Sentences with phrase «rich narrative traditions»

The Romans, who, like the Greeks, were Indo - Europeans, shared with them a common pantheon under different names but lacked the rich narrative traditions that Greek poetic culture had given their gods.

The church is also being regarded as an important community of memory because the other sources of a rich narrative tradition — families, ethnic groups, residential communities — are also subject to the growing pressures of change, while more recent institutions, such as business firms and the mass media, are believed to have only shallow ties to the past.

March is a lucky month for readers who love Ireland — a country with a rich narrative tradition, where stories and poems are considered everyday currency.

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These features characterize not only the later Nazoraean belief and practice, but also the earliest traditions preserved in the Gospel of Mark — for example the words to the rich man, and the narrative of the Transfiguration.

These indications, it is true, are found in the editorial and traditional framework of the narratives, but the picture of Jesus as one who «came eating and drinking,» quite willing to join high or low, rich or poor, at the table, seems to be a fixed feature of the tradition.

This search has lead him back to his own roots in New Orleans, its complex heritage and culture, and to the rich tradition of narrative.

While Martha Mayer Erlebacher has certainly studied the history of art, and has looked hard at the rich tradition of allegorical painting, she is neither a neo-Classicist nor a rigid adherent of any theory of contemporary narrative painting.