Sentences with phrase «study world cultures»

My oldest son is an anthropologist and loves to study world cultures.

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I learned this not from a class in feminist studies, but from Jesus — who was brought into the world by a woman whose obedience changed everything; who revealed his identity to a scorned woman at a well; who defended Mary of Bethany as his true disciple, even though women were prohibited from studying under rabbis at the time; who obeyed his mother; who refused to condemn the woman caught in adultery to death; who looked to women for financial and moral support, even after the male disciples abandoned him; who said of the woman who anointed his feet with perfume that «wherever this gospel is preached throughout the world, what she has done will also be told, in memory of her»; who bantered with a Syrophoenician woman, talked theology with a Samaritan woman, and healed a bleeding woman; who appeared first before women after his resurrection, despite the fact that their culture deemed them unreliable witnesses; who charged Mary Magdalene with the great responsibility of announcing the start of a new creation, of becoming the Apostle to the Apostles.

It is a close study of the thought and language of John Paul II, who taught the Church and the world to understand the contest of the culture of life versus the culture of death.

The people whose interpretations of experience we are studying are not Trobiand Islanders, but Jews of the first - century Mediterranean world; to understand how they interpret their lives, we need to learn as much as possible about the properly historical realities within which they lived: the social and symbolic worlds of Roman rule, Hellenistic culture, and a variegated Judaism.

The scholars who study Islamic culture today point out that the chief factors which have influenced contemporary Arab Muslim society are: the Western ideas which penetrated Arab society through education and increased contact with the West, socialist concepts which have spread throughout the world, communist doctrines which challenge religion in general, the expansion of university education, the admission of Muslim women to higher education, the study of ancient and modern philosophy in the universities, and the modern Muslim movements which have been so influential.

In my study of world religions I found that god looks very much like a product of the culture it came from.

As I discovered in my early studies, the local church is a microcosm of human culture, an immediate instance of the world's symbolic imagination.

«Science,» she writes, «is important for exactly the same reason that the study of history or of language is important — because we are beings that need in general to understand the world in which we live, and our culture has chosen a way of life to which that understanding is central.»

David G. Roskie's compelling study Against the Apocalypse: Responses to Catastrophe in Modem Jewish Culture discusses the cross symbol's use not only in Chagall's painting, but in the literary work of Der Nister, Lamed Shapiro, Sholem Asch, S. Y. Agnon and the poet Uri Zvi Greenberg (Harvard University Press, 1984 [pp. 258 - 310]-RRB- In literature written before World War II (and under the influence of biblical criticism that had emancipated Jesus» image from its doctrinal Christian vesture), these authors used the cross symbol variously; for Asch, the crucified figure in all his Jewishness symbolized universal suffering; for Shapiro and Agnon, on the other hand, the cross remained an emblem of violence and a reminder of Christian enmity against Jews.

For some years a wide ranging study on «Gospel and Culture» has been going on in the World Council of Churches, that led to a world conference in 1996 on the theme «Called in One Hope: the Gospel in Diverse CultWorld Council of Churches, that led to a world conference in 1996 on the theme «Called in One Hope: the Gospel in Diverse Cultworld conference in 1996 on the theme «Called in One Hope: the Gospel in Diverse Cultures.

It is encouraging to note that since World War II facilities for the study of Eastern languages, histories, and cultures have been greatly expanded in the United States, but provisions for the study of Eastern religions are still far from adequate.

Important sociological studies today are showing that the technological cultures of the West, shaped by the secularistic world views derivative of Protestant religious traditions, are dramatically shifting the balance of «intended death» away from homicide to suicide.

Noticing this trend throughout a large variety of cultures, socioeconomic classes, and settings around the world, researchers began to study how breastfeeding impacted fertility.

Furthermore, a 2001 international study from Early Human Development concluded that the practice of bed - sharing may vary in different cultures around the world, and that it was difficult to ascribe the cause of SIDS to any one childcare practice.

This book series commissions leading scholars of ritual to write broadly conceived, synthetic, and comparative studies of rites of passage in cultures around the world and in North America.

