The concept of liminality was elaborated by the anthropologists Van Gennep and Turner to describe the central phase of formalised rituals and processes that bring about transformations spiritually or in social status (Van Gennep, 1960; Turner, 1967).
The power of the human spirit to bring about transformation and redemption is at the core of Cervantes's masterpiece.
Drawing largely on Arendt and Butler, Zerilli calls for a "freedom-centered feminism" that "would strive to bring about transformation in normative conceptions of gender without returning to the classical notion of freedom as sovereignty" that feminists have long criticized but found difficult to resist (ibid).
The act of praying itself has the power to bring about transformation.
Morris points out "Education is the key to ending cruelty to animals and bringing about transformation.
It points out another reality; that personal relationships with the "other" bring about transformation of thought.
Instead of hostility and rejection of their faith, many of the people I met were committed to working from the inside of their faith communities to bring about transformation.
Inasmuch as we're able to realize that, we'll also be able to raise peoples' hopes, to strengthen the struggles of each other and bring about transformation, on a much bigger scale than anything we could do at a merely national level.
Thus, if transformation does not take place when using the v-myc gene, it is not unexpected that the c-myc T58A gene that we used to establish T-IhNSCs, will be even less likely to bring about transformation in human neural stem cells.
The political changes of the 1980s brought about completely unexpected transformations for the group, which had never officially existed (Grebenshikov once described them as touring through the Soviet Union "like mythological animals").
