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Post-Secular Turkey?: Justice and Development Party Governments and Updating the Secular Contract

open access: yesİnsan & Toplum, 2015
The 2002 electoral victory of the AKP is regarded as the beginning of post-secular Turkey, implying the end of an authoritarian Turkish secularism.
Edip Asaf Bekaroğlu
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Ambedkar, Buddhism, and Post-secularism: Inner Life, Politics, and Subalternity

open access: yesSouth Asia Multidisciplinary Academic Journal, 2022
The work of B. R. Ambedkar has spurred scholars and experts to rethink traditional assessments of both the secularization process and the relationship between religious and secular domains.
Vidhu Verma
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Fuzzy But Not Warm: On the (Continuing) Descriptive and Analytical Inutility of ‘Spirituality\u27 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
In her response, Nadine Pence helpfully turns the conversation towards actual practices in teaching and the array of practical decisions that have to be made in the classroom and on campuses when it comes to addressing Big Questions and students\u27 ...
Bauman, Chad M   +2 more
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Post Secularism and the Woman Question [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
I will discuss the “woman question in post secularism” by offering my critique of Saba Mahmood’s book “Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject”.
Abu-Odeh, Lama
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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession

open access: yesJournal of Applied Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The traditional aim of Western social democracy has been to create a society that is a ‘common possession’ of its members (in T.H. Marshall's words). Social democratic politics has therefore been both society‐making and membership‐making, orienting people to a shared society as an object of attachment and loyalty, and nurturing membership ...
Will Kymlicka
wiley   +1 more source

The Search for a Plural America: Protestant and Enlightenment Authority in American History [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
A crisis of authority defines modernity. The crisis in the Christian West dates to the Reformation and the church-and-state conflicts based upon the question: whose Christianity? The crisis deepened during the Enlightenment as advances in science, reason,
Finstuen, Andrew
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Serendipitous ritualization: dynamics of lay connectivity in Chinese Buddhist temples and beyond Ritualisation fortuite : dynamique de la connectivité des laïques dans les temples bouddhistes chinois et au‐delà

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
This article contributes to rethinking the dichotomy between informal sociality and ritual formality by examining the occasional ritual encounters surrounding spirit‐tablet inscription in Chinese Buddhist temples. Rather than viewing rituals as enactments of established orders, it presents ritual engagement as a contingent process of relational ...
Yang Shen
wiley   +1 more source

Against the “Anthropocene Apathy”. About the Rescue Potential of Postsecularism (on the Example of Works by the Romany Poetess Papusza)

open access: yesZoophilologica, 2021
The sense of hopelessness vis-à-vis the anthropocentric paradigm makes it difficult today to think about the future of the planet and reinforces pessimism and resignation.
Anna Filipowicz
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Boredom, despondency, and the scourge that lays waste at noon: an anthropology of acedia Ennui, abattement et le fléau qui frappe à midi : une anthropologie de l'acédie

open access: yesJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
Attentive to the ways that inertia can take hold of life, Catholic monks recognize despondency as a potential not only within the monastery, but in contemporary society more widely. Such experiences are regularly mapped onto an understanding of what early Christian monks termed ‘acedia’ (a Greek term that can be translated as ‘lack of care’). Taking as
Richard D.G. Irvine
wiley   +1 more source

Post-secular Religiosity and Sport: Football as Religion

open access: yesГалактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2023
The passion for sports sometimes takes on such hypertrophied forms that it actually turns out to be one of the variants of religion, fulfilling a number of its significant functions.
Nikolai S. Poliakov
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