Sentences with phrase «on ancient cultures»

It highlights how vitality of contemporary creative processes offers a unique perspective on ancient cultures and how ancient thought in turn can still intervene in the present.

I have been depressed for years as I watched our US agro-business spray toxins on ancient cultures, who have loved and cared for this planet long before our western ways have slapped a price tag on everything they have considered sacred from time immemorial.

It highlights how vitality of contemporary creative processes offers a unique perspective on ancient cultures and how ancient thought in turn can still intervene in the present.

Drawing on ancient cultures and textile embellishment techniques, Roopa Pemmaraju was a rainbow of warm hues.

It highlights how vitality of contemporary creative processes offers a unique perspective on ancient cultures and how ancient thought in turn can still intervene in the present.

Complete and utter nonsense by someone projecting, ignorantly, his own opinions on ancient culture.

Dashi Namdakov is a Russian sculptor, graphic artist and jeweller whose works draw on the ancient culture and artistic styles of the Eurasian steppes and on Buddhist and shamanic mythology.

Not exact matches

These include Why You Should Care: Creating a Culture of Excellence, Leadership Lessons from Ancient Rome, Women on Boards and The HR - Executive Suite Connection.

Why a non-terrestrial culture would name their planet after a figure in ancient Roman mythology is open to question (Romulus and Remus were reared by a she - wolf and went on to found the city of Rome, which also takes its name from Romulus).

We have landed on the moon, found a cure for small pox, «linked» the evolution of man to a cytoplast, found and studied ancient cultures.

However, in what is probably the oldest book of the Bible, Job, living in an ancient culture that knew nothing about space or planets, asserted that God hung the earth on nothing (1500 B.C.) or, in other words, the earth free floats in space.

What is less clear to me is why complementarians like Keller insist that that 1 Timothy 2:12 is a part of biblical womanhood, but Acts 2 is not; why the presence of twelve male disciples implies restrictions on female leadership, but the presence of the apostle Junia is inconsequential; why the Greco - Roman household codes represent God's ideal familial structure for husbands and wives, but not for slaves and masters; why the apostle Paul's instructions to Timothy about Ephesian women teaching in the church are universally applicable, but his instructions to Corinthian women regarding head coverings are culturally conditioned (even though Paul uses the same line of argumentation — appealing the creation narrative — to support both); why the poetry of Proverbs 31 is often applied prescriptively and other poetry is not; why Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob represent the supremecy of male leadership while Deborah and Huldah and Miriam are mere exceptions to the rule; why «wives submit to your husbands» carries more weight than «submit one to another»; why the laws of the Old Testament are treated as irrelevant in one moment, but important enough to display in public courthouses and schools the next; why a feminist reading of the text represents a capitulation to culture but a reading that turns an ancient Near Eastern text into an apologetic for the post-Industrial Revolution nuclear family is not; why the curse of Genesis 3 has the final word on gender relationships rather than the new creation that began at the resurrection.

Or is it instead a post-European culture born on the ruins of the ancient European cultures?

While it's a pretty irreverent take on nativity scene decorations, whether the creators of the «Hipster Nativity Set» were intending to or not, the concept offers interesting commentary about the intersections of modern millennial culture with the ancient holiday.

But now I see this passage in Peter as an expression of an ancient male - dominated culture that has no hold on us today.

Because they reveal Ancient Egyptian attitudes about death, and funerary items are part of the very limited historical information we have on that culture.

See the answer above — I see the Genesis narratives as God graciously reaching down to an ancient culture in order to communicate to them that he is their creator, that they are alienated from him, and that he desires that they be restored to fellowship through his offer of covenant with him (ultimately pointing to the need for God to step into history himself as the One who can keep the covenant on our behalf).

Alfred Edersheim, one of the foremost scholars on ancient Jewish culture and sacred writings, argues that «there is no adequate reason for questioning the historical accuracy of this date.»

I would be willing to entertain the possibility that both Cain and Abel were historical figures in one of the tribal ancestries of ancient mid eastern culture, but the intention of the author is not to convey Actual information on the first murder but instead to show how murder is endemic to sin and how grace is available even to the worst of sinners.4

We must remember that by the beginning of the second century a wide rift had opened up between Jew and Christian, and Christianity was primarily spreading among the Gentiles, to whom the traditions of ancient Israel were foreign, and who, on the other hand, were mostly Greek - speaking and immersed in Hellenistic culture.

We have continually to remember that the spring festivals celebrating the return of the vegetation god on the third day were still being celebrated in the contemporary non-Jewish cultures of the Ancient Near East.

The story of the great Flood of Noah, God's judgment on the ancient world, is found in many cultures in various stories.

The feminist exegetes give equally short shrift to pious Judaism; in a commentary on the Book of Genesis, Amherst College religion professor Susan Niditch dismisses the culture of the ancient Hebrews as one «in which powerful women are regarded with suspicion as unnatural and evil» (actually, the women in Genesis seem quite the opposite, inspiring quite a bit of respect from their menfolk).

