Sentences with phrase «of particular cultures»

If the law passes, however, the true test will be whether Quebec's courts and human rights tribunals can apply it consistently, without unfairly singling out people of particular cultures, ethnicities or genders.

In The Carpenter and the Seamstress the artist contemplates a circumstance in which aspects of particular cultures lose their ascription to an authentic source, while the visual means of preserving them are flattened, emptied, recycled, and imitated.

At a time like this, we need to address not only the structure of education but also the nature and quality of human mind and life; thus calling for a transformative new approach that breaks through the frontiers of particular cultures.

As noted above, post-Enlightenment students of human culture have continued to use mythic figures like Apollo and Dionysius to distinguish in trenchant form the ethos of particular cultures.

Instead of expiring in courageous resistance, it will save itself by domesticating itself within the different national cultures, and as it does this it will degenerate into a spiritual or ethical manifestation of particular cultures and cease to be a reliable witness to the revelation of God in Christ.

The gods were the reputed defenders, authors, or even the critics of particular cultures.

philosophically, it's not subject to the whims of a particular culture / society (those to whom it was revealed were equally being called out by it in their culture).

Accordingly, the inevitable historicity of all human proceedings does nothing to show that various beliefs and behaviors can not be more than the characteristic possession of a transient and temporary era in the history of a particular culture.

This is true of the theologian serving the readers of a particular culture and class.

Television is rewiring the collective nervous system of our particular culture, and in doing so is beginning to determine the answers to all three questions.

Are cultures supposed to change to fit the gospel, or is the gospel flexible enough to change to fit the needs of a particular culture?

When individuals realize that what they understand to be their moral obligations are simply the teachings of a particular culture, they discover that they are free to pick and choose among them or to reject them all.

While Orthodoxy has rejected the idea that the Church in any specific location should include only members of a particular culture or nation, it has asserted that the Church can so penetrate the inner moral and spiritual life of a people that all of them in some sense belong to the Church.

The basic existential thrust of postmodern cultural study is to relax the power of any particular culture over the minds of students.

They theorized that where a country falls on the individualism vs. collectivism continuum would affect the creative juices that might be «permitted» to flow from members of a particular culture.

They should also understand which examples and case studies will augur well with people of a particular culture.

The sartorial code in Islamic societies became the symbol of a particular culture which serves the religious beliefs of their people.

These employees are helpful in giving suggestion about the taste of their particular culture, based on which a product is prepared.

Those that spring out of a particular culture — Amish or Gee's Bend, or Navajo weaving for that matter, may be included in museum and gallery shows, but typically under the cultural rubric; individual artists often remain anonymous.)

It's the vehicle through which the soul of each particular culture comes into the material world.

In other words, if you act according to certain highly esteemed social values, you will be deemed a success in the eyes of that particular culture.

Most cross-cultural work on children's social development has been dominated by an etic framework, which assumes that the constructs measured have relevance across all cultures.3 On the other hand, an emic framework refers to the specific ideas, behaviors, and values that are viewed as meaningful by members of a particular culture.

Not exact matches

At the program we're aiming to go beyond the «mom and apple pie» aspects of ethical leadership, to look not just at the values and skills of ethical leaders, but also at the particular institutional mechanisms that ethical leaders use to shape institutional culture and to put their vision into practice throughout business organizations.

Plus, speaking to the graduates of a program can help you understand what the culture is like at the particular organization.

On this particular walk, I had popped into the Silver Snail and HMV, both purveyors of pop culture that sit across the street from each other.

Two tech companies, in particular, have made pay transparency a core part of their company culture, becoming dynamic case studies for what an open pay system can do for business.

«We know people come to Monaco for the sea and the sun, but we want them also to know that we are committed to culture and, in particular, to art,» Paul Masseron, the principality's minister of the interior, told The New York Times.

You will be able to tailor your recruit's skills to your particular needs and have a member of the team that contributes to your organizational culture.

The answer will tell you if the person is looking for comfort with a culture or a particular work style, or really searching for a place where he can put his passion to work doing a particular kind of job.

