Sentences with phrase «which cultural ideas»

Not exact matches

The extent to which these ideas are related differs for people according to their cultural heritage.

Thus the Commission called for a Christian concern for Higher Education which helps critical rational and humanist evaluation of both the western and Indian cultures to build a new cultural concept which subordinated religious traditions, technology and politics to personal values according to the principle «Sabbath is made for man and not man for the Sabbath», enunciated by Jesus and illustrated in the idea of Incarnation of God in Christ.

In Resurrecting the Idea of a Christian Society, Rusty Reno offers a brilliant, accessible and modestly optimistic take on the possibilities for positive change in our current cultural climate, upon which I offer some modestly pessimistic thoughts.

Zaret identifies three types of variables that probably have general relevance to the consideration of audiences: (1) social - structural variables that concern the size, social location, and access to material resources of a potential audience; (2) technical variables that specify some medium by which ideas can be communicated to this audience; and (3) cultural variables that deal with the general symbolic or mental capacities that the audience has at its disposal for processing the ideas to which it is exposed.

If we put aside Roy's «doppelgänger» ideas, we find that her passage is even more directly relevant in that it is concerned with the ways in which the American version of sacrificial logic is currently devastating natural and cultural goodness throughout the world.

Thus, if it is true, as has been claimed, that the idea of Christendom and the doctrines of Christian orthodoxy, were not at all what the historical Jesus had in mind when he spoke of the Kingdom of God, we should not be surprised if the continuing stream of cultural influence which he was so instrumental in re-directing should in the future manifest itself in ways very different from the conventional Christianity it later became for a period.

One approach to this that has been very influential in our cultural history is the idea of «the calling,» which came to prominence especially in the thought of the Protestant Reformers.

Religious leaders, I think, face alternatives not easily reconciled: to try to form communities in which biblical imagery and ideas provide an alternative vision to our cultural ones, or to engage in a process of mutual critique, edification, correction and revision of frameworks that are informed both by our religious traditions and by the sciences and culture.

The idea of cultural evolution, which is most clearly seen in humankind, is that humankind transmits information from one generation to another by teaching and learning so that successive generations learn to purpose their lives in particular ways.

In this cross-disciplinary conversation I turn first to what is known about the brain, then to what we understand about belief, and finally, on the basis of that convergence of ideas, to an examination of the cultural symbol - images of Byzantine and medieval architecture, which express both cognitive and cosmic ways of understanding human life.

A first point seems to me to be this: to overcome [the] false idea of man's autonomy as an «I» complete in himself, whereas the «I» is fulfilled in the encounter with the «you» and «we»... It is fundamental to recover a true concept of Nature as the Creation of God that speaks to us... and also of Revelation: recognising that the book of Creation, in which God gives us our fundamental orientation, is deciphered in Revelation, which is endorsed in cultural and religious history, not without mistakes, but in a substantially valid manner, to be further developed and purified anew -LSB-... fostering] openness of the «I» to the «you», to the «we» and to the «You» of God.

We are passing through a great cultural change in which the idea, long dominant in science, that chance is «only a word for our ignorance of causes» is being replaced by the view that the real laws of nature are probabilistic and allow for aspects of genuine chance.

The historian of religions finds himself in an analogous situation when he deals with archaic symbols that have been modified by cultural influences and events, for example, the World Tree, which in Central Asia and in Siberia received a new value by assimilating the Mesopotamian idea of the seven planetary heavens.

But Furedi said the shift reflected a broader cultural shift reinforcing the ideas of «attachment parenting», which first emerged in the 1970s.

The authors start from recent developments in citizenship theory — an area in which Kymlicka's ideas on the rights of minority cultural groups have had a major influence.

The failings of New Labour: From a Blue Labour perspective, Jonathan Rutherford, Professor of Cultural Studies at Middlesex University and editor of Soundings, writes very well on the failings of New Labour (see page 88 of this Soundings e-book, which is based on a series of seminars on Blue Labour, from 2010 - 11): «The early years of New Labour — the pluralism, the ethical socialism, the stakeholding economy, the idea of a covenant of trust and reciprocity with the people, the emotional language that reignited popular hope — created a powerful and successful story.

Readers of Richard Dawkins and Susan Blackmore will be familiar with the concept that ideas have a Darwinian existence in which survival of the fittest is played out at the behest of memes, the cultural analogue...

Of course, we can not stereotype all women from Russia but there are general cultural truths which make Russian women idea spouses.

These ideas can be activities outdoors, eating and dining, attending art or a cultural activity while there are some first date ideas which have no category.

Date ideas are classified into various categories, like eating out, cultural activities and outdoor activities which helps singles to mingle with other like - minded people in interesting settings.

If this all sounds a little oblique, Kates presents a dizzying whirlwind of visuals, which not only illustrate the argument, but also make the intellectual babble seem terribly exciting — re-creating a cultural moment when ideas still mattered and an aesthetic revolution was there for the taking.

to modify the social and cultural patterns of conduct of men and women, with a view to achieving the elimination of prejudices and customary and all other practices which are based on the idea of the inferiority or superiority of either of the sexes or on stereotyped roles for men and women.»

On the other hand, the theory of cultural relativism is based on the idea that there are no objective criteria by which people with different social and religious norms and perspectives can be distinguished.

Schools need to prepare students for a world in which people need to work with people of diverse cultural origins, and appreciate different ideas, perspectives and values; a world in which people need to develop trust to collaborate across such differences; and a world in which people's lives will be affected by issues that transcend national boundaries.

Ultimately, Wax says, «proponents of income integration must deal with the cognitive dissonance created by the model's foundational premise, which is that disadvantaged students» habits and attitudes are deficient and will be improved by immersion in a superior environment, [versus] discomfort with the idea of class - based cultural differences.»

