Music, theatre, film, dance, and other performing arts, as well as literature, and other media such as interactive media are included in a broader definition of art or the arts.

But using a broader definition, such as Frederick Streng's characterization of religion as " a means of ultimate transformation ", Confucianism could be described as a " sociopolitical doctrine having religious qualities.

The term's correct definition is broader, since a fatwā may concern any aspect of individual life, social norms, religion, war, peace, jihad, and politics.

There is also a broader definition, as described by Marc Bloch ( 1939 ), that includes not only warrior nobility but all three estates of the realm: the nobility, the clerics, and the peasantry bonds of manorialism ; this is sometimes referred to as a " feudal society ".

Travis Jackson has also proposed a broader definition of jazz which is able to encompass all of the radically different eras: he states that it is music that includes qualities such as " swinging ", improvising, group interaction, developing an ' individual voice ', and being ' open ' to different musical possibilities ".

Unlike the earlier leftist focus on union activism, the " New Left " instead adopted a broader definition of political activism commonly called social activism.

The lower-case usage arose from technological development having rendered the original definition imprecise, because contemporary masers emit electromagnetic waves not just at microwave frequencies, but rather across a broader band of the electromagnetic spectrum.

MPEG-2 standard was considerably broader in scope and of wider appeal – supporting interlacing and high definition.

Like " utilitarian " and " pragmatic ", the word " meritocratic " has also developed a broader definition, and can be used to refer to any government run by " a ruling or influential class of educated or able people.

Under a broader definition ( including people that have given up searching for employment ) unemployment rose from 36. 7 % in 2004 to 51. 2 % in 2008.

Merritt Ruhlen notes that this definition is not properly taxonomic but amorphous, since there are broader and narrower degrees of relatedness, and moreover, some linguists who broadly accept the concept ( such as Greenberg and Ruhlen himself ) have criticised the name as reflecting the ethnocentrism frequent among Europeans at the time.

Even the broader definition of " carbon-containing molecules " requires the exclusion of carbon-containing alloys ( including steel ), a relatively small number of carbon-containing compounds such as metal carbonates and carbonyls, simple oxides of carbon and cyanides, as well as the allotropes of carbon and simple carbon halides and sulfides, which are usually considered to be inorganic.

By this broader definition the two-round system is not the only form of run-off voting, and others include the exhaustive ballot and instant run-off voting ( also known as the alternative vote ).

It goes beyond architecture ’ s definition of ‘ making buildings ’ and reaches out for global views on architecture and design, broader attitudes to social structures, and creating environments to live in.

Under the broader definition, racial profiling occurs whenever police routinely use race as a factor that, along with an accumulation of other factors, causes an officer to react with suspicion and take action.

The UNRWA has a much broader definition of " refugee " than the UNCHR, including not only refugees themselves but their descendants in perpetuity ; however, it only covers refugees stemming from the 1948 and 1967 Arab-Israeli wars.

In the broader definition of the genre, the first famous Western fairy tales are those of Aesop ( 6th century BC ) in ancient Greece.

As a result of the difficulty and subjectiveness of such distinctions, trade organizations such as the International Colored Gemstone Association ( ICA ) have adopted the broader definition for ruby which encompasses its lighter shades, including pink.

Under this broader definition, the earliest known sharks date from more than 420 million years ago.

An even broader definition was used in the 1975 Declaration of Tokyo regarding the participation of medical professionals in acts of torture:

Whether one adopts the narrower zoological definition of domestication or the broader cultural definition that rests on an array of zoological and archaeological evidence affects the time frame chosen for domestication of the horse.

However, modern geophysics organizations use a broader definition that includes the hydrological cycle including snow and ice ; fluid dynamics of the oceans and the atmosphere ; electricity and magnetism in the ionosphere and magnetosphere and solar-terrestrial relations ; and analogous problems associated with the Moon and other planets.

A broader definition of acid dissociation includes hydrolysis, in which protons are produced by the splitting of water molecules.

The chain of islands that make up this micro-archipelago straddle the broader cultural boundary that distinguishes Island Melanesia from several Polynesian outliers located in the neighbouring Solomon Islands.

santacatarinense, which distinguishes itself from the typical variety by its more stiff and robust habitus and pinnae that are fewer and broader.

