Sentences with phrase «oppressive social systems»

A critique must actually center on characters exploring, challenging, changing or struggling with oppressive social systems.

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Implying that all of creation is ordered from the top down, such theology can justify oppressive political and social systems.

They cut through the social, political and economic systems that existed and which were oppressive and demanded that those who were to be followers on the road must live in a totally different way.

Throughout the history of the world there have been peoples suffering terribly under oppressive rule and inhumane social systems.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

They are oppressive because they legitimise unjust social systems like apartheid, and caste, and because they create their own special forms of religious unfreedom... But history shows us that religions can be liberative too.

They are oppressive because they legitimate unjust social systems like apartheid, and caste, and because they create their own special forms of religious unfreedom... But history shows us that religions can be liberative too.

The film's energy and passion (and no doubt, eye for detail) can't be faulted, but a tighter film could have more pointedly made the connection between the subjects» brief lifespans and the fate of a young culture of refusal that arguably died when the system it questioned was replaced by a differently oppressive social order.

In his critical and political approach, artist and filmmaker Halil Altındere explores political, social and cultural codes, focusing on depicting marginalisation and resistance to oppressive systems.

I lived most of my life in an oppressive and very unproductive political, economic and social system called communism.