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Membership‐Making in Diverse Societies: Revisiting the Idea of Society as a Common Possession
Journal 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
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Journal 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
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Zoophilologica, 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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Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.Anti‐Protestantism was one of the reasons for the revival of missions during the interwar period. By the 1960s, however, Protestants were less and less often mentioned as a threat to missionary efforts, and the decline in inter‐confessional tensions was increasingly considered a relic of the past.
Giacomo Canepa
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Post-secular Religiosity and Sport: Football as Religion
Галактика 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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The Post-Secular Cosmopolitanization of Religion
ReligionsThe contemporary restructuring of religion and secularism demands a departure from conventional post-secular analyses that remain confined within the epistemic and institutional frameworks of the nation-state.
Abbas Jong
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On the Totality, Secularism and Post-Secularism (Reflections on the Article by G. B. Goutner) [PDF]
Вестник Свято-Филаретовского института, 2015 The article discusses in what sense the great cultural epistemes – such as the sacred episteme of Christian Middle Ages and the secular episteme of modern Europe – can be called total or repressive.
Tatyana Pantchenko
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About Contemporary Secularism: a Portuguese Case Study in a Democratic Period (Post-1974)
Mediações: Revista de Ciências Sociais, 2016 Our article addresses the different dimensions and the diverse shapes of contemporary secularism. Our theoretical framework derives from Alfred Stepan’ multiple secularisms perspective and Rajeev Bhargava’s context-sensitive analysis of different ...
Jorge Botelho Moniz
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A History of ‘Religious History’
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.As a category denoting the analysis of religious actors across history disinterestedly and on their own terms, “religious history” is a relatively recent coinage. This article offers a brief contextualisation of the emergence of the field in the twentieth century. It distinguishes “religious history” from an older, “confessional” mode of ecclesiastical
Joshua Bennett
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
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