Sentences with phrase «social and political issues of»

Engagement with Political and Social Issues: Following a year of upheaval and conflicts around the world, many galleries will showcase artists that grapple with pressing social and political issues of our time, ranging from legacies of colonialism, to the politics of feminism, to the dynamics of power and the dissemination of information in an increasingly digital world.

Taking as its starting point three seminal exhibitions curated by Lubaina in London from 1983 to 1985, the Tate Britain display charted the coming to voice of a radical generation of British artists who challenged their collective invisibility in the art world and engaged in their art with the wider social and political issues of 1980s Britain and the world.

By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time, the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant...

By the 1970s, when artists were engaging with the social and political issues of their time, the Brazilian military dictatorship (which assumed power in 1964 and lasted for over twenty years) had reached its bleakest period, and its resultant brutality became a subject for Maiolino's work.

In addition to their generous donation of art, the Lists endowed the university with a commitment to art, both as a means of intellectual and aesthetic experimentation and as an agent in addressing the salient social and political issues of our time.

Art and Resolution, 1900 to Today examines the dual meaning of resolution — as both «coming into view» and «overcoming conflict» — through works that touch on the pressing social and political issues of the 20th and 21st centuries.

ART21 films are doorways into social and political issues of our time.

,» featuring work by 12 artists addressing social and political issues of today.

Pastors are obligated to preach the Bible and its perspective on social and political issues of our day.

She watches, she says, to gain information about important social and political issues of the day.

He did not envolved himself in social and political issue of his day but preached God's Kingdom as the ONLY hope for mankind.

Here we see a social and political issue of immediate relevance to those for whom the kingdom is first.

Not exact matches

With the scope and reach of a political platform, the company publicly declared goals for itself on practically every major social issue it touches, from local sourcing and carbon emissions to ethical recruiting and the treatment of workers in its suppliers» factories.

There are two distinct types of social infrastructure that must be built: The first encourages engagement in existing political processes: voting, engaging with issues and representatives, speaking out, and sometimes organizing.

The idea of speaking out about political issues via social media isn't restricted to Uber, Lyft and Trump's executive order on immigration.

Zhao Junjie, a specialist on European issues with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said that despite frequent dialogue at all levels between China and the EU, there remained a shortage of political trust between the two sides.

But in Germany the labor movement remains strong, and on workplace issues the mainstream political parties, the Christian Democrats as well as the Social Democrats, are well to the left of their American and British counterparts.

Our team at Truth In Media is committed to providing quality content focusing on issues that impact humanity, featuring a number of fearless journalists sharing their expertise with a diverse audience that honors genuine and compelling reporting that transcends political, social and geographic boundaries.

Chinese social media firms try to stay on the good side of regulators and political leaders and some analysts noted that Weibo and Sina would try to solve the issue quickly.

Facebook continues to update its policies on advertisements on the social network, tightening rules on the use of political ads and issue ads.

An announcement made today (April 6) by Rob Goldman, VP, ads, and Alex Himel, VP, local pages, states that it will now only allow verified advertisers to run «issue ads» — ie those of a political nature — on the social network, including picture - sharing service Instagram.

The nonprofit's mission is to foster an understanding of the contemporary political, social, economic issues and cultural heritage.

«Although the French government has introduced or announced a number of measures intended to address these competitiveness and growth issues, the implementation and efficacy of these policy initiatives are complicated by the persistence of long - standing rigidities in labor, goods and services markets as well as the social and political tensions the government is facing,» Moody's said.

«Political polarization and the widespread use of social media are the chief reasons that it's increasingly difficult for brands to remain neutral on societal and political issues,» says Gene Grabowski, a partner at crisis communications firmPolitical polarization and the widespread use of social media are the chief reasons that it's increasingly difficult for brands to remain neutral on societal and political issues,» says Gene Grabowski, a partner at crisis communications firmpolitical issues,» says Gene Grabowski, a partner at crisis communications firm KGlobal.

In 2014, for example, shareholder proposals related to social and political issues received average support of 29 % with ISS's support, and only 5 % if ISS recommended against.

