Sentences with phrase «understood as a protest»

From this perspective, many of the religious movements we see emerging in various parts of the world — especially those in advanced industrial societies — can be understood as protests against the growing bureaucratization and monetarization of the lifeworld.

The appeal to the «superiority» of premodern biblical exegesis is best understood as a protest against the reductionism inherent in the long - standing monopoly of the historical - critical method, not as a rejection of rigorous historical study of the Bible.

Not exact matches

«We understand that nudity can be shared for a variety of reasons, including as a form of protest, to raise awareness about a cause, or for educational or medical reasons.

O when one beholds a man who protests that he has entirely understood how Christ went about in the form of a lowly servant, poor, despised, and, as the Scripture says, spat upon — when I see the same man so careful to betake himself thither where in a worldly sense it is good to be, and accommodate himself there in the utmost security, when I see him apprehensive of every puff of wind from right or left, as though his life depended upon it, and so blissful, so utterly blissful, so awfully glad — yes, to make the thing complete, so awfully glad that he is able to thank God for it — glad that he is held in honor by all men — then I have often said to myself and by myself, «Socrates, Socrates, Socrates, can it be possible that this man has understood what he says he has understood?»

Freedom protests only where it understands itself and it destroys barriers only where they prevent it from being the capacity of acceptance and love, which assimilates itself to what is foreign as well as the other way round.

For this reason they understand their viewing of religious programs as both an act of protest against the «evils» of general television and an affirmation of their support for the worldview expressed within the electronic - church programs.

But Crossan too disabuses Jesus of expecting divine intervention to bring the kingdom, and claims not only that Jesus became «almost the exact opposite of the Baptist» but also that Jesus taught a present sapiential kingdom, though as understood not by elites (like Wisdom of Solomon or Philo) but by peasants, whose dream of an egalitarian world was a matter of social protest.

Arsenal are being run as a multi million pound business, by Americans who don't understand football or it's fans, no amount of protesting will make a jot of difference.

I ask him if he understands why people chose the Golden 1 Center as the main center for protest in recent days.

No ex player has any right to call protesting fans «disrespectful», these ex players don't pay for season tickets, they don't even understand the real issues, all they do is try and gain some kind of virtue by standing up for this busted flush we still have as a manager.

The protest comes as a survey from the medical charity Medact Manchester found that NHS professionals have a poor understanding of the new rules.

«While I understand and sympathize with the scientists who have decided to boycott science meetings in the U.S. as a protest, I am concerned that this boycott will impede the progress of science,» Ferguson writes in an email.

I resonated with the feelings of poor people so aptly depicted in the novel and seemed to share and understand their rage as I witnessed injustices and brutality during the marches and protests shown nightly on the evening news.

Without protest, he'll listen to you as if he really understands what you're talking about.

«Sending out a stamp, a letter or a card, something that in the west carried no risk and involved no emotional investment, was connected in the East with a defence of the basic human right to free expression and was often understood as a form of public service or protest.»

Baron understood her art as a form of political expression, and this aspect became more explicit in the 1970s with several series that incorporated motifs of torn flags, war - time letters, children's games, and anti-war protests.

Following the lecture performance, there will be a conversation between Pelmuș and Cosmin Costinaș, curator of Movements at an Exhibition, to discuss the connotation of the exhibition and how the movements in the show are understood both as a grammar of dance and choreography, as well as how they are transformed into a representation of social action and protests.

As pointed out by art historian Caroline Roodenburg - Schad, critics were mainly distressed by Sandberg's political understanding of an art imbued with vitality that, according to them, he connected to an agenda of protest.

Unless you understand the severity of the issue motivating these actions, I think it's easy for people to look at climate change protests as just another item on a long list of pet issues of environmentalists.

Thorough understanding of procurement - related issues such as estimating, front - loading, bid protests, surety bonds, propriety and performance - based specifications and design documents