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The Political Economy of Secularism in Turkey: Beyond Culturalist and Ideational Explanations

, 2020
Secularism and its historical development have been a tense issue in the political development and modernization of Turkey. When the historiography on the evolution of the Turkish type of secularism is analyzed, one could observe that fact it is ...
Cemil Boyraz, Boyraz, C.
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Transhumanist Religious Experience: Beyond Secular Faith?

Zygon
In this article, we advance a case for considering transhumanism as a religion. Following William James, we think of “religion” as a set of experiences that define and shape one’s identity. These may include peak experiences, the feeling of transcendence,
Adam Lovasz
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The Contemporary Debate on Secularization and Its Cross‐National Variation: A Systematization Through Topic Modeling

Journal 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
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
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The Paradoxes of the Spiritual Self: Disidentification as a Marker of Identity

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines how practitioners of self‐spirituality conceptualize their spiritual identity. On the basis of 62 in‐depth interviews with secular Jewish Israelis engaged in various spiritual practices, we find that spiritual identity is constructed through a distinctive cultural logic we term disidentification—a systematic resistance to ...
Nurit Zaidman, Michal Pagis
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The Chilean Military after Antuco: Shortcomings of a Post-Secular Discourse

Religions, 2020
In their two hundred years of existence, the Chilean armed forces have had a close relationship with the Catholic faith, especially with a local version of the Virgin Mary (Virgen del Carmen), who is held as the patroness of the military.
Cristobal Bellolio
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An Australian View

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
David Hilliard
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Religio‐Racial Lines, Intimate Ties: Christian–Muslim Couples, Birth Rituals, and the Bounds of Belonging

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley   +1 more source

Manifestations of the post-secular emerging within discourses of posthumanism [PDF]

, 2013
This paper discusses the concepts of posthuman and post-secular in critical ...
Graham, Elaine
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The Post-Enlightenment Moral Crisis and the Emergence of Secular Tyranny in the Middle East

American Journal of Islam and Society, 2017
This article explores humanity’s ethical transformation during Europe’s post-Enlightenment era and assesses its impact upon the origins and development of secularism.
Farhan Mujahid Chak
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