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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Secularization is a key concept in the social scientific study of religion, yet its meaning remains ambiguous due to varied definitions produced in the literature. This article aims to provide a data‐driven systematization of the debate on religious change by analyzing 1638 academic articles published between 2001 and 2022 using structural ...
Valeria Rainero, Ruud Luijkx
wiley   +1 more source

Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

The (trans)national Russian religious imagination in exile: Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977)

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The article offers a case study of how Russian Orthodox who migrated from the Soviet Union after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 reimagined their religious identity and their church in a transnational setting. Iulia de Beausobre (1893‐1977) was a Russian aristocrat who fell victim to the Stalinist purges but survived the Soviet prison system ...
Ruth Coates
wiley   +1 more source

Land use rights and gender in Ovamboland, North- Central Namibia, since the 1930s

open access: yesFennia: International Journal of Geography, 2009
In agrarian economies arable land is the most important form of property and productive resource, so that access to land defines the political and social status of a member of society.
Harri Siiskonen
doaj  

Deacon Oleshka Pavlov and Bookwriting in Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery in the First Half of the 15th Century

open access: yesВестник Волгоградского государственного университета. Серия 4. История, регионоведение, международные отношения, 2016
The article is devoted to one of the writers who created the books for Kirillo-Belozersky Monastery. Deacon Oleshka Pavlov was the teacher of grammar and the booklore mentor of Martinian of Belozersk who later became reverend as well as some other monks.
Shibaev Mikhail A.
doaj   +1 more source

‘Instead of fetching flowers, the youths brought in flakes of snow’: exploring extreme weather history through English parish registers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Parish registers provide organized, dated and located population data and as such, are routinely among the most frequently consulted documents within the holdings of county record offices and archives.
Andrews W.   +30 more
core   +1 more source

Lonergan, Decolonization and First Nations Peoples: An Apologetic from an Insider on the Outside

open access: yesModern Theology, EarlyView.
Abstract The purpose of this article is to respond critically to a research project initiated out of the Board of the Lonergan Research Institute that seeks to expose colonialist assumptions in Lonergan's thought. Some of the initiatives seek to link Lonergan with complicity in Canadian residential schools, spiritual violence, and cultural genocide ...
John D. Dadosky
wiley   +1 more source

The Orthodox Church and Religious Minorities in Shida Kartli Region in Georgia in the First Quarter of the Twentieth Century

open access: yes, 2017
We think that it is of utmost importance to disclose the facts about the uncommon treatment that took place during Soviet rule in the 1920s towards the Georgian Orthodox Church and all the other religious ...
Sosiashvili, PhD, Giorgi
core  

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