Sentence examples for communal practice from inspiring English sources

Many disciplines have a close sense of community (I highlight crystallography which has a real sense of communal practice and goals).

Admittedly, Christians have sometimes been overly preoccupied with defending creedal assertions at the expense of communal practice.

What looked like a deviant act by an escape-seeking individual was simply a communal practice shaped by a common enterprise: it takes a strip club to smoke a reefer.

Such remarks, illuminated by Jaffa's frank admiration for what he takes to be systems of "irrefutable authority," reveal a fearful attitude toward our expanding world of human differences that distorts Aristotle's understanding of virtue as a communal practice.

"If I have a class where the students are facing each other, I might use 'smile at the person in front of you' to remind people that they are in a communal practice," she says, and that their actions can affect those around them.

According to this line of argument, if social or natural kind externalism is correct, having thoughts with wide contents depends on the presence of certain substances or communal practice in the environment.

She went on to earn a Ph.D. in cultural anthropology at UC Berkeley in 1976, having focused on the use of art in daily life by the Kuna, among whom visual art is created only by women in communal practices.

As snapshot images have become objects of cultural nostalgia in the digital age, this book offers rich insights into their manifold social and communal practices and their surprising aesthetic influence.

Banged together by parliamentarians and water specialists from the Coordinadora who gathered in La Paz, the new law gave legal recognition to usos y costumbres — traditional communal practices — by protecting small independent water systems, guaranteeing public consultation on rates, and giving social needs priority over financial goals.

He associated the heightened sense of safety with the economic and social viability of residential space and communal practices contributing to individuals' well-being (Newman 1972).

But ordinarily our judgments are "presumed innocent" of error until proven (or at least evidenced to be) guilty; this in turn is rooted in our communal practices, and is justified on pragmatic grounds (Wright 2000a, p. 152 153).