On almost any issue, children have views, thoughts, and ideas that are both valid on their face and potentially refreshing as additions to an adult narrative, says Ben Mardell, a leader of the initiative, which has engaged young children in projects that explore — and seek to improve — cultural institutions, parks, and playgrounds.

Our ideal candidates understand and actively support the importance of a workplace which thrives on diverse cultural backgrounds, ethnicities, heritage and race, gender and sexual orientation, abilities, and ideas — someone who believes that differences make us stronger, and who is committed to creating and maintaining an open and equitable work environment inclusive of everyone.

This pretense — the premise of which is that only people in the publishing industry have the artistic and cultural wisdom necessary to maintain the purity and excellence of literature — was in fact entirely a smokescreen that helped the industry control ideas, not sift among them.

The core idea is that individuals often decide which cultural variant to adopt according to the social context in which they face the choice.

In previous years, games of this nature which centered on the idea of fan service would never reach gamers outside of Japan, due to cultural differences and publishing costs.

The typography was refracted by objects from London architecture: «We took models of the main architectural and cultural symbols of the city which echo the idea of Future London Academy — knowledge through the lens of London,» ONY explains.

Inspired by the idea of an imagined society in which psychotherapy is a freely available drop - in service, Johnson's installation of large - scale paintings, hanging plants, Persian rugs and four wooden day beds questions established definitions of the art object and its limitations, as well as the relationship between individual and shared cultural experience.

Earlier exhibitions included Wood: The Cyclical Nature of Materials, Sites, and Ideas at the Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam (2014), which explored links between wood in design and architecture and the economic, politi ¬ cal, natural, and cultural cycles that surround its production, circulation, and consumption.

From focused exhibitions on the work of Cuban painter Amelia Peláez and Haitian born, Miami - based artist Edouard Duval - Carrié to thematic presentations of the Museum's permanent collection to major retrospectives on artists Ai Weiwei and Beatriz Milhazes and group exhibitions on the exchange of ideas between the Caribbean basin, Europe, and North Africa, PAMM's upcoming projects serve as critical frames through which larger dialogues about recent history, migration, new cultural formations, and diverse ideologies can be structured.

The exhibition is one which questions each member's personal histories, cultural background and beliefs as a means of unsettling the idea of a homogenised black experience and its acceptance by white art institutions and discourse.

In a culture that is stuffed full of imagery, icons, argument, products, brands and just plain junk, can we invent something new by mining, reframing, re-contextualizing, and re-conceiving some of the ideas and objects that make up the cultural moment in which we live?

The idea for the project originated from reflecting on Erwin Panofsky's book Perspective as Symbolic Form (1927), which shows how every cultural age develops its own way of representing space.

Geraint Evans makes paintings that explore the idea that landscape is largely a social and cultural construct, depicting the way in which nature is shaped and fabricated in high streets, shopping malls and the suburbs; in theme - parks, gardens and national parks.

During her residency at CCS Bard, Christel will be working on her research concerning questions of art and curating as alternative sites for knowledge production, as well as teaching a series of seminars in which she will zoom in on the strategies artists and cultural producers have applied over the years to counter or confound established ideas and systems of knowledge.

All of these artists have succeeded by avoiding what cultural historian Ian Buruma calls the «trap of hybridity,» in which self - conscious efforts to merge different traditions produce little more than superficial decoration hiding ill - digested ideas.

Hospitalfield: An Artist's House, located in Arbroath, Scotland, holds aprogrammeof residencies, commissions and curated projects which aim to negotiate and inspire an interplay between the heritage and history of the site and contemporary cultural ideas and practices.

MAHTAB HUSSAIN: GOING BACK HOME TO WHERE I CAME FROM May 25 - Sep 2, 2018 Private view Thu May 24 6 pm - 8 pm Mahtab Hussain has developed an artistic practice which reflects on ideas of homeland, race, identity and cultural difference.

This collaboration between the DESTE Foundation and the Museum of Cycladic Art is part of the latter's «Young Views» program, which aims at launching a dialogue with a younger generation, keeping the public up to date with the latest developments in contemporary cultural production, and ensuring the dynamic presence of a space for the exchange of ideas.

According to Benzant, «Afrospanglish explores and develops many of the original, ideographic, visual strategies of the Signatures series but also incorporates the idea of conflating personal cosmology and abstract - figuration that generate compositions characterized by large heads which function as conduits or metaphors for cultural / personal memory, inner - worlds, ancestors, spirits or universes akin to the cosmology of Bakongo - derived ritual charms known as nkisi.

This first City of Ideas urban realm commission brings together three of South Korea's leading artists to produce new works which investigate forgotten or overlooked spaces in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter.

This show continues Uwadinma's explorations surrounding the idea of collective memory and cultural forgetting which he sees as

In light of Sherrie Levine's practice, which forever questions ideas of originality and copies of images and objects, the boar can be seen as a potent emblem of cultural fertility on overdrive.

In the group exhibition «The Projective Drawing» at Austrian Cultural Forum New York (ACFNY), curator Brett Littman applies Evans's theory, which is skeptical of drawing at its core, to challenge our understanding of how the medium of drawing operates in contemporary culture by highlighting both Austrian and international artists whose drawings require viewers to activate a matrix of complex and nontraditional ideas in order to interpret the works on view.

Helen Molesworth, the chief curator of MOCA, says that although the art world is progressive, «that doesn't set us apart from the larger cultural forces at play, which have for the past several hundred years promoted the idea that genius and men and power and money are all very intertwined with one another.»

His work primarily consists of installations which explore and reflect on various philosophical, scientific and cultural ideas — often combined with a subtle wit.