Sentences with phrase «other cultural forces»

And I probably could have stomached Jesus and his band of warriors if it weren't for how other cultural forces buttressed the Christian Right.

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... In Nicaragua there is no systematic practice of forced disappearances, extrajudicial killings or torture — as has been the case with the «friendly» armed forces of El Salvador Nor has the Government practiced elimination of cultural or ethnic groups, as the Administration frequently claims; indeed in this respect, as in most others, Nicaragua's record is by no means so bad as that of Guatemala, whose government the Administration consistently defends.

In their view, books stressing contingency «offer a way forward, beyond the «old political history» and the new «social and cultural history» by a reunion of process and event,» In other words, what Individual people did — perhaps especially people who filled leading public posts — may be as genuinely significant as the ordinary forces acting upon ordinary people.

Cultural war is a two way street, and you are far to accustomed to being able to force your will on others.

Writing Searching for Sunday forced me to consider that perhaps real maturity is exhibited not in thinking myself above other Christians and organized religion, but in humbly recognizing the reality that I can't escape my own cultural situatedness and life experiences, nor do I want to escape the good gift of my (dysfunctional, beautiful, necessary) global faith community.

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.

This media force, along with other cultural and social influences, shapes the disposition as well as the substance of theology associated with our view of the world.

This driving force has changed our culture and its communication modes more during the last century and a half than in any other period in cultural history.

This massive shift has had a devastating effect on the once - deep cultural values that exerted their force upon most of society's institutions — values of truth, duty, discipline, reading, beauty, family, tradition, justice, among many others.

The foreign debt continues to be an issue and new voices have began to sound the need to look for ways to face it; (ii) At the national level two questions are concentrating increasing attention: one is the reassessment of the necessary role of the state to correct the distortions of a runaway market (currently discussed in Europe and in the discussions about the role the initiatives of «an active state has played in the economic development of Asian countries); the other is the need for a «participative democracy over against a purely representative formal democracy: in this sense the need to strengthen civil society with its intermediate organizations becomes an important concern; (iii) the struggle for collective and personal identity in a society in which forced immigration, dehumanizing conditions in urban marginal situations, and foreign cultural aggression and massification in many forms produce a degrading type of poverty where communal, family and personal identity are eroded and even destroyed.

Library, 1961) ~ Charles Hartshorne, The Logic of Perfection and Other Essays in Neoclassical Metaphysics (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court, 1962) ~ Bernard E, Meland, The Realities of Faith: the Revolution of Cultural Forces (New York: Oxford University Press, 1962): and Daniel Day Williams, The Spirit and the Forms of Love (New York: Harper & Row, 1968).

The new cultural forces which have emanated from the west and which are causing the decay of traditional Christianity also threaten the future of the other great post-Axial traditions.

After publishing Postwar in 2005, a tour de force of European history since World War II, winning the Arthur Ross Book Award for best book in international affairs and numerous other awards, Tony Judt prepared to write an ambitious intellectual and cultural history of Twentieth Century social thought.

Most of them are considered to be non-literate, school dropouts, or young females who have escaped from outmoded socio - cultural practices such as forced marriages and female genital mutilation (female circumcision) among others.

This phenomenon appears too precise to have been caused by the Syrian Arab Republic Government's military forces, and while it is well known that the United States and other partner air forces have the ability to deliver munitions with high precision, the destroyed sites are all cultural sites located within the UNESCO Tentative World Heritage site boundary, according to the report.

The Essential Conversation: What Parents and Teachers Can Learn From Each Other (2003), captures the crucial exchange between parents and teachers, a dialogue that is both mirror and metaphor for the cultural forces that shape the socialization of our children, and The Third Chapter: Risk, Passion, and Adventure in the Twenty - Five Years After 50 (2009) explores new learning during one of the most transformative and generative times in our lives, and EXIT: The Endings That Set Us Free (2012).

Historically, hegemonic systems have been predicated on the identification of an oppositional force, a cultural «other» — often located within its midst — against which the system can define itself, thus protecting its cohesion and power.

Norte Maar aims to be a leader in building collaborative partnerships between artists and other organizations whereby uniting cultural forces to foster artistic expression and raising the imaginative energy in us all.

Belonging to the generation that produced Abstract Expressionism (he was arguably the first champion of Jackson Pollock), Greenberg saw in that artist's personal tragedy a metaphor for the disasters of American life and art, in which people were alienated from real culture, were being forced to live off kitsch culture («one of faked sensations»... «because it was turned out mechanically») and he was resigned to the fact that at the other extreme, the so called avant - garde had taken off in another direction which was producing art for art's sake for themselves and the cultural elite.

Especially throughout European art history, for centuries painting has occupied prime real estate through aggressive colonial force, dominating other art forms and voraciously appropriating from «exotic» cultural forms without recourse or recognition of the original source.

Norte Maar aims to be a leader in building collaborative partnerships between originating artists and other organizations thereby uniting cultural forces to foster artistic expression and raise the imaginative energy in us all.

Until they empirically eliminate any an all other possible causes of the warming, and they've not even begun to do that, the science can not be considered conclusive or, most importantly, a legitimate foundation for disruptive cultural and economic changes that are being forced down people's throats prematurely.

Furthermore, since human perceptions and responses are shaped largely by cultural norms and other social and economic forces, they are most appropriately studied through social research.

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She explores the cultural forces that have changed marriage in our society, and then explains how therapists can address the new consumer mindset most couples bring into therapy, prioritizing individual happiness and self - fulfillment above other relationship concerns.