Sentences with phrase «on cultural decline»

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Following shortly after her much acclaimed On Looking Into the Abyss, Prof. Himmelfarb gives us with this book a most useful historical referent by which to evaluate the indicators of cultural decline in our society.

On the one hand, there is the thesis of Oswald Spengler, who believed that he had identified a natural law for the great moments in cultural history: First comes the birth of a culture, then its gradual rise, flourishing, slow decline, aging, and death.

The great advance which had made Christianity the formal faith of the most populous cultural center on the globe was followed by a long period of decline which for a time seemed to presage the end of the influence of Jesus.

According to the 85 - year - old pontiff, after considerable prayer and reflection on his physical stamina and mental acuity, he concluded that his declining faculties left him unable to helm the Church's ambitious regressive agenda and guide the faith's one billion global followers on their steady march away from modernity and cultural advancement.

Evangelical and fundamentalist mission agencies have grown in proportion, while mainline bodies have focused more on assisting indigenous ministries, supplying social services, lobbying for social justice through political channels, and even turning the cultural conduit around by sponsoring reverse missionary programs.14 Viewed from only the American context, it appears that mainstream Protestantism has suffered a serious decline in its missionary efforts.

Conservatives have won the economic arguments, he says, and on the cultural front they have done a fine job of showing how the decline of the traditional, two - parent family is linked to a host of social ills.

Aware of the cultural decline of the West and of the weakening of Western civilisation, non-Western cultures are sitting on the fence: seduced by modernity, wanting to participate in the process of globalisation, they also want to remain faithful to their identity.

And between 2008 and 2013, New York City public schools lost 202 certified, school - based arts teachers; school spending on arts and cultural organizations, which provided arts programming for students, declined 47 percent, from $ 25.7 million to $ 13.6 million.

In the United States, artist - endowed organisations such as the Joan Mitchell Foundation are on the rise and are playing an increasingly important role in the cultural landscape as government funding declines.

On this point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.&raquOn this point, the court declined to admit the evidence and further held that: «[i] t would be inconsistent with the purpose of the Statute of Frauds and with the valid public policy need for certainty in real property transactions to imply a term or condition into the Deed of Gift based on a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.&raquon a general cultural norm or tradition and the mere reference to the property in question under the heading «dowry» in the marriage contract.»

You might forget that SNL is live, despite the fact that it's a third of its title, but that's only because it's been on the decline as far as being a cultural touchstone is concerned.