Sentences with phrase «last quarter of the twentieth century»

Yet in the last quarter of the twentieth century Catholicism was displaced by Islam as the world's largest religious community, as the global Muslim population grew from 571 million in 1970 to today's 1.7 billion.

«The last quarter of the twentieth century is going to call for measured national initiatives which combine economic, psychological, and military ingredients.

What Herberg did not see coming was the resurgence of a split between liberal Protestants and evangelicals» a split that would rejuvenate Protestant fervor throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century.

For example, in the last quarter of the twentieth century there suddenly emerged the frightening new disease of AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome).

He applauded the Christian religious revival of the last quarter of the twentieth century, regarding it as an antidote to militant secularism and «postmodern paganism.»

It was estimated in the 1970s that, from the time human agriculture began to develop some 10,000 years ago, one half of the earth's food - producing soil had disappeared and a third of the remainder would be lost in the last quarter of the twentieth century.

An American Protestant return to the optimism of the Social Gospel is improbable, but one of the most arresting features of this last quarter of the twentieth century is our preoccupation with the future.

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, creative energies of Asian Christians have gone into the re-thinking of the Christian heritage in relation to East Asian traditions.

The Book of Common Prayer, written in unforgettable English and with melodious cadence has, until the last quarter of the twentieth century, been the hallmark of English Christianity and of the Anglican Communion.

As every graduate student in theology would learn in the last quarter of the twentieth century, Lindbeck saw two dominant approaches to religion and theology.

Developing motor skills The last quarter of the twentieth century saw a decline in outdoor opportunities in the UK as playing fields were sold.

It includes young artists who had a strong impact on the art of the 1990s (Damien Hirst, Lisa Yuskavage) and artists whose work constituted the foundation of the art of the last quarter of the twentieth century (Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman); it indicates some of the collection's thematic links and suggests its chronological and geographical scope, including works from the 1960s to the 1990s by artists from Asia, Europe, and North America.

In the last quarter of the twentieth century, many Chinese scholars, critics, and artists decried traditional Chinese painting (Zhongguohua) as out of step with an increasingly global culture.

Cambodia is slowly recovering from the barbarism of the Khmer Rouge regime and the subsequent civil war that devastated the nation during the last quarter of the twentieth century.