Sentences with phrase «of cultural wars»

It is no wonder that the communication and information process has become arena of cultural wars and battles.

He is editor of Cultural Wars in American Politics: Critical Reviews of a Popular Myth (Aldine de Gruyter, 1997), from which this article is adapted.

In this way, Ruether helpfully positions the campaign for homosexual rights at the center of the cultural war in which our society is embroiled.

Among old guard evangelicals, for example, there are many who still preach of moral decline and proudly wear the battle armor of cultural war.

Not exact matches

RETIRED public servant and Vietnam war veteran Phil Prosser has been named the new chairman of the Aboriginal Cultural Material Committee.

At the University of Texas at San Antonio, the Institute of Texan Cultures is currently hosting exhibits exploring the history of beer, brewers and breweries in Texas; the stories and customs of more than 20 of the earliest cultural groups to settle in the state; and the role played by citizens from the Lone Star State in the World War I.

Last year's crackdown on social media in China was merely the opening salvo of the Party's war on Western cultural influence and opposition movements.

MEET THE CHINESE SENIOR CITIZEN WHO PUT HIMSELF UP FOR ADOPTION «Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living alone.»

Han Zicheng survived the Japanese invasion, the Chinese civil war and the Cultural Revolution, but he knew he could not endure the sorrow of living...

Those who make the latter choice, argues Horton, are likely to produce better results also in terms of cultural change than are Christians who take the culture wars as their primary task.

Waugh fans have long indulged friendly arguments about the master's greatest work; a recent re-reading of The Sword of Honour Trilogy (Everyman's Library) persuaded me (again) that these three books easily stand with A Handful of Dust and Brideshead Revisited at the summit of Waugh's achievement, even as they brilliantly lay bare the European cultural crisis that was vastly accelerated by World War I.

James Carroll, George Weigel and Garry Wills all agree that the sexual - abuse crisis is symptomatic of a deeper cultural war in Catholicism, but they differ — often diametrically — on what is at stake.

All of which must be considered a sadness, for it was the mainline that provided moral - cultural ballast to the American democratic experiment from the colonial period through World War II.

For in terms of our legal culture, Griswold was the Pearl Harbor of the American culture war, the fierce debate over the moral and cultural foundations of our democracy that has shaped our politics for two generations.

Don't we have to say, at the very least, that Joshua mis - heard, that he mistook the cultural custom of «holy war» for divine command?

In the larger cultural war, the tip of the hat to a Creator will equally be a frustration to the new atheists.

The discovery of Wakanda itself is a truly special cultural experience, akin to the first sight of Steven Spielberg's dinosaurs in Jurassic Park or the climactic trench run above the Death Star in George Lucas's original Star Wars.

Its partisans believe, with justice, that much of the country's cultural leadership declared war on them and now they are responding in kind.

Cultural wars and political wars may be accommodated within the raucous workings of democracy.

Johnson focuses on four aspects of contemporary armed conflict that, while not unprecedented, have become special concerns: the legitimacy of intervention, the place of noncombatants, the significance of cultural differences, and procedures for dealing with war crimes and achieving reconciliation after conflict.

These wars have variously been understood as Western aggression against pacific Islam, a necessary defense against Islamic attack, a conduit for cultural and commercial exchange, a form of early colonialism, an expression of collective religious identity or social anxiety, and a symptom and vehicle of economic expansion.

The fact remains, however, that the Vichy leaders have enforced anti-Semitic laws in a more and more strict and iniquitous fashion, depriving French Jews of every governmental and cultural position, imposing upon them all kinds of restrictions with regard to liberal and commercial professions, mercilessly striking many of them who were wounded for their country during the present war, and hypocritically trying to hide a bad conscience under a pseudonational pathos in which religious and racial considerations are shamefully mixed.

Like you, in Christian circles I have seen it most often used to mean agreement in doctrine, Bible interpretation down to the smallest details, politics, cultural issues and of course «culture war» issues.

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).

