The sense of communal village living is fading: as in the big city, people are primarily concerned with their own individual affairs and those of their immediate family.
How concerned should the league be about what's currently on-going at Rangers? "It's very difficult for a league to get too concerned with the individual affairs of any one member club.
Q: So, you start out with a God who creates heaven and the Earth and says "This is good," and you end up with a God who is sort of meddling about in individual affairs?
Up in the West 80s it is a relatively informal, individual affair.
In her book Understanding Fashion, the cultural historian Elizabeth Rouse explains: "Clothing is not a random or totally individual affair: it is a social activity.
Thus, the social dimension of religion is a primary fact, but it need not be seen as opposed to religious experience taken as a wholly individual affair.
Since immigration was not usually an individual affair but involved entire families, Marcus Rosenbluth set himself up as a kind of banker for immigrants as well.
It's a significant choice of words, because it suggests a recognition that religious faith cannot be reduced to a purely private or individual affair.
Noteworthy, though, family members often pool money to remit and consider remittances a family, not merely an individual, affair (Eckstein, 2009: Chapter Six).
Colonization, on the one hand, is viewed as a kind of protocapitalist enterprise of self-starting, pioneering risk-takers and entrepreneurs as well as the castoffs of society (and an individual affair).
The single message of those who have realized such potential has always been the same, and basically, it comes down to this: True and lasting happiness and fulfillment are an individual affair and can only be found by going deep within, where one's true essence is vividly and stunningly revealed as love -- and then living into the reality of that awareness.