The scale of ecological dynamics can operate like a closed system, such as aphids migrating on a single tree, while at the same time remain open with regard to broader scale influences, such as atmosphere or climate.

According to Enthoven and Smith, the basic ideas of PPBS were: " the attempt to put defense program issues into a broader context and to search for explicit measures of national need and adequacy "; " consideration of military needs and costs together "; " explicit consideration of alternatives at the top decision level "; " the active use of an analytical staff at the top policymaking levels "; " a plan combining both forces and costs which projected into the future the foreseeable implications of current decisions "; and " open and explicit analysis, that is, each analysis should be made available to all interested parties, so that they can examine the calculations, data, and assumptions and retrace the steps leading to the conclusions.

The popular education should mainly be taught within a national and patriotic horizon of understanding, yet always keeping an open mind towards a broader cultural and intercultural outlook, while the university should work from a strictly universal, i. e. humane and scientific, outlook.

The college took the criticisms seriously, hiring one of its critics to help open UCC to the broader community.

* A Proposal to plant a Colony in Darién to protect the Indians against Spain, and to open the Trade of South America to all Nations ( 1701 ), a broader version of the Darién scheme intended to bring free trade to all of Central and South America.

" These are, however, within established limits, in truth necessary side effects of the broader enduring values which the process of open debate permits us to achieve.

The NASDAQ-100, with much of the broader market, experienced a Limit Down open on October 24 and reached a 6-year intraday low of 1, 018 on November 20, 2008.

The structures have also been " open " to a broader layer of activists.

On signals open to the public with broader reception, such as citizens band, there is only enough protocol to allow operators to speak one at a time or allow emergency traffic to go through.

The kampílan has a distinct profile, with the tapered blade being much broader and thinner at the point than at its base, sometimes with a protruding spikelet along the flat side of the tip and a bifurcated hilt which is believed to represent a mythical creature's open mouth.

Because of this vision, even though Goshen today is open to everyone, its historical relationship with the Mennonite Church has had a lasting impact that is still very visible: It is home to the Mennonite Quarterly Review, Mennonite Historical Library, Mennonite Church USA Archives, including Mennonite Central Committee archives, offices of " The Mennonite " and numerous alumni connections with the broader Mennonite Church.

… “ traditionalism ”; like “ esoterism ,” (…) has nothing pejorative about it in itself and one might even say that it is less open to argument and a far broader term, in any case, than the latter ; in fact, however, (…) it has been associated with an idea which inevitably devalues its meaning, namely the idea of “ nostalgia for the past ” (…) If to recognize what is true and just is “ nostalgia for the past ,” it is quite clearly a crime or a disgrace not to feel this nostalgia.

Analytic autoethnographers focus on developing theoretical explanations of broader social phenomena, whereas evocative autoethnographers focus on narrative presentations that open up conversations and evoke emotional responses.

Because the museum is not open to the public, the CIA Museum develops public exhibitions in partnership with the Presidential Libraries and other major museums and institutions in order to promote a wider understanding of the craft of intelligence and its role in the broader American experience.

While the Open Source Initiative includes free software licenses as part of its broader category of approved open source licenses, the Free Software Foundation sees free software as distinct from open source.

The festival was sponsored by King Mohammed VI and is part of the king's broader plan to create a more open and modern nation.

The terms are largely used to categorise intellectual property, particularly computer programs, according to the licenses and legal restrictions that cover them, in the free software and open source communities, as well as the broader free culture movement.

Small-sized classes conducted in English and the study-abroad programs aim to equip students with an open, flexible mindset and broader scholastic view required in the age of globalization.

Historically, they have been more open to the broader biblical language the Lutheran Formula of Concord calls " correct " but not " proper.

The open sourcing social solutions model aims to challenge the traditional focus of issues like human trafficking and conflict resolution with a broader, more complete set of stakeholders.

Jet Moto 2s original cut from 20 competitors to 10 was " to open the game up to a broader market, one that wasn ’ t driven by hardcore.