In practice, paediatric asthma care is managed within a framework defined by traditions, guidelines, and available resources depending on political and administrative decisions in the counties concerning organization of health care and the division of care between general practice, specialists in primary health care, and hospitals.
This is a departure from historical Christianity centered on a liturgical tradition that had to do with faith lived in community and beliefs defined by tradition, not the individual pastor standing in front of the congregation holding forth according to whim.
In France, Tocqueville's name was too closely identified with a narrowly defined Liberal tradition, which rapidly lost influence during the Third Republic.
Our arguments often sound like an abstract defense of distant "government" rather than a celebration of our people, our public, and the moral views that have defined our tradition and the real human beings who work every day to carry them out.
Classical ballet offers one such case, as it involves quantifiable raw material in the form of human body postures, a strong and clearly defined artistic tradition, and rich objective documentation in the form of archives.
To minimize its part in the history of abolition is to miss the central role of African-Americans, free and enslaved, in defining their traditions of protest.
So we can think of two correlative challenges for any approach which makes some appeal to phenomenology: perhaps such an account fails to reckon with the doctrinal content of religious "belief," and perhaps it overlooks the role of religious practice in defining religious traditions.
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.
The saying of Kaddish, a short prayer that praises God and does not mention the deceased relative, is, like circumcision, regarded as a defining tradition, and strangers try to accommodate a mourner with a minyan.
ROME — Last month, Gambero Rosso, the prestigious reviewer of restaurants and wine, sought out Rome's best carbonara, a dish of pasta, eggs, pecorino cheese and guanciale (cured pig cheek; for the aficionados, pancetta is not done) that defines tradition here.
