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The Post-Secular Turn: Enlightenment, Tradition, Revolution
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
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Modeling the Religious Field: Religion, Spirituality, Mysticism and Related World Views
Streib H, Hood RW. Modeling the Religious Field: Religion, Spirituality, Mysticism and Related World Views. Implicit Religion. 2013;16(2):137-155.Mapping the religious field of present-day Western cultures such as America and Europe requires a synopsis ...
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The Human Difference: Beyond Nomotropism
The main theme of this essay is f i n i t e l i f e, which is the bedrock of modern biopolitics. In the series of lectures devoted to the ‘birth of biopolitics,’ Michel Foucault defines it as a new system of ‘governing the living’ based on the natural ...
Agata Bielik-Robson
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Amidst the global religious resurgence in the post-secular world, the field of international relations finds itself unwilling or unable to situate religion back to theoretical paradigms subject to the Westphalian–Enlightenment prejudice.
Zikun Yang, Li Li
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Une expertise catholique au service de la pastorale urbaine
In Quebec, sociology, whether religious or not, was in the 1950s directly embedded in pastoral sociology. Finding in a reference to the Chicago School a convenient legitimacy, the French-Canadian pastoral sociology mainly borrowed from the methods of the
Jean-Philippe Warren
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Religious Responses to Modes of Secularism [PDF]
In this article, secularism is considered as one of the primary ideological components in the development of the theory of secularization, and as the foundation of various societal changes that have led to the transformation of the role of religion ...
David Martin
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The Insistence of Blackness and the Persistence of Antiblackness in Ireland
ABSTRACT This paper positions Ireland as a critical site for examining the insistence of blackness and an antiblackness created and sustained through Irish ethnonationalist imaginaries and exclusionary processes. Drawing on connected sociologies and Irish Black Studies, this enquiry argues that antiblackness in Ireland operates as a generational force,
Philomena Mullen
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The City as a Continuous Laboratory for Diversity: The Case of Geneva
After a long period of interest of religious plurality in the nation-state, the sociology of religion, with the impulse of the sociology of migration, has turned its attention to the city.
Christophe Monnot
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‘Turkeys Cannot Vote for Christmas’: Why Epistemic Disobedience in an Anti‐Black World Matters
ABSTRACT Never in the history of global coloniality has the idea of epistemic disobedience been as important as in the 21st century. This is not only because the struggle for decolonisation has shifted from physical confrontation between the coloniser and the colonised into a battle of ideas but also because the former has deployed the idea of ...
Morgan Ndlovu
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Actualiteit en relevantie van de Nederlandse godsdienstsociologie
In a secular society, as is the Netherlands, the position of religions and religious organisations is a theme of controversial debates. Curiously enough, sociologists of religion do not play a prominent role in these debates.
Erik Sengers, Kees de Groot
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