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Separation of Church and State, American Exceptionalism, and the Contemporary Social Moment: Viewing Church–State Separation from the Priority of Slavery

Religions, 2021
The contemporary social moment in the United States has affirmed the critical importance of racial justice, and especially claims to justice informed by the contributions of structural and institutional forces connected with the nation’s original sin of ...
Joseph Prud'homme
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Secularity as a Point of Reference: Specific Features of a Non-Religious and Secularized Worldview in a Family across Three Generations

Religions, 2022
My contribution will focus on secular and non-religious worldviews and will aim to reconstruct secular relationships with the world that develop from lived values and their transmission in the family.
Christel Gärtner
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A critical Discussion of Complexity Theory: How does 'Complexity Thinking' improve our Understanding of Politics and Policymaking?

Complexity, Governance & Networks, 2017
In this article, we present a critical discussion of complexity theory. We ask: what does it really offer policy studies? We suggest that its stated advantages-- interdisciplinarity, theoretical novelty, and empirical advance--are generally exaggerated ...
Paul Cairney, Robert Geyer
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From secularisations to political religions*

History of European Ideas, 2023
In European culture the sacred and the secular have existed in a dialectical relationship. Prodi sees the fifteenth-century crisis of Christianity as opening up three paths that eroded this dualism and tended towards modernity: civic-republican religion, sacred monarchy, and the territorial churches.
Prodi, Paolo, Campbell, Ian
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’Foucault's Ironies and the Important Earnestness of Theory’

Foucault Studies, 2012
Foucault’s History of Sexuality 1 cannot be understood without sustained attention to its ironies, which are written into every level from diction to structure. The little book does not intend to deliver a theory, queer or otherwise. It means rather to
Mark D. Jordan
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Multidimensionality of Spirituality: A Qualitative Study among Secular Individuals

Religions, 2019
This study examines the multidimensionality of spirituality by comparing the applicability of two models—the five-dimensional model of religiosity by Huber that we have extended with a sixth dimension of ethics and the three-dimensional ...
Sarah Demmrich, Stefan Huber
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Questioning Strict Separationism in Unsettled Times: Rethinking the Strict Separation of Church and State in United States Constitutional Law

Laws, 2022
Contemporary case law in the United States surrounding the establishment clause of the federal Constitution has entered a period of remarkable uncertainty.
Joseph G. Prud’homme
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Getting Multiculturalism Right: Deontology and the Concern for Neutrality

Open Cultural Studies, 2017
In recent years, the notion of pluralism or, as it is often termed, “multiculturalism,” has been subject to critique by a range of public figures on the right of the political spectrum, such as David Cameron, Angela Merkel and Donald Trump.
Johnson Matthew
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Security, Religion, and Political Culture: A Defense of Weak Disestablishment

Religions, 2019
Many, especially in the West, have long argued against state religious establishments on the ethical grounds of the rights of freedom of conscience and personal autonomy.
Joseph Prud’homme
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The Apocalypse as a Cosmotheandric Communion: A Hindu-Christian Dialogue

Religions, 2022
Theologians have been engaged in the reflections of the eschatological in the social and moral conditions of the world for some years now, but the emphasis on the indisputable need for an interfaith dialogue at such a moment is evidently absent. Arguably,
Shruti Dixit
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