Cultural anthropology also covers economic and political organization, law and conflict resolution, patterns of consumption and exchange, material culture, technology, infrastructure, gender relations, ethnicity, childrearing and socialization, religion, myth, symbols, values, etiquette, worldview, sports, music, nutrition, recreation, games, food, festivals, and language ( which is also the object of study in linguistic anthropology ).

Christian alternative rock is a form of alternative rock music that is lyrically grounded in a Christian worldview.

Isaac Newton's ( 1642 – 1727 ) mathematical explanation of universal gravitation explained the behavior both of objects here on earth and of objects in the heavens in a way that promoted a worldview in which the natural universe is controlled by laws of nature.

Thus if we reason from the statement " Pegasus flies " to the statement " Pegasus exists ", we are not asserting that Pegasus is made up of atoms, but rather that Pegasus exists in a particular worldview, the worldview of classical myth.

In the preface to Generation X Goes Global: Mapping a Youth Culture in Motion, a collection of global essays, Professor Christine Henseler summarizes it as " a generation whose worldview is based on change, on the need to combat corruption, dictatorships, abuse, AIDS, a generation in search of human dignity and individual freedom, the need for stability, love, tolerance, and human rights for all.

The current worldview has it that everything is made of matter, and everything can be reduced to the elementary particles of matter, the basic constituents — building blocks — of matter.

For these reasons there is a widespread scholarly view that the sacrificial rules of Leviticus 1 – 16 were introduced after the Babylonian exile, when circumstances allowed the priestly writers to describe the rituals so as to express their worldview of an idealised Israel living its life as a holy community in observance of the priestly prescriptions.

According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, the " deep tension between the Kantian moral imperatives and a Nietzschean diagnosis of the modern cultural world is apparently what gives such a darkly tragic and agnostic shade to Weber's ethical worldview.

In folkloristics, a " myth " is a sacred narrative usually explaining how the world or humankind came to be in its present form, " a story that serves to define the fundamental worldview of a culture by explaining aspects of the natural world and delineating the psychological and social practices and ideals of a society ".

* A root metaphor is the underlying worldview that shapes an individual's understanding of a situation.

It has been noted that many Pagans argue that the adoption of a polytheistic worldview would be beneficial for western society, replacing the dominant monotheism that they believe is by its very nature politically and socially repressive.

Animism was also a concept common to many pre-Christian European religions, and in adopting it, contemporary Pagans are attempting to " reenter the primeval worldview " and participate in a view of cosmology " that is not possible for most Westerners after childhood.

It holds to " a holistic worldview ," emphasising that the Mind, Body and Spirit are interrelated and that there is a form of Monism and unity throughout the universe.

The overall program of these panels, their beauty, complex symbolism, classical references, and arrangement relative to each other is one of the most compelling and comprehensive illustrations of the Renaissance worldview.

A preacher is a person who delivers sermons or gives homilies, generally on religious topics, although one can also preach any of the components of any worldview or philosophy.

The paradigm, in Kuhn's view, is not simply the current theory, but the entire worldview in which it exists, and all of the implications which come with it.

It is often this final conclusion, the result of the long process, that is meant when the term paradigm shift is used colloquially: simply the ( often radical ) change of worldview, without reference to the specificities of Kuhn's historical argument.

Furthermore, Brummett points out, " A worldview in which truth is agreement must have rhetoric at its heart, for agreement is gained in no other way.

Racism is generally defined as actions, practices, or beliefs that reflect the racial worldview: the ideology that humans are divided into separate and exclusive biological entities called " races ".

Further, in academic writing, though " myth " usually means a fundamental worldview story, even there it is occasionally ambiguous or clearly denotes " falsehood ", as in the " Christ myth theory ".

Certain indigenous religious groups such as the Australian Aborigines are more typically totemic, whereas others like the Inuit are more typically animistic in their worldview.

These basic beliefs cannot, by definition, be proven ( in the logical sense ) within the worldview precisely because they are axioms, and are typically argued from rather than argued for.

) Another expression he often utters is " Don't confuse me ," typically in response to any remark that challenges his ridiculously one-dimensional worldview.

