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Modernity after Modernity [PDF]
A strategy for the second modernization raises, beyond objectives, a series of epistemic responsibilities. It is known that modernization stemming from the Enlightment had, among other things, the pretense that it is a project which is self-legitimating.
Marin Dinu
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Review of Frederick Mawusi Amevenku and Isaac Boaheng, “Biblical Exegesis in African Context” [PDF]
The book has nine chapters plus an introduction and concluding remarks with a foreword by Daniel Nii Aboagye Aryeh (PhD). Its content can be divided into two thematic parts. The first part, covering chs. 1–5 (pp. 1–42) is described variously as “elements
Michael F. Wandusim
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Tamed Mobilization. Marian Messages, Pilgrim Masses and Papal Moderateness in Fatima since Paul VI
Marian apparitions attract modern masses since the 19th century. The radical message of the apparition asking for penitence and the return of public and politics to God resonated well within major parts of Catholicism.
Mariano P. Barbato
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Critical Timing, Discomfort, and the Architecture of Change
A review of It’s About Time: The Architecture of Change, an exhibition curated by Véronique Patteeuw, Léa-Catherine Szacka, Derk Loorbach, and Peter Veenstra, presented in the 10th Architecture Biennale Rotterdam at The Ferro.
Clemens Christian Finkelstein
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A Critique on the Book Three Rival Versions of Modernity: Exit, Voice, Loyalty [PDF]
By now many have considered modernity as an integrated totality that was born and flourished in a given time and in a given location. From this point of view, modernity is incompatible and alien to other territories and cultures, but if we consider ...
Salman Sadeghizadeh
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From Archangels to Virtual Pilgrims: A Brief History of Papal Digital Mobilization as Soft Power
The perpetual public display of successful mass mobilization and pilgrimage has become a pillar of papal soft power. During the 20th century, the papacy had repeatedly demonstrated its ability to use new technologies for public communication, media ...
Johannes Ludwig Löffler
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On sacred basis of local social identities in contemporary Russia: structural analysis [PDF]
The article discusses a model of social identity — with its empirical approbation based on data on social identities of some Russian regional centers. It demonstrates descriptive and analytical potential of the proposed concept of a social identity.
Pavel L. Krupkin, Sergey D. Lebedev
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Based on two field studies on the micro level of items which place-makers and merchants display at holy sites, an argument about the supply side of the political economy of pilgrimage is proposed.
Mariano Barbato
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Embedded in a critically adapted version of Jürgen Habermas’ postsecular approach, this article analyzes empirically and evaluates normatively the role of religion in the Middle East. Integrating and adapting William Connolly’s understanding of political
Mariano Barbato
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The increase in the number of people who do not belong to any religion (“nones”) has long been observed in many societies in the Northern hemisphere.
Olaf Müller, Chiara Porada
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