Sentences with phrase «on cultural history»

< br / > < br / > Daily Mail (London) ; December 3, 2008; 219 words Byline: Ephraim Hardcastle CHANNEL 4 arts correspondent Nicholas Glass's interview with Turner Prize winner Mark Leckey , whose «installation» included a video lecture on cultural history, was too silly for words.

This richly illustrated book contains essays on the intersections between art and magic by Jonathan Allen and Sally O'Reilly; texts on each of the 24 featured artists; new writing on the cultural history of magic by Simon During, Brigitte Felderer, Peter Lamont, Pierre Taillefer, Helen Varola and Marina Warner; a fold - out collation of texts and images exploring the dynamics of magic, art and power; and an illustrated selection of props and offbeat ephemera from the world of theatrical magic.

GEOFFREY DORFMAN is a painter who also writes on cultural history, in particular (but not limited to) Modernism and Modern Art.

The film could be seen as a slapstick take on cultural history — both its reliance on stereotypes and its arbitrary nature.

In this group exhibition, seven artists take on the cultural history of the United Kingdom.

Michael Bracewell (b. 1958) is the author of seven novels and eleven works of non-fiction including the much - acclaimed England Is Mine: Pop Life in Albion From Wilde to Goldie (1997) on the cultural history of England.

While it's only partly about art, The King, directed by Eugene Jarecki, takes a similar approach as Faces Places, but with a focus on the cultural history of America.

«Thirty years ago, the National Park Service was at the forefront of research on the cultural history — American, French, Spanish, and Native American — of our country,» Plog wrote to Science in an e-mail message.

British historian Simon Schama has written numerous award - winning books on the cultural histories of countries including Holland and France, and is the author of the three - volume History of Britain.

Not exact matches

But this is a cultural history of shoplifting, not a hard analysis of its effects on bottom lines.

For black men, though, the challenges of the corporate life are daunting at least in part because they are sometimes hard to pin down — influenced as much by age - old prejudice as by cultural preconceptions, the subtleties of psychology, and the weight of human history (more on that soon).

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

It's that his personal history — not only the two divorces, but also the repeated affairs and the way he behaved during the dissolution of his marriages — makes him the most compromised champion imaginable for a movement that's laboring to keep lifelong heterosexual monogamy on a legal and cultural pedestal.

On the one hand, there is the thesis of Oswald Spengler, who believed that he had identified a natural law for the great moments in cultural history: First comes the birth of a culture, then its gradual rise, flourishing, slow decline, aging, and death.

depending on your criteria (if you go by cultural influence or numbers of adherents), a case could be made that it's the clearest book in history.

By this I mean we live on the frontier - land of a new age, a new period of cultural history that is dawning.

Insisting on the cultural importance of «stigmatized knowledge,» he looks at the history of this tradition, going back to the Order of Illuminists founded in 1776 by Bavarian law professor Adam Weishaupt to free mankind «from all established religious and political authority.»

«The assumptions that have governed our understanding of Christian history during the past several centuries were all formed in the European context where the church was identified with the cultural and religious majority and attention was focused largely on its institutional life,» Shenk writes.

If I was alone on a desert island with nothing but the Bible, and no research tools to help me understand the background and history of who Jesus was and what He taught, and the cultural and theological forces He was facing, I doubt I ever would have understood Him in the way that Wright presents here.

- God, the Absolute - humanity, the human condition in its universal characteristics, - male and female, though different, equal in rights and dignity, - the cosmos, especially the planet earth available, with its limited resources, for all humanity - the planet's ecology as common essential source of life and hence of concern for all humans, present and future, - the human conscience guiding each one interiorly would be known only to each one personally, - the each group of humans has a history and a religio - cultural background of its own is a universal factor that makes for particularity and different contexts for theology, - the realization that the present increasing globalization of relationships, economy and culture impinge on theology and spirituality universally, though differently.

(a) Philosophical preoccupation with the various types of cultural activities on an idealistic basis (Johann Gottfried Herder, G. W. F. Hegel, Johann Gustav Droysen, Hermann Steinthal, Wilhelm Wundt); (b) legal studies (Aemilius Ludwig, Richter, Rudolf Sohm, Otto Gierke); (c) philology and archeology, both stimulated by the romantic movement of the first decades of the nineteenth century; (d) economic theory and history (Karl Marx, Lorenz von Stein, Heinrich von Treitschke, Wilhelm Roscher, Adolf Wagner, Gustav Schmoller, Ferdinand Tonnies); (e) ethnological research (Friedrich Ratzel, Adolf Bastian, Rudolf Steinmetz, Johann Jakob Bachofen, Hermann Steinthal, Richard Thurnwald, Alfred Vierkandt, P. Wilhelm Schmidt), on the one hand; and historical and systematical work in theology (church history, canonical law — Kirchenrecht), systematic theology (Schleiermacher, Richard Rothe), and philosophy of religion, on the other, prepared the way during the nineteenth century for the following era to define the task of a sociology of religion and to organize the material gathered by these pursuits.7 The names of Max Weber, Ernst Troeltsch, Werner Sombart, and Georg Simmel — all students of the above - mentioned older scholars — stand out.

