Sentences with phrase «own cultural history»

In this class, we'll explore the food science and cultural history behind one of the world's favorite foods.

While it's easy to overstate the importance of one film, the Black Panther release is a watershed moment in America's cultural history.

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

With a long - standing cultural history and housing a few thousand students, there is a perfect mix of young and old.

These witnesses, of course, include the great figures of black American political and cultural history, but they include as well the leaders of the founding generation who conceived and gave birth to our still - maturing democracy.

To argue that the first was indeed a form of the second is a distortion of social and cultural history.

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.

The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia ostensibly ends with the French Revolution, but it raises questions that still resonate today as Europe ponders its future.

Original Sin: A Cultural History by Alan Jacobs HarperOne, 304 pages, $ 24.95 Chesterton said of original sin that it «is the only part of Christian theology that can really be proved»» by which he meant empirically demonstrated in every era, in every culture, and in every human....

The Jesuit Missions of Paraguay and a Cultural History of Utopia (1568 — 1789) by girolamo imbruglia translated by mark weyr brill, 332 pages, $ 168

Although the formulation of these truths has a cultural history, they are not the possession of any one culture, nor does their universal recognition constitute a cultural imposition upon others.

Often, it's a person who shares our cultural history who can help us the most at these early stages.

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

By this I simply mean that we live during the period of modernity — that period of Western cultural history that began with the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continues into the present.

But few interpretations in political or cultural history, and almost none in social history, have implied such a favorable view of the American past.

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.

The split between rational and mythic discourse which has characterized our recent cultural history is very dangerous for it impoverishes both modes of thought.13 It is one of the possible benefits of the current new appreciation of the meaning and function of myth that we may be able to rescue it from the realm of unconscious fantasy where it always continues to operate, often in dark and devious ways, and restore it once again to its creative role in human consciousness.

Is the Muslim terrorist really such a strange, marginal, and alien figure in our own cultural history and mythology?

Further, what «God» truly means is oppressive, and it is good news that the course of cultural history has put an end to God's reality.

Although there is an unmistakable tendency toward denominationalism in all American religious communities, and although denominations have dominated the cultural history of America, I feel it is not quite correct to call the denomination the American church form.

In his election to the seat of St Peter, Pope John Paul II asked this question about Vatican II: «Indeed, is not that Universal Council a kind of milestone as it were, an event of the utmost importance in the almost two - thousand - year history of the Church, and consequently in the religious and cultural history of the world?»

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.

Christianity in South Africa: A Political, Social, and Cultural History.

Niebuhr said that this is the cultural history of modern nationalism.13

As we explore the path taken by the concept of resurrection over some four thousand years of the cultural history which is our heritage, we shall find the resurrection theme expressed in a great variety of ways.

«2 Eventually, he let go of the dogma that had dominated Western thought: the belief that events are guided by a sure, rational hand and that scientists and philosophers are capable of reading the print of that hand as it appears in natural and cultural history He acknowledged that all things «perpetually perish» — where «perish» refers not to the end of all time but to the end of every moment.

One approach to this that has been very influential in our cultural history is the idea of «the calling,» which came to prominence especially in the thought of the Protestant Reformers.

Countries that have been divided the way Germany and Korea have are of special interest to political analysts, since such key factors as religion, cultural history, geography, ethnicity and technological capacity are relatively constant in both regimes.

What concerns Berlin is the very old problem of the One and the Many Only very recently in our cultural history» since «the second third of the eighteenth century,» by Berlin's reckoning» have we developed a true appreciation of the claims of the «Many,» of diversity and pluralism in the realm of values.

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.

The class outlines include religion (often based in Bible study), morality (frequently centered in Victorian virtues) and social problems (heavily laced with metaphysical views of Indian cultural history) These topics are being woven into a new mix which includes a dedication to an interfaith sense of the urgent need to reconstruct the spiritual and moral values of the nation.

One is that it is truly impossible for any of us to uncover the «real» Gospel story, because the «real» Gospel story always comes to us wrapped in a cultural history we can never fully understand.

But the celebration of Dylan as a «folk poet» raises a problem of cultural history.

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.

Agreed... Religion is part of our cultural history and should be preserved in the future as a reminder of when humans retained a primitive mindset.

That would take a study of cultural history that traces philosophical ideas into popular movements.

[5] Both The Oxford Illustrated History of Christianity [6] and Christianity: Social and Cultural History [7]-- two of the most ambitious recent surveys of Christianity — tell the Christian story in a manner that diverges markedly from the book I just quoted.

According to the recent work, Christianity: Social and Cultural History.»..

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

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.

Ponder for a moment the peculiar character of European cultural history.

The overarching concept that, for Lasch, links changes in women's roles and the family to the cultural history of the West in general is the rationalization of everyday life.

The Return of Ulysses: A Cultural History of Homer's Odyssey by Edith Hall Johns Hopkins University Press, 304 pages, $ 35 Edith Hall's The Return of Ulysses is a sweeping tour of almost all one could wish to demonstrate about the spell of Homer.

Nord devotes more pages to the process of public school secularization than his neutrality thesis requires and fewer than would be necessary for a thorough cultural history of religion and education.

When we speak of Christianity, and of its importance to European cultural history, we commonly assume that Christianity belongs to European culture, that it is a part of that culture, an element among other elements: e.g., Jewish ethics, Greek democracy and philosophy, pagan sacrality, Roman law and organization, not to mention the customs of the Germanic, Slavic, and Hungarian tribes who were invaders.

Even the so - called natural aspect can be differentiated from religio - cultural life, but it can not be separated from it; natural history and religio - cultural history are mutually and closely intertwined with each other.

Hence the «Memoirs of the American Anthropological Association» include such works as Studies in Chinese Thought (Memoir No. 75), Studies in Islamic Cultural History (Memoir No. 76), Islam: Essays in the Nature and Growth of a Cultural Tradition (Memoir No. 81), and Village India (Memoir No. 83).

The history of popular communication of the people is not well investigated, just as their cultural history is not written from their own perspectives.

Just as when I speak, I draw from the whole background of English, and my prior understanding of English forms, so the creative artist can draw upon the artistic organs with which the cultural history and his own training have endowed him.