Sentences with phrase «public culture»

And religion continues to be an important part of American public culture.

It's the literal recording of the African body into American public culture.

Nussbaum laments that Nehru neglected «the cultivation of liberal religion and the emotional bases of a respectful pluralistic society» - a failure that she thinks left the opportunity wide open for the HJP's «public culture of exclusion and hate.»

The former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, he is currently the Judge Widney Professor of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.

It was not to be found in the overtly public (dare I say American) ministry of marching for civil rights and peace, or in his commentaries and books on public culture; but rather it was the interpersonal, interior expeditions of a shared faith (a quintessential Canadian attribute born out of long, cold winters spent indoors).

It has still to hit the headlines over here, but then it is almost unimaginable in our polite, watery, and vacuous public culture.

Our civic memorials should seek to purify public memory, not repress or ignore it, because our social instincts need to be engaged by a rich public culture, one with the confidence to put American flags where they belong.

So we have, as Wilfred McClay perceptively argued in a fine analysis of the ceremony, a divided public culture.

Further, the stridency of much public culture no doubt discourages many people from involvement, even if they do care about an issue.

Indeed, Hunter claims that opinions, ideas or people that do not align with the progressive - orthodox divide get pushed onto one side or the other as public culture forces people to take sides.

I was especially dismayed by his reading of my assessment of the real contributions of evangelicals and Roman Catholics in U.S. public culture; my point (more an aside, really) was simply that, for various reasons, they can not replace the kind of service to civil society that the mainline provides — not that they do no service at all.

This reinforces the general shift of public culture toward a technocracy that promises to master global capitalism, limiting its excesses and channeling its dynamism toward the common good.

Hence our paradoxical public culture.

It's linked to various volatile public cultures.

He plans to use his grant, one of only three issued in the category, to work on a book - in - progress about the history of art criticism and how it helps create public culture.

So today I want to open up a related but different question — what is the cost of this amount of personal suffering, unresolved conflict, and financial insecurity on our wider public culture?

«On the contrary, the evidence suggests that people who live alone compensate by becoming more socially active than those who live with others, and that cities with high numbers of singletons enjoy a thriving public culture,» he writes.

We note once again the significance of community in public culture and participative media.

In the waning decades of Counter-Reformation Catholicism, which coincided with the post — World War II period, Catholics in the West experienced a relatively comfortable fit between the Church and the ambient public culture.

, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle award, is credited with helping to revive the role of poetry in American public culture.

He served as Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts from 2003 to 2009 and currently holds the Judge Widney Chair of Poetry and Public Culture at the University of Southern California.

The public culture was still recognizably Christian in many respects; to be a Christian in the West was not to experience the Church as a counterculture.

A public culture dominated by nihilism and relativism conscripts public authority to impose that nihilism and relativism on others through the coercive use of state power.

It seems therefore fair to conclude that the ideology of the imperial cult was an influential component in the public culture of empire.

If we turn to the non-written elements of first - century culture, and particularly those encountered in the urban environments of the eastern empire, the importance of imperial ideology in the public culture of its day becomes all the more visible.

Does this indicate a growing Christian influence in our public culture?

Despite a public culture committed to diversity and tolerance, anti-Catholicism has grown measurably worse among academics and intellectuals over the past decade — driven in equal parts by sexual abuse scandals, gay rights, resurgent atheism, and lingering historical prejudice.

By contrast, although Europe has such outstanding figures as Leszek Kolakowski, Hans Maier and Josef Ratzinger, its public culture is dominated by sneering secularists, who set the tone for the rest of the population and can make light work of the average bishop rolled out to confound them, especially in the case of Anglican bishops who share so much liberal common ground.

It has made our public culture in some ways more hostile.

Public culture is composed of ideas and symbols that are widely shared, found in major societal institutions, and do not depend on any one person or one group for their existence.

Public culture can shape people's assumptions about what the «good society» is, what we must do to achieve it and what constitutes a «moral» life.

One source of moral codes is what might be called «public culture.»

Another issue is asceticism in public culture.

He said he had found it difficult to both uphold his religious beliefs and continue in public life, and he criticised the public culture that led to his being pressed repeatedly about the details of his views on homosexuality.

«With this mission NASA has an opportunity to align again with the public culture.»

Throughout the United States, educational institutions — from local schools to community colleges to research universities — act as centers for public culture and for instilling in our children the values and knowledge that come only from a study of the humanities and the arts.

I believe deeply that arts education is of great value in and of itself, not only instrumentally; I believe just as emphatically that education in the arts is the business of all of us, from the home and the family to the neighborhood and the village, from the P - 12 school system to higher education to lifelong learning, culminating in the great and defining legacy of our public culture.

Moonshine has made a recent reappearance in public culture.