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Is Secularism History? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
In recent years, the intellectual tide has moved strongly against the kind of secular thinking that characterized Gellner’s work. Whether couched in terms of postcolonialism, multiculturalism, genealogy, global understanding, political theology, or the ...
McLennan, Gregor
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Crowding Out the Market: State Religious Policy and Social Capital Among Religious Adherents

open access: yesJournal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How do governments’ policies toward religion impact the relationship between citizens and civil society? A large body of literature examines the effect of social capital on democratic governance. Studies of State Religious Policy, or SRP, however, have shown complex and potentially contradictory effects on different types of social capital ...
Brendan Szendrő
wiley   +1 more source

The Chilean Military after Antuco: Shortcomings of a Post-Secular Discourse

open access: yesReligions, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: God in the tumult of the global square: religion in global civil society by Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego and John Soboslai [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In God in the Tumult of the Global Square: Religion in Global Civil Society, authors Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego and John Soboslai explore new forms of religion emerging in the contemporary moment, drawing upon workshops staged over five years with ...
Kumar, Nagothu Naresh
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Coming Home: The Bruderhof Returns to Germany [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The Bruderhof Community, founded by Eberhard Arnold in Germany shortly after World War I, envisions communal life according to the principles of early Anabaptism, Christian Socialism, and the German Youth Movement.
Jany, Berit
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Snapshots from a Fast‐Moving Train: Religious History 1960–2025

open access: yes
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Alexandra Walsham
wiley   +1 more source

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

The Post-Enlightenment Moral Crisis and the Emergence of Secular Tyranny in the Middle East

open access: yesAmerican 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
doaj  

Beyond Emancipation and Oppression: Post-Secular Intersectionality and the Muslim Woman in the French Republic

open access: yesReligions
This paper critically interrogates the French model of secularism (laïcité) and its implications for Muslim women’s rights in contemporary France, particularly within post-colonial and post-secular contexts.
Shilpi Pandey
doaj   +1 more source

The Post-Secular Turn: Enlightenment, Tradition, Revolution

open access: yesEidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture, 2019
The aim of this essay is to give a general and accessible overview of the so called “post-secular” turn in the contemporary humanities. The main idea behind it is that it constitutes an answer to the crisis of the secular grand narratives of modernity ...
Agata Bielik-Robson
doaj   +1 more source

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