I suddenly remembered studying various present - day cultures all around the world in which there are people who care for the mom and / or her new baby for the several weeks postpartum, allowing mom to heal and bond with the baby without having to tend to anything else.

I don't think you can draw any conclusions about the health aspects of breast feeding after the age of ~ 12 months in a modern 1st world country from studies of 3rd world cultures.

Anthropologists who travel throughout the world studying infant - care practices in other cultures agree that infants in babywearing cultures cry much less.

«By studying the maps of other cultures we can begin to understand how different cultures viewed the world in different periods.»

The study, published in PLOS ONE, demonstrates the first time computational tools have been used to compare world music cultures at a large scale.

Coriell houses the world's largest biorepository of cell cultures and offers medical researchers from around the world access to these patient cell lines for study of disease genes, use in screening -LSB-...]

Last fall, using a rhinovirus C preparation grown in the Palmenberg lab — currently one of the few places in the world capable of culturing the virus — and an imaging technology new to Purdue, Rossmann's graduate student, Yue Liu, first author of the study, was able to map the full atomic structure of a rhinovirus C particle.

«In this very small volume of messed - up corroded metal you have packed in there enough knowledge to fill several books telling us about ancient technology, ancient science and the way these interacted with the broader culture of the time,» said Alexander Jones, a historian of ancient science at New York University's Institute for the Study of the Ancient World.

Until now, most microbial nanotoxicity studies mainly focused on pure cultures, but assessing real - world microbial communities should be better in terms of the ecological information that can be obtained.

Both books delve into the work of Dr. Weston A Price, a dentist who studied the oral health of people in cultures around the world.

And in 1989, researchers at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine decided to re-evaluate the link between salt and blood pressure through a study of more than 10,000 people in 52 cultures around the world.

They are a fascinating couple because they spent 6 years traveling around the world studying indigenous cultures and seeing what nutrition habits helped people have vibrant health.

He studied indigenous cultures around the world before globalization to see whether there was a connection between nutrition and health.

According to studies, people around the world who use red peppers liberally in their diet have significantly lower rates of heart attack and stroke than cultures that don't eat as much chili peppers.

He traveled the world studying primitive and civilized cultures and found out that the diets between the two populations were vastly different in nutritional content.

Studies are still being conducted to discover more benefits of the aloe plant that will undoubtedly make it even more important in the medicinal practices of cultures all around the world.

I like making friends from all over the world so I study different languages and I love exposing myself to foreign cultures when ever I can.

He has a passion for learning and a deep appreciation for music, history, art, and culture, which he acquired not only from study but from traveling the world.

Wade's devoted his life to studying the puzzles hidden within the confines of this digital world, puzzles that are based on their creator's obsession with the pop culture of decades past and that promise massive power and fortune to whoever can unlock them.

Middle school students learn social studies through Historia, a paper - based simulation game that incorporates a world cultures curriculum aligned to state standards.

James M. Dorsey is a senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and the author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title.

Senior fellow at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies as Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, co-director of the Institute of Fan Culture of the University of Würzburg and author of the blog, The Turbulent World of Middle East Soccer, and a forthcoming book with the same title.

Another is to immerse them in the culture of the language they're studying when that culture may be half a world away.

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One of only two social - studies series approved by the California state school board last fall, Houghton Mifflin Company's new K - 8 social - studies texts have been praised by educators for the engaging style in which they are written and for including discussion of world religions and non-Western cultures.

It's an experiment in social learning that offers new perspectives — and adds contemporary currency — to the study of history, political science, and world cultures.

Now, in his 80s, he still travels the world studying disappearing cultures and shares what he learns via workshops.

In New York State, 6th grade social studies is world cultures.

Historia is a curriculum - aligned social studies simulation and strategy game that teaches middle school world history and cultures, economics, geography and government through interactive gameplay.

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In making their own masks, students examine the concept of symmetry, study the vocabulary word for the day, and learn that masks are found in cultures throughout the world.

One - quarter of the nation's high school students don't know the name of the ocean that separates the United States from Asia — the Pacific — and 80 percent do not know that India is the world's largest democracy, according to a 2001 study conducted by the Asia Society, a New York City - based organization that promotes an increased understanding of the countries and cultures in Asia.