(1963). Within this context, Modernist architecture emerged as a powerful symbol of national identity, ambition, and the collective aspiration for a brighter future. As newly independent nations sought to define themselves apart from their colonial pasts, the adoption of Modern Movement principles ...
United States, 329 US 14 (1946) (transporting a polygamous wife across state lines violates the Mann Act, which prohibits the transportation of women across state lines for "immoral purposes"). In Wisconsin v. Yoder, 406 US 205 (1972) (exempting Amish children from obligatory school ...
After 1820, when poor white men gained the vote in most states, women began to see their own lack of political rights in a new way. Women's ability to connect their powerlessness to that of men in relationship to plantation owners made them active in the abolitionist movement. However, aft...
Rev. Amy E. DeLong[white/cis/lesbian, she/her – Born and raised UCC, Amy gave her heart to the the United Methodist Church while in college. Believing it was possible for the UMC to live into its noblest proclamations of love and grace, she offered the best years of her life and a...
In October 2011, an international faith-based women’s rights non-governmental organization (NGO) convened a press briefing for invited members of the United States Congress and their staff in the U.S. Capitol Building in Washington, D.C. The briefing was an advocacy initiative to address t...
(for example, the veil makes it easy for women to avoid sexual harassment on public transportation, lowers the cost of attire for working women, and so on). Other studies identify the veil as a symbol of resistance to the commodification of women’s bodies in the media, and more generally...
She lived most of her adult life in Mexico City and was one of the last surviving participants in the Surrealist movement of the 1930s. Carrington was also a founding member of the Women's Liberation Movement in Mexico during the 1970s. Birthplace: Clayton-le-Woods, United Kingdom ...
She was Catholic but became a Baptist due to her husband's religion and raised US in that faith. Religion was of great importance to US's adoptive mother; US attended bible school until middle childhood and attended church more than once each week during elementary school and high school. ...
state that Wallace Jackson rented Fontane's and that he had seen Jackson wearing a six-point star. Based on experience and training provided by the Midwest Gang Investigators Association, Officer Heeren stated his belief that the six-point star was a symbol of the Disciples. Officer Heeren also...
type of shaman who uses white magic and herbs to effect cures. In the cosmic struggle between good and evil, the curandero, using God-given powers, wards against harmful spells and hexes. As in other folk systems, faith in the curandero’s abilities is the essence of the healer’s conti...