceptions embedded in present language and concepts.

Besides the ways Whitehead's theory of symbolic reference supports feminist attempts to purge cultural symbols from their sexist and patriarchal connotations, it seems clear from the following passage that Whitehead would applaud feminist hopes of producing symbols more faithful to women's experience.

His theory of symbolism then, is not only compatible with feminist goals of revising and renewing cultural symbols, but also provides a systematic analysis which gives philosophical support and impetus to these goals.

We can not automatically expect others to «see» what we Christians have focally seen in our primary symbol, Jesus the Qirist, unless they first share with us a sufficiently common set of subsidiary cultural and linguistic ingredients.

It is in the pantheon of these religious symbols and rituals that the Mexican - American experiences the deepest belonging and cultural communion.

The historian of religions finds himself in an analogous situation when he deals with archaic symbols that have been modified by cultural influences and events, for example, the World Tree, which in Central Asia and in Siberia received a new value by assimilating the Mesopotamian idea of the seven planetary heavens.

Prestige is a true Haitian brand that has become an emblem of national pride and an iconic cultural symbol.

Joe Coffman skillfully managed to commit his group to a post-SMU-game party (or pre-Texas-OU-game party) in the cultural suburbs, where the status symbols are a lawn of St. Augustine grass and a full - growing mimosa tree.

Fortunately, two of the symbols of this Irish cultural celebration — rainbows and the color green — lend themselves perfectly to healthy party nibbles.

Linguistics taught me that little language symbols and letters have great value, but that most of it is cultural value.

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He promoted the development of infrastructure, tourism and Galicia's traditional symbols and language to shape an identity that simultaneously could incorporate Galicia's unique cultural traditions and its full integration in Spain.