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Modernity, the Religious, and the Spiritual
The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 1998Research on the post-World War II generations offers the opportunity to examine significant trends in American religion that will shape the early decades of the next century. A reclaiming of the spiritual, the more experiential aspects of religion, is at the very heart of these changes for younger cohorts of Americans.
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Modernization and Religious Concord
Comparative Sociology, 2014AbstractTocqueville said that Americans combined a general belief in God with a lack of interest in denominational differences. Although this outlook may be particularly prevalent in the United States, it is also visible in other Western societies, although combined with lower levels of religious belief.
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The Problems of Religious Modernity
Asian Journal of Social Science, 2005AbstractThis paper discusses the problems of the Islamization of modernity that are mostly ignored in the social sciences on the topic of Islam. The case study deals with a transnationalized Turkish-Islamic group of the followers of the populist theologian Said Nursi in Germany.
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Modernization and religious intermarriage in the Republic of Ireland
The British Journal of Sociology, 2001ABSTRACTThere are strong theoretical reasons for hypothesizing that those sections of the population who are most exposed to modernization processes are more likely to marry outside their own religious group. We examine this for Catholic‐Protestant intermarriage in the Republic of Ireland.
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Modern Religion, Religious Organizations, and Religious Social Action
2014In public debates, the meaning of the term “religion” appears to be almost self-evident, whereas in the social sciences and humanities defining religion is a highly contested matter. Indeed, from a scholarly perspective, it is far from evident what should be understood by religious, religiosity, and religion.
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Contestation of the “self” in modern and religious psychologies.
Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical PsychologyWe begin our article with commonly available insights from world religions into the notions of “human nature,” “self,” “soul,” and “spirit.” Then, we take brief notes of the more recent metamorphosis of the same notions into “subject,” “ego,” “personality,” “consciousness,” and the like up to modern times and beyond. In doing so, we explore a number of
Noor, Noraini Binti Mohd, Berisha, Elma
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The Religious Paintings of William Congdon and the Problem of Religious Art in Modernism
IKON, 2015This paper presents a review of William Congdon’s religious paintings. The critical analysis takes into consideration the theory of several authors. Jacques Maritain’s comments on Congdon’s religious work are especially clarifying. He explains the difference between contemplative art, sacred art and religious art.
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