The pieces, on loan from museums in Karachi and Lahore, highlight Pakistan's history as a crossroads of cultural influences, despite present - day associations of the country as an incubator of religious extremism, museum director Melissa Chiu said.

He teaches courses on Mormonism in its broad social and cultural context and on the history of religion in America.

Early in its history divisions occurred on the basis of national, political, cultural, and religious differences.

Flat, blank facades on buildings conceived as commodities — or just oddities — rather than works of civic art; flat modernist pictorial abstractions; the flattening of cultural history into pseudo-history packaged as what Henry dismissed as «applied sociology» — all spoke to him of something far more ominous, the abasement of man and the crude negation of his proper relationship to nature as embodied in the great tradition.

Harrington insists on seeing the broad movements of cultural history in every particular experience, majestic and mundane.

Higher criticism includes an analysis of the literary genre of the text, its historical background, the history of the oral tradition behind the text, and the cultural and psychological factors at work on the author and editor (or editors) of the text.

If you look closely at our country's history it has a very deep vein that is based on cultural and religious intolerance... unless you are a WASP... be suspious and «watch out» for anyone that is different from «us».

He did so by urging the expansion of the idea that the great books include the Eastern classics, as well as through his inspiring participation in Columbia's core courses on Asian humanities and through his many books making the cultural history of China and the rest of East Asia available to educated readers.

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

History turns on the conflict of heterogeneous conceptions of reality and social norms that express diverse cultural, ethnic, and gender identities.

Perhaps a retrospective look from a greater historical perspective will show that the Niebuhr report reflects the end of a phenomenon of which William Rainey Harper's study marked the beginning: the influence on Protestant theological schooling of major themes in the «progressivist era» in American cultural history.

History based on the social - scientific interpretation of data is based on historical information along with comparative sociology and social psychology, cultural anthropology and any other cross-cultural methods that produce models based on inductive studies.

Vermes sees the Gospels (and the whole NT) as «One particular sector on the general map of Jewish cultural history,» not as an independent corpus.

I'm doing a project on the history of peanuts and peanut butter in South America for cultural connections.

Having lived in Italy as a tour guide and worked as a researcher for Rick Steves» travel guides, Detours founder Amanda Scotese created cultural tours because she realized people were missing out on great history in their own city here at home.

For example, the Birding in Costa Rica tour is primarily focused on birding, while the Northern Greece Birding & Natural History trip includes cultural stops and botany interests as well as daily birding.

She worked for the Smithsonian Institution's Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage as an archivist, and she has also worked on many oral history and folklife projects.

It would involve turning their backs not only on three hundred years of shared history, replete with triumphs and disasters, but on the close cultural ties that exist today across the Anglo - Scottish border.

Written with the help of a friend and Yale historian Timothy Snyder, the book is a dialogue between the two men on the story Judt hoped to tell in his planned book — the intellectual and cultural history of the Twentieth Century.

It has also commented on the overall aims of the national curriculum and matters related to English, history, Collective Worship, spirituality and Spiritual, Moral, Social and Cultural (SMSC) development.

Transcultural understanding, cultural cross-fertilization, and historically - based cultural commonality have a long and rich history, one that has been forgotten or downplayed by the Western collective memory, as demonstrated by rhetoric such as that espoused in the framework of the global war on terror.

This is similar to other forms of nationalism, which also focus on their unique social contexts (for example, Fascism reflects Italian cultural history and Juche reflects the Koreans»).

Russia has powerful economic tools (restrictions on imports, increases of gas prices, restrictions on migrant labour); this leverage is complemented by more cultural sources of influence: shared language, history and culture, and kinship.

At 3:30 p.m., state Sen. Jesse Hamilton announces legislation recognizing 400 years of African - American history and hosts a roundtable on diversity and inclusion in cultural institutions, Weeksville Heritage Center, 158 Buffalo Ave., Brooklyn.

Reynolds, a Cambridge don who has written extensively on political and international history, addresses the parliamentary, cultural, military and social legacy of the war, and corrects many of the myths veiling it.

«The St. George Theatre is a major cultural attraction on the North Shore, and with the renaissance St. George is having, it's important to modernize the theatre while also honoring its history,» Borough President James Oddo said in a statement.

In a remarkable video he made in Uganda that is posted on YouTube (since removed, though activist and blogger Andrés Duque made a copy, which is posted at the end of this story), Cabrera described the «cultural shifters» throughout history as a despotic rogues» gallery — Communists, Nazis, the North Korean government.

The group runs the Franklin H. Williams Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute on West 58th Street, which was founded in 1976 and promotes the history, culture and art of African descendants in the Americas.