Sentences with phrase «on cultural life»

Fadda seeks to arrive at a detailed account of cultural production in oPt - shaped as it is by certain socio - economic discourses, accelerated political violence and restrictive financial structures — and the strategies of artistic communities and Palestinian - led cultural interventions that are working to defy the artificial and violent constraints imposed on cultural life in Palestine.

Dr. Mary Schmidt Campbell, president of Spelman College, has made an indelible imprint on the cultural life of New York City and beyond as an innovative leader in education and the arts.

Dr. Campbell, president of Spelman College, has made an indelible imprint on the cultural life of New York City and beyond as an innovative leader in education and the arts.

Gaitán's presentation will contextualize the recent history of the Berlin Biennale, its international relevance and comprehensive impact on the cultural life of Berlin, introducing his curatorial research and the artistic team he has invited for the 8th edition.

Learn to play the ukulele, make a floral lei, take hula lessons or go on the cultural Life Tour of Princess Kaiulani.

Not exact matches

On a broader level, he will be seen as just one of many who stood at the forefront of a broad cultural change, one that eventually affected the health and lives of millions of people.

«One key mindset shift that will support living your best life and career is to focus less on achieving titles, external «shoulds,» and cultural norms, and instead focus on «What contribution are you making?»

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).

She argues that by not taking tourism seriously, governments are both failing to fully capitalize on a booming industry and leaving their countries exposed to the destructive elements that accompany foreign travel: environmental degradation, lowered living standards for the poor, sex tourism, and all the subtler injustices and annoyances that materialize when droves of foreigners arrive on your shores demanding authentic cultural experiences.

«Your annual assessment is predominantly based on how well you're living out the nine cultural values.»

With hard - hitting commentary, the latest on the cultural and social scene in Arts & Life, more than just the scores with entertaining Post Sports coverage, and the best business reporting in Canada within the pages of Financial Post, it is Canada's Business Voice.

Rice's grim portrayal of our cultural and political circumstance notwithstanding, this is a book marked by a bracing confidence that the friends of life are, in fact, on the winning side.

He lives in two worlds: As a stand - up comedian he mocks Pakistan and its cultural and religious mores, but as a «good son» he fakes interest in the girls his mother causes «providentially» to drop by during visits home, and disappears into the basement «to pray» (i.e., play games on his phone).

Education today in the industrial environment and in the political and cultural environments consists of how to ensure that the human resources (since both you and I are now reduced to being human resources rather than human beings) can be trained on a continuing basis, throughout our lives, to be recycled at the right moment, to be a profitable human resource?

Pentecostals live, in other words, by what George Weigel has called the Iron Law of Christianity in Modernity: Christian communities that maintain a firm grasp on their doctrinal and moral boundaries can flourish amidst the cultural acids of modernity; Christian communities whose doctrinal and moral boundaries become porous (and then invisible) wither and die.

In his seminal book on play, Homo Ludens, cultural historian Johan Huizinga states, «Play is a function of the living, but it is not susceptible of exact definition either logically, biologically, or aesthetically.

Our interpretation of Scripture depends on many things — temperamental tendencies, cultural conditioning, life experiences, etc. — besides context which is not always easily discerned.

«Moore provides a primer on how our commitments to Christ and his kingdom (as opposed to our political, social, and cultural agendas) should shape not only how we live our lives, but also what our lives should say to a watching, listening world.

The cultural emphasis on the value of the individual has created a tension in contemporary domestic life.

There is a simplicy to life on the Holy Mountain that is not posible in the cultural world.

While the cultural problem has its origins in blocked economic opportunities, it has taken on a self - perpetuating life of its own.

Speaking at the San Antonio Conference, Lesslie Newbigin made reference to his own cultural background in these terms: «As I look back on my own life as a missionary in India, I realize now in a way that I never did at that time that I was not only carrying the gospel but that I was also a carrier of this so - called modern world - view which I now see to be breaking down because it is false.

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

Hitler was born with little money, and the majority of jewish families that lived near and around germany HAD been wealthy, and so one could argue that Hitler was just looking for funding and a back reason to make his sheep like followers do his deeds so he played on his peoples misunderstandings and cultural separations.

On the ethical and cultural side, they need to help the public as a whole to understand that the nihilism permeating contemporary life is the inevitable consequence of apostasy.

Some may consider it «shipwreck» that the cultural Catholicism that transmitted and sustained the faith in these United States as recently as two generations ago is on life - support.

The question for her then, is when she receives new life through the Messiah, Jesus, and allows her theology to be newly developed based on the Bible, which socio - cultural group does she want to live out this new faith in — her Muslim socio - cultural group, or a foreign Christian socio - cultural group?

