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Secularisation as the fragmentation of the sacred and of sacred space
Religion, 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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International Journal of Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage, 2023 While religious sites are identified as unique experience spaces, offering diverse experiences, discourse on what constitutes a visitor’s experience still seems unsettled, primarily due to the fragmented approach owing to the classic binary of pilgrim ...
Priyanka Singh +3 more
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Religions, 2023 A deeper understanding of sport cannot remain only in rational discourse that transforms reality into quantified data but must descend into philosophical areas that also accept the multiple figurativeness of symbols.
Ivo Jirásek
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The experience of the sacred through places of ritual in architecture
Anuari d’Arquitectura i Societat, 2021 The social and spatial structures, the code as well as the languages recognized and created by the masters of the past are no longer adequate in our present time. Belonging to these structures today is no longer associated with the community but with the
Salvatore Rugino
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“Es música el silencio”. Suspensión de la palabra y poética de lo sagrado en Octavio Paz
Valenciana, 2021 Muchas veces, en Paz, el proceso poético mismo y la experiencia de plenitud a la que lleva se dejan describir en términos cuasi religiosos, como un camino de iniciación que desemboca en una especie de éxtasis.
Paul-Henri Giraud
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Responding to the sacred [PDF]
International 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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On the benefits of mythologies for sociological imagination
RUDN journal of Sociology, 2023 The article is a sociological review-reflection on the non-sociological book by P.A. Sapronov Mythology of Secular Culture (Saint Petersburg: Publishing House “Petropolis”, 2023.
I. V. Trotsuk, M. V. Tsimbal
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A critical review of Durkheim's reductionist view of religion [PDF]
Kom: Časopis za Religijske Nauke, 2015 Durkheim concept of religion is established on his basic sociological ideas, but also on the division of all phenomena in human society into the sacred and the profane one.
Halilović Muamer
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Latin American Literary Review, 2022 This study on religion and the contemporary Latin American novel traces the presence of the sacred starting with Federico Gamboa's Santa (1903) and ending with Roberto Bolaño's Los detectives salvajes (1998), placing the narratives discussed within the ...
Maria Ines Lagos
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La toile et le voile : l’art, la littérature et le sacré dans trois récits romantiques
Quêtes Littéraires, 2013 The literature of the Romantics, in the first part of the 19th century, is steeped in religious doubt. Moreover, the sacred was a taboo yet unavoidable subject especially in novels and short stories that were considered at the time profane genres ...
Esther Pinon
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