Sentences with phrase «of specific cultures»

Joyce Yu - Jean Lee: As a cross-cultural Chinese American, I think culturally rooted notions of pictorial space can reveal deeper philosophies, world views, or biases of specific cultures.

But it also possesses a jazzed up vibe with an eclectic mix of other cultures, including African, Chinese and Indian, meaning no matter which one of those specific cultures best suits you, you'll be able to find a place you feel comfortable in.

Doing your research on the potentially embarrassing factors of specific cultures beforehand will help you avoid this.

Needs are becoming more diverse Conversely, as we focus on ways to avoid meals and other unessential tools, there are brilliant ideas that fit the needs of specific cultures.

Analytical and scientific measuring tools are always a product of a specific culture at a specific time.

Not exact matches

For the fall of 2016, UPEI is offering students a one - time opportunity to take a special focus in public sector management, with three sector - specific courses: Managing and Creating an Innovative Culture in the Public Sector, Public Policy Management, and Program Development and Evaluation.

Until you know what's most important to your culture — say, a sense of open dialogue or supreme creativity — it's hard to ask specific questions around it, to see if the company is measuring up to that goal and how it can be stronger.»

Asked to respond to the specific analogy of a Mean Girls culture, Hyman said, «I would describe it as the opposite of that.

Instead of being out of this world, the next wave of offices is down to earth — and, to a greater extent, designed around employees» needs and specific company cultures.

A peak performance culture happens when people choose to adopt three specific ways of being and practice seven disciplines.

While each travel and expense policy must reflect the specific goals and culture of an organization, the most effective ones are sturdy enough to help drive the objectives of the organization while remaining sufficiently flexible to encompass industry changes and technological developments.

Manulife is proud to be the recipient of many awards that recognize the Company for its overall excellence and specific achievements in areas such as culture, corporate governance, customer satisfaction, and charitable and community programs.

Topic: Autonomy, Decentralization and Trust in Corporate Culture Takeaways: (1) the power of human agency that gives value to autonomy in corporate culture, (2) the logic of many specific Berkshire Hathaway decentralization decisions and how to apply the lessons in other busiCulture Takeaways: (1) the power of human agency that gives value to autonomy in corporate culture, (2) the logic of many specific Berkshire Hathaway decentralization decisions and how to apply the lessons in other busiculture, (2) the logic of many specific Berkshire Hathaway decentralization decisions and how to apply the lessons in other businesses.

Books written by 40 different men, living in a different time, context and different culture to a specific audience of that day.

Pattaya focused on the worldwide evangelization task, in terms of specific strategies for reaching tribes, cultures, communities and groups as yet unaware of the gospel.

I'm a better person when I'm not weighed down by a book of mythology written by relatively ignorant people who lived in a very specific culture which is utterly different than our own.

Moving in a reverse pyramid from the specific to the more abstract, they decried the fraternity system, privilege (the «money - fraternity complex»), and the rape culture of the South, including Thomas Jefferson for his relations with Sally Hemings.

So in this text, it is offensive to the authors of the text, and that specific culture, (only).

But if he and Polanyi are right about nihilism (Polanyi's «empty self - assertion») being at the heart of the mentality of a culture dominated by Scientific Positivism then its occurrence is obviously not dependent on the specific form of the doctrine, be it Marxist, Fascist or whatever, in which it is expressed.

Most Popular Comment: In response to «When God Chooses Your Logo,» Julie wrote: «Claiming to know God's specific will is one of my biggest problems with Christian culture.

Specifically the correct interpretation of a translation of a translation of a translation of an ancient book of largely borrowed myths written for a specific geographic culture.

I think I decided to pursue it as a full book because I came to realize that the somewhat specific culture of «hipster Christianity» was actually indicative of much broader tensions and paradoxes in contemporary Christianity dealing with identity, image, and the question of cool.

More than an intellectual manifesto, the invitation pledges signers to specific spiritual practices: maintaining a vital prayer life, conducting works of mercy and engaging in a regular Friday fast «as a form of prayerful resistance to the idolatrous practices of our culture.»

But when the explicit intent is to adapt church culture to a distinct culture of a specific age cohort, the leaders need to be born into that culture.

Culture involves specific actions or rituals to be performed in a given way at different stages of life such as birth, marriage and funerals within a community, and these acquire the value of tradition.

While there is room for talking about such a step, one should not ignore the specific contribution made by traditional cultures to the whole process of formulating Christian doctrines.

