Sentences with phrase «particular cultural context»

Biblical revelation was given in a particular cultural context but it is also intended to be heard in our own context.

Since the very idea of a «psychedelic art» is tenuous, the exhibition does not propose a canonical presentation, but attempts to establish a series of artist experiments that relate to the many «plateaux» of the psychedelic, and its multiple histories as they unfolded in particular cultural contexts in Europe, Scandinavia, Latin America and Japan.

Not exact matches

If I appear ignorant to you perhaps it's because I don't blindly follow the theocratic dogma, or accept the creative translations and cultural contexts that particular preachers try to pass off as the only «true» way to interpret the Bible.

Similarly, Latina, African and Asian women have taken up the challenge of understanding the ways in which the practices of reading and interpreting the Bible serve to constrain or to emancipate women in their particular social and cultural contexts.

The interpreter has to look for that meaning which a biblical writer intended and expressed in his particular circumstances, and in his historical and cultural context, by means of such literary genres as were in use at his time, To understand correctly what a biblical writer intended to assert, due attention is needed both to the customary and characteristic ways of feeling, speaking and storytelling which were current in his time, and to the social conventions of the period.

The tools of higher criticism are applied to Scripture to find out what the author intended to say in that particular historical - cultural context.

Steady Bible feasting would open our eyes to a whole new world, allowing us to learn that the Bible speaks first to its original audience, set in a particular historical and cultural context.

How often I have heard «the Bible is clear» (in what it says), followed by a proclamation (actually their «interpretation») of what the Bible says on a particular topic or in a particular passage that is probably way off base if one knows the historical and cultural context.

The pre-understanding (often overlooked by ordinary Christians but obvious to Bible scholars) is the fact that Scripture itself was given to humans in particular historical and socio - cultural contexts.

mistrusting generalizations and theoretical constructions, exploring particular situations revealed by close reading of specific texts in the light of all I could learn about social and cultural contexts.»

The big one is also Troeltsch's main concern: Christianity's relations to particular historical and cultural contexts at the time of its origins and in the course of its development through the centuries.

The particular context of global market about which we want to speak is the field of «cultural war» between power and people, waged through political propaganda, commercial advertisements, the educational process, the public media, and information technology.

The form of argument in this presentation has emphasized several specific points: first, that the Asian values argument, as a challenge to the implementation of constitutional democracy, is exaggerated and fails to account for the richness of values discourse in the East Asian region - local values do not provide a justification for harsh authoritarian practices; second, that the cultural prerequisites arguments fail because they ignore the discursive processes for value development and they are tautological, excessively deterministic and ignore the importance of human agency it, therefore, makes little sense to take an entry test for constitutional democracy; third, the difficulties of importing Western communitarian ideas into an East Asian authoritarian environment without adequate liberal constitutional safeguards; fourth, the positive role of constitutionalism in constructing empowering conversations in modern democratic development and as a venue for values discourse; fifth, the importance, especially in a cross-cultural context, of indigenization of constitutionalism through local institutional embodiment; and sixth, the value of extending research focused on the positive engendering or enabling function of constitutionalism to the developmental context in general and East Asia in particular.

If a particular group of believers feel that the best way for them to accomplish the mission of Jesus within their cultural context is to own buildings, hire pastors, preach sermons, and perform rites, then that group of believers must follow their conscience and the leading of the Holy Spirit to share the love of Jesus with others as they feel led.

In the second part of the book, Macmillan provides an overview of the cultural and ideological context of the early twentieth century — in particular, those ideas that made war appear to many a feasible, if not desirable, option.

Many people have experienced ethnic bigotry because they did not belong to a dominant group within a particular socio - cultural context.

Whether one theory or the other predominates in a particular society depends on cultural contexts.

Each school focused on the challenges relevant to its particular context such as GCSE attainment, Key Stage 2 literacy, family support, transition, cultural diversity and community cohesion.

This program provides candidates with a rigorous and in - depth approach to the study of language and literacy development with particular attention to the teaching and learning implications of varied cultural, linguistic, and economic contexts.

When first conceiving the work, I was thinking of the South / Southern African context in particular: the histories of indigenous African women's bodies, African spiritual and cultural practices, particular rituals and games.

Tate St Ives presents international modern and contemporary art in the unique cultural context of St Ives, including works from the Tate Collection, in particular works by the artists from the St Ives school.

In residence in Marfa from June through August, Esparza will produce new work and conceive of a site - specific installation that is particular to the landscape and cultural context of the Big Bend region and northern Mexico, where adobe building is prevalent.

The exhibition is a kind of ideal museum as seen by Ligon — one that in particular reconnects Postwar American art history with its wider political and cultural contexts.

In our local context, it's especially interesting to draw out the aspects of Ward's practice that reference his native Jamaica, the politics of immigration, and the search for cultural identity — issues of particular relevance to the city of Miami,» said Diana Nawi, the exhibition's curator and associate curator at PAMM.

The particularities of every context set their particular paces, which directly affect cultural practices.

With a focus on conceptual, site - specific, research -, and time - based art and a particular interest in the cultural - anthropological contexts of artistic production, she develops independent exhibition projects with international artists and writes texts and essays for various publications.

Much of Nengudi's work confronts gender limitations within particular racial and cultural contexts, highlighting the impact of systematic forces through performance, video, photography, and installation.

I read this as an undergraduate with particular relationship to Chicana / o studies, but it remains critical to me for offering a meaningful way to understand the inextricably related nature of cultural production, power and context, something so often elided when we begin to stratify high art and popular culture.

In another sense, however, general copyright principles overlook the specific dimensions of particular kinds of expressive activities and their cultural context.

In the course of the interviews, culturally meaningful and important categories are meant to emerge so that an appropriate idiom or dialogue is developed.49 This approach generally requires a social scientist on the team who has a first hand understanding of the qualitative research methodology involved, as well as staff with a first hand understanding of the communities to understand the group's recent history and cultural context, and be able to correctly evaluate what norms and values underlie a particular person's expressed opinion or action.50

In the General Comment the HRC discussed the importance of political participation in the context of the need to protect the particular cultural relationship of minority groups to the use of land resources, particularly in the case of Indigenous peoples.

If Indigenous homelessness is to be addressed effectively, it must be understood in an historical and cultural context that takes account of past injustices... Without taking this historical perspective into account, and the sustained marginalised treatment of Indigenous people by the State, it is not possible to fully identify and address the barriers to Indigenous people, and women in particular, accessing appropriate services.