Sentences with phrase «of social ideology»

In my opinion what has happened in this area is that a kind of social ideology is now embedded within the medical paradigm, to the extent that that social judgments are masquerading as scientific judgments making the science a pseudo science, as a relatively small number of people have been placed in a position wherein they can choose what relevant lines of evidence (and what counter arguments) are acceptable and which are not, as deemed by themselves.

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Meanwhile, social media was buzzing after images emerged of Trump placing his hands on a glowing orb at the inauguration ceremony of a new center for combating extremist ideology — instigating comparisons from fantasy epics to science fiction.

«It is a great waste of social resources to reinvent the wheel,» wrote Yifei, in a statement that seemed to hint at the overarching ideology driving China's CBDC effort.

There is no narrative that sets out the longer - run economic and social challenges; there is no discussion of how these challenges are interrelated; and, there is no commitment to put aside ideologies and consider what is best for the country.

Acting on a tip from the FBI, Italian authorities arrested four people in Italy and Kosovo Tuesday who were suspected of planning an attack on Pope Francis... The [alleged] terrorist team propagated the ideology of jihad through social networks, the police said.

People like Santorum remind me of the Pharasees who were careful to show up in the temple full of pride and self righteous indignation for anyone who dared to question their rigid ideology yet never took one step towards bettering conditions in their society or spoke out against social and economic injustice.

It's also a matter of social practices, governmental policies, political decisions, economic strategies and ideologies that are spread through education and media.

But as the rest of the interviews in the book show, placing social limits on art is one thing, and the Iranian revolution's destruction of a generation of artists in the name of ideology quite another.

But before attempting an answer, I should say that I understand «ideology» pejoratively as «the integrated assertions, theories and aims constituting a politico - social program,... with an implication of factitious propagandizing...» (Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary).

This has been a period in which the categories of the social sciences have been employed for the study of such ancient literature, alerting us to the ways in which ancient communities are rooted in social realities, as well as the ways in which social structures and ideologies reinforce each other.

Instead, after 1938 Hitler began to publicly support a Nazified version of science, particularly social Darwinism, at the core of Nazi ideology in place of a religious one — a development that is reflected in private in his increasingly hostile remarks towards religion in Table Talk.

The situation calls for the search for a new more holistic humanism and a common public ethic for state and social reform developed through dialogue of religions and secular ideologies.

And if libertarians are afraid of conservatives» social positions, all they need to assuage their fears is a belief in their professed ideology — that small government will mean less involvement in people's personal affairs.

After drawing out how the encyclical applies this to various social, economic and ecological issues he highlighted, concerning «the problem of technology», that «this is the first time an encyclical deals with the subject in such an organic manner -LSB-...] The exclusively technical mentality [and ideology] in fact, reduces all to pure doing... [True human development] requires a new perspective upon man that only the God who is truth and love can provide.»

No other structure in the world can be called on to promise eternal salvation, and when such salvific claims are made in the name of some nation, race, social class, religion, or ideology, the church must fight such idolatry and blasphemy with all its means of persuasion, even to the point of martyrdom.

Such misuse of reason, after all, was what gave rise to the slave trade in the first place and to many other social evils, not least the totalitarian ideologies of the twentieth century.

Bases of the Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.&Social Concept of the Russian Orthodox Church, the Russian Orthodox Church's official document outlining its position on social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.&social issues, calls grave social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.&social ills, such as alcoholism and drug addiction, «a retribution for the ideology of consumerism, for the cult of material prosperity, for the lack of spirituality, and the loss of authentic ideals.»

One may grant the many benefits of pluralism as an ecclesial social policy and still recognize that it has unwittingly increased the common church fund of rationalizing ideology.

The language of ideology sounds great; it reflects concern for others and notable religious principles, but it also happens to protect a self - seeking, status - quo theory or social practice.

One is a lack of belief in gods, the other is an economic and social ideology that promotes a classless society based on public ownership of the means of production.

This ideology which is present in mass media by virtue of their nature and social organization then shapes how they represent social reality through processes of selection and reinterpretation.

The book also provides some useful examples of the ways in which ideologies become articulated with, or reflective of, their social environments.

Instead of being left to rely on deductive theoretical formulations about the economic or political interests served by ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators of ideas with their social environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences of action that put ideas into effect.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

Much of the second half of the 20th century was a period of cold war between the countries organized on these two differing ideologies and social systems.

The primary contribution of these studies is to suggest some of the specific social processes that intervene between general social or cultural conditions and the appearance of an ideology.