Since Christianity does not have a specific culture of its own, and culture differs between different communities who claim to hold the same religion, every crossing of cultural boundaries does not consist in doing mission.

If the Kojiki is not completely dependable as to specific historical facts, it probably preserves more accurately the flavor of the Japanese culture which antedated the invasion of Chinese culture in the fifth century.

Real, existing capitalism is a capitalism properly and organically living in, and from, a specific polity and a culture of ordered liberty.

There are many motivations, and they are described in various ways: «(Our understanding of) God's plan for women» «Faithfulness to (our interpretation of) the Bible» «Conformity to the tradition (of our Church)» «Shared culture and values (with those like us)» «Fellowship and community (with those like us)» «Well - understood and clear - cut roles (in some areas)» «Gender - specific roles and responsibilities (again, in some areas)»

He highlights six specific events in the last couple of years that he calls a «inexplicable, catastrophic constellation of sorrows,» that, he says, demonstrate the Reformed movement's failure to engage with racial injustice in American culture.

If his published writings to date have not lifted up these concerns, this no doubt reflects the attention of the general culture and the churches rather than the specific consequences of his own theology.

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.

If the point of religion is to bring peace and guide a culture toward certain specific behaviors, primarily for order and the preservation of the good qualities of society, then how can one say that one religion is better than another or that a «religion-less» person who STILL acts the SAME way (i.e. does right unto their neighbors, lives according to the thing the bible suggests) but is more tolerant is not as high quality a citizen as another who is associated with a Major League Religious Team?

More broadly immigrant Protestant congregations are carriers of home - country cultures in matters of music, language, dress and food, if not in specific religious symbols.

But unlike Barth's own attack on natural theology, this school tended to cluster the two foci of theology, reason and revelation, into specific historical cultures.

The culture - specific interpretations of North Americans and Europeans will no longer be regarded as «real theology» while the rest of the world produces its curious provincial variants — «African theology,» «Asian theology» and so on.

The disadvantage is that the specific differences are in danger of being drowned in this great synthesis, and that the necessary respect and, consequently, caution in the approximation between confessions, religions and cultures is being disregarded.

But archaeology is most useful for recognizing broad patterns and tracing gradual changes in the material culture of a region — less so for clarifying specific historical events.

The task of the second half of this book, therefore, is to examine specific problems today regarding the gospel, culture and media in the United State and Canada.

This is not to say that faith hangs upon the question in the history of ideas as to whether Jesus appropriated any specific title available in his culture, or whether he ever spoke as does the kerygma in terms of his death and resurrection.

It makes more specific our mode of belonging to a culture where the signs are texts, i.e., writings and works arising out of distinct literary genres.

The answer must be tailored to specific circumstances and will vary considerably in different cultures and stages of life.

Taking personal experiences, seeing social injustice, wondering about the meaning of life and what happens after death and writing about it with villains and hero's and moral conclusions as per their specific cultures.

In the tool - using culture technologies were invented and used based on specific needs of that culture or in service of the symbolic world of religion, politics, etc. «Tradition, religion, politics, social, and education all «directed» the invention of tools and limited the uses to which they were put.»

Peoples in different parts of the world invented different gods, thousands of them, each god with specific personality traits, rules, and stories, though, of course, when cultures came into contact with one another there was an interchange of elements from one religion to another.

It offers a very gentle and careful «stop» on the fast - paced road of our culture, where we are told to abide by a specific but ever - changing set of rules and rarely encouraged to listen.

In a culture which reveals -LSB-...] a lack of thinking capable of formulating a guiding synthesis Catholic universities, faithful to an identity which makes a specific point of Christian inspiration, are called to promote a «new humanistic synthesis», knowledge that is «wisdom capable of directing man in the light of his first beginnings and his final ends», knowledge illuminated by faith.

For while the media, and particularly television, serve mainly as mediators of the culture, the political and economic interests of the media controllers pass the culture through discreet but generally well - defined filters which are effective in serving their own purposes, namely reinforcing the economic status quo and suppressing challenge in the form of specific critique or overall diversity.

Well, Tyson can give us specific quotes from one of the most prominent of Muslim scholars denouncing mathematics and lists of astronomical discoveries made before radical religion became entrenched in Islamic culture, while you present ambiguous statements like «history» and «facts» and attacks on his credibility, not his arguments.