Sentences with phrase «symbolic world»

Far from being merely a neutral communication medium, television in America has become an integrated symbolic world filling the socially functional role demanded of it both by its viewers and its advertisers.

Influenced by the surrealist and deeply symbolic films of Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jungian archetypes, and fairy tales, «Phantasmacabre» depicts a lush and layered symbolic world that explores the realm of memories and dreams.

Drawing inspiration from the rich symbolic world of the black rural South and with no formal education, Dial has developed a truly distinctive and original style.

The great Catalan painter and sculptor began by painting scenes of rural peasant life, and went on to become a wayward surrealist, abstractionist and creator of a freeform symbolic world.

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 model necessitates looking at three interrelated stages of the process: first is the shape of the symbolic world shared by the participants; second (and hardest to get at) is the set of experiences and convictions that generated a reinterpretation of that world; third.is the collection of literature containing (in quite diverse forms) that reinterpretation.

Not only is imagination a strain; even to imagine what a symbolic world is like is difficult.

4) The pragmatic task makes normative judgments by locating today's issues in the symbolic world of the NT.

Even though there are no explicit NT prohibitions on homosexual behavior, Hays judges it to be inconsistent with the symbolic world revealed in the text.

The most successful interpreters of the moral teaching of the NT have focused on the text's paradigms and «symbolic world» rather than on its rules and principles.

The roles of people are essentially the same in the symbolic worlds of both the electronic - church programs and general television programs.

Where information was once an essential resource in helping us to gain control over our physical and symbolic worlds, our technological ingenuity transformed information into a form of garbage, and ourselves into garbage collectors.

While e-cigarettes wean millions off cigarettes, anti-smoking campaigners are lost in a symbolic world of bans and fines

Much like jazz musicians, the artists of this tradition reflect the rich, symbolic world of the black rural South through highly charged works that address a wide range of revelatory social and political subjects.

Gutiérrez's work considers how time affects both the material and symbolic world, observing how victory and celebration are conditional to a specific moment in history that easily fades away.