Mr. Obama is considering black and multiracial churches that are not the biggest or best known here, reaching beyond the constellation of institutions that have traditionally appealed to the nation's leaders, his aides say.
They are just as different from each other as any other constellation of institutions, e. g. land grant colleges, religious schools, research institutions, community colleges, catholic colleges, liberal arts colleges, or tribal colleges, among others.
From the cosmopolitan perspective, the communitarian tendency to favor moral obligations to fellow members of the nation-state represents a misguided and increasingly reactionary nostalgia for a rapidly decaying constellation of political practices and institutions.
Thus, in general, 'mysticism' would best be thought of as a constellation of distinctive practices, discourses, texts, institutions, traditions, and experiences aimed at human transformation, variously defined in different traditions.
Weber's problem with modernity originates from the fact that it required a historically unique constellation of cultural values and social institutions, and yet, modernization has effectively undermined the cultural basis for modern individualism and its germinating ground of disciplinary society, which together had given the original impetus to modernity.
Such mechanisms comprise constellations of actors, technologies, institutions and their interactions leading to a specific type of phenomenon and refer to more confined social phenomena than transitions.
From an anthropological perspective, it also requires the understanding that social activity surrounding the seeking and provision of health care occur within more or less connected constellations of social relationships, institutions and material culture (Kleinman, 1980).
Most commonly, an AHC is not a single institution, but "a constellation of functions and organizations committed to improving the health of patients and populations through the integration of their roles in research, education, and patient care" [ 5].
It must find strength in diversity and build institutions that represent the full constellation of its broad geographic and ethnic communities.
The city of Oxford is home to a constellation of self-governing colleges that are among the most storied and beautiful institutions of their kind in the world.
Glaze is part of a constellation of far-flung activists on this issue who have targeted all kinds of funds and financial institutions, including Canadian banks.