Because of the cultural changes of modernity, however, the just war tradition has been carried, developed, and applied not as a single cultural consensus but as distinct streams in Catholic canon law and theology, Protestant religious thought, secular philosophy, international law, military theory and practice, and the experience of statecraft.

This is indeed a «cultural war» The exploitation of post-modernistic sensibilities, especially emerging among the young generations, by the market, is a good illustration.

This is the beginning of the cultural resistance and struggle for survival in the global cultural war.

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.

Women suffer the most due to civil wars, being subject to rape, becoming single parents, made refugees and having to bring up children without proper schooling, social services and their traditional cultural environment of home, the extended family and village or town.

There is described the bitter cultural war between the prophets of the Baalim and the Israelite prophets.

But they all presupposed its cultural authority in the colonies and the power of its pages to promote a «providential» war.

«It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itsewar, as critical to the kind of nation we shall be as the Cold War itseWar itself.

It was inevitable, perhaps, that the «culture wars» — the debate that continues to rage over the impact of political correctness, multiculturalism, and their allied ideologies — would spawn a genre of liberal apologetics designed to exonerate liberalism itself from its role in abetting the establishment of radical doctrine as a mandatory standard of judgment in mainstream cultural life.

Indeed, the tendency of American political institutions to produce centrist political solutions is probably usefully offset by the cultural tendency of movement - style politics to inflate ideological differences into «war.»

Two other examples were Matteo Ricci (1552 - 1610), who adopted the opposite path to de Nobili by assimilating into upper - class Chinese society during the Ming dynasty, coming to China in 1580, eventually undergoing a profound cultural transformation as a Confucian scholar; and Charles de Foucauld, who served in the French army in the Algerian war where he witnessed moving scenes of Muslim personal piety, leading him to regain his own Christian faith, and becoming in everything a Tuareg Bedouin nomad.

One might suggest that the cultural revolution declared at the beginning of the twentieth century was delayed by the distraction of crises — from World War I («the Great War») through the end of the Cold War in 1989.

Four recent major studies of human problems support a measure of optimism in human affairs: Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History; Quincy Wright's Study of War; Gunnar Myrdal's study of color caste in America, entitled An American Dilemma; and the essays edited by the cultural anthropologist, Ralph Linton, entitled The Science of Man in the World Crisis.

I did not expect that I would be a witness to the severity of need for the «church» to find some kind of peaceful resolution to this horrible religious cultural war.

That was Part I of the nitty - gritty of gay unions way beyond the absurd cultural «wars».

Thus, American party politics has always involved «cultural wars,» and the genius of our system has been its ability to contain these conflicts within civil and even productive bounds.

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.

Beginning with the changes in Eastern Europe, the world is in the process of a «re-constellation» which is characterized by the breakdown of the cold war ideological polar structure, the realignment of the military powers, the reordering of the economic powers, and the rapid globalization of communication and cultural life.

Anti Muslim (and, sadly, anti-Sikh) bigotry in the contemporary west has its own easily identifiable historical and cultural origins, as well — not least of them, anxiety and resentment over terrorism, and current wars.

The thing about Star Wars, as with all great cultural phenomenons, is that the setting and mechanics of the story are incidental.

Heightened awareness of the link between cultural problems and moral irresponsibility has spawned a nearly universal condemnation of the «war on values» being waged in American society.

The cultural changes that have taken place since the end of the cold war have the magnitude of a global cultural revolution.

Nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

The first is that nuclear war would not only result in hundreds of millions of casualties and in the material destruction of nations; it would also probably destroy the institutions of freedom and the moral, cultural and political conditions on which our values depend.

After World War II, the military headquarters recognized the need for some guide to the religious groups in Japan and asked the Religious and Cultural Division of the Civil Information and Education Section to prepare a concise description of Japanese religious organizations for the guidance of occupation personnel.

In its wake, Europe divided, roughly north and south, and the peoples of Europe were pitched into a series of murderous ideological wars in which tens of thousands died, and during which the religious, cultural, and political map of Europe was redrawn.