This childhood tragedy likely helped shape Capp ’ s cynical worldview, which, funny as it was, was certainly darker and more sardonic than that of the average newspaper cartoonist.

* As we spend more and more time in virtual space, there will be a gradual " migration to virtual space ", resulting in important changes in economics, worldview, and culture.

Humboldt's work was concerned more with what he called Weltansicht, the linguistic worldview.

Scientific discoveries, such as the theory of relativity and quantum physics, drastically changed the worldview of scientists, causing them to realize that the universe was fantastically more complex than previously believed, and dashing the strong hopes at the end of the 19th century that the last few details of scientific knowledge were about to be filled in.

This is reflected in the show with a worldview that more reflects the modern world, and the presence of real-life conflicts and rebel groups such as the Real Irish Republican Army and the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.

As ethnography developed, anthropologists grew more interested in less tangible aspects of culture, such as values, worldview and what Clifford Geertz termed the " ethos " of the culture.

Two other important factors should be mentioned: Relander was an active member of the " Suojeluskunta " ( Civil Guard ) voluntary military organization and he accepted the right-wing worldview typical of White veterans of the Civil War clearly more wholeheartedly than Ryti did.

" The architects of the modern worldview, notably Galileo and Descartes, assumed that those things that could be weighed, measured, and counted were more true than those that could not be quantified.

While contemporary conventional medicine has distanced itself from the less reductionistic and more vitalistic approach of traditional medicine, some areas of complementary medicine continue to espouse various guises of vitalistic concepts and worldview.

Carpenter's Gothic ( 1985 ) offered a shorter and more accessible picture of Gaddis's sardonic worldview.

TMT is supported if being reminded of death causes people to cling more strongly to their worldview.

According to Michael Lind, " a worldview is a more or less coherent understanding of the nature of reality, which permits its holders to interpret new information in light of their preconceptions.

The movement has been criticised by some ( both religious and non-religious ) who have objected to the adoption of the title " bright " because they believe it suggests that the individuals with a naturalistic worldview are more intelligent (" brighter ") than non-naturalists, such as philosophical skeptics or idealists, believers in the paranormal, philosophical theists or the religious.

He was the founder and chairman of The Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview, which is " a research, study, and networking center for growing in a Christian worldview ", and while he was alive included Colson's daily radio commentary, BreakPoint, which was heard in its original format on more than 1, 400 outlets across the United States.

A final affiliation must be mentioned in order to contextualize ICS Toronto in a worldwide movement for Christian higher education, where often a primary task is the fostering of teachers for the elementary and secondary levels-whereas ICS, while it includes a senior member of philosophy of education and a program for school teachers seeking graduate studies in Christian worldview, places more emphasis on preparing Master's of Arts in Philosophy and PhD-level graduates to teach in colleges and universities, as well as in many other disciplines, or for entrance into a more activist profession.

What's more, he destroys Superman's worldview of himself.

An increasing acceptance of a secular worldview, combined with efforts to prevent " religious " beliefs from influencing society and government policy, may have led to a corresponding decline in religious belief, especially of more traditional forms.

His intellectual curiosity drew him, and his linguistic abilities allowed him, to learn more about the worldview of the Aztecs.

In almost all cases it is not seriously suggested by proponents of the arguments that they are irrefutable, merely that they make one worldview seem significantly more likely than the other.

Cassuto's refutations above all rather devastatingly demonstrated that the supposed terminological, grammatical and stylistic traits indicative of separate documents actually were common in Hebrew language and literature and were shared with other Biblical and post-Biblical Jewish literature whose unity no-one supposed to be multiple, including liturgical, midrashic, medieval and even modern Jewish religious writing, and even more strongly that precisely the supposed divergencies, stylistic, grammatical, theoretical and theological, within the narrative, when analyzed in context and in connection not only with cognate literatures in the ancient Near East but especially with similar passages elsewhere in Biblical literature, all served an easily demonstrated and consistent common purpose whose unity and thrust tended to be qualified or to be denied altogether under the application of the Documentary Hypothesis, thereby weakening our understanding of Biblical literature and worldview generally.