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The limits of going global: The case of "Ottoman Enlightenment(s)". [PDF]
Hist Compass, 2020 Abstract The paper seeks to summarize the discussions of the last two decades on the existence of a phenomenon that can be named “Ottoman Enlightenment.” It discusses the German debates on Reinhardt Schulze's suggestion of an “Islamic Enlightenment,” as well as more recent studies on the emergence of a different view of the nature and the world in ...
Sariyannis M.
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Journal of Religious History, Volume 47, Issue 3, Page 469-485, September 2023., 2023 This article examines the evolution and transformation of female religious life in Spain under Franco's regime, which began after the Spanish Civil War in 1939 and ended with the dictator's death in 1975. During the dictatorship, the public stance towards Catholicism made consecrated religious life one of the potential social undertakings for women at ...
Verónica García‐Martín
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Dialog, Volume 62, Issue 1, Page 51-65, Spring 2023., 2023 Abstract What are we talking about when we talk about the postsecular? This article looks at the ways articulations of the secular often presuppose the presence – not the absence – of religion and religious plurality. This can be observed even in the work of early theorists of secularism as well as of the first sociologists who observed secularizing ...
Matthew Ryan Robinson
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When the chickens come home to roost: The long‐term impact of party positions on religious voting
European Journal of Political Research, Volume 61, Issue 2, Page 566-585, May 2022., 2022 Abstract Despite the widespread secularisation of West European societies, research has only found mixed evidence of a decline in the influence of religion on people's electoral preferences. A relatively recent line of inquiry has adopted a ‘top‐down’ approach to this problem, arguing that the impact of religion not only depends on structural social ...
RAUL GOMEZ
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Emancipating ethics: an autonomist reading of Islamic forms of life in Russia
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Volume 28, Issue 1, Page 30-51, March 2022., 2022 Abstract This article advances a framework aimed at capturing the political life of ethical intensity by putting autonomist theory in resonance with ethnographic material pertaining to quietist Muslim milieus in post‐Soviet Russia. The emancipatory and prefigurative potential of collective projects of self‐legislation – in this case, ‘halal living ...
Matteo Benussi
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A New Priest for a New Society? The Masculinity of the Priesthood in Liberal Spain*
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 540-558, December 2021., 2021 This study examines the formation of the ideal of the “good parish priest” as a means for the Catholic Church to recover its social influence in the Spain that emerged from the liberal revolutions of the early nineteenth century. It makes use of the concept of masculinity as a resource for illuminating the forms of authority and social relationships ...
María Cruz Romeo Mateo
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A Man Just Like Other Men? Masculinity and Clergy in Spain during Late Francoism (1960–1975)
Journal of Religious History, Volume 45, Issue 4, Page 603-622, December 2021., 2021 While the notion of masculinity has been incorporated by European and North American research into the field of study of religious history, in Spain its introduction is still in its infancy. This article reflects on the contribution of religious discourses and the experiences of male clergy to the construction of different identity models of ...
Mónica Moreno‐Seco
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Gender &History, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 94-110, March 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT The feminisation of religion in the nineteenth‐century has been broadly discussed by historians and sociologists. Considering the main contributions of that debate from a critical perspective, this article defends the hypothesis that the Catholic Church identified itself with the same characteristics with which it defined femininity in the ...
Raúl Mínguez‐Blasco
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Matthew Tindal’s Rights of the Christian Church (1706) and the Church-State Relationship [PDF]
, 2011 Matthew Tindal's Rights of the Christian church (1706), which elicited more than thirty contemporary replies, was a major interjection in the ongoing debates about the relationship between church and state in late seventeenth- and early eighteenth ...
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Religion and modernity in Spain: religious experience in the novels of Ramón Pérez de Ayala [PDF]
, 2011 While Ramón Pérez de Ayala is widely regarded as a leading liberal with strong anti-Catholic and indeed anti-religious views, a close examination of his novels reveals a more ambivalent attitude to religious experience.
Macklin, J.
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