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

From there, he turned to anthropology, holding in Violence and the Sacred that the myths of ancient cultures invariably show themselves to be based on sacrificial violence against a scapegoat.

It's only wrong on religious grounds; ancient ones from a culture far removed from our own at that.

Most of my time abroad has been spent on Crete studying the life and work of Nikos Kazantzakis (cf. Zorba the Greek, The Last Temptation of Christ, Saviors of God and Report to Greco) and the ancient Minoan culture.

What little they have to say in their ancient texts on this topic (and many other topics) reflects their distate for the practices of all foreign peoples and cultures, as well as their discomfort with all things pertaining to the erotic, such as nudity, intimacy and bodily fluids — things that they themselves kept hidden and quiet about.

A definitive, fresh and approachable collection of 150 traditional recipes from an authoritative voice on Middle Eastern home cooking, Salma Hage's new book is in line with the current Western trends of consciously reducing meat, and the ancient Middle Eastern culture of largely vegetarian, mezze style dining.

The most ancient of breads, flatbread has been used as an eating utensil in some cultures for thousands of years, and as a wrap to hold meats and vegetables for food «on the go,» in others.

Bolivian Dance Team San Jose showcases Bolivia's rich and varied culture re-creating Bolivian dances by taking on innovative approaches to ancient and rare forms.

Ancient Mesopotamian culture also placed a higher value on male children, and death from exposure was a common fate for unwanted female infants.

The hegemony of Western culture stands on ancient Greek civilisation.

On the same note, since swastika is an ancient symbol used in many cultures, you can see it aplenty in public in India where there is no connection made between it and Nazism on street leveOn the same note, since swastika is an ancient symbol used in many cultures, you can see it aplenty in public in India where there is no connection made between it and Nazism on street leveon street level.

This new book puts a clever pop culture spin on an ancient art.

The block on excavations has been the latest in a series of obstacles for archaeologists working in Egypt — the home of perhaps one - third of the world's antiquities, which reveal a vanished culture in unmatched detail (see «New research in an ancient land»).

Globe - hopping from ancient China to the Aztec Empire, from glamorous Parisian cafes to the mills of New England, Paper weaves culture with chemistry, and politics with pulpwood, as it chronicles world history through that wafer - thin product we write on.

«We're looking at every possible ancient equine culture on the planet,» Orlando says.

Until now, many researchers had thought that the Botai culture, an ancient group of hunters and herders that relied on horses for food and possibly transport in what today is northern Kazakhstan, first harnessed horses 5500 years ago.

The independent institute, founded in 1917 and with a staff of 50 scholars, has a collection of 120,000 books covering Indian culture, Indus Valley civilization, Sanskrit texts, and writings on the Ayurveda, the ancient Indian system of medicine.

A 2,700 - year - old portico was discovered this summer on the site of the ancient city of Argilos in northern Greece, following an archaeological excavation led by Jacques Perreault, Professor at the University of Montreal's Centre of Classical Studies and Zisis Bonias, an archaeologist with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports.

Of the 350 artifacts of Aztec culture now on display at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, the most discomfiting is a two - foot - tall clay statuette of Xipe Totec, the ancient Aztec god of spring.

Broth is an ancient food that traditional cultures and trained chefs have been using for ages, and it has recently regained popularity and was even called «trendy» on the Today show.

Originating from southern Europe and parts of Africa, Asia, and India, many ancient and medieval cultures relied on the herb not just for its signature scent but also its pain relieving and sedative properties.

Sauerkraut and other pickled foods were once cultured by being left out on the shelves at room temperature to naturally ferment using salt or whey, but now these food items undergo a fundamentally different process replacing natural fermentation with a combination of vinegar and preservatives to achieve the same acidic pickled flavor, however lacking the beneficial byproducts of fermentation.Another ancient method of fermentation that is now regaining popularity is kefir - fermented beverages.

Many ancient cultures and scriptures consistently focus on the advice that there should be a gap of at least 3 hours or so between your last meal and your sleep.

There was a completely different approach to life based on an ancient philosophy that was deeply rooted in one of the oldest cultures on earth.

Each chapter of the book provides well - researched information on the traditional food in question, as well as recipes for these other ancient food techniques, many of which have largely disappeared from our present food cultures.

I found a helpful Mother Earth News article on ancient corn (fascinating how traditional cultures knew how to make the nutrients in grains bio-available through a lot of hard work and patience) and how to make something called Nixtamal.

Since 2008 I have worked with Yoga teachers, Spiritual Gurus, Shaman elders, great wisdom teachers and healers, studied and practiced a variety of holistic modalities and ancient teachings, from those found within the pages of the Bhagavad Gita and in Vedic Culture to working with the powerful healing properties of crystals, and have expanded and experienced healing on deep and profound levels.