Can we reconceive theological education in such a way that (1) it clearly pertains to the totality of human life, in the public sphere as well as the private, because it bears on all of our powers; (2) it is adequate to genuine pluralism, both of the «Christian thing» and of the worlds in which the «Christian thing» is lived, by avoiding naiveté about historical and cultural conditioning without lapsing into relativism; (3) it can be the unifying overarching goal of theological education without requiring the tacit assumption that there is a universal structure or essence to education in general, or theological inquiry in particular, which inescapably denies genuine pluralism by claiming to be the universal common denominator to which everything may be reduced as variations on a theme; and (4) it can retrieve the strengths of both the «Athens» and the «Berlin» types of excellent schooling, without unintentionally subordinating one to the other?

«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.

On the contrary, every time a biblical author sketches the eschaton, humans are on earth using various kinds of cultural goods, cooking meals, living in houses, walking on roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so oOn the contrary, every time a biblical author sketches the eschaton, humans are on earth using various kinds of cultural goods, cooking meals, living in houses, walking on roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so oon earth using various kinds of cultural goods, cooking meals, living in houses, walking on roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so oon roads, raising banners, blowing trumpets, using domesticated animals, sitting on chairs, reading books, and so oon chairs, reading books, and so onon.

The collapse of Catholic literary life reflects a larger crisis of confidence in the Church that touches on all aspects of religious, cultural, and intellectual life.

If you don't live in DC, however, and you live in some benighted cultural desert (like New York City) then nobody is putting on an opera, but you did have the chance to see something else: an oratorio called Moby Dick: Death and Other Curiosities.

When my wife and I moved to Pasadena, California, we joined a group of well - educated couples who were meeting in a local Baptist church on Sunday mornings for a freewheeling discussion of life, social issues and various cultural challenges to the Christian faith.

What they can do is to interpret it in the light of the present forces impinging on their lives so that the new pattern of life may be continuous with their cultural tradition.

- 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.

Do the Zombies see such intertwining of love's highs and low - downs as the tragically monstrous character of humanity's sexuality — a perennial trait, albeit one only recently reactivated on a wide scale after a long and unnatural cultural hibernation — that we simply have to learn to live with?

They are unhappy with developments in America, but rather than direct their anger against the corporate economic powers that are doing them dirt, they have instead been diverted to conservative cultural issues» race, crime, moral decay, homosexuality, guns, abortion, feminism, anti-Americanism, and on into infinity» that are largely irrelevant to their lives.

Is it not true that Paul's «purely» theological insights are, on closer inspection, responses to the cultural crises and life situations of young churches facing concrete problems, and that his «purely» practical advice has within it a theological dimension?

As is explained on its website: «The college will develop and enrich the cultural and educational life of our country; and respond to Benedict XVI's call for a New Evangelisation, bringing life to «the interior desert that results when man, wishing to be the only builder of his own nature and his own destiny, finds himself devoid of that which constitutes the foundation of all things»» (Motu proprio Ubicumque et semper, October 2010).

To fulfll the Lord's mission worldwide, we must understand that we live in different social, political, historical and cultural contexts in and through which God acts and speaks to us, though we live on the same globe.

Thus in our present situation the hermeneutical problem (how traditional words, concepts and symbols are to be interpreted intelligibly in our cultural present) on the one hand remains the problem for those concerned with the theoretical issues of theology, and on the other the issue of liberation represents the center for those concerned more with the meaning of theology in life and in action.

John Paul II's approach to east central Europe was based on different premises: that the post-war division of Europe was immoral and historically artificial; that communist violations of basic human rights had to be named for what they were; and that the «captive nations» could eventually find tools of resistance that communism could not match, if they reclaimed the religious, moral, and cultural truth about themselves and lived those truths without fear.

These writers began their careers mostly on the margins of cultural life.

During the last twenty - five years, church leaders have experienced the impact of a major cultural transition on the life of congregations.

In this cultural approach to the doctrine of man, Niebuhr found that all contemporary non-Christian views of life fail because they do not fully take into account man's freedom on the one hand or his involvement in nature on the other.

A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico - cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi - phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life.

The evangelicals and fundamentalists, who were not seen as a major force within the mainstream of American cultural and religious life, existed mainly on the fringes of influence within the television industry.

In so doing it helped to promote Christian faith in America, but at the same time it de-emphasized the role of the Church by concentrating on an individual experience, and it also made Christianity a stranger to large segments of American intellectual, cultural, and political life.

In global consciousness we know that, if we go far enough back in time, we share a common origin not only with people from very different cultural and religious backgrounds, but also with all forms of life on the planet.

First, there is the presence on every page of the words, categories, myths, images, and technical terminology of the social, cultural, religious, and scientific life of the communities addressed.