The value of material progress in Brazil's evangelicalism is explicit and actively promoted.
"We've seen economic downturns in the value of material in the past, but what's different now is that the material mix has changed," said Patty Moore, head of California-based Moore Recycling Associates, which specialises in plastic recycling.
He told me a few times that he was a distant cousin of Leon Trotsky, "intellect of the revolution," as he called him, and I wondered whether his newfound pride was connected to his conflicted feelings about the value of material objects.
Money is an index for the value of material goods and services.
The value of material flowing, the effect of subsequent deformation on deformed sheet region, strain distribution and forming quality are all analyzed and discussed.
You may have read that there's a whole field of research these days that compares the value of material items to experiences.
But I expect that there is an inverse relationship between the value of meaning vs. the value of material things once one has embraced the value of service in one's life.
In a culture as oriented towards the value of material accumulation as a reflection of success, and one that sees a measure of success in terms of financial wealth, it's hard not to equate money with success and success with happiness.
If the sample that is analyzed is a material sample, then it is necessary to ensure that the value of Material Source Name REF entered in the Study file matches the string entered in the Material Source Name of its Material file.