The question of whether we can harness it for creating anything more substantial than amusing pictures of cats, Shirky writes, «will be answered much more decisively by the opportunities we provide for one another and by the culture of the groups we form than by any particular technology.»

In China, in particular, there was, «a perception of innovation as a challenge to the old order, a challenge to authority, and this might be seen to be in conflict with Chinese culture,» Hayes observed.

One of the reasons to highlight these particular companies is that the founders still have a direct hand in operations, which many investment advisors and some stock analysts suggest can impact company culture, as well as performance.

A story about an entrepreneur's experience that led him or her to found a company, or one about the history of a particular product, for instance, can enhance a company's culture by conveying its heritage or sense of purpose and direction.

Corporate culture also plays a role in the type of CFO you find in a particular company.

«Tribalism,» as he defines it, is «the commitment of individuals and groups to their own history, culture, and identity, and this commitment (though not any particular version of it) is a permanent feature of human social life.»

The problem for the Catholic believer in particular is precisely the claim of the Catholic Church to be a catholic church — not a culture or a heritage, but the mystical bride of Christ — a universal and eternal possibility for conversion.

@fimilleur from time to time mankind experiences the presence of God, there have been and continue to be events that testify to the presence of Him.The multiple gods you continually point to have an unique difference from the God who first revealed His presence to ancient men i.e. the Hebrews.The particular gods you mention roman etc. are all man made and in many instances men themselves i.e. hercules, but even the ancient greeks realized the limitations of their understanding and included an «unknown» God in their worship structure.many cultures did likewise, having a glimpse of God but not the fullness of understanding that was given to the Jews.Whether or not «we» believe, does not alter the fact that God exists as an unique being, whether or not «we» acknowledge Him «we» will stand before Him.You do not choose to understand, but we are actually standing in His presence right now as He is much bigger than the doctrines and knowledge man ascribes to Him those things you find so questionable are the misconceptions and misrepresentations of God made by men throughout history.

MacIntyre (along with others) has shown that the Enlightenment itself is as much a product of its own particular culture as that which it proclaimed to have successfully overcome.

Religion, and Christian communities in particular, can and should, says the author, model the civic culture for which he hopes - a culture that will retrieve and rehabilitate the best of the liberal Enlightenment tradition.

The liberal churches need their own particular language of faith to communicate with the cultured despisers of the modern world, in a manner that lays claim upon the self and the community.»

Parents will ransack attics for pieces of fabric — the more brilliant and exotic the better — and someone in the family will create a costume that will be linked to no particular age or time or culture but will somehow speak of far - off places, distant shores, desert sands and starry skies — all at the same time.

In particular, referring to applicants and petitioners for immigration benefits, and the beneficiaries of such applications and petitions, as «customers» promotes an institutional culture that emphasizes the ultimate satisfaction of applicants and petitioners, rather than the correct adjudication of such applications and petitions according to the law.

The mystics (many of them women) brought together the sentimental and the rational in extraordinary ways, while the Franciscans, and Bonaventure in particular, brought to high medieval culture their love of nature and the beautiful.

As I look back, I recognize that there was a strong culture of silencing dissent, and the group as a whole had very little tolerance for criticism or even just suggestions for change, even where it was not directed at particular people.

In the Renaissance we witness a new attempt at the Cappadocian gambit: an appropriation of the cultural achievements of the Ancient world, of Platonism in particular, as well as a dramatically heightened presence of the Church in the world of culture.

Furthermore, the elaborate patterns of culture connected with birth, initiation, courtship, marriage, illness, and death all express responses to the insistent demands of natural existence in particular circumstances of space and time.

Hearers of the call has a particular resonance in our culture, dominated as it is by the mass media.

It is true that Jesus said little about «the world» except to warn against letting its claims usurp the place of first loyalty to God, and had almost nothing to say about particular features of contemporary Jewish or Roman culture.

The second approach is to work for the creation of a monolithic universal culture in which all particular patterns of life will be eliminated.

The reality of acceptance before God actually is in itself the grateful involvement in the enterprise of human culture, and always with particular and peculiar concern for the outcast and the suffering ones in the midst of that enterprise.