Results 61 to 70 of about 5,933 (230)
From Christian Confession to “Speaking Your Truth”: A Genealogy of Lived Experience as Truth‐Telling
Sociology Lens, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article offers a sociological genealogy of “lived experience” as a mode of truth‐telling. It asks how narrated life came to function as knowledge and why such speech now circulates as evidence in activism, academia, and social policy. Using a Foucauldian genealogy, the analysis traces the shifting conditions under which speech became ...
Jody Moore
wiley +1 more source
The House of the LORD ... the house of man
The Journal for Transdisciplinary Research in Southern Africa, 2015 The idea of cult centralisation in ancient Israel is investigated as a form of disenchantment. The Temple in Jerusalem can now be styled The House of the LORD and the countryside ought to be bereft of holy places and holy objects.
J C Pauw
doaj +1 more source
Why Are Young Men Increasingly Drawn to Christianity? A Study of Finnish Young Men
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Recent surveys in the Global North suggest a possible reversal in established gender patterns of religiosity, with young men increasingly engaging with Christianity. This study examines this development in Finland, a highly secular country, drawing on qualitative individual and small‐group interviews with 30 men attracted to Christianity.
Kati Tervo‐Niemelä +1 more
wiley +1 more source
Faith, society and the post-secular: Private and public religion in law and theology
HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies, 2019 In pre-democratic – also pre-modern – times, religion had been at the centre of much of human life, filling the private as well as the public realm of people’s daily existence.
Christoffel Lombaard +2 more
doaj +1 more source
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Building on scholarship that conceptualizes race and religion as co‐constitutive forces within a “race‐religion constellation,” this article explores how this entanglement—profoundly infused and structured by secularity—is lived and negotiated in everyday life.
Deniz Aktaş
wiley +1 more source
Social Dimensions of Religion in the Age of De-Globalisation: A Framework for Future Research
ReligionsDe-globalisation is reshaping the conditions under which religion is governed, mobilised, and contested. This article proposes a framework for analysing religion in this emerging conjuncture.
Myengkyo Seo
doaj +1 more source
Secularisation: process, program, and historiography
, 2017 Today's dominant academic use of the term ‘secularisation’ refers to an epochal process that transformed a society based on Christian faith to one grounded in human reason.
Ian Hunter, Hunter, Ian
core +1 more source
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT A longstanding debate in the sociology of religion has focused on how religious pluralism affects religious participation. Existing research shows mixed findings, often relying on macro‐level measures that overlook how individuals are actually exposed to religious pluralism in their lives. This study shifts focus to the meso‐level by examining
Elis Carlberg Larsson
wiley +1 more source
Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Religious disbelief is increasing worldwide, yet its cognitive and cultural foundations remain debated. We examined how analytic thinking and cultural learning shape (dis)belief across generations and over time. Study 1 compared younger (18–39, n = 427) and older (40+, n = 639) Polish adults.
Paweł Łowicki +4 more
wiley +1 more source
Le cimetière multiconfessionnel de Bruxelles : tenir malgré l’adversité
L’Année du MaghrebThe article traces the history of the multifaith cemetery in Brussels. The vast majority of deceased Muslims, whose families have not opted, either by choice or necessity, for repatriation to their country of origin, are buried there. The history of this
Graziella Vella
doaj +1 more source