Sentences with phrase «why cultural traditions»

There is no reason why cultural traditions should be the preserve of primates, he says.

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The respect for culutral relativism is important up to the point when it offends OUR cultural relativism... no American Bald Eagle should ever be sacrificed these Native American tribes should no better... maybe their religion needs to go through a period of modernization instead of being stuck in stupid traditions of the past... this extremely offends me as an American... why do not the Native Americans respect our culture?
This is the reason why historic Christianity, in the long run, always granted a place to other cultural traditions: paganism survived in law; its mythology enjoyed a series of rebirths in art.
They advertise that they train global leaders, not national ones, which is why sidelining the Western tradition and substituting the ersatz cultural project of multiculturalism is so common.
The effort to characterize construals of the Christian thing in the particular cultural and social locations that make them concrete will involve several disciplines: (a) those of the intellectual historian and textual critic (to grasp what the congregation says it is responding to in its worship and why); and (b) those of the cultural anthropologist and the ethnographer [3] and certain kinds of philosophical work [4](to grasp how the congregation shapes its social space by its uses of scripture, by its uses of traditions of worship and patterns of education and mutual nurture, and by the «logic «of its discourse); and (c) those of the sociologist and social historian (to grasp how the congregation's location in its host society and culture helps shape concretely its distinctive construal of the Christian thing).
This is why Bit, in line with its history and tradition that sees it protagonist of tourism not only as a venue for business but also as an opportunity for meetings and cultural debate, has decided to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary by promoting, in Italy and abroad, a small refined book entitled Case Museo in Italia.
Europe's «wide variety of national and cultural traditions» (Wilkinson at para 44) explains why Strasbourg advances slowly in this area while, with no indigenous charter of rights, a discernible shift in England's own cultural outlook can not be acted upon even by judges with eyes to see it.
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