I am no expert in Vatican politics, but I know better than to close my eyes to the fact that there are those who do not share the insight that Weigel attributes to John Paul II and to Benedict» the insight that Nielsen herself embraces» «that all social issues, including political and economic questions, are ultimately questions of the nature of the human person.»

Moreover, the period precipitated the deep polarization of the middle classes on social and moral issues that has defined subsequent religious and political debate.

Though seminary faculties like to affirm, in principle, a relationship between Christian theology and the life of the church, academic theology tends to view the ministering congregation as an addendum to the really interesting issues of ethics, philosophical and political theology, or social policy.

Gradually, what was a personal issue of an individual Victim gets hidden and justified behind a social - political «justice» issue of a community.

Some research of my own on the issue quickly revealed a well - prepared social and political agenda for bringing those proposals to fruition.

There is little doubt that the concern for cultures and religions expresses the middle class social location of most process theologians, whereas the focus on political and economic issues and the concomitant demand for justice express the identification with the poor that is the glory of liberation theology.

-- I tried to sidestep some of the political and social questions raised (due to my lack of expertise in these areas and to the many other opinions already aired in response to this article) and instead call attention to some of the spiritual issues at stake.

It is this view of things that accounts for the contemporary politicizing of Christian endeavor, with the churches exhausting themselves in trying to tell the world what to do, including issuing directives for social and political action.

Authority is an issue that occupies a central place in current ecumenical discussion among the churches and it is one of enormous social and political importance as well.

In the Conference on Church and Society (Geneva, 1966), considered «the first genuinely «world» conference on social issues» because of equal representation by all the continents, there were strong demands for the churches to take a more active role in «promoting a world - wide revolutionary opposition to the capitalist political and economic system being imposed on the new nations by the Western industrial countries which was leading to new types of colonialism and oppression» (Albrecht, DEM 1991: 936).

But while experience shows that the Catholics» answer to the fundamentalists lies in the base communities, only a minority of bishops have strongly pushed for them because of the Vatican's frequently voiced concern that they are too «horizontal» — meaning that they are a democratic influence on a hierarchical church — and liable to become involved in social and political issues.

It is projecting an Urbana - style convention on evangelical social witness, annual conferences for pastors to explore avenues for the involvement of congregations in community justice issues, and the formation of vocational task forces among evangelicals in politics, business and other callings, through which the shape of American political and business life might be altered to promote Christian values.

This is especially strange considering the large amount of attention theology gives these days to social and political issues and Weil's own passionate, often heroic involvement in social and political action.

With the disaster of the First World War and the rise of the totalitarian regimes, the papacy's attention was funneled back into the social and political issues.

The war in Vietnam was surely the most profound American social and political issue at the time of the survey.

Social and political issues, however, allow much more room for creative maneuver, and there emerged a kind of broad Thomism suitable for these issues.

On the one hand, there was a constructive and open form of Thomism, which began as a way to discuss political and social issues.

Many also address problems tangential to ethics: social structures, political organization and control, economic systems, the ethos and the world view of the people, theological interpretations of moral issues and much more.

The affirmations to be negated in Pius IX's 1864 Syllabus became affirmations to be affirmed in Leo XIII's famous 1891 encyclical Rerum Novarum — positive statements of Catholic teaching on modern social and political issues.

Some people think that social or political solutions to these issues are impossible, and that the change of heart necessary for a real end to racism will not come about through legislation.

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Jay W. Forrester, professor of management at MIT whose sophisticated computer modeling of social and environmental issues led to the Club of Rome report on «The Limits of Growth,» sees the political and economic stresses in the world as caused by the necessary transition from worldwide growth to equilibrium.

A statement read: «In a social and political climate such as ours, it often takes a gathering of unlikely individuals to shape the future of our nation on issues of faith and inner city initiatives.

The churches have failed to see that the challenge of world hunger (and the whole complex of related peace, liberation and development issues) constitutes a theological crisis for the church as well as a political, social and economic crisis for the world.

The privatization of crimes and violence and crimes as a domestic issue made these violations invisible, denying them their public face and any political significance or social reparation.