It is an ideology seizing threads of environmental, social, racial, and economic justice, and interweaving them with strands of multiculturalism, gender discourse, gay rights, queer theory, post-colonialism, and anti-capitalism.

Nor does she find any support for a straightforward effect of social class or status groups on ideologies.

But it depends upon their giving up both their uncritical acceptance of the present ideology of modernization identifying it with Christianity and any revival of primalism in a militant and fundamentalist way in the name of their self - identity, and evaluating both modernity and tradition in the light of Christian personalism i.e. the idea of human beings as persons in community, and all natural and social functions as sacramental means of communion in the purpose of God.

Jacques Ellul in his many writings is one theorist who takes seriously the idea that there is ideology inherent in technology with the consequence that the adoption of particular technologies has implications for social and religious meaning and expression.

The spiritual vision of modernity as we know it in ideology and practice has emphasized three aspects of realty, namely progress through differentiation and autonomy of individuality; the concept of the world as history moving towards the Future through the creativity of human rationality; and the ethos of secularism as the basis of social ordering.

Fulbrook's study does not have the nuanced series of variables linking social conditions and religious ideologies that Zaret's does.

was co-opted into the imperialist ideology and social structure of the later Roman empire....

Fundamentalist Hindu opposition to change of the traditional Hindu social order had played a large part in the creation and strengthening of the RSS ideology of opposition to other religions and to movements of Hindu reformation.

He does not seem to have wanted to elevate his own contribution to social doctrine to a more central place in his magisterium; it was enough for him to adapt Leo XIII and Pius XI to the specific needs of a world ravaged by ideology and warfare.

The very foundation of Judaism itself, the Second Commonwealth, the work of the pioneers — Haggai, Zechariah, Zerubbabel, Nehemiah, Ezra — was idealistic and utopian enough, and rested upon a firmly fixed «social» ideology, namely a holy nation devoted to the worship and obedience of the one, true, holy God.

communis — common, universal) is a revolutionary socialist movement to create a classless, moneyless, and stateless social order structured upon common ownership of the means of production, as well as a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of this social order.

Thus we have the spectacle «of a set of sanctimonious, rationalist politicians, preaching an ideology of unselfishness and social service to a population in which they and their predecessors have done their best to destroy the only living root of moral behavior.»

Struck by the contingency and organic relatedness of social institutions, practices, and actions, and dismayed by the Utopian ideologies to which so many modern minds are prone, paleoconservatives (as they now style themselves) such as Kirk are opposed to «ideological infatuation» or even to imagining social projects for the future at all.

Also different is the social and political status of African and Asian Christians, who are often minorities in countries dominated by other religions or secular ideologies.

Almost every department of theological study is involved at this level, and this means not only attention to the symbols and images of the Christian faith; it also means attention to the symbols and images and art forms of the contemporary world, as they are encountered in literature and the fine arts, but also in popular expressions, community rituals, social ideologies, and not least in the mass media of the time.

He embraced socialism but not as an ideology; he simply felt that socialists generally had the most practical answers to the social questions of his day.

In order to convince the confused and alienated masses, we must be able to demonstrate that Catholic social thought treads the middle path between theocracy — the ambition of strict Islamist ideology — where the spiritual authorities simply subsume the powers of the State, and the atheist secularist agenda, which eventually leads to the State assuming God - like powers, yet without the compassion and respect for human freedom that is characteristic of the true God of Love.

During his time as a researcher at the Christian Institute for the Study of Religion and Society, KC initiated new avenues of research exploring the space where ideology and faith intersect to activate a process of social change.

Homophobia is generally defined as hostility towards or fear of gay people, but can also refer to social ideologies which stigmatize homosexuality.

Instead of dismissal I suggest rather that verses 12 - 13 may be true faith or false ideology, depending on the social situation of the believer.

Social liberal ideology is like Gnosticism in its reliance (which is usually implicit) on one form or another of person - body (or self - body) dualism; but dualism is only one feature of Gnosticism (albeit a very important one).

However, they were also pragmatists, and they couldn't have failed to see how democracy, which was viewed in India as inseparable from the promise of social and economic justice, and the official ideology of secular nationalism were necessary means to contain the country's many sectarian divisions.

The influence of Hinduism on the social and religious life of Adivasis has been considerable, particularly in the last 10 - 15 years... the BJP and other Hindu organizations such as the Mandir, the Arya Samaj, saints and sadhus, and some Adivasi politicians have succeeded in inculcating the Hindutva RSS, the ABVP, Bajrang Dal, Shiv Shena, the Hindu Milan ideology in the minds of the Adivasi people?

I do agree with some of Radical Orthodoxy's critique of the ideology that has dominated much of Western social science.