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Postsecular spirituality, engaged hermeneutics, and Charles Taylor’s notion of hypergoods
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2009 This essay sets out to argue that postsecular spirituality is about the quest for hypergoods within today’s mass populist- and consumerist-oriented world.
Andries G. Van Aarde
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Politics and Religion in Montenegro—From “Theocracy” to a Civic State
Religions, 2023 The relationship between religion(s) and politics, i.e., religious communities and political authorities, in Montenegro has varied and taken different forms throughout the country’s history.
Danijela Vuković-Ćalasan +1 more
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Young People and the Process of Secularisation in Contemporary Greek Society
Religions, 2022 During the last twenty years, a significant shift has taken place in Greek society. On the one hand, the religious context has been altered due to the arrival of immigrants and refugees with different religious backgrounds.
Alexandros Sakellariou
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Why do some women choose to submit to their husbands in marriage? In anthropology, the paradox of ‘chosen submission’ has famously been explored by Saba Mahmood. Her work amongst Egyptian women donning the veil in the Islamic da'wa movement spotlights the notion of ‘piety’ to explore how devotion to God can act as a powerful motivator of human ...
Naomi Richman
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HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2011 What does the end of traditional metaphysical language about God mean? In conversation with New Testament scholar Andries Gideon van Aarde on his understanding of a postsecular spirituality South African New Testament scholar Van Aarde’s explorative ...
Daniël P. Veldsman
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.In June 2023, the Laje River, located in the traditional territory of the Wari’ Indigenous people in Rondônia, Brazil, was declared a legal entity, an earth being, with rights, following the co‐ordinated action of an indigenous councillor and non‐indigenous activists.
Aparecida Vilaça
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, 2012 This thesis deals with the determinants and mechanisms of individual secularisation processes in a cross-national perspective. In this ‘collected volume’ of six stand-alone articles, I examine religious beliefs and behaviours as well as attitudes towards
de Graaf, Nan Dirk, Müller, Tim Sven
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This essay introduces the themed cluster of articles, ‘Towards a linguistic anthropology of AI’. The advent of artificial intelligence (AI), especially in large language models capable of producing coherent discourse mimicking conversational interaction, is exerting unprecedented pressure on prevailing concepts of language, personhood, and the human ...
Webb Keane, Constantine V. Nakassis
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Economic Theory of Religion in the Perspective of Progressing Secularisation
Studia Ekonomiczne i Regionalne, 2017 Subject and purpose of work: This work presents an economic theory of religion. Its aim is to gain insight into one of the modern concepts of religion in the perspective of secularisation.
Romanowicz Wiesław
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Religions, 2023 In this article I present the main findings of an empirical study about contemporary spirituality in Italy begun in 2017 by reasoning about the analysis of twelve case studies which are particularly eloquent concerning the different spiritual worlds ...
Stefania Palmisano
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