Sentences with phrase «of modern identity»

In The Victorian Philanthropist's Parlour Shonibare has embellished his fabrics with another potent example of the cross-cultural and cross-national nature of modern identity.

Keïta's posed portraits communicate the essence of that time by combining tradition with these signifiers of modern identity.

The South African artist, prized on May 9 during the Dak» Art biennale, imposed her work on the exploring of modern identity, crossed with powerful...

A celebration of one of Art's true starlets, a major influence in sculpture's history and the shaping of its modern identity.

Written by champion battle rapper Alex «Kid Twist» Larsen, the film takes aim at everyone as it interrogates the boundaries of modern identity politics — and brings the no - holds - barred art of battling to the big screen with searing rhymes and incendiary insults.

The development of the modern identity is lot a straight - line, cumulative process that leads from a fairly simple, premodern self to the complexity of today's personality.

Those who tackle Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity (Harvard University Press, 601 pp., $ 37.50) will have heavy reading ahead of them, but they will understand themselves and their vocations better for the effort.

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, by Charles Taylor.

Taylor traces the development of this last feature of the modern identity not only through philosophical writings but also in literature and, especially, the arts.

It seems a much more decisive step in the formation of the modern identity, therefore, when Taylor suggests that in Descartes the turn inward is no longer for the sake of something outside the self.

But central in the development of the modern identity as Taylor understands it is that the two new moral sources become detached from theism.

Nevertheless, Taylor is not fully persuaded that the moral sources of the modern identity are sufficient to sustain commitment to the notions of benevolence and dignity that have also been a part of that identity.

The features of modern identity described by Taylor took their rise first within a background of religious belief.

BOOK REVIEW: Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity, by Charles Taylor.

But to turn away from the features of the modern identity would for Taylor amount simply to trying to «invalidate» some genuine goods.

(Taylor does not, I think, give enough attention to the way in which these first two features of the modern identity» inwardness and affirmation of ordinary life» may be in tension with each other.

Sources of the Self: The Making of the Modern Identity by charles taylor harvard university press, 601 pages, $ 29.95 To describe Sources of the Self as a learned book would be a little like describing Michael Jordan as a skilled basketball player: accurate, but hardly adequate to the....

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Companies like Okta have essentially built modern - day versions of identity management software that work with various cloud apps and services and not just the software in a company's internal data centers.

Data breaches, password compromise, and identity theft are the bane of the modern digital age.

It's the 2016 version of a postcard home, a modern way of communicating something about our identities to our circle of friends.

The modern individual has too often subjugated the spontaneous to the orderly, the possible to the necessary, the enthusiastic to the reasonable, the wonderful to the regular.9 In yet another description, Keen identifies our current «dis - ease» as our inability to view life as a «story,» to integrate past, present, and future into a meaningful whole.10 The metaphysical myths of our tradition no longer confer identity upon us today.

Questions also are raised about the identity of the church that plays such a major role in the Radical Orthodox account of history, about whether there is a doctrine of providence implicit in it, about the dismissal or ignoring of Protestantism, about the role of Jesus in its Christianity, about the role of Socrates in its Platonism, about its failure to engage with the challenge of modern scientific and technological developments, about how other faith traditions are related to this version of faith, and about whether this is a habitable orthodoxy for ordinary life.

Wise application of the Word of God to our life situations, our identity and our purpose was the powerhouse that gave 19th Century African - American theologians the foundational truths upon which historic and modern «blackness» was built — theologians like Rev. Henry Highland Garnet, Rev. Alexander Crummell, and Rev. Henry McNeal Turner to name a few.

Even modern materialists, of course, have difficulty sustaining the strange thesis that they are not themselves conscious in the old, subjective sense, and that their own identity is a cultural illusion or mistake of language.

She shows how the covenantal invention of identity can be violent, in both ancient Israel and modern states.

The problems of Babel are reflected in modern America in our ongoing debates about history, identity, the future, and how we can live together as a nation.

The close relation that exists between the notions of «sexuality,» «self,» «identity,» «fulfillment,» and «right» makes clear the links between the ideas that underlie the revisionist proposals of the new reformers and those upon which modern political society is founded.

One of the striking findings of modern scholarship in religion is the enormous similarity if not identity of the experiences of the world of archaic peoples.

