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Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space

open access: yesReligion, State and Society, 2022
Contemporary conflicts about secularity in ‘the West’ tend to focus on public space. Although collective Christian heritage means that public space is rarely exclusively neutral, conflicts continue to arise over the relationship between secularity and religious symbolism, and especially over those symbols which derive from religious minorities ...
Marietta van der Tol, Philip Gorski
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Responding to the sacred [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal for the Study of the Christian Church, 2021
In this paper, three dilemmas in liturgical gender-inclusive language are discussed: firstly, if there is any need for gender-inclusive language at all among Christian people; secondly, to what extent gender-inclusive language confirms or challenges binary gender categories; and, thirdly, how queer theory could be a useful tool to develop a non-binary ...
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Sacred Circles

open access: yes, 2023
Abstract In the Hellenistic period, cities increasingly organized major festivals in honour of their principal gods, often as an ‘echo’ of the great Panhellenic games, sending out invitations to cities and kings for support and participation. Cities thus opened up their prime sanctuaries to the Greek world through their festivals. At the
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Sacred Harvest, Sacred Place

open access: yesJournal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development, 2019
This paper tells a place-based story of food in the Wasagamack territory in Manitoba, Canada, through traditional land-use map biographies with 49 active Indigenous harvesters, video interviews with eight key informants, and input from commu­nity workshops.
Shirley Thompson   +2 more
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