Not every congregation that is full of modern, urban, mobile parishioners has chosen to deemphasize denominational identity.

He's one of the best thinkers in modern times — explaining concepts like postmodernism and identity politics in the context of the Soviet Union and in the context of common sense.

The Chinese people have recovered a sense of identity and dignity in the modern world, though there is much room for the ensuring of human rights within China especially in the civil and political spheres.

Whether we like it or not it would be blind not to admit that for most people in the modern world religion is first of all an identity, a label, a badge of allegiance of a group.

There are, as one would expect, several essays in the book on Jews and Judaism, some reflecting Kristol's religious interests» the need, for example, to sustain in Jewish identity a religious element and not merely a cultural one» others his political ones, exploring the relations of modern American Jews with a pluralistic American society that has given them an uncommonly large, though not unlimited, berth.

He views it as the only movement capable of salvaging the collective identity of the Jewish people from the melting pot of modern nationalism.

This, of course, is where the notion of group identity enters into the reparations argument, since the crime of slavery — by the logic of modern reparations — was committed, not against individuals, but against a group (African - Americans) and therefore reparations can be paid to a group (African - American descendants).

The pluralism of modern culture does much to fragment our attempts at a well - structured identity.

In this way it will be possible to respond to the need for renewal required by the modern world and, at the same time, faithfully preserve the identity of the Church's nature and mission.

«The consumer selects his new identity from the vast range of moral possibilities that the modern world throws up.

Referring to the Bangkok Assembly of the WCC, The International Congress in Lausanne, the Bishops» Synod in Rome on evangelism in the modern world, and the Orthodox Consultation on Confessing Christ today, Thomas said that theological convergence in these meetings is striking in three points: Firstly, in their emphasis on the whole gospel for the whole man in the whole world; secondly, in their effort to relate evangelism to the identity of the church and to its growth, renewal and unity; and thirdly, in their affirmation of the realities of the contemporary world.

The small family unit known as a nuclear family today is the typical family type of the modern era in Western cultures.1 During the last two hundred years, identity has been associated more with the family unit than with larger social units like a congregation.

Greenberg suggests that the idea of a stable, lifelong homosexual identity is an invention of modern Western societies.

Accepting Greenberg's thesis might suggest that the new tolerance of these churches, especially the move toward the ordination of homosexuals, is one more way modern societies help create, not just liberate, individuals with gay and lesbian identities.

It escapes the charge of anti-Semitism or anti-Christianity only by dint of being thoroughly modern and consistent with the view that religious beliefs are not constitutive of, but only negotiable bits and pieces of, community identity.

A word more about the inner character of the event - theoretical framework, which consists of (1) the usual quantificational theory of first order, extended to include the theory of virtual classes and relations, (2) the theory of identity, (3) Lesniewski's mereology or calculus of individuals, (4) logical syntax in its modern form, (5) a semantics or theory of reference both extensional and intentional, (6) variant renditions of systematic pragmatics as needed, (7) the theory of events, states, acts, and processes, and, finally, (8) a theory of structural or grammatical relations of the kind needed for the analysis of natural language.

This mode of consciousness is «present as a kind of feeling for life, in man's pre-scientific consciousness and has as such impressed itself on modern man's everyday experience of life».1 As a result «man's consciousness of his own identity has become weaker and more damaged in the course of human progress.

According to Radner, the book's argument is flawed because it adopts the modern notion that «one's ideas form the basis of religious identity and integrity» and touts the rectification of bad ideas as the key to alleviating contemporary problems.

Then, finally, a weakness in the «new quest» position is that it simply assumes the identity of historical Jesus and kerygmatic Christ, arguing that the kerygma and modern historiography provide us with two avenues of access to the same Jesus, or at any rate, have reference, on the one hand, to Jesus, and, on the other, to the Lord who is at one with Jesus.

Religion, after all, is constituted by symbolism — whether in primitive amulets, totems, and rituals, the earth and sky god mythologies of ancient civilizations, crucifixes and relics of the medieval church, formalized texts and creeds of the world's great modern religions, or even the sacred rites and markers we use to define ourselves, our relations to nature, our sense of personal identity, and our collective loyalties and destinies.

In modern Rio, they are the alternative to the drug - traffic, the main resistance movement in terms of the forging of identity, values and respect